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Corona K, Chavez T, Stewart K, Toledo-Corral CM, Farzan SF, Habre R, Grubbs B, Al-Marayati L, Lurvey N, Lerner D, Eckel SP, Lagomasino I, Breton CV, Bastain TM. Adverse childhood experiences and prenatal depression in the maternal and development risks from environmental and social stressors pregnancy cohort. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2022; 42:3014-3020. [PMID: 36178435 PMCID: PMC9851371 DOI: 10.1080/01443615.2022.2125298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The aim of this study was to examine the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and risk for depression among 480 predominantly low-income Hispanic/Latina women in the Maternal and Development Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors pregnancy cohort. Models were fitted to evaluate associations between ACEs and prenatal probable depression measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale adjusting for recruitment site, age, income, race/ethnicity, marital status and parity. The ACEs Questionnaire parameterised experiences as counts (0-10), categories (0, 1-3 and 4+ ACEs) and domains. Participants had a significantly higher likelihood of prenatal probable depression per unit increase in ACEs count or if they reported 4+ ACEs relative to 0 ACEs. Higher likelihood of probable depression was also associated with higher counts of each ACEs domains: abuse, neglect and household dysfunction. Findings suggest systematic screening for depressive symptoms in those with a history of childhood adversities may be important in prenatal care practice.Impact StatementWhat is already known on this subject? Experiencing depression during pregnancy has been associated with later adverse maternal mental and physical health outcomes. Emerging studies indicate that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may maintain or increase the predisposition to prenatal depression.What do the results of this study add? Although prenatal depressive symptoms are prevalent among racial/ethnic minority samples including Hispanic/Latinas, research determining whether the association between ACEs and prenatal depression varies by nativity is scarce. Overall, ACEs were common among Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) participants and were associated with a higher likelihood of probable depression during pregnancy. These patterns did not significantly differ among the foreign-born versus U.S.-born Hispanic/Latina women, although the associations were stronger among U.S.-born Hispanic/Latina women.What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? Research should continue to focus on the effects of ACEs in communities that have been historically excluded in perinatal mental health services such as pregnant women from racial and ethnic minority groups. It may be important for clinicians to routinely screen for mental health during pregnancy as an adverse, psychological environment may impact both women and children. These findings suggest a need for improvement in systematic screening for depressive symptoms in those with a history of childhood adversities.
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- Karina Corona
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Health Sciences, California State University, Northridge
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
- Department of Health Sciences, California State University, Northridge
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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Peterson AK, Eckel SP, Habre R, Yang T, Faham D, Amin M, Grubbs BH, Farzan SF, Kannan K, Robinson M, Lerner D, Al-Marayati LA, Walker DK, Grant EG, Breton CV, Bastain TM. Detected prenatal perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) exposure is associated with decreased fetal head biometric parameters in participants experiencing higher perceived stress during pregnancy in the MADRES cohort. Environ Adv 2022; 9:100286. [PMID: 36507367 PMCID: PMC9731234 DOI: 10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous synthetic chemicals with long half-lives and are known to cross the placenta during pregnancy. We examined the influence of maternal PFAS levels on in utero fetal growth trajectories and assessed whether maternal stress modified these associations. METHODS Blood serum concentrations of five PFAS (PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFOA, PFDA) were measured in 335 prenatal specimens (mean gestational age (GA): 21±9 weeks) in the MADRES cohort. Fetal growth outcomes (head circumference (HC), abdominal circumference (AC), biparietal diameter (BPD), femur length (FL), and estimated fetal weight (EFW)) were abstracted from ultrasound medical records and measured at the 3rd trimester study visit (N = 833 scans, GA range 10-42 weeks, mean 2.4 scans/participant). Adjusted linear mixed models with a GA quadratic growth curve were used for each PFAS exposure and growth outcome. PFOS and PFHxS were modeled continuously (100% sample detection), while PFOA, PFNA, and PFDA were modeled categorically (57-70% sample detection). Scores on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) measured in pregnancy were dichotomized at the median (<13 vs. ≥ 13) in stratified models. RESULTS Participants were on average 29±6 years old and predominately Hispanic (76%). Median serum concentrations of PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFOA and PFDA were 1.34, 1.10, 0.07, 0.12, and 0.04 ng/mL, respectively. Participants with detected PFOA concentrations had fetuses with -2.5 mm (95% CI -4.2, -0.8) smaller HC and-0.7 mm (95% CI -1.3, -0.2) smaller BPD on average for a fixed GA than those without detected PFOA concentrations. In models stratified by PSS level, the effects of PFOA on fetal growth parameters were stronger and only significant in participants with higher stress levels (HC: β= -3.5, 95% CI -5.8, -1.4; BPD: β = -0.8, 95% CI -1.6, -1.1). CONCLUSIONS Prenatal PFOA exposure adversely impacted fetal head biometric parameters in participants experiencing higher stress during pregnancy.
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- Alicia K. Peterson
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2020 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, 145 East 32 Street, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, 145 East 32 Street, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Eisner Health, 1530 S Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2020 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Ave # 2315, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Ave # 2315, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1845 North Soto Street Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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Peterson AK, Eckel SP, Habre R, Yang T, Faham D, Farzan SF, Grubbs BH, Kannan K, Robinson M, Lerner D, Al-Marayati LA, Walker DK, Grant EG, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Prenatal Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposure Is Associated With Lower Infant Birthweight Within the MADRES Pregnancy Cohort. Front Epidemiol 2022; 2:934715. [PMID: 38455325 PMCID: PMC10910958 DOI: 10.3389/fepid.2022.934715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
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Introduction Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent synthetic chemicals found in household products that can cross the placenta during pregnancy. We investigated whether PFAS exposure during pregnancy was associated with infant birth outcomes in a predominantly urban Hispanic population. Methods Serum concentrations of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) were measured in 342 prenatal biospecimens (mean gestational age: 21 ± 9 weeks) from participants in the ongoing Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) cohort. PFAS compounds were modeled continuously or categorically, depending on the percentage of samples detected. The birth outcomes assessed were birthweight, gestational age at birth, and birthweight for gestational age (BW-for-GA) z-scores that accounted for parity or infant sex. Single pollutant and multipollutant linear regression models were performed to evaluate associations between PFAS exposures and birth outcomes, adjusting for sociodemographic, perinatal, and study design covariates. Results Maternal participants (n = 342) were on average 29 ± 6 years old at study entry and were predominantly Hispanic (76%). Infants were born at a mean of 39 ± 2 weeks of gestation and weighed on average 3,278 ± 522 g. PFOS and PFHxS were detected in 100% of the samples while PFNA, PFOA, and PFDA were detected in 70%, 65%, and 57% of the samples, respectively. PFAS levels were generally lower in this cohort than in comparable cohorts. Women with detected levels of PFOA during pregnancy had infants weighing on average 119.7 g less (95% CI -216.7, -22.7) than women with undetected levels of PFOA in adjusted single pollutant models. PFOA results were also statistically significant in BW-for-GA z-score models that were specific for sex or parity. In models that were mutually adjusted for five detected PFAS compounds, PFOA results remained comparable; however, the association was only significant in BW-for-GA z-scores that were specific for parity (β = -0.3; 95% CI -0.6, -0.01). We found no significant adjusted associations with the remaining PFAS concentrations and the birth outcomes assessed. Conclusion Prenatal exposure to PFOA was associated with lower birthweight in infants, suggesting that exposure to these chemicals during critical periods of development might have important implications for children's health.
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- Alicia K. Peterson
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
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- Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center, Eisner Health, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Martenies SE, Zhang M, Corrigan AE, Kvit A, Shields T, Wheaton W, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Dabelea D, Habre R, Magzamen S, Padula AM, Him DA, Camargo CA, Cowell W, Croen LA, Deoni S, Everson TM, Hartert TV, Hipwell AE, McEvoy CT, Morello-Frosch R, O'Connor TG, Petriello M, Sathyanarayana S, Stanford JB, Woodruff TJ, Wright RJ, Kress AM. Associations between combined exposure to environmental hazards and social stressors at the neighborhood level and individual perinatal outcomes in the ECHO-wide cohort. Health Place 2022; 76:102858. [PMID: 35872389 PMCID: PMC9661655 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Limited studies examine how prenatal environmental and social exposures jointly impact perinatal health. Here we investigated relationships between a neighborhood-level combined exposure (CE) index assessed during pregnancy and perinatal outcomes, including birthweight, gestational age, and preterm birth. Across all participants, higher CE index scores were associated with small decreases in birthweight and gestational age. We also observed effect modification by race; infants born to Black pregnant people had a greater risk of preterm birth for higher CE values compared to White infants. Overall, our results suggest that neighborhood social and environmental exposures have a small but measurable joint effect on neonatal indicators of health.
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, USA
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- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, USA
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- Wayne State University, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
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- University of Utah, Departments of Family and Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, USA
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Yi L, Xu Y, Eckel SP, O'Connor S, Cabison J, Rosales M, Chu D, Chavez TA, Johnson M, Mason TB, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Dunton GF, Wilson JP, Habre R. Time-activity and daily mobility patterns during pregnancy and early postpartum - evidence from the MADRES cohort. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol 2022; 41:100502. [PMID: 35691658 PMCID: PMC9198358 DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2022.100502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Pregnant women's daily time-activity and mobility patterns determine their environmental exposures and subsequently related health effects. Most studies ignore these and assess pregnancy exposures using static residential measures. METHODS We conducted 4-day continuous geo-location monitoring in 62 pregnant Hispanic women, during pregnancy and early post-partum then derived trips by mode and stays, classified by context (indoor/outdoor, type). Generalized mixed-effect models were used to examine whether these patterns changed over time. RESULTS Women spent on average 17.3 h/day at home. Commercial and service locations were the most popular non-home destinations, while parks and open spaces were seldom visited. Women made 3.5 daily trips (63.7 min/day and approximately 25% were pedestrian-based). Women were less likely to visit commercial and services locations and make vehicle-based trips postpartum compared to the 3rd trimester. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest time-activity patterns vary across pregnancy and postpartum, thus assessing exposures at stationary locations might introduce measurement error.
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- Li Yi
- Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, United States
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- Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, United States
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- Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, United States; Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States; Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Sociology, University of Southern California, United States
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- Spatial Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, United States; Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States.
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Buckley J, Kuiper JR, Bennett DH, Barrett ES, Bastain T, Breton CV, Chinthakindi S, Dunlop AL, Farzan SF, Herbstman JB, Karagas MR, Marsit CJ, Meeker JD, Morello-Frosch R, O’Connor TG, Romano ME, Schantz S, Schmidt RJ, Watkins DJ, Zhu H, Pellizzari ED, Kannan K, Woodruff TJ. Exposure to Contemporary and Emerging Chemicals in Commerce among Pregnant Women in the United States: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcome (ECHO) Program. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:6560-6573. [PMID: 35536918 PMCID: PMC9118548 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c08942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Prenatal chemical exposures can influence maternal and child health; however, few industrial chemicals are routinely biomonitored. We assessed an extensive panel of contemporary and emerging chemicals in 171 pregnant women across the United States (U.S.) and Puerto Rico in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. We simultaneously measured urinary concentrations of 89 analytes (103 total chemicals representing 73 parent compounds) in nine chemical groups: bactericides, benzophenones, bisphenols, fungicides and herbicides, insecticides, organophosphate esters (OPEs), parabens, phthalates/alternative plasticizers, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). We estimated associations of creatinine-adjusted concentrations with sociodemographic and specimen characteristics. Among our diverse prenatal population (60% non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic), we detected 73 of 89 analytes in ≥1 participant and 36 in >50% of participants. Five analytes not currently included in the U.S. biomonitoring were detected in ≥90% of samples: benzophenone-1, thiamethoxam, mono-2-(propyl-6-carboxy-hexyl) phthalate, monocarboxy isooctyl phthalate, and monohydroxy-iso-decyl phthalate. Many analyte concentrations were higher among women of Hispanic ethnicity compared to those of non-Hispanic White women. Concentrations of certain chemicals decreased with the calendar year, whereas concentrations of their replacements increased. Our largest study to date identified widespread exposures to prevalent and understudied chemicals in a diverse sample of pregnant women in the U.S.
