‘Hunker down’ stress genes boosted in women who live in violent neighborhoods

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‘Hunker down’ stress genes boosted in women who live in violent neighborhoods

The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity in immune cells, according to a new study of low-income single Black mothers on the South Side of Chicago.

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