DNA methylation mediates the effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on birthweight of the offspring

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1224-1237

  Küpers, Leanne K ^a   Xu, Xiaojing ^b   Jankipersadsing, Soesma A ^a   Vaez, Ahmad ^a   La Bastide van Gemert, Sacha ^a   Scholtens, Salome ^a   Nolte, Ilja M ^a   Richmond, Rebecca C ^c   Relton, Caroline L ^c   Felix, Janine F ^d   Duijts, Liesbeth ^d   Van Meurs, Joyce B ^d   Tiemeier, Henning ^d   Jaddoe, Vincent W ^d   Wang, Xiaoling ^b   Corpeleijn, Eva ^a   Snieder, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ALSPAC; DOHaD; Epigenetic epidemiology; Epigenome wide association study; Fetal programming; GECKO; Generation R

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; NEUROGENIN 1; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GFI1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIRTH RATE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA; GENETICS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MATERNAL EFFECT; META-ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; PREGNANCY; SMOKING; WEIGHT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CELL COMPOSITION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CNTNAP2 GENE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EDUCATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FRMD4A GENE; GENE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GFI1 GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEWBORN PERIOD; PATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SMOKING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FETUS BLOOD; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

NETHERLANDS;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84942646677     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv048     Document Type: Article

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