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- Jessie
P. Buckley
- Department
of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department
of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department
of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers
School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department
of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States
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- Department
of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States
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- Department
of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Department
of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University
School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department
of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90032, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia, New York, NY 10032, United States
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- Department
of Epidemiology, Dartmouth Geisel School
of Medicine, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Health, Rollins School
of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Health Sciences, University
of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and School of Public
Health, University of California, Berkeley California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department
of Epidemiology, Dartmouth Geisel School
of Medicine, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, United States
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- Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States
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- Department
of Environmental Health Sciences, University
of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- RTI International, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27709, United States
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- Department
of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, United States
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- Department
of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Philip
R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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Niu Z, Naya CH, Reynaga L, Toledo-Corral CM, Johnson M, Yang T, Grubbs B, Lurvey N, Lerner D, Dunton GF, Habre R, Breton CV, Bastain TM, Farzan SF. Association of Breastfeeding Duration with 12-Month Postpartum Blood Lipids in a Predominately Lower-Income Hispanic Pregnancy Cohort in Los Angeles. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:3008. [PMID: 35270701 PMCID: PMC8910591 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19053008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Breastfeeding may protect women’s long-term cardiovascular health; however, breastfeeding-related postpartum lipid changes remain unclear. We aim to examine associations of breastfeeding duration with maternal lipids at 12 months postpartum. In a subsample (n = 79) of the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) cohort, breastfeeding status and duration at 3, 6, and 12 months postpartum were self-reported. Serum levels of lipids, including total cholesterol, triglycerides (TG), high-, low-, and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C, LDL-C, VLDL-C), were measured from blood samples collected at 12 months postpartum. We used linear regression models to compare lipids by breastfeeding duration, adjusting for potential confounders. Women who were breastfeeding at 12 months had higher HDL-C (mean: 41.74 mg/dL, 95% CI: 37.27−46.74 vs. 35.11 mg/dL, 95% CI: 31.42−39.24), lower TG (80.45 mg/dL, 95% CI: 66.20−97.77 vs. 119.11 mg/dL, 95% CI: 98.36−144.25), and lower VLDL-C (16.31 mg/dL, 95% CI: 13.23, 20.12 vs. 23.09 mg/dL, 95% CI: 18.61−28.65) compared to women who breastfed for <6 months. No lipids were significantly different between women who breastfed for 6−11 months and for <6 months. Each month’s increase in breastfeeding duration was significantly, inversely associated with TG and VLDL-C and positively with HDL-C. Adjusting for fasting status, demographics, pre-pregnancy body mass index, breastfeeding frequency, and pregnancy complications did not appreciably change effect estimates. Breastfeeding at 12 months postpartum and a longer duration of breastfeeding in the first year postpartum were both associated with increased HDL-C and decreased TG and VLDL-C at 12 months postpartum.
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- Zhongzheng Niu
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Health Sciences, College of Health and Human Development, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330, USA;
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
- Department of Health Sciences, College of Health and Human Development, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330, USA;
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA
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- Eisner Health, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA; (N.L.); (D.L.)
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- Eisner Health, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA; (N.L.); (D.L.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA; (Z.N.); (C.H.N.); (C.M.T.-C.); (M.J.); (T.Y.); (B.G.); (G.F.D.); (R.H.); (C.V.B.); (T.M.B.)
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Howe CG, Nozadi SS, Garcia E, O'Connor TG, Starling AP, Farzan SF, Jackson BP, Madan JC, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Bastain TM, Meeker JD, Breton CV, Karagas MR. Prenatal metal(loid) mixtures and birth weight for gestational age: A pooled analysis of three cohorts participating in the ECHO program. Environ Int 2022; 161:107102. [PMID: 35081493 PMCID: PMC8891091 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 01/16/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND A growing number of studies have identified both toxic and essential metals which influence fetal growth. However, most studies have conducted single-cohort analyses, which are often limited by narrow exposure ranges, and evaluated metals individually. The objective of the current study was to conduct an environmental mixture analysis of metal impacts on fetal growth, pooling data from three geographically and demographically diverse cohorts in the United States participating in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program. METHODS The pooled sample (N = 1,002) included participants from the MADRES, NHBCS, and PROTECT cohorts. Associations between seven metals (antimony, cadmium, cobalt, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, tin) measured in maternal urine samples collected during pregnancy (median: 16.0 weeks gestation) and birth weight for gestational age z-scores (BW for GA) were investigated using Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR). Models were also stratified by cohort and infant sex to investigate possible heterogeneity. Chromium and uranium concentrations fell below the limits of detection for most participants and were evaluated separately as binary variables using pooled linear regression models. RESULTS In the pooled BKMR analysis, antimony, mercury, and tin were inversely and linearly associated with BW for GA, while a positive linear association was identified for nickel. The inverse association between antimony and BW for GA was observed in both males and females and for all three cohorts but was strongest for MADRES, a predominantly low-income Hispanic cohort in Los Angeles. A reverse j-shaped association was identified between cobalt and BW for GA, which was driven by female infants. Pooled associations were null for cadmium, chromium, molybdenum, and uranium, and BKMR did not identify potential interactions between metal pairs. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that antimony, an understudied metalloid, may adversely impact fetal growth. Cohort- and/or sex-dependent associations were identified for many of the metals, which merit additional investigation.
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- Caitlin G Howe
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood, Ave, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2101 McGavran-Greenberg, Campus Box 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, 39 College St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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- Department of Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, 101 Buck Rd, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
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Hernandez I, Eckel SP, Chavez T, Johnson M, Lerner D, Grubbs B, Toledo-Corral CM, Farzan SF, Habre R, Dunton GF, Breton CV, Bastain TM. Household pesticide exposures and infant gross motor development in the MADRES cohort. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2022; 36:220-229. [PMID: 34964501 PMCID: PMC8881403 DOI: 10.1111/ppe.12850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND The development of motor skills in infancy is a vital neurodevelopmental milestone. Although previous studies have explored the neurotoxic effects of agricultural pesticides on infants' motor development, limited research has examined early postnatal household pesticide use on infants' motor development, particularly among urban communities. OBJECTIVE This study examined the association between early postnatal household pesticide use and infants' gross and fine motor development at 6 months of age. METHODS Questionnaires were administered via telephone to 296 mother-infant dyads in the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) pregnancy cohort. Early life household pesticide use was assessed via questionnaire administered when infants turned 3 months old and gross and fine motor development was assessed by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) at 6 months old. Infant gross motor scores were reverse coded so that higher scores indicated lower gross motor performance. Negative binomial regressions were performed to assess the relationship between household pesticide use and infant gross motor development. RESULTS Infants were predominantly Hispanic (78.7%) and full term (gestational age at birth: 39.0 ± 1.9 weeks), with 22.3% of maternal participants reporting household use of rodent and insect pesticides. Adjusting for recruitment site, maternal age, ethnicity, household income, education, infant corrected age, infant sex, and home type, infants with maternal-reported household use of rodent and insect pesticides had 1.30 times higher expected gross motor scores (95% confiidence interval 1.05, 1.61) than infants with no reported use of household pesticides, with higher scores indicating reduced gross motor performance. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest household use of rodent and insect pesticides may harm infants' gross motor development in early childhood. Future research should evaluate the impact of specific household chemicals in infant biospecimens and their associations with infant motor development to confirm these findings.
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- Ixel Hernandez
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Health Sciences, California State University Northridge, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Naya CH, Toledo-Corral CM, Chavez T, Lerner D, Lurvey N, Eckel SP, Peterson AK, Grubbs BH, Dunton GF, Breton CV, Bastain TM. Third trimester cortisol is positively associated with gestational weight gain in pregnant women with class one obesity. Int J Obes (Lond) 2022; 46:366-373. [PMID: 34718334 PMCID: PMC9012147 DOI: 10.1038/s41366-021-01009-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2020] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Prevalence of pre-pregnancy obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) are higher among women of color with low SES. Dysregulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis and its end-product, cortisol, during pregnancy is hypothesized to be associated with excessive GWG. However, past studies have produced inconsistent findings and often did not include health disparities populations. This study examined the association between pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), third trimester diurnal cortisol, and GWG in low-income, predominantly Hispanic women. SUBJECTS/METHODS The MADRES study is an ongoing prospective cohort study of primarily Hispanic, low-income pregnant women and their children in Los Angeles, California. Data from 176 participants were included in this study. Total cortisol secretion (area under the curve, AUC) was quantified using four salivary cortisol samples (awakening, 30 min after awakening, afternoon, and bedtime) that were collected at home on one day during the third trimester of pregnancy. Moderation of the association between total cortisol and GWG by pre-pregnancy BMI was tested using multiple linear regression with a multiplicative interaction term. RESULTS There was no association between total cortisol secretion and GWG overall (p = 0.82), but the association between total cortisol and GWG was stronger for women with class 1 pre-pregnancy obesity compared to women with normal pre-pregnancy BMI (interaction term p = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS Results suggest that obesity status before pregnancy may be exacerbating the physiological impact of cortisol on GWG.
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- Christine H. Naya
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA,Department of Health Sciences, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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Hernandez-Castro I, Toledo-Corral CM, Chavez T, Habre R, Grubbs B, Al-Marayati L, Lerner D, Lurvey N, Lagomasino I, Eckel SP, Dunton GF, Farzan SF, Breton CV, Bastain TM. Perceived vulnerability to immigration policies among postpartum Hispanic/Latina women in the MADRES pregnancy cohort before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Womens Health (Lond) 2022; 18:17455057221125103. [PMID: 36148937 PMCID: PMC9511002 DOI: 10.1177/17455057221125103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Research suggests that perceived immigration policy vulnerability has important health implications. Coupled with the mental and physical stressors accompanying the postpartum period and a growing awareness of the discrimination and structural racism experienced by marginalized communities globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 period may have exacerbated stress among vulnerable populations, specifically postpartum Hispanic/Latina women. This study evaluated perceived immigration policy vulnerability (i.e. discrimination, social isolation, and family threats) in early postpartum Hispanic/Latina women in Los Angeles before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. METHODS The Perceived Immigration Policy Effects Scale (PIPES) was administered cross-sectionally at 1 month postpartum to 187 Hispanic/Latina women in the MADRES cohort. Respondents between September 2018 and March 2020 were classified as "pre-pandemic" (N = 128), between March 2020 and July 2020 as "early pandemic" (N = 38), and between August 2020 and November 2021 as "later pandemic" (N = 21). Average PIPES subscale scores were dichotomized into "higher" and "lower" groups (⩽median, >median) and logistic regression models were performed. RESULTS Approximately half of participants had incomes of <$50,000 (50.3%) and were Latin American born (54.6%). After adjusting for age, nativity, education, income, postpartum distress, and employment status, early pandemic respondents had 5.05 times the odds of a higher score on the perceived discrimination subscale (95% CI: 1.81, 14.11), 6.47 times the odds of a higher score on the social isolation subscale (95% CI: 2.23, 18.74), 2.66 times the odds of a higher score on the family threats subscale (95% CI: 0.97, 7.32), and 3.36 times the odds of a higher total score (95% CI: 1.19, 9.51) when compared to pre-pandemic respondents. There were no significant subscale score differences between later pandemic and pre-pandemic periods. CONCLUSION Higher perceived immigration policy vulnerability was reported among postpartum women during the early coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic versus pre-pandemic periods. This suggests greater social inequities during the early pandemic period.
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- Ixel Hernandez-Castro
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Health Sciences, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Sauder KA, Harte RN, Ringham BM, Guenther PM, Bailey RL, Alshawabkeh A, Cordero JF, Dunlop AL, Ferranti EP, Elliott AJ, Mitchell DC, Hedderson MM, Avalos LA, Zhu Y, Breton CV, Chatzi L, Ran J, Hertz-Picciotto I, Karagas MR, Sayarath V, Hoover J, MacKenzie D, Lyall K, Schmidt RJ, O'Connor TG, Barrett ES, Switkowski KM, Comstock SS, Kerver JM, Trasande L, Tylavsky FA, Wright RJ, Kannan S, Mueller NT, Catellier DJ, Glueck DH, Dabelea D. Disparities in Risks of Inadequate and Excessive Intake of Micronutrients during Pregnancy. J Nutr 2021; 151:3555-3569. [PMID: 34494118 PMCID: PMC8564697 DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxab273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Inadequate or excessive intake of micronutrients in pregnancy has potential to negatively impact maternal/offspring health outcomes. OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare risks of inadequate or excessive micronutrient intake in diverse females with singleton pregnancies by strata of maternal age, race/ethnicity, education, and prepregnancy BMI. METHODS Fifteen observational cohorts in the US Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Consortium assessed participant dietary intake with 24-h dietary recalls (n = 1910) or food-frequency questionnaires (n = 7891) from 1999-2019. We compared the distributions of usual intake of 19 micronutrients from food alone (15 cohorts; n = 9801) and food plus dietary supplements (10 cohorts with supplement data; n = 7082) to estimate the proportion with usual daily intakes below their age-specific daily Estimated Average Requirement (EAR), above their Adequate Intake (AI), and above their Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL), overall and within sociodemographic and anthropometric subgroups. RESULTS Risk of inadequate intake from food alone ranged from 0% to 87%, depending on the micronutrient and assessment methodology. When dietary supplements were included, some women were below the EAR for vitamin D (20-38%), vitamin E (17-22%), and magnesium (39-41%); some women were above the AI for vitamin K (63-75%), choline (7%), and potassium (37-53%); and some were above the UL for folic acid (32-51%), iron (39-40%), and zinc (19-20%). Highest risks for inadequate intakes were observed among participants with age 14-18 y (6 nutrients), non-White race or Hispanic ethnicity (10 nutrients), less than a high school education (9 nutrients), or obesity (9 nutrients). CONCLUSIONS Improved diet quality is needed for most pregnant females. Even with dietary supplement use, >20% of participants were at risk of inadequate intake of ≥1 micronutrients, especially in some population subgroups. Pregnancy may be a window of opportunity to address disparities in micronutrient intake that could contribute to intergenerational health inequalities.
