Table 1 Association of maternal care and early-life social network metrics with adult fGCMs.

From: Early-life social experience affects offspring DNA methylation and later life stress phenotype

 

β (95% CI) fGCMsa

 

N

Unadjusted model

N

Adjusted modelb

Maternal care FAS (per 1-SD)

    

   Close proximity

74

−0.13 (−0.28, 0.01)

73

−0.01 (−0.16, 0.13)

   Nursing

74

−0.10 (−0.26, 0.06)

73

0.04 (−0.11, 0.18)

   Grooming

74

−0.06 (−0.21, 0.08)

73

0.00 (−0.13, 0.13)

CD period (per 1-SD)

    

   Degree

79

−0.13 (−0.26, −0.02)

79

−0.07 (−0.19, 0.04)

   Strength

79

−0.11 (−0.21, 0.01)

79

−0.05 (−0.15, 0.06)

   Betweenness

79

−0.03 (−0.19, 0.12)

79

−0.04 (−0.18, 0.10)

DI period (per 1-SD)

    

   Degree

79

−0.19 (−0.30, −0.08)

79

−0.12 (−0.22, −0.02)

   Strength

79

−0.16 (−0.29, −0.04)

79

−0.14 (−0.26, −0.03)

   Betweenness

79

−0.10 (−0.26, 0.07)

79

−0.04 (−0.18, 0.11)

  1. Confidence intervals based on percentile bootstrapping; 2000 simulations.
  2. fGCMs fecal glucocorticoid metabolites.
  3. a Beta estimates are fGCM concentrations (ng/g) on the natural log scale from mixed models in which hyena ID was included as a random intercept.
  4. b Models have been adjusted for a hyena’s sex and level of human disturbance during their birth year as well as age (months), reproductive state among females, and the time of day when the fecal sample was collected.
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