Differing effects of alcohol use on epigenetic and brain age in adult children of alcoholic parents
Jamie L. Scholl, Kami Pearson, Kelene A. Fercho, Austin J. Van Asselt, Noah A. Kallsen, Erik A. Ehli, Kari N. Potter, Kathleen A. Brown-Rice, Gina L. Forster, Lee A. Baugh
The paper compares brain age, epigenetic age, and brain structure between adult children of alcoholic parents with and without hazardous alcohol use to healthy controls, finding lower brain age and higher epigenetic age in hazardous users.
bioRxiv · Sep 5, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience