DNA methylation and BMI: Investigating identified methylation sites at HIF3A in a causal framework

Diabetes

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1231-1244

  Richmond, Rebecca C ^a   Sharp, Gemma C ^a   Ward, Mary E ^a   Fraser, Abigail ^a   Lyttleton, Oliver ^a   McArdle, Wendy L ^a   Ring, Susan M ^a   Gaunt, Tom R ^a   Lawlor, Debbie A ^a   Smith, George Davey ^a   Relton, Caroline L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 3ALPHA; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HIF3A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAUSALITY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MOTHER; NEWBORN; OVERWEIGHT;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; OVERWEIGHT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THINNESS;

EID: 84964678985     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db15-0996     Document Type: Article

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