{"id":207989,"date":"2025-03-07T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/violence-leaves-its-mark-on-our-genes-for-generations-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:30:29","slug":"violence-leaves-its-mark-on-our-genes-for-generations-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/violence-leaves-its-mark-on-our-genes-for-generations-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Violence Leaves Its Mark on Our Genes For Generations, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/violence-leaves-its-mark-on-our-genes-for-generations-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/being-poor-not-only-affects-your-health-it-changes-as-many-as-one-in-13-genes\">A stressful life<\/a> can leave marks on our genetic code, some of which can even be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/your-grandparents-diet-could-still-be-affecting-you-and-your-kids-health\">passed on to our children<\/a>. A study now reveals how the biological impact of trauma on a mother persists long after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/violence-flared-within-our-earliest-cities-before-we-learned-to-manage-it\">the violent acts<\/a> themselves have passed.<\/p>\n<p>The international team of researchers demonstrate the physical mechanisms behind intergenerational trauma in humans, explaining why people with a family history of adversity are more prone to mental health conditions like <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/wps.20568\">anxiety and depression<\/a>, despite not having experienced the adverse events themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers analyzed DNA collected from 48 Syrian families across three generations. These families included grandmothers or mothers who while pregnant had fled the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1982_Hama_massacre\">1982 siege and massacre in Hama<\/a> or the 2011 armed uprising \u2013 both part of the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_civil_war\">Syrian civil war<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stressful life can leave marks on our genetic code, some of which can even be passed on to our children. A study now reveals how the biological impact of trauma on a mother persists long after the violent acts themselves have passed. The international team of researchers demonstrate the physical mechanisms behind intergenerational trauma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}