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A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index and placental DNA methylation identifies 27 CpG sites with implications for mother-child health

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dc.contributor.author Fernandez-Jimenez, Nora
dc.contributor.author Vrijheid, Martine
dc.contributor.author Bustamante Pineda, Mariona
dc.contributor.author Bilbao, José Ramón
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-11T07:22:56Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-11T07:22:56Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Fernandez-Jimenez N, Fore R, Cilleros-Portet A, Lepeule J, Perron P, Kvist T et al. A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index and placental DNA methylation identifies 27 CpG sites with implications for mother-child health. Commun Biol. 2022 Nov 30;5(1):1313. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04267-y
dc.identifier.issn 2399-3642
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55251
dc.description.abstract Higher maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (ppBMI) is associated with increased neonatal morbidity, as well as with pregnancy complications and metabolic outcomes in offspring later in life. The placenta is a key organ in fetal development and has been proposed to act as a mediator between the mother and different health outcomes in children. The overall aim of the present work is to investigate the association of ppBMI with epigenome-wide placental DNA methylation (DNAm) in 10 studies from the PACE consortium, amounting to 2631 mother-child pairs. We identify 27 CpG sites at which we observe placental DNAm variations of up to 2.0% per 10 ppBMI-unit. The CpGs that are differentially methylated in placenta do not overlap with CpGs identified in previous studies in cord blood DNAm related to ppBMI. Many of the identified CpGs are located in open sea regions, are often close to obesity-related genes such as GPX1 and LGR4 and altogether, are enriched in cancer and oxidative stress pathways. Our findings suggest that placental DNAm could be one of the mechanisms by which maternal obesity is associated with metabolic health outcomes in newborns and children, although further studies will be needed in order to corroborate these findings.
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Nature Research
dc.relation.ispartof Commun Biol. 2022 Nov 30;5(1):1313
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dc.title A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index and placental DNA methylation identifies 27 CpG sites with implications for mother-child health
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04267-y
dc.subject.keyword Epigenomics
dc.subject.keyword Genetics research
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