Beverly I Strassmann

Beverly Strassman directs a 30-year longitudinal study of the Dogon of Mali, West Africa. My laboratory focuses on the intergenerational transmission of stunting through the genetic imprinting of placental genes. A large cohort of children whom we have followed since infancy are reaching adulthood and starting to give birth themselves; thus we are able to study the effect of the parent’s growth trajectory on the health of offspring. We are also studying the early childhood predictors of age at puberty in males and females, and the developmental origins of hypertension.