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- Katherine A Sauder
- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- AJ Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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Howe CG, Foley HB, Farzan SF, Chavez TA, Johnson M, Meeker JD, Bastain TM, Marsit CJ, Breton CV. Urinary metals and maternal circulating extracellular vesicle microRNA in the MADRES pregnancy cohort. Epigenetics 2021; 17:1128-1142. [PMID: 34696694 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1994189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Exposure to metals increases risk for pregnancy complications. Extracellular vesicle (EV) miRNA contribute to maternal-foetal communication and are dysregulated in pregnancy complications. However, metal impacts on maternal circulating EV miRNA during pregnancy are unknown. Our objective was to investigate the impact of multiple metal exposures on EV miRNA in maternal circulation during pregnancy in the MADRES Study. Associations between urinary concentrations of nine metals and 106 EV miRNA in maternal plasma during pregnancy were investigated using robust linear regression (N = 231). Primary analyses focused on metal-miRNA associations in early pregnancy (median: 12.3 weeks gestation). In secondary analyses, we investigated associations with late pregnancy miRNA counts (median: 31.8 weeks gestation) in a subset of participants (N = 184) with paired measures. MiRNA associated with three or more metals (PFDR<0.05) were further investigated using Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR), an environmental mixture method. Thirty-five miRNA were associated (PFDR<0.05) with at least one metal in early pregnancy. One association (an inverse association between cobalt and miR-150-5p) remained statistically significant when evaluating late pregnancy miRNA counts. Eight miRNA (miR-302b-3p, miR-199a-5p, miR-188-5p, miR-138-5p, miR-212-3p, miR-608, miR-1272, miR-19b-3p) were associated with three metals (barium, mercury, and thallium) in early pregnancy, and their predicted target genes were enriched in pathways important for placental development. Results were consistent when using BKMR. Early pregnancy exposure to barium, mercury, and thallium may have short-term impacts on a common set of EV miRNA which target pathways important for placental development.
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- Caitlin G Howe
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Ga, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Perng W, Cantoral A, Soria-Contreras DC, Betanzos-Robledo L, Kordas K, Liu Y, Mora AM, Corvalan C, Pereira A, Cardoso MA, Chavarro JE, Breton CV, Meeker JD, Harley KG, Eskenazi B, Peterson KE, Tellez-Rojo MM. [Exposición a químicos disruptores endócrinos obesogénicos y obesidad en niños y jóvenes de origen latino o hispano en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica: una perspectiva del curso de la vida]. Obes Rev 2021; 22 Suppl 5:e13352. [PMID: 34708538 DOI: 10.1111/obr.13352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Wei Perng
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, EE. UU.,Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, EE. UU
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Ciudad de México, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Ciudad de México, México
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Ciudad de México, México
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- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, Búfalo, Nueva York, EE. UU
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, EE. UU
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, EE. UU.,Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Nutrição, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, EE. UU
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- Division of Environmental Health, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Ángeles, California, EE. UU
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Míchigan, EE. UU
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, EE. UU
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, EE. UU
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Míchigan, EE. UU
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- Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Ciudad de México, México
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Toledo-Corral CM, Gao L, Chavez T, Grubbs B, Habre R, Dunton GF, Bastain T, Breton CV. Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptomatology Trends During Pregnancy. J Immigr Minor Health 2021; 24:561-569. [PMID: 34218341 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-021-01235-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Our goal was to examine the role of race, ethnicity, and immigration status on prenatal perceived stress and depressive symptomatology trends across pregnancy in a low-income, minority population of pregnant women in urban Los Angeles. Longitudinal data on 442 Hispanic and Black women were analyzed using mixed effects models with a random intercept for participant were employed to evaluate predictors of higher perceived stress levels and probable depression across pregnancy. Compared to U.S. born Hispanic women, Black women had higher perceived stress (β 2.24; 95% CI 0.41, 4.07) and higher odds of probable depression (OR 2.38; 95% CI 0.95, 5.95) while Hispanic immigrants with greater than 20 years of residency in the U.S. had higher odds of probable depression (OR 2.93; 95% CI 1.10, 7.79). Maternal mental health among Hispanic immigrants with longer U.S. residency and Black race warrants increased attention from public health and clinical agencies.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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Breton CV, Landon R, Kahn LG, Enlow MB, Peterson AK, Bastain T, Braun J, Comstock SS, Duarte CS, Hipwell A, Ji H, LaSalle JM, Miller RL, Musci R, Posner J, Schmidt R, Suglia SF, Tung I, Weisenberger D, Zhu Y, Fry R. Exploring the evidence for epigenetic regulation of environmental influences on child health across generations. Commun Biol 2021; 4:769. [PMID: 34158610 PMCID: PMC8219763 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02316-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Environmental exposures, psychosocial stressors and nutrition are all potentially important influences that may impact health outcomes directly or via interactions with the genome or epigenome over generations. While there have been clear successes in large-scale human genetic studies in recent decades, there is still a substantial amount of missing heritability to be elucidated for complex childhood disorders. Mounting evidence, primarily in animals, suggests environmental exposures may generate or perpetuate altered health outcomes across one or more generations. One putative mechanism for these environmental health effects is via altered epigenetic regulation. This review highlights the current epidemiologic literature and supporting animal studies that describe intergenerational and transgenerational health effects of environmental exposures. Both maternal and paternal exposures and transmission patterns are considered, with attention paid to the attendant ethical, legal and social implications.
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- Carrie V Breton
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, MIND Institute, Genome Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Perng W, Cantoral A, Soria-Contreras DC, Betanzos-Robledo L, Kordas K, Liu Y, Mora AM, Corvalan C, Pereira A, Cardoso MA, Chavarro JE, Breton CV, Meeker JD, Harley KG, Eskenazi B, Peterson KE, Tellez-Rojo MM. Exposure to obesogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals and obesity among youth of Latino or Hispanic origin in the United States and Latin America: A lifecourse perspective. Obes Rev 2021; 22 Suppl 3:e13245. [PMID: 33951277 PMCID: PMC8217151 DOI: 10.1111/obr.13245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
Following a 2019 workshop led by the Center for Global Health Studies at the Fogarty International Center on the topic of childhood obesity prevention and research synergies transpiring from cross-border collaborations, we convened a group of experts in the United States and Latin America to conduct a narrative review of the epidemiological literature on the role of obesogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the etiology of childhood obesity among Latino youth in the United States and Latin America. In addition to summarizing and synthesizing results from research on this topic published within the last decade, we place the findings within a lifecourse biobehavioral framework to aid in identification of unique exposure-outcome relationships driven by both biological and behavioral research, identify inconsistencies and deficiencies in current literature, and discuss the role of policy regulations, all with the goal of identifying viable avenues for prevention of early life obesity in Latino/Hispanic populations.
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- Wei Perng
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.,Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- National Council of Science and Technology, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Council of Science and Technology, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.,Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico City, Mexico
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Breton CV, Farzan SF. Invited Perspective: Metal Mixtures and Child Health: The Complex Interplay of Essential and Toxic Elements. Environ Health Perspect 2021; 129:61301. [PMID: 34160248 PMCID: PMC8312474 DOI: 10.1289/ehp9629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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- Carrie V. Breton
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Howe CG, Claus Henn B, Farzan SF, Habre R, Eckel SP, Grubbs BH, Chavez TA, Faham D, Al-Marayati L, Lerner D, Quimby A, Twogood S, Richards MJ, Meeker JD, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Prenatal metal mixtures and fetal size in mid-pregnancy in the MADRES study. Environ Res 2021; 196:110388. [PMID: 33129852 PMCID: PMC8079562 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Fetal growth is predictive of health later in life. Both toxic and essential metals influence fetal growth, but most studies have focused on these elements individually and used birth weight as an indicator of fetal growth. The objective of the current study was to investigate the impact of a mixture of metals on fetal size in mid-pregnancy in a predominately lower income Hispanic pregnancy cohort in Los Angeles. METHODS For our primary analysis, we focused on six elements that have previously been associated individually with fetal size, including arsenic (As), barium (Ba), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), molybdenum (Mo), and tin (Sn), measured in maternal urine samples collected in early pregnancy (median: 12.4 weeks gestation). In an exploratory analysis, we additionally included cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), antimony (Sb), and thallium (Tl). Using covariate-adjusted Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) as our main mixture modeling approach, we examined the impact of these metals on fetal biometry measures obtained between 18 and 22 weeks gestation, with a focus on estimated fetal weight (EFW). RESULTS BKMR identified Mo and Ba as the mixture components that contributed most to associations with EFW. Linear associations were observed for both metals. An increase in Mo from the 25th to 75th percentile was associated with a 0.114 (95% credible interval (CI): 0.019, 0.247) SD higher EFW, equivalent to a 7.4 g difference. Similar associations were observed between Mo and the other fetal measures evaluated. In contrast, an increase in Ba from the 25th to 75th percentile was associated with a -0.076 (95% CI: 0.217, 0.066) SD lower EFW, equivalent to a 4.9 g difference. Similar inverse associations were observed for Ba in relation to abdominal circumference and biparietal diameter. BKMR also identified a possible interaction between Ba and Mo in relation to head circumference, suggesting that the positive associations between Mo and this outcome may be attenuated at high levels of Ba, which was consistent with findings from linear regression (Pinteraction = 0.03). In an exploratory analysis accounting for a larger mixture of metals, Mo and Ba consistently contributed most to associations with EFW. An inverse association was also identified between Sb and EFW. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that Mo may promote fetal growth, while Ba and Sb may reduce fetal growth, in this population.
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- Caitlin G Howe
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Eisner Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Howe CG, Foley HB, Kennedy EM, Eckel SP, Chavez TA, Faham D, Grubbs BH, Al-Marayati L, Lerner D, Suglia S, Bastain TM, Marsit CJ, Breton CV. Extracellular vesicle microRNA in early versus late pregnancy with birth outcomes in the MADRES study. Epigenetics 2021; 17:269-285. [PMID: 33734019 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1899887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Circulating miRNA may contribute to the development of adverse birth outcomes. However, few studies have investigated extracellular vesicle (EV) miRNA, which play important roles in intercellular communication, or compared miRNA at multiple time points in pregnancy. In the current study, 800 miRNA were profiled for EVs from maternal plasma collected in early (median: 12.5 weeks) and late (median: 31.8 weeks) pregnancy from 156 participants in the MADRES Study, a health disparity pregnancy cohort. Associations between miRNA and birth weight, birth weight for gestational age (GA), and GA at birth were examined using covariate-adjusted robust linear regression. Differences by infant sex and maternal BMI were also investigated. Late pregnancy measures of 13 miRNA were associated with GA at birth (PFDR<0.050). Negative associations were observed for eight miRNA (miR-4454+ miR-7975, miR-4516, let-7b-5p, miR-126-3p, miR-29b-3p, miR-15a-5p, miR-15b-5p, miR-19b-3p) and positive associations for five miRNA (miR-212-3p, miR-584-5p, miR-608, miR-210-3p, miR-188-5p). Predicted target genes were enriched (PFDR<0.050) in pathways involved in organogenesis and placental development. An additional miRNA (miR-107), measured in late pregnancy, was positively associated with GA at birth in infants born to obese women (PFDR for BMI interaction = 0.011). In primary analyses, the associations between early pregnancy miRNA and birth outcomes were not statistically significant (PFDR≥0.05). However, sex-specific associations were observed for early pregnancy measures of 37 miRNA and GA at birth (PFDR for interactions<0.050). None of the miRNA were associated with fetal growth measures (PFDR≥0.050). Our findings suggest that EV miRNA in both early and late pregnancy may influence gestational duration.
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- Caitlin G Howe
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Eisner Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Farzan SF, Howe CG, Chavez TA, Hodes TL, Johnston JE, Habre R, Dunton G, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Demographic predictors of urinary arsenic in a low-income predominantly Hispanic pregnancy cohort in Los Angeles. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 2021; 31:94-107. [PMID: 32719440 PMCID: PMC7796897 DOI: 10.1038/s41370-020-0251-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Arsenic (As) is a contaminant of top public health concern, due to its range of detrimental health effects. Arsenic exposure has not been well-characterized among the US Hispanic populations and has been particularly understudied in this population during pregnancy. METHODS As part of the MADRES ongoing pregnancy cohort of predominantly lower-income, Hispanic women in Los Angeles, CA, we examined levels of maternal first trimester urinary As, including total As and As metabolites (inorganic (iAs), monomethylated (MMA) and dimethylated As (DMA)), in relation to participant demographics, lifestyle characteristics, and rice/seafood consumption, to identify factors that may influence As exposure and its metabolites during pregnancy (N = 241). RESULTS Total As concentrations ranged from low to high (0.8-506.2 μg/L, mean: 9.0 μg/L, SD: 32.9) in our study population. Foreign-born Hispanic women had 8.6% higher %DMA (95% CI: 3.3%, 13.9%) and -7.7% lower %iAs (95% CI: -12.6%, -2.9%) than non-Hispanic women. A similar trend was observed for US-born Hispanic women. In addition, maternal age was associated with 0.4% higher %iAs (95% CI: 0.1%, 0.6%) and 0.4% lower %DMA (95% CI: -0.7%, -0.1%) per year, which may indicate poor As methylation capacity. CONCLUSION Individual factors may predict As exposure and metabolism in pregnancy, and in turn, greater risk of adverse health effects.
