Epigenetic regulation of human placental function and pregnancy outcome: Considerations for causal inference

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 213, Issue 4, 2015, Pages S182-S196

  Januar, Vania ^a   Desoye, Gernot ^c   Novakovic, Boris ^a   Cvitic, Silvija ^c   Saffery, Richard ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

confounding; development; Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; DNA methylation; epigenetics; epigenome; fetal programming; gestational age; gestational diabetes; intrauterine growth restriction; placenta; preeclampsia; pseudomalignant; reverse causation; trophoblast

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS OUTCOME; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX; STANDARDIZATION; BLASTOCYST; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BLASTOCYST; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84942645331     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.07.011     Document Type: Review

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