Association of season of birth with DNA methylation and allergic disease

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1314-1324

  Lockett, G A ^a   Soto Ramirez N ^b   Ray, M A ^b   Everson, T M ^c   Xu, C J ^d   Patil, V K ^a,e   Terry, W ^b   Kaushal, A ^b   Rezwan, F I ^a   Ewart, S L ^f   Gehring, U ^g   Postma, D S ^d   Koppelman, G H ^h   Arshad, S H ^a,e   Zhang, H ^b   Karmaus, W ^b   Holloway, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

450K array; DNA methylation; epigenetics; epigenome wide association study; season of birth

Indexed keywords

CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATOPY; AUTUMN; BIRTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CYCLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ECZEMA; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CPG ISLANDS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS;

EID: 84962787495     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: 13989995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/all.12882     Document Type: Article

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