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- Shohreh F Farzan
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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Chen Z, Yang T, Walker DI, Thomas DC, Qiu C, Chatzi L, Alderete TL, Kim JS, Conti DV, Breton CV, Liang D, Hauser ER, Jones DP, Gilliland FD. Dysregulated lipid and fatty acid metabolism link perfluoroalkyl substances exposure and impaired glucose metabolism in young adults. Environ Int 2020; 145:106091. [PMID: 32892005 PMCID: PMC8009052 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Revised: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) exposure is ubiquitous among the US population and has been linked to adverse health outcomes including cardiometabolic diseases, immune dysregulation and endocrine disruption. However, the metabolic mechanism underlying the adverse health effect of PFASs exposure is unknown. OBJECTIVE The aim of this project is to investigate the association between PFASs exposure and altered metabolic pathways linked to increased cardiometabolic risk in young adults. METHODS A total of 102 young adults with 82% overweight or obese participants were enrolled from Southern California between 2014 and 2017. Cardiometabolic outcomes were assessed including oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) measures, body fat and lipid profiles. High-resolution metabolomics was used to quantify plasma exposure levels of three PFAS congeners and intensity profiles of the untargeted metabolome. Fasting concentrations of 45 targeted metabolites involved in fatty acid and lipid metabolism were used to verify untargeted metabolomics findings. Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression (BKMR) was used to examine the associations between PFAS exposure mixture and cardiometabolic outcomes adjusting for covariates. Mummichog pathway enrichment analysis was used to explore PFAS-associated metabolic pathways. Moreover, the effect of PFAS exposure on the metabolic network, including metabolomic profiles and cardiometabolic outcomes, was investigated. RESULTS Higher exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) was associated with higher 30-minute glucose levels and glucose area under the curve (AUC) during the OGTT (p < 0.001). PFAS exposure was also associated with altered lipid pathways, which contributed to the metabolic network connecting PFOA and higher glucose levels following the OGTT. Targeted metabolomics analysis indicated that higher PFOA exposure was associated with higher levels of glycerol (p = 0.006), which itself was associated with higher 30-minute glucose (p = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS Increased lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation could contribute to the biological mechanisms linking PFAS exposure and impaired glucose metabolism among young adults. Findings of this study warrants future experimental studies and epidemiological studies with larger sample size to replicate.
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- Zhanghua Chen
- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute and Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Vehmeijer FOL, Küpers LK, Sharp GC, Salas LA, Lent S, Jima DD, Tindula G, Reese S, Qi C, Gruzieva O, Page C, Rezwan FI, Melton PE, Nohr E, Escaramís G, Rzehak P, Heiskala A, Gong T, Tuominen ST, Gao L, Ross JP, Starling AP, Holloway JW, Yousefi P, Aasvang GM, Beilin LJ, Bergström A, Binder E, Chatzi L, Corpeleijn E, Czamara D, Eskenazi B, Ewart S, Ferre N, Grote V, Gruszfeld D, Håberg SE, Hoyo C, Huen K, Karlsson R, Kull I, Langhendries JP, Lepeule J, Magnus MC, Maguire RL, Molloy PL, Monnereau C, Mori TA, Oken E, Räikkönen K, Rifas-Shiman S, Ruiz-Arenas C, Sebert S, Ullemar V, Verduci E, Vonk JM, Xu CJ, Yang IV, Zhang H, Zhang W, Karmaus W, Dabelea D, Muhlhausler BS, Breton CV, Lahti J, Almqvist C, Jarvelin MR, Koletzko B, Vrijheid M, Sørensen TIA, Huang RC, Arshad SH, Nystad W, Melén E, Koppelman GH, London SJ, Holland N, Bustamante M, Murphy SK, Hivert MF, Baccarelli A, Relton CL, Snieder H, Jaddoe VWV, Felix JF. DNA methylation and body mass index from birth to adolescence: meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies. Genome Med 2020; 12:105. [PMID: 33239103 PMCID: PMC7687793 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-020-00810-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND DNA methylation has been shown to be associated with adiposity in adulthood. However, whether similar DNA methylation patterns are associated with childhood and adolescent body mass index (BMI) is largely unknown. More insight into this relationship at younger ages may have implications for future prevention of obesity and its related traits. METHODS We examined whether DNA methylation in cord blood and whole blood in childhood and adolescence was associated with BMI in the age range from 2 to 18 years using both cross-sectional and longitudinal models. We performed meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies including up to 4133 children from 23 studies. We examined the overlap of findings reported in previous studies in children and adults with those in our analyses and calculated enrichment. RESULTS DNA methylation at three CpGs (cg05937453, cg25212453, and cg10040131), each in a different age range, was associated with BMI at Bonferroni significance, P < 1.06 × 10-7, with a 0.96 standard deviation score (SDS) (standard error (SE) 0.17), 0.32 SDS (SE 0.06), and 0.32 BMI SDS (SE 0.06) higher BMI per 10% increase in methylation, respectively. DNA methylation at nine additional CpGs in the cross-sectional childhood model was associated with BMI at false discovery rate significance. The strength of the associations of DNA methylation at the 187 CpGs previously identified to be associated with adult BMI, increased with advancing age across childhood and adolescence in our analyses. In addition, correlation coefficients between effect estimates for those CpGs in adults and in children and adolescents also increased. Among the top findings for each age range, we observed increasing enrichment for the CpGs that were previously identified in adults (birth Penrichment = 1; childhood Penrichment = 2.00 × 10-4; adolescence Penrichment = 2.10 × 10-7). CONCLUSIONS There were only minimal associations of DNA methylation with childhood and adolescent BMI. With the advancing age of the participants across childhood and adolescence, we observed increasing overlap with altered DNA methylation loci reported in association with adult BMI. These findings may be compatible with the hypothesis that DNA methylation differences are mostly a consequence rather than a cause of obesity.
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- Florianne O L Vehmeijer
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Room Na-2918, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University Medical Center Groningen GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK
- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Austalia, Australia
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- Centre for Women's, Family and Child Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Research group on Statistics, Econometrics and Health (GRECS), University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA
- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Air Pollution and Noise, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Pediatrics, Nutrition and Development Research Unit, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, IISPV, Reus, Spain
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Neonatal Department, Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CNRS, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, IAB, Grenoble, France
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Room Na-2918, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pediatrics, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
- University Medical Center Groningen GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University Medical Center Groningen GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, CiiM, Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine, a joint venture between the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany
- TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, a joint venture between the Hannover Medical School and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA
- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
- Center for Genes, Environment and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA
- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Unit of Primary Health Care, Oulu University Hospital, OYS, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, and The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section on Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Isle of Wight, UK
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- Department of Chronic Diseases and Ageing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University Medical Center Groningen GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Room Na-2918, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Room Na-2918, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Howe CG, Claus Henn B, Eckel SP, Farzan SF, Grubbs BH, Chavez TA, Hodes TL, Faham D, Al-Marayati L, Lerner D, Quimby A, Twogood S, Richards MJ, Meeker JD, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Prenatal Metal Mixtures and Birth Weight for Gestational Age in a Predominately Lower-Income Hispanic Pregnancy Cohort in Los Angeles. Environ Health Perspect 2020; 128:117001. [PMID: 33141601 PMCID: PMC7608819 DOI: 10.1289/ehp7201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reduced fetal growth increases the risk for adverse health outcomes. Growing evidence suggests that metal exposures contribute to reduced fetal growth, but little is known about the effects of complex metal mixtures. OBJECTIVES We investigated the impact of a complex mixture of metals on birth weight for gestational age (BW for GA) in the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors study, a predominately lower-income Hispanic pregnancy cohort in Los Angeles, California. METHODS Cadmium (Cd), cobalt (Co), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni), molybdenum (Mo), lead (Pb), antimony (Sb), tin (Sn), and thallium (Tl) were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in maternal urine samples collected in early pregnancy (median GA: 13.1 wk). Speciated urinary arsenic (As) (inorganic+monomethyl+dimethyl As) was measured by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to ICP-MS. Primary analyses focused on a mixture of seven metals that have previously been associated individually with fetal growth (i.e., As, Cd, Co, Hg, Ni, Pb, Tl) (n=262). In exploratory analyses, we additionally examined three metals that have been less studied in relation to fetal growth (i.e., Mo, Sb, Sn). Covariate-adjusted Bayesian kernel machine regression was used to investigate metal mixture associations with BW for GA z-scores. RESULTS In primary analyses, Hg and Ni ranked highest as predictors of BW for GA. An inverse linear association was estimated for Hg, whereas a positive association was estimated for Ni at low-to-moderate concentrations. A potential interaction between Hg and Ni was also identified. In our exploratory analysis, Sb ranked highest as a predictor of BW for GA, followed by Hg and Ni. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that in this understudied population, Hg may reduce fetal growth, whereas Ni may promote fetal growth. We also identified Sb as a potential metal of concern for this population, which merits additional investigation. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP7201.
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- Caitlin G. Howe
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Eisner Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Peterson AK, M. Toledo-Corral C, Chavez TA, Naya CH, Johnson M, Eckel SP, Lerner D, Grubbs BH, Farzan SF, Dunton GF, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Prenatal Maternal Cortisol Levels and Infant Birth Weight in a Predominately Low-Income Hispanic Cohort. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020; 17:E6896. [PMID: 32967301 PMCID: PMC7559007 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17186896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Infant birth weight influences numerous health outcomes throughout the life course including childhood obesity and metabolic morbidities. Maternal experience of stress, both before and during pregnancy, has been hypothesized to influence fetal growth and birth outcomes. However, these associations currently are not fully understood, due to conflicting results in the published literature. Salivary cortisol is often used as a biological biomarker to assess the diurnal pattern of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA-axis) functioning. Cortisol metrics include both the total cortisol concentration secreted during waking hours, reflected by the area under the curve (AUC), and cortisol dynamics, which include the diurnal cortisol slope (DCS) and the cortisol awakening response (CAR). This study examined the association of these cortisol metrics measured during the third trimester of pregnancy and infant birth weight among 240 mother-infant dyads participating in the Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) pregnancy cohort study, which is predominately comprised of Hispanic low-income women. There were no significant associations with the maternal biological stress response and infant birth weight in this study. More research is needed in larger studies to better understand how the biological stress response influences birth weight in populations facing health disparities.
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- Alicia K. Peterson
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
- Department of Health Sciences, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA;
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA; (A.K.P.); (C.M.T.-C.); (T.A.C.); (C.H.N.); (M.J.); (S.P.E.); (S.F.F.); (G.F.D.); (T.M.B.)
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Yen K, Mehta HH, Kim SJ, Lue Y, Hoang J, Guerrero N, Port J, Bi Q, Navarrete G, Brandhorst S, Lewis KN, Wan J, Swerdloff R, Mattison JA, Buffenstein R, Breton CV, Wang C, Longo V, Atzmon G, Wallace D, Barzilai N, Cohen P. The mitochondrial derived peptide humanin is a regulator of lifespan and healthspan. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 12:11185-11199. [PMID: 32575074 PMCID: PMC7343442 DOI: 10.18632/aging.103534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Humanin is a member of a new family of peptides that are encoded by short open reading frames within the mitochondrial genome. It is conserved in animals and is both neuroprotective and cytoprotective. Here we report that in C. elegans the overexpression of humanin is sufficient to increase lifespan, dependent on daf-16/Foxo. Humanin transgenic mice have many phenotypes that overlap with the worm phenotypes and, similar to exogenous humanin treatment, have increased protection against toxic insults. Treating middle-aged mice twice weekly with the potent humanin analogue HNG, humanin improves metabolic healthspan parameters and reduces inflammatory markers. In multiple species, humanin levels generally decline with age, but here we show that levels are surprisingly stable in the naked mole-rat, a model of negligible senescence. Furthermore, in children of centenarians, who are more likely to become centenarians themselves, circulating humanin levels are much greater than age-matched control subjects. Further linking humanin to healthspan, we observe that humanin levels are decreased in human diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes). Together, these studies are the first to demonstrate that humanin is linked to improved healthspan and increased lifespan.
