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    Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: Findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium

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    Sharp, G.
    Salas, L.
    Monnereau, C.
    Allard, C.
    Yousefi, P.
    Everson, T.
    Bohlin, J.
    Xu, Z.
    Huang, R.
    Reese, S.
    Xu, C.
    Baïz, N.
    Hoyo, C.
    Agha, G.
    Roy, R.
    Holloway, J.
    Ghantous, A.
    Merid, S.
    Bakulski, K.
    Küpers, L.
    Zhang, H.
    Richmond, R.
    Page, C.
    Duijts, L.
    Lie, R.
    Melton, Phillip
    Vonk, J.
    Nohr, E.
    Williams-DeVane, C.
    Huen, K.
    Rifas-Shiman, S.
    Ruiz-Arenas, C.
    Gonseth, S.
    Rezwan, F.
    Herceg, Z.
    Ekström, S.
    Croen, L.
    Falahi, F.
    Perron, P.
    Karagas, M.
    Quraishi, B.
    Suderman, M.
    Magnus, M.
    Jaddoe, V.
    Taylor, J.
    Anderson, D.
    Zhao, S.
    Smit, H.
    Josey, M.
    Bradman, A.
    Baccarelli, A.
    Bustamante, M.
    Håberg, S.
    Pershagen, G.
    Hertz-Picciotto, I.
    Newschaffer, C.
    Corpeleijn, E.
    Bouchard, L.
    Lawlor, D.
    Maguire, R.
    Barcellos, L.
    Smith, G.
    Eskenazi, B.
    Karmaus, W.
    Marsit, C.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Sharp, G. and Salas, L. and Monnereau, C. and Allard, C. and Yousefi, P. and Everson, T. and Bohlin, J. et al. 2017. Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: Findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium. Human Molecular Genetics. 26 (20): pp. 4067-4085.
    Source Title
    Human Molecular Genetics
    DOI
    10.1093/hmg/ddx290
    ISSN
    0964-6906
    School
    School of Biomedical Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57740
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Pre-pregnancy maternal obesity is associated with adverse offspring outcomes at birth and later in life. Individual studies have shown that epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation could contribute. Within the Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium, we meta-analysed the association between pre-pregnancy maternal BMI and methylation at over 450,000 sites in newborn blood DNA, across 19 cohorts (9,340 mother-newborn pairs). We attempted to infer causality by comparing the effects of maternal versus paternal BMI and incorporating genetic variation. In four additional cohorts (1,817 mother-child pairs), we meta-analysed the association between maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and blood methylation in adolescents. In newborns, maternal BMI was associated with small ( < 0.2% per BMI unit (1 kg/m 2 ), P < 1.06 × 10 -7 ) methylation variation at 9,044 sites throughout the genome. Adjustment for estimated cell proportions greatly attenuated the number of significant CpGs to 104, including 86 sites common to the unadjusted model. At 72/86 sites, the direction of the association was the same in newborns and adolescents, suggesting persistence of signals. However, we found evidence for a6causal intrauterine effect of maternal BMI on newborn methylation at just 8/86 sites. In conclusion, this well-powered analysis identified robust associations between maternal adiposity and variations in newborn blood DNA methylation, but these small effects may be better explained by genetic or lifestyle factors than a causal intrauterine mechanism. This highlights the need for large-scale collaborative approaches and the application of causal inference techniques in epigenetic epidemiology.

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