{"id":5285,"date":"2026-07-15T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=5285"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:40:38","slug":"transcript-jones-intergenerational-transmission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-jones-intergenerational-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript &#8211; Jones &#8211; intergenerational transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intergenerational transmission is a very hot topic in epigenetics right now. Intergenerational transmission refers to this idea of prenatal programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you get exposed to something in utero, if your mother\u2019s exposed to something or even it can be the sort of accumulation of her lifetime exposures; when a baby\u2019s in utero, that baby\u2019s exposed to that environment. It\u2019s a sum of mom\u2019s current exposures and past exposures. And the idea is that evolutionarily speaking, we want to be prepared for the world we\u2019re going to be born into. So that\u2019s the idea of prenatal programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So mom\u2019s sets of exposures are supposed to inform how the baby is going to interact with the world. And so it becomes sort of biologically embedded in the baby to prepare that child for what they\u2019re going to encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this alteration of risk idea becomes important when the environment that the baby is prenatally programmed to experience is not the same as what they actually experience. So that\u2019s when we can get this alteration of risk and change to health outcomes is if what the baby is prenatally programmed to experience and what they actually experience sometimes don\u2019t match up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intergenerational transmission is a very hot topic in epigenetics right now. Intergenerational transmission refers to this idea of prenatal programming. So if you get exposed to something in utero, if your mother\u2019s exposed to something or even it can be the sort of accumulation of her lifetime exposures; when a baby\u2019s in utero, that baby\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5285\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}