Recruiting for Epigenetic Research: Facilitating the Informed Consent Process

Table 1

Overview of studies.

Research title	Epigenetic aim	Population	Recruitment goal
Epigenetics and psychoneurologic (PN) symptoms in women with breast cancer; (Lyon et al.)	(1) Longitudinally examine levels of inflammation and epigenetic patterns pre-, peri-, and postchemotherapy; (2) Longitudinally examine relationships among inflammation, epigenetic changes, and PN symptoms	Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer	𝑁=75
Epigenetics and maternal stress; (supplement to ongoing intervention trial); (Jallo and Cook)	Longitudinally examine relationships among epigenetic changes, stress, anxiety, depression, and stress biologic markers	Low-income healthy pregnant women	𝑁=10
Stress, immunity and symptoms in Fibromyalgia; (Menzies and Cook)	Examine relationships among stress, inflammation, environment, fibromyalgia symptoms, and gene expression	Women with fibromyalgia	𝑁=10
Effects of yoga for women with depression; (Kinser and Cook)	Examine relationships among depression, stress, inflammation, cellular aging, DNA methylation patterns, and yoga	Women with treatment-resistant depression	𝑁=10