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- Kelvin Yen
- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Medicine, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Medicine, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Physiology, The Barshop Institute, University of Texas Health at San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Medicine, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Dickerson, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Physiology, The Barshop Institute, University of Texas Health at San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
- Calico Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Medicine, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
- Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Howe CG, Farzan SF, Garcia E, Jursa T, Iyer R, Berhane K, Chavez TA, Hodes TL, Grubbs BH, Funk WE, Smith DR, Bastain TM, Breton CV. Arsenic and birth outcomes in a predominately lower income Hispanic pregnancy cohort in Los Angeles. Environ Res 2020; 184:109294. [PMID: 32145549 PMCID: PMC7103498 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.109294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Prenatal arsenic exposure has been associated with reduced fetal growth and increased risk for preterm birth, but most studies have been conducted in highly exposed populations outside the U.S. or in non-Hispanic populations in the rural U.S. The objectives of the current study were to: 1) examine the impact of early pregnancy exposure to arsenic on birth weight and gestational age at birth in a predominately lower income Hispanic pregnancy cohort in urban Los Angeles and 2) compare multiple biomarkers of arsenic exposure (blood, urine, and hair) assessed in early pregnancy (mean ± SD gestational age at biospecimen collection: 14 ± 4 weeks). Total arsenic (blood, hair) was measured by ICP-MS and speciated arsenic (urine) was measured by HPLC coupled to ICP-MS. Associations between log2-transformed arsenic measures and birth outcomes were evaluated using multivariable linear regression. A doubling in hair arsenic was associated with a 72.2 g (95% CI: -144.3, -0.1, P = 0.05) lower birth weight, after adjusting for potential confounders and gestational age at birth. A similar but non-significant trend was observed for blood arsenic, but not urine arsenic. The inverse association between hair arsenic and birth weight was more pronounced among infants whose mothers gained greater amounts of weight during pregnancy (Pinteraction = 0.02). The association between urinary monomethyl arsenic and GA at birth differed by pre-pregnancy BMI (Pinteraction<0.01). This study provides evidence that even at relatively low levels of exposure, arsenic exposure (measured in hair samples collected in early pregnancy) may adversely affect fetal growth in this understudied population, particularly in combination with greater gestational weight gain. Future studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these findings and to further investigate some of the inconsistencies observed for the different arsenic biomarkers evaluated.
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- Caitlin G Howe
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, 2020 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.
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Merid SK, Novoloaca A, Sharp GC, Küpers LK, Kho AT, Roy R, Gao L, Annesi-Maesano I, Jain P, Plusquin M, Kogevinas M, Allard C, Vehmeijer FO, Kazmi N, Salas LA, Rezwan FI, Zhang H, Sebert S, Czamara D, Rifas-Shiman SL, Melton PE, Lawlor DA, Pershagen G, Breton CV, Huen K, Baiz N, Gagliardi L, Nawrot TS, Corpeleijn E, Perron P, Duijts L, Nohr EA, Bustamante M, Ewart SL, Karmaus W, Zhao S, Page CM, Herceg Z, Jarvelin MR, Lahti J, Baccarelli AA, Anderson D, Kachroo P, Relton CL, Bergström A, Eskenazi B, Soomro MH, Vineis P, Snieder H, Bouchard L, Jaddoe VW, Sørensen TIA, Vrijheid M, Arshad SH, Holloway JW, Håberg SE, Magnus P, Dwyer T, Binder EB, DeMeo DL, Vonk JM, Newnham J, Tantisira KG, Kull I, Wiemels JL, Heude B, Sunyer J, Nystad W, Munthe-Kaas MC, Räikkönen K, Oken E, Huang RC, Weiss ST, Antó JM, Bousquet J, Kumar A, Söderhäll C, Almqvist C, Cardenas A, Gruzieva O, Xu CJ, Reese SE, Kere J, Brodin P, Solomon O, Wielscher M, Holland N, Ghantous A, Hivert MF, Felix JF, Koppelman GH, London SJ, Melén E. Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age. Genome Med 2020; 12:25. [PMID: 32114984 PMCID: PMC7050134 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-020-0716-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Preterm birth and shorter duration of pregnancy are associated with increased morbidity in neonatal and later life. As the epigenome is known to have an important role during fetal development, we investigated associations between gestational age and blood DNA methylation in children. METHODS We performed meta-analysis of Illumina's HumanMethylation450-array associations between gestational age and cord blood DNA methylation in 3648 newborns from 17 cohorts without common pregnancy complications, induced delivery or caesarean section. We also explored associations of gestational age with DNA methylation measured at 4-18 years in additional pediatric cohorts. Follow-up analyses of DNA methylation and gene expression correlations were performed in cord blood. DNA methylation profiles were also explored in tissues relevant for gestational age health effects: fetal brain and lung. RESULTS We identified 8899 CpGs in cord blood that were associated with gestational age (range 27-42 weeks), at Bonferroni significance, P < 1.06 × 10- 7, of which 3343 were novel. These were annotated to 4966 genes. After restricting findings to at least three significant adjacent CpGs, we identified 1276 CpGs annotated to 325 genes. Results were generally consistent when analyses were restricted to term births. Cord blood findings tended not to persist into childhood and adolescence. Pathway analyses identified enrichment for biological processes critical to embryonic development. Follow-up of identified genes showed correlations between gestational age and DNA methylation levels in fetal brain and lung tissue, as well as correlation with expression levels. CONCLUSIONS We identified numerous CpGs differentially methylated in relation to gestational age at birth that appear to reflect fetal developmental processes across tissues. These findings may contribute to understanding mechanisms linking gestational age to health effects.
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- Simon Kebede Merid
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Computational Biology And Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- HDF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Sorbonne Université and INSERM, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department (EPAR), Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Saint-Antoine Medical School, Paris, France
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- NIHR-Health Protection Research Unit, Respiratory Infections and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- NIHR-Health Protection Research Unit, Respiratory Infections and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, USA
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Genomic of Complex diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia
- Curtin/UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Stockholm Region, Sweden
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Sorbonne Université and INSERM, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department (EPAR), Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Saint-Antoine Medical School, Paris, France
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- Division of Neonatology and Pediatrics, Ospedale Versilia, Viareggio, AUSL Toscana Nord Ovest, Pisa, Italy
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- NIHR-Health Protection Research Unit, Respiratory Infections and Immunity, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Research Unit for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, RTP, Durham, NC, USA
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Stockholm Region, Sweden
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Sorbonne Université and INSERM, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department (EPAR), Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Saint-Antoine Medical School, Paris, France
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- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Department of medical biology, CIUSSS-SLSJ, Saguenay, QC, Canada
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section on Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Clinical & Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- The David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK
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- Human Development & Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UWA Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sachs' Children's Hospital, Södersjukhuset, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- INSERM, UMR1153 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Sorbonne Paris Cité Center (CRESS), Research Team on Early life Origins of Health (EarOH), Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- University Hospital, Montpellier, France
- Department of Dermatology, Charité, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Stockholm Region, Sweden
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, GRIAC Research Institute Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, RTP, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
- Folkhälsa Research Institute, Helsinki, and Stem Cells and Metabolism Research Program, University of Helsinki Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Newborn Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, GRIAC Research Institute Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, RTP, Durham, NC, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Sachs' Children's Hospital, South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Tylavsky FA, Ferrara A, Catellier DJ, Oken E, Li X, Law A, Dabelea D, Rundle A, Gilbert-Diamond D, Hivert MF, Breton CV, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Mueller NT, Hunt KJ, Arteaga SS, Lombo T, Mahabir S, Ruden D, Sauder K, Hedderson MM, Zhu Y, Polk S, Mihalopoulos NL, Vos M, Pyles L, Roary M, Aschner J, Karagas MR, Trasande L. Understanding childhood obesity in the US: the NIH environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) program. Int J Obes (Lond) 2020; 44:617-627. [PMID: 31649277 PMCID: PMC7060502 DOI: 10.1038/s41366-019-0470-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Few resources exist for prospective, longitudinal analysis of the relationships between early life environment and later obesity in large diverse samples of children in the United States (US). In 2016, the National Institutes of Health launched the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to investigate influences of environmental exposures on child health and development. We describe demographics and overweight and obesity prevalence in ECHO, and ECHO's potential as a resource for understanding how early life environmental factors affect obesity risk. METHODS In this cross-sectional study of 70 extant US and Puerto Rico cohorts, 2003-2017, we examined age, race/ethnicity, and sex in children with body mass index (BMI) data, including 28,507 full-term post-birth to <2 years and 38,332 aged 2-18 years. Main outcomes included high BMI for age <2 years, and at 2-18 years overweight (BMI 85th to <95th percentile), obesity (BMI ≥ 95th percentile), and severe obesity (BMI ≥ 120% of 95th percentile). RESULTS The study population had diverse race/ethnicity and maternal demographics. Each outcome was more common with increasing age and varied with race/ethnicity. High BMI prevalence (95% CI) was 4.7% (3.5, 6.0) <1 year, and 10.6% (7.4, 13.7) for 1 to <2 years; overweight prevalence increased from 13.9% (12.4, 15.9) at 2-3 years to 19.9% (11.7, 28.2) at 12 to <18 years. ECHO has the statistical power to detect relative risks for 'high' BMI ranging from 1.2 to 2.2 for a wide range of exposure prevalences (1-50%) within each age group. CONCLUSIONS ECHO is a powerful resource for understanding influences of chemical, biological, social, natural, and built environments on onset and trajectories of obesity in US children. The large sample size of ECHO cohorts adopting a standardized protocol for new data collection of varied exposures along with longitudinal assessments will allow refined analyses to identify drivers of childhood obesity.
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- Frances A Tylavsky
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Welch Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- NIH Office of the Director, ECHO Program, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Centro SOL, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- National Institute of Nursing Research and Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Program, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Environmental Medicine and Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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Howe CG, Cox B, Fore R, Jungius J, Kvist T, Lent S, Miles HE, Salas LA, Rifas-Shiman S, Starling AP, Yousefi P, Ladd-Acosta C, Baccarelli A, Binder EB, Chatzi VL, Czamara D, Dabelea D, DeMeo DL, Ghantous A, Herceg Z, Kajantie E, Lahti JMT, Lawlor DA, Litonjua A, Nawrot TS, Nohr EA, Oken E, Pizzi C, Plusquin M, Räikkönen K, Relton CL, Sharp GC, Sørensen TIA, Sunyer J, Vrijheid M, Zhang W, Hivert MF, Breton CV. Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Newborn DNA Methylation: Findings From the Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics Consortium. Diabetes Care 2020; 43:98-105. [PMID: 31601636 PMCID: PMC6925578 DOI: 10.2337/dc19-0524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Maternal gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been associated with adverse outcomes in the offspring. Growing evidence suggests that the epigenome may play a role, but most previous studies have been small and adjusted for few covariates. The current study meta-analyzed the association between maternal GDM and cord blood DNA methylation in the Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) consortium. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Seven pregnancy cohorts (3,677 mother-newborn pairs [317 with GDM]) contributed results from epigenome-wide association studies, using DNA methylation data acquired by the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array. Associations between GDM and DNA methylation were examined using robust linear regression, with adjustment for potential confounders. Fixed-effects meta-analyses were performed using METAL. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were identified by taking the intersection of results obtained using two regional approaches: comb-p and DMRcate. RESULTS Two DMRs were identified by both comb-p and DMRcate. Both regions were hypomethylated in newborns exposed to GDM in utero compared with control subjects. One DMR (chr 1: 248100345-248100614) was located in the OR2L13 promoter, and the other (chr 10: 135341870-135342620) was located in the gene body of CYP2E1. Individual CpG analyses did not reveal any differentially methylated loci based on a false discovery rate-adjusted P value threshold of 0.05. CONCLUSIONS Maternal GDM was associated with lower cord blood methylation levels within two regions, including the promoter of OR2L13, a gene associated with autism spectrum disorder, and the gene body of CYP2E1, which is upregulated in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Future studies are needed to understand whether these associations are causal and possible health consequences.
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- Caitlin G Howe
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- Laboratory of Precision Environmental Biosciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Unit for Pediatrics, Dermatology, Clinical Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, U.K
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
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- Research Unit for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, U.K
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K
- Section on Metabolic Genetics, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain
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- ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Gruzieva O, Xu CJ, Yousefi P, Relton C, Merid SK, Breton CV, Gao L, Volk HE, Feinberg JI, Ladd-Acosta C, Bakulski K, Auffray C, Lemonnier N, Plusquin M, Ghantous A, Herceg Z, Nawrot TS, Pizzi C, Richiardi L, Rusconi F, Vineis P, Kogevinas M, Felix JF, Duijts L, den Dekker HT, Jaddoe VWV, Ruiz JL, Bustamante M, Antó JM, Sunyer J, Vrijheid M, Gutzkow KB, Grazuleviciene R, Hernandez-Ferrer C, Annesi-Maesano I, Lepeule J, Bousquet J, Bergström A, Kull I, Söderhäll C, Kere J, Gehring U, Brunekreef B, Just AC, Wright RJ, Peng C, Gold DR, Kloog I, DeMeo DL, Pershagen G, Koppelman GH, London SJ, Baccarelli AA, Melén E. Prenatal Particulate Air Pollution and DNA Methylation in Newborns: An Epigenome-Wide Meta-Analysis. Environ Health Perspect 2019; 127:57012. [PMID: 31148503 PMCID: PMC6792178 DOI: 10.1289/ehp4522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Revised: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Prenatal exposure to air pollution has been associated with childhood respiratory disease and other adverse outcomes. Epigenetics is a suggested link between exposures and health outcomes. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate associations between prenatal exposure to particulate matter (PM) with diameter [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) or [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) and DNA methylation in newborns and children. METHODS We meta-analyzed associations between exposure to [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) and [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]) at maternal home addresses during pregnancy and newborn DNA methylation assessed by Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450K BeadChip in nine European and American studies, with replication in 688 independent newborns and look-up analyses in 2,118 older children. We used two approaches, one focusing on single cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites and another on differentially methylated regions (DMRs). We also related PM exposures to blood mRNA expression. RESULTS Six CpGs were significantly associated [false discovery rate (FDR) [Formula: see text]] with prenatal [Formula: see text] and 14 with [Formula: see text] exposure. Two of the [Formula: see text] CpGs mapped to FAM13A (cg00905156) and NOTCH4 (cg06849931) previously associated with lung function and asthma. Although these associations did not replicate in the smaller newborn sample, both CpGs were significant ([Formula: see text]) in 7- to 9-y-olds. For cg06849931, however, the direction of the association was inconsistent. Concurrent [Formula: see text] exposure was associated with a significantly higher NOTCH4 expression at age 16 y. We also identified several DMRs associated with either prenatal [Formula: see text] and or [Formula: see text] exposure, of which two [Formula: see text] DMRs, including H19 and MARCH11, replicated in newborns. CONCLUSIONS Several differentially methylated CpGs and DMRs associated with prenatal PM exposure were identified in newborns, with annotation to genes previously implicated in lung-related outcomes. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4522.
