Determinants of maternal pregnancy one-carbon metabolism and newborn human DNA methylation profiles

Reproduction

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 581-592

  Van Mil, Nina H ^a,b,c   Bouwl Both, Marieke I ^a,c   Stolk, Lisette ^b   Verbiest, Michael M P J ^b   Hofman, Albert ^b   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a,b   Verhulst, Frank C ^b   Eilers, Paul H C ^b   Uitterlinden, Andre G ^b   Steegers, Eric A P ^c   Tiemeier, Henning ^b,c   Steegers Theunissen, Ré Gine P M ^c  

^a Generation R Study Group   (United States)

^b Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; CARBON; DNA; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MTHFR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

5 HTT GENE; ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARBON METABOLISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DRD4 GENE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; H19 GENE; HUMAN; IGF2DMR GENE; KCNQ10T1 GENE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MTHFR GENE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NR3C1 GENE; ONE CARBON METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SUPPLEMENTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VAGINAL DELIVERY; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CARBON; COHORT STUDIES; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FOLIC ACID; GENOTYPE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); PREGNANCY;

EID: 84913555162     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-14-0260     Document Type: Article

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