Cord blood banking is storing the stem cells in umbilical cord blood. The cord blood is collected after the baby is born and after any delayed cord clamping.
Co-parents are invited for online assessments and saliva or blood collection. One of the parents is invited to join the face-to-face interview of their offspring in case the age of the offspring is below 18 years. Fig. 1 Overview of assessments in offspring (T0, T1, T2, T3) Full size...
One study on 844 mother–child pairs from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) found preliminary evidence for DNA methylation in cord blood of newborns with a mother with depression during pregnancy [24], but they did not replicate this finding in the Dutch longitudinal ...