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- Olena Gruzieva
- 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 2 Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 3 Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen , Netherlands
- 4 Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, University Medical Center Groningen, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen , Netherlands
- 5 Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen , Netherlands
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- 6 MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol , Bristol, UK
- 7 Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol , Bristol, UK
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- 6 MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol , Bristol, UK
- 7 Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol , Bristol, UK
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- 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 8 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California, USA
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- 8 Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California, USA
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- 9 Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 10 Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- 9 Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- 11 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- 11 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- 12 European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM), CNRS-ENS-UCBL, Université de Lyon , Lyon, France
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- 12 European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM), CNRS-ENS-UCBL, Université de Lyon , Lyon, France
- 13 Institute for Advanced Biosciences, UGA-Institut national de la santé et de la recherché médicale (Inserm) , La Tronche, France
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- 14 Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek, Belgium
- 15 MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London , London, UK
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- 16 Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- 16 Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- 14 Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University , Diepenbeek, Belgium
- 17 Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Leuven University , Leuven, Belgium
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- 18 Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin and CPO-Piemonte , Turin, Italy
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- 18 Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin and CPO-Piemonte , Turin, Italy
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- 19 Unit of Epidemiology, Meyer Children's University Hospital , Florence, Italy
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- 15 MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London , London, UK
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- 20 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) , Barcelona, Spain
- 22 CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) , Madrid, Spain
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- 23 Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre) , University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 25 Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- 23 Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre) , University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 26 Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, and Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center , Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- 23 Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre) , University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 25 Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- 23 Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre) , University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 25 Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam , Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- 27 Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) , Barcelona, Spain
- 28 Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra (IPBLN), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) , Armilla, Granada, Spain
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- 20 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) , Barcelona, Spain
- 22 CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) , Madrid, Spain
- 27 Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) , Barcelona, Spain
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- 20 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) , Barcelona, Spain
- 22 CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) , Madrid, Spain
- 29 Hospital de Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) , Barcelona, Spain
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- 20 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) , Barcelona, Spain
- 22 CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) , Madrid, Spain
- 29 Hospital de Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) , Barcelona, Spain
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- 20 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) , Barcelona, Spain
- 22 CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) , Madrid, Spain
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- 31 Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytauto Didziojo Universitetas , Kaunas, Lithuania
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- 20 Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) , Barcelona, Spain
- 32 Computational Health Informatics Program , Boston Children's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- 33 Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, IPLESP, Inserm and Sorbonne University Medical School Saint-Antoine , Paris, France
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- 34 Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, National Institute of Health & Medical Research, CNRS, IAB , Grenoble, France
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- 35 Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing Reference Site, MACVIA-France (Contre les Maladies Chroniques pour un Vieillissement Actif en France European) , Montpellier, France
- 36 U 1168, VIMA: Ageing and Chronic Diseases Epidemiological and Public Health Approaches, Inserm Villejuif, Université Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines , Montigny le Bretonneux, France
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- 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 2 Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 37 Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 38 Sachs Children's Hospital , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 39 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 40 Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 40 Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 42 School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, Guy's Hospital , London, UK
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- 44 Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University , Utrecht, Netherlands
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- 44 Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University , Utrecht, Netherlands
- 45 Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University , Utrecht, Netherlands
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- 46 Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, USA
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- 47 Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, USA
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- 48 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- 48 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 49 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- 50 Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Beer Sheva, Israel
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- 48 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 2 Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council , Stockholm, Sweden
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- 3 Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen , Netherlands
- 4 Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, University Medical Center Groningen, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen , Netherlands
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- 51 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- 52 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health , New York, USA
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- 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden
- 38 Sachs Children's Hospital , Stockholm, Sweden
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Küpers LK, Monnereau C, Sharp GC, Yousefi P, Salas LA, Ghantous A, Page CM, Reese SE, Wilcox AJ, Czamara D, Starling AP, Novoloaca A, Lent S, Roy R, Hoyo C, Breton CV, Allard C, Just AC, Bakulski KM, Holloway JW, Everson TM, Xu CJ, Huang RC, van der Plaat DA, Wielscher M, Merid SK, Ullemar V, Rezwan FI, Lahti J, van Dongen J, Langie SAS, Richardson TG, Magnus MC, Nohr EA, Xu Z, Duijts L, Zhao S, Zhang W, Plusquin M, DeMeo DL, Solomon O, Heimovaara JH, Jima DD, Gao L, Bustamante M, Perron P, Wright RO, Hertz-Picciotto I, Zhang H, Karagas MR, Gehring U, Marsit CJ, Beilin LJ, Vonk JM, Jarvelin MR, Bergström A, Örtqvist AK, Ewart S, Villa PM, Moore SE, Willemsen G, Standaert ARL, Håberg SE, Sørensen TIA, Taylor JA, Räikkönen K, Yang IV, Kechris K, Nawrot TS, Silver MJ, Gong YY, Richiardi L, Kogevinas M, Litonjua AA, Eskenazi B, Huen K, Mbarek H, Maguire RL, Dwyer T, Vrijheid M, Bouchard L, Baccarelli AA, Croen LA, Karmaus W, Anderson D, de Vries M, Sebert S, Kere J, Karlsson R, Arshad SH, Hämäläinen E, Routledge MN, Boomsma DI, Feinberg AP, Newschaffer CJ, Govarts E, Moisse M, Fallin MD, Melén E, Prentice AM, Kajantie E, Almqvist C, Oken E, Dabelea D, Boezen HM, Melton PE, Wright RJ, Koppelman GH, Trevisi L, Hivert MF, Sunyer J, Munthe-Kaas MC, Murphy SK, Corpeleijn E, Wiemels J, Holland N, Herceg Z, Binder EB, Davey Smith G, Jaddoe VWV, Lie RT, Nystad W, London SJ, Lawlor DA, Relton CL, Snieder H, Felix JF. Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in neonates reveals widespread differential DNA methylation associated with birthweight. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1893. [PMID: 31015461 PMCID: PMC6478731 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09671-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Birthweight is associated with health outcomes across the life course, DNA methylation may be an underlying mechanism. In this meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of 8,825 neonates from 24 birth cohorts in the Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics Consortium, we find that DNA methylation in neonatal blood is associated with birthweight at 914 sites, with a difference in birthweight ranging from -183 to 178 grams per 10% increase in methylation (PBonferroni < 1.06 x 10-7). In additional analyses in 7,278 participants, <1.3% of birthweight-associated differential methylation is also observed in childhood and adolescence, but not adulthood. Birthweight-related CpGs overlap with some Bonferroni-significant CpGs that were previously reported to be related to maternal smoking (55/914, p = 6.12 x 10-74) and BMI in pregnancy (3/914, p = 1.13x10-3), but not with those related to folate levels in pregnancy. Whether the associations that we observe are causal or explained by confounding or fetal growth influencing DNA methylation (i.e. reverse causality) requires further research.
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- Leanne K Küpers
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
| | - Claire Monnereau
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Gemma C Sharp
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Paul Yousefi
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Lucas A Salas
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
- ISGlobal, Bacelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Akram Ghantous
- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
| | - Christian M Page
- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Oslo Centre for Biostatisitcs and Epidemology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Sarah E Reese
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Service, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Allen J Wilcox
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Service, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- HDF Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Computational Biology and Informatics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
| | - Diana A van der Plaat
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology and Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
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- Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- VITO - Health, Mol, Belgium
- Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Unit for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
| | - Michelle Plusquin
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- MRC/PHE Centre for Environment and Health School of Public Health Imperial College London, St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place, London, UK
| | - Dawn L DeMeo
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Olivia Solomon
- School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Joosje H Heimovaara
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Dereje D Jima
- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
| | - Lu Gao
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
| | - Mariona Bustamante
- ISGlobal, Bacelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
| | - Patrice Perron
- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA, USA
| | - Hongmei Zhang
- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
| | - Margaret R Karagas
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
- Children's Environmental Health & Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
| | - Ulrike Gehring
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - Carmen J Marsit
- Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology and Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
| | - Anna Bergström
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
| | - Pia M Villa
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Sophie E Moore
- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Department of Women and Children's Health, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Jack A Taylor
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Service, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Ivana V Yang
- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
| | - Katerina Kechris
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- School of Food Sciences and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Lorenzo Richiardi
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- AOU Citta della Salute e della Sceinza, CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy
| | - Manolis Kogevinas
- ISGlobal, Bacelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
| | - Augusto A Litonjua
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Brenda Eskenazi
- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Karen Huen
- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
| | - Hamdi Mbarek
- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Rachel L Maguire
- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- The George Institute for Global Health, Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- ISGlobal, Bacelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
| | - Luigi Bouchard
- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- ECOGENE-21 Biocluster, Chicoutimi Hospital, Saguenay, QC, Canada
| | - Andrea A Baccarelli
- Laboratory of Precision Environmental Biosciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
| | - Lisa A Croen
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
| | - Wilfried Karmaus
- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
| | - Denise Anderson
- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
| | - Maaike de Vries
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology and Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands
| | - Sylvain Sebert
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department for Genomics of Common Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Juha Kere
- Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, and Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
- School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King's College London, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
| | - Robert Karlsson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Syed Hasan Arshad
- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Isle of Wight, UK
| | - Esa Hämäläinen
- HUSLAB and the Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Dorret I Boomsma
- Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Andrew P Feinberg
- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA, USA
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- KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Neurosciences, Experimental Neurology and Leuven Institute for Neuroscience and Disease (LIND), Leuven, Belgium
- VIB, Center for Brain & Disease Research, Laboratory of Neurobiology, Leuven, Belgium
| | - M Daniele Fallin
- Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Erik Melén
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sachs' Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- PEDEGO Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Dana Dabelea
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology and Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- ISGlobal, Bacelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Children's Environmental Health Laboratory, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Altanta, GA, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department for Non-Communicable Diseases, Norwegian Institute for Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Service, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Breton CV, Song AY, Xiao J, Kim SJ, Mehta HH, Wan J, Yen K, Sioutas C, Lurmann F, Xue S, Morgan TE, Zhang J, Cohen P. Effects of air pollution on mitochondrial function, mitochondrial DNA methylation, and mitochondrial peptide expression. Mitochondrion 2019; 46:22-29. [PMID: 30980914 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2019.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mitochondrial DNA is sensitive to damage by exogenous reactive oxygen sources, including traffic-related air pollution (TRAP). Given the important role for mitochondria in human disease, we hypothesized that prenatal air pollution exposure may be associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and that mitochondrial-derived peptides (MDPs) might protect against these effects. In in vitro studies, 24-hour exposure to nanoparticulate matter (nPM) increased oxidation of mtDNA, decreased mitochondrial consumption rate (OCR), and decreased mtDNAcn in SH-SY5Y cells. Addition of MDPs rescued these effects to varying degrees. Liver tissue taken from C57Bl/6 males exposed for 10 weeks to nPM had lower OCR, lower mtDNAcn and higher MDP levels, similar to in vitro studies. In newborn cord blood, MDP levels were positively associated with prenatal TRAP exposures. Moreover, DNA methylation of two distinct regions of the D-Loop in the mitochondria genome was associated with levels of several MDPs. Our in vitro and in vivo data indicate that TRAP can directly affect mitochondrial respiratory function and mtDNAcn. Treatment of cells with MDPs can counteract TRAP induced-effects. Lastly, we present evidence that suggests MDPs may be regulated in part by mitochondrial DNA methylation in humans.
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- Carrie V Breton
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine USC, 2001 N Soto St., Los Angeles, CA 90032, United States of America.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine USC, 2001 N Soto St., Los Angeles, CA 90032, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 3620 South Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- Sonoma Technology, 1450 N. McDowell Blvd., Suite 200, Petaluma, CA 94954, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine USC, 2001 N Soto St., Los Angeles, CA 90032, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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- Nicholas School of the Enviroment, Duke University, 308 Research Drive LSRC, Durham, NC 27708, United States of America
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- USC Leonard School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States of America
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den Dekker HT, Burrows K, Felix JF, Salas LA, Nedeljkovic I, Yao J, Rifas-Shiman SL, Ruiz-Arenas C, Amin N, Bustamante M, DeMeo DL, Henderson AJ, Howe CG, Hivert MF, Ikram MA, de Jongste JC, Lahousse L, Mandaviya PR, van Meurs JB, Pinart M, Sharp GC, Stolk L, Uitterlinden AG, Anto JM, Litonjua AA, Breton CV, Brusselle GG, Sunyer J, Smith GD, Relton CL, Jaddoe VWV, Duijts L. Newborn DNA-methylation, childhood lung function, and the risks of asthma and COPD across the life course. Eur Respir J 2019; 53:13993003.01795-2018. [PMID: 30765504 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01795-2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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RATIONALE We aimed to identify differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in cord blood DNA associated with childhood lung function, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) across the life course. METHODS We meta-analysed epigenome-wide data of 1688 children from five cohorts to identify cord blood DMRs and their annotated genes, in relation to forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), FEV1/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio and forced expiratory flow at 75% of FVC at ages 7-13 years. Identified DMRs were explored for associations with childhood asthma, adult lung function and COPD, gene expression and involvement in biological processes. RESULTS We identified 59 DMRs associated with childhood lung function, of which 18 were associated with childhood asthma and nine with COPD in adulthood. Genes annotated to the top 10 identified DMRs were HOXA5, PAOX, LINC00602, ABCA7, PER3, CLCA1, VENTX, NUDT12, PTPRN2 and TCL1A. Differential gene expression in blood was observed for 32 DMRs in childhood and 18 in adulthood. Genes related with 16 identified DMRs were associated with respiratory developmental or pathogenic pathways. INTERPRETATION Our findings suggest that the epigenetic status of the newborn affects respiratory health and disease across the life course.
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- Herman T den Dekker
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,These authors contributed equally
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,These authors contributed equally
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,These authors contributed equally
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- ISGLobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Dept of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Dept of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Obesity Prevention Program, Dept of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- ISGLobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- ISGLobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.,Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Dept of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Obesity Prevention Program, Dept of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Dept of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Dept of Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Dept of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- ISGLobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.,IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Dept of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- ISGLobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.,IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dept of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- ISGLobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.,IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,These authors contributed equally
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Dept of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,These authors contributed equally
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- Dept of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands .,Dept of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,These authors contributed equally
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Howe CG, Zhou M, Wang X, Pittman GS, Thompson IJ, Campbell MR, Bastain TM, Grubbs BH, Salam MT, Hoyo C, Bell DA, Smith AD, Breton CV. Associations between Maternal Tobacco Smoke Exposure and the Cord Blood [Formula: see text] DNA Methylome. Environ Health Perspect 2019; 127:047009. [PMID: 31039056 PMCID: PMC6785223 DOI: 10.1289/ehp3398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Revised: 02/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Maternal tobacco smoke exposure has been associated with altered DNA methylation. However, previous studies largely used methylation arrays, which cover a small fraction of CpGs, and focused on whole cord blood. OBJECTIVES The current study examined the impact of in utero exposure to maternal tobacco smoke on the cord blood [Formula: see text] DNA methylome. METHODS The methylomes of 20 Hispanic white newborns ([Formula: see text] exposed to any maternal tobacco smoke in pregnancy; [Formula: see text] unexposed) from the Maternal and Child Health Study (MACHS) were profiled by whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (median coverage: [Formula: see text]). Statistical analyses were conducted using the Regression Analysis of Differential Methylation (RADMeth) program because it performs well on low-coverage data (minimizes false positives and negatives). RESULTS We found that 10,381 CpGs were differentially methylated by tobacco smoke exposure [neighbor-adjusted p-values that are additionally corrected for multiple testing based on the Benjamini-Hochberg method for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) [Formula: see text]]. From these CpGs, RADMeth identified 557 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) that were overrepresented ([Formula: see text]) in important regulatory regions, including enhancers. Of nine DMRs that could be queried in a reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) study of adult [Formula: see text] cells ([Formula: see text] smokers; [Formula: see text] nonsmokers), four replicated ([Formula: see text]). Additionally, a CpG in the promoter of SLC7A8 (percent methylation difference: [Formula: see text] comparing exposed to unexposed) replicated ([Formula: see text]) in an EPIC (Illumina) array study of cord blood [Formula: see text] cells ([Formula: see text] exposed to sustained maternal tobacco smoke; [Formula: see text] unexposed) and in a study of adult [Formula: see text] cells across two platforms (EPIC: [Formula: see text] smokers; [Formula: see text] nonsmokers; 450K: [Formula: see text] smokers; [Formula: see text] nonsmokers). CONCLUSIONS Maternal tobacco smoke exposure in pregnancy is associated with cord blood [Formula: see text] DNA methylation in key regulatory regions, including enhancers. While we used a method that performs well on low-coverage data, we cannot exclude the possibility that some results may be false positives. However, we identified a differentially methylated CpG in amino acid transporter SLC7A8 that is highly reproducible, which may be sensitive to cigarette smoke in both cord blood and adult [Formula: see text] cells. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP3398.
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- Caitlin G. Howe
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Kern Medical, Bakersfield, California, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Disease Laboratory, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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O'Connor SG, Habre R, Bastain TM, Toledo-Corral CM, Gilliland FD, Eckel SP, Cabison J, Naya CH, Farzan SF, Chu D, Chavez TA, Breton CV, Dunton GF. Within-subject effects of environmental and social stressors on pre- and post-partum obesity-related biobehavioral responses in low-income Hispanic women: protocol of an intensive longitudinal study. BMC Public Health 2019; 19:253. [PMID: 30819155 PMCID: PMC6396454 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-6583-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Disproportionately high rates of maternal overweight and obesity among the Hispanic population before, during, and after pregnancy pose serious health concerns for both mothers (e.g., preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, weight retention) and children (e.g., elevated lifelong obesity risk). A growing body of evidence implicates environmental exposures (e.g., air pollution, metals) and social stressors (e.g., poverty, violence) in contributing to obesity-related biobehavioral processes, such as physical activity, dietary intake, perceived stress, and cortisol regulation. However, current understanding of the role of environmental exposures and social stressors on obesity-related biobehavioral processes is limited by infrequent, inter-individual measurement, and lack of personal exposure monitoring. Methods The “Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors” (MADRES) real-time and personal sampling study examines the within-subject day-level effects of environmental and social stressors on maternal pre- and post-partum obesity-related biobehavioral responses. Among a cohort of 65 low-income, Hispanic women in urban Los Angeles, this study uses innovative personal, real-time data capture strategies (e.g., ecological momentary assessment [EMA], personal exposure monitoring, geolocation monitoring, accelerometry) to repeatedly assess obesity-related processes during the 1st and 3rd trimester, and at 4–6 months postpartum. Day-level effects of environmental exposures and social stressors on women’s physical activity, diet, perceived stress and salivary cortisol measured across repeated days will be tested using multilevel modeling. Discussion Hispanic women of childbearing age bear a disproportionately high burden of obesity, and this population is also unduly exposed to numerous obesogenic settings. By using innovative real-time data capture strategies, the current study will uncover the daily impacts of environmental and social stressor exposures on women’s obesity-related biobehavioral responses, which over time can lead to excessive gestational weight gain, postpartum weight retention and can pose serious consequences for both mother and child. Findings from the real-time and personal sampling study will identify key mechanistic targets for policy, clinical, and programmatic interventions, with the potential for broad-reaching public health impacts.
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- Sydney G O'Connor
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA.,Department of Health Sciences, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA. .,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
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Kogan V, Millstein J, London SJ, Ober C, White SR, Naureckas ET, Gauderman WJ, Jackson DJ, Barraza-Villarreal A, Romieu I, Raby BA, Breton CV. Genetic-Epigenetic Interactions in Asthma Revealed by a Genome-Wide Gene-Centric Search. Hum Hered 2019; 83:130-152. [PMID: 30669148 PMCID: PMC7365350 DOI: 10.1159/000489765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES There is evidence to suggest that asthma pathogenesis is affected by both genetic and epigenetic variation independently, and there is some evidence to suggest that genetic-epigenetic interactions affect risk of asthma. However, little research has been done to identify such interactions on a genome-wide scale. The aim of this studies was to identify genes with genetic-epigenetic interactions associated with asthma. METHODS Using asthma case-control data, we applied a novel nonparametric gene-centric approach to test for interactions between multiple SNPs and CpG sites simultaneously in the vicinities of 18,178 genes across the genome. RESULTS Twelve genes, PF4, ATF3, TPRA1, HOPX, SCARNA18, STC1, OR10K1, UPK1B, LOC101928523, LHX6, CHMP4B, and LANCL1, exhibited statistically significant SNP-CpG interactions (false discovery rate = 0.05). Of these, three have previously been implicated in asthma risk (PF4, ATF3, and TPRA1). Follow-up analysis revealed statistically significant pairwise SNP-CpG interactions for several of these genes, including SCARNA18, LHX6, and LOC101928523 (p = 1.33E-04, 8.21E-04, 1.11E-03, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Joint effects of genetic and epigenetic variation may play an important role in asthma pathogenesis. Statistical methods that simultaneously account for multiple variations across chromosomal regions may be needed to detect these types of effects on a genome-wide scale.
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- Vladimir Kogan
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA,
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, RTP, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Population Health Center, National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Section of Nutrition and Metabolism, Lyon, France
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Reese SE, Xu CJ, den Dekker HT, Lee MK, Sikdar S, Ruiz-Arenas C, Merid SK, Rezwan FI, Page CM, Ullemar V, Melton PE, Oh SS, Yang IV, Burrows K, Söderhäll C, Jima DD, Gao L, Arathimos R, Küpers LK, Wielscher M, Rzehak P, Lahti J, Laprise C, Madore AM, Ward J, Bennett BD, Wang T, Bell DA, Vonk JM, Håberg SE, Zhao S, Karlsson R, Hollams E, Hu D, Richards AJ, Bergström A, Sharp GC, Felix JF, Bustamante M, Gruzieva O, Maguire RL, Gilliland F, Baïz N, Nohr EA, Corpeleijn E, Sebert S, Karmaus W, Grote V, Kajantie E, Magnus MC, Örtqvist AK, Eng C, Liu AH, Kull I, Jaddoe VWV, Sunyer J, Kere J, Hoyo C, Annesi-Maesano I, Arshad SH, Koletzko B, Brunekreef B, Binder EB, Räikkönen K, Reischl E, Holloway JW, Jarvelin MR, Snieder H, Kazmi N, Breton CV, Murphy SK, Pershagen G, Anto JM, Relton CL, Schwartz DA, Burchard EG, Huang RC, Nystad W, Almqvist C, Henderson AJ, Melén E, Duijts L, Koppelman GH, London SJ. Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of DNA methylation and childhood asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018; 143:2062-2074. [PMID: 30579849 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.11.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Epigenetic mechanisms, including methylation, can contribute to childhood asthma. Identifying DNA methylation profiles in asthmatic patients can inform disease pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify differential DNA methylation in newborns and children related to childhood asthma. METHODS Within the Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics consortium, we performed epigenome-wide meta-analyses of school-age asthma in relation to CpG methylation (Illumina450K) in blood measured either in newborns, in prospective analyses, or cross-sectionally in school-aged children. We also identified differentially methylated regions. RESULTS In newborns (8 cohorts, 668 cases), 9 CpGs (and 35 regions) were differentially methylated (epigenome-wide significance, false discovery rate < 0.05) in relation to asthma development. In a cross-sectional meta-analysis of asthma and methylation in children (9 cohorts, 631 cases), we identified 179 CpGs (false discovery rate < 0.05) and 36 differentially methylated regions. In replication studies of methylation in other tissues, most of the 179 CpGs discovered in blood replicated, despite smaller sample sizes, in studies of nasal respiratory epithelium or eosinophils. Pathway analyses highlighted enrichment for asthma-relevant immune processes and overlap in pathways enriched both in newborns and children. Gene expression correlated with methylation at most loci. Functional annotation supports a regulatory effect on gene expression at many asthma-associated CpGs. Several implicated genes are targets for approved or experimental drugs, including IL5RA and KCNH2. CONCLUSION Novel loci differentially methylated in newborns represent potential biomarkers of risk of asthma by school age. Cross-sectional associations in children can reflect both risk for and effects of disease. Asthma-related differential methylation in blood in children was substantially replicated in eosinophils and respiratory epithelium.
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- Sarah E Reese
- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Curtin/UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Saguenay, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada; Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
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- Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, IPLESP, INSERM and UPMC Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Research Unit for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Department of Genomics of Complex Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tenn
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sachs' Children's Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, IPLESP, INSERM and UPMC Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga; Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif; Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sachs' Children's Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC.
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Gao L, Urman R, Millstein J, Siegmund KD, Dubeau L, Breton CV. Association between AXL promoter methylation and lung function growth during adolescence. Epigenetics 2018; 13:1027-1038. [PMID: 30277126 PMCID: PMC6342069 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2018.1529517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 08/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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AXL is one of the TAM (TYRO3, AXL and MERTK) receptor tyrosine kinases and may be involved in airway inflammation. Little is known about how epigenetic changes in AXL may affect lung development during adolescence. We investigated the association between AXL DNA methylation at birth and lung function growth from 10 to 18 years of age in 923 subjects from the Children's Health Study (CHS). DNA methylation from newborn bloodspots was measured at multiple CpG loci across the regulatory regions of AXL using Pyrosequencing. Linear spline mixed-effects models were fitted to assess the association between DNA methylation and 8-year lung function growth. Findings were evaluated for replication in a separate population of 237 CHS subjects using methylation data from the Illumina HumanMethylation450 (HM450) array when possible. A 5% higher average methylation level of the AXL promoter region at birth was associated with a 48.4 ml decrease in mean FEV1 growth from 10 to 18 years of age in the primary study population (95% CI: -100.2, 3.4), and a 53.9 ml decrease in mean FEV1 growth from 11 to 15 years of age in the replication population (95% CI: -104.3, -3.5). One CpG locus in the promoter region, cg10564498, was significantly associated with decreased growth in FEV1, FVC and MMEF from 10 to 18 years of age and the negative associations were observed in a similar age range in the replication population. These findings suggest a potential association between AXL promoter methylation at birth and lower lung function growth during adolescence.
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- Lu Gao
- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Howe CG, Eckel SP, Habre R, Girguis MS, Gao L, Lurmann FW, Gilliland FD, Breton CV. Association of Prenatal Exposure to Ambient and Traffic-Related Air Pollution With Newborn Thyroid Function: Findings From the Children's Health Study. JAMA Netw Open 2018; 1:e182172. [PMID: 30646156 PMCID: PMC6324507 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.2172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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IMPORTANCE Thyroid hormones are critical for fetal growth and development. Prenatal particulate matter (PM) air pollution exposure has been associated with altered newborn thyroid function, but other air pollutants have not been evaluated, and critical windows of exposure are unknown. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of prenatal exposure to ambient and traffic-related air pollutants with newborn thyroid function and identify critical windows of exposure. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cohort study used data from 2050 participants in the Children's Health Study. Statistical analyses were conducted from 2017 to 2018 using pregnancy and birth data from 1994 to 1997 for a subset of participants recruited from schools in 13 southern California communities in 2002 to 2003 when participants were 5 to 7 years of age. Participants were included in statistical analyses if they could be linked to their newborn blood spot and had complete monthly exposure measures for at least 1 air pollutant across pregnancy. EXPOSURES Prenatal monthly averages of ambient (PM diameter <2.5 μm [PM2.5] or <10 μm [PM10], nitrogen dioxide, and ozone) and traffic-related (freeway, nonfreeway, and total nitrogen oxides) air pollutant exposures were determined using inverse distance-squared weighting of central monitoring data and the California Line Source Dispersion model, respectively. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Newborn heel-stick blood spot total thyroxine (TT4) measures were acquired retrospectively from the California Department of Public Health. RESULTS Participants included 2050 newborns (50.5% male), with a median (interquartile range) age of 20 (15-29) hours. The majority of newborns were Hispanic white (1202 [58.6%]) or non-Hispanic white (638 [31.1%]). Sixty-six (3.2%) were black and 144 (7.0%) were from other racial/ethnic groups. The mean (SD) newborn TT4 measure was 16.2 (4.3) μg/dL. A 2-SD increase in prenatal PM2.5 (16.3 μg/m3) and PM10 (22.2 μg/m3) was associated with a 1.2-μg/dL (95% CI, 0.5-1.8 μg/dL) and 1.5-μg/dL (95% CI, 0.9-2.1 μg/dL) higher TT4 measure, respectively, in covariate-adjusted linear regression models. Other pollutants were not consistently associated with newborn TT4. Distributed lag models revealed that PM2.5 exposure during months 3 to 7 of pregnancy and PM10 exposure during months 1 to 8 of pregnancy were associated with significantly higher newborn TT4 concentrations (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Prenatal PM exposure, particularly in early pregnancy and midpregnancy, is associated with higher newborn TT4 concentrations. Future studies should assess the health implications of PM-associated differences in newborn TT4 concentrations.
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- Caitlin G. Howe
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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Gao L, Liu X, Millstein J, Siegmund KD, Dubeau L, Maguire RL, (Jim) Zhang J, Fuemmeler BF, Kollins SH, Hoyo C, Murphy SK, Breton CV. Self-reported prenatal tobacco smoke exposure, AXL gene-body methylation, and childhood asthma phenotypes. Clin Epigenetics 2018; 10:98. [PMID: 30029617 PMCID: PMC6054742 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-018-0532-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, act as one potential mechanism underlying the detrimental effects associated with prenatal tobacco smoke (PTS) exposure. Methylation in a gene called AXL was previously reported to differ in response to PTS. METHODS We investigated the association between PTS and epigenetic changes in AXL and how this was related to childhood asthma phenotypes. We tested the association between PTS and DNA methylation at multiple CpG loci of AXL at birth using Pyrosequencing in two separate study populations, the Children's Health Study (CHS, n = 799) and the Newborn Epigenetic Study (NEST, n = 592). Plasma cotinine concentration was used to validate findings with self-reported smoking status. The inter-relationships among AXL mRNA and miR-199a1 expression, PTS, and AXL methylation were examined. Lastly, we evaluated the joint effects of AXL methylation and PTS on the risk of asthma and related symptoms at age 10 years old. RESULTS PTS was associated with higher methylation level in the AXL gene body in both CHS and NEST subjects. In the pooled analysis, exposed subjects had a 0.51% higher methylation level in this region compared to unexposed subjects (95% CI 0.29, 0.74; p < 0.0001). PTS was also associated with 21.2% lower expression of miR-199a1 (95% CI - 37.9, - 0.1; p = 0.05), a microRNA known to regulate AXL expression. Furthermore, the combination of higher AXL methylation and PTS exposure at birth increased the risk of recent episodes of bronchitic symptoms in childhood. CONCLUSIONS PTS was associated with methylation level of AXL and the combination altered the risk of childhood bronchitic symptoms.
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- Lu Gao
- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
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- Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27701 USA
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- Department of Health Behavior and Policy, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
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- Division of Reproductive Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708 USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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Alderete TL, Chen Z, Toledo-Corral CM, Contreras ZA, Kim JS, Habre R, Chatzi L, Bastain T, Breton CV, Gilliland FD. Ambient and Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposures as Novel Risk Factors for Metabolic Dysfunction and Type 2 Diabetes. CURR EPIDEMIOL REP 2018; 5:79-91. [PMID: 30319933 PMCID: PMC6178230 DOI: 10.1007/s40471-018-0140-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Diabetes mellitus is a top contributor to the global burden of mortality and disability in adults. There has also been a slow, but steady rise in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in youth. The current review summarizes recent findings regarding the impact of increased exposure to air pollutants on the type 2 diabetes epidemic. RECENT FINDINGS Human and animal studies provide strong evidence that exposure to ambient and traffic-related air pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) play an important role in metabolic dysfunction and type 2 diabetes etiology. This work is supported by recent findings that have observed similar effect sizes for increased exposure to air pollutants on clinical measures of risk for type 2 diabetes in children and adults. Further, studies indicate that these effects may be more pronounced among individuals with existing risk factors, including obesity and prediabetes. SUMMARY Current epidemiological evidence suggests that increased air pollution exposure contributes to alterations in insulin signaling, glucose metabolism, and beta (β)-cell function. Future work is needed to identify the specific detrimental pollutants that alter glucose metabolism. Additionally, advanced tools and new areas of investigation present unique opportunities to study the underlying mechanisms, including intermediate pathways, that link increased air pollution exposure with type 2 diabetes onset.
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- Tanya L. Alderete
- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
- California State University, Los Angeles, Department of Public Health, Los Angeles California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Environmental Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Felix JF, Joubert BR, Baccarelli AA, Sharp GC, Almqvist C, Annesi-Maesano I, Arshad H, Baïz N, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, Bakulski KM, Binder EB, Bouchard L, Breton CV, Brunekreef B, Brunst KJ, Burchard EG, Bustamante M, Chatzi L, Cheng Munthe-Kaas M, Corpeleijn E, Czamara D, Dabelea D, Davey Smith G, De Boever P, Duijts L, Dwyer T, Eng C, Eskenazi B, Everson TM, Falahi F, Fallin MD, Farchi S, Fernandez MF, Gao L, Gaunt TR, Ghantous A, Gillman MW, Gonseth S, Grote V, Gruzieva O, Håberg SE, Herceg Z, Hivert MF, Holland N, Holloway JW, Hoyo C, Hu D, Huang RC, Huen K, Järvelin MR, Jima DD, Just AC, Karagas MR, Karlsson R, Karmaus W, Kechris KJ, Kere J, Kogevinas M, Koletzko B, Koppelman GH, Küpers LK, Ladd-Acosta C, Lahti J, Lambrechts N, Langie SAS, Lie RT, Liu AH, Magnus MC, Magnus P, Maguire RL, Marsit CJ, McArdle W, Melén E, Melton P, Murphy SK, Nawrot TS, Nisticò L, Nohr EA, Nordlund B, Nystad W, Oh SS, Oken E, Page CM, Perron P, Pershagen G, Pizzi C, Plusquin M, Raikkonen K, Reese SE, Reischl E, Richiardi L, Ring S, Roy RP, Rzehak P, Schoeters G, Schwartz DA, Sebert S, Snieder H, Sørensen TIA, Starling AP, Sunyer J, Taylor JA, Tiemeier H, Ullemar V, Vafeiadi M, Van Ijzendoorn MH, Vonk JM, Vriens A, Vrijheid M, Wang P, Wiemels JL, Wilcox AJ, Wright RJ, Xu CJ, Xu Z, Yang IV, Yousefi P, Zhang H, Zhang W, Zhao S, Agha G, Relton CL, Jaddoe VWV, London SJ. Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium. Int J Epidemiol 2018; 47:22-23u. [PMID: 29025028 PMCID: PMC5837319 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Janine F Felix
- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Generation R Study Group Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory diseases department (EPAR), Medical School Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory diseases department (EPAR), Medical School Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Department Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- ECOGENE-21 and Lipid Clinic, Chicoutimi Hospital, Saguenay, QC, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Genomics and Disease Group, Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
- Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Life Course Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Environmental Risk and Health Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
- Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Generation R Study Group Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- The George Institute for Global Health, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research on Children's Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
- Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service, Lazio Region, Rome, Italy
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs. GRANADA, University of Granada, San Cecilio University Hospital, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, USA
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Epigenetics Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, USA
- Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research on Children's Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Human Development & Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Center For Lifecourse Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA
- Children’s Environmental Health & Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- University of Groningen, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, GRIAC Research Institute Groningen, The Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faulty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Environmental Risk and Health Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- Environmental Risk and Health Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
- Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department for Non-Communicable Diseases, Domain for Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sachs Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University and Faculty of Medicine Dentistry & Health Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
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- National Center of Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Research Unit for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- MRC/PHE Centre for Environment and Health School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faulty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, USA
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- AOU Città della Salute e della Sceinza, CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC), UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Computational Biology Core, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Environmental Risk and Health Unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Center For Lifecourse Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Genomics of Complex Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Generation R Study Group Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section on Metabolic Genetics, and Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology (formerly Institute of Preventive Medicine), Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health
- Life Course Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology Branch, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, GRIAC Research Institute Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology Branch, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Mindich Child Health & Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pulmonology, GRIAC Research Institute Groningen, the Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology Branch, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, USA
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- Life Course Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Generation R Study Group Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, USA
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Gao L, Millstein J, Siegmund KD, Dubeau L, Maguire R, Gilliland FD, Murphy SK, Hoyo C, Breton CV. Epigenetic regulation of AXL and risk of childhood asthma symptoms. Clin Epigenetics 2017; 9:121. [PMID: 29177020 PMCID: PMC5688797 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-017-0421-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Background AXL is one of the TAM (TYRO3, AXL and MERTK) receptor tyrosine kinases and may affect numerous immune-related health conditions. However, the role for AXL in asthma, including its epigenetic regulation, has not been extensively studied. Methods We investigated the association between AXL DNA methylation at birth and risk of childhood asthma symptoms at age 6 years. DNA methylation of multiple CpG loci across the regulatory regions of AXL was measured in newborn bloodspots using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 array on a subset of 246 children from the Children's Health Study (CHS). Logistic regression models were fitted to assess the association between asthma symptoms and DNA methylation. Findings were evaluated for replication in a separate population of 1038 CHS subjects using Pyrosequencing on newborn bloodspot samples. AXL genotypes were extracted from genome-wide data. Results Higher average methylation of CpGs in the AXL gene at birth was associated with higher risk of parent-reported wheezing, and the association was stronger in girls than in boys. This relationship reflected the methylation status