Chunk #44 — Materials and Methods — Assessment of Subjects’ Familial Adversity, Behavior Problems, Psychiatric Diagnoses and Criminal Records — Familial adversity

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Differential DNA methylation regions in cytokine and transcription factor genomic loci associate with childhood physical aggression.

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The index of family adversity is a composite score of the degree of adversity in families ranging from 0 to 1, which has been used regularly with these cohorts. The index includes parent’s level of education, type of employment, age at the birth of their first child and marital status when the subjects were age 6 [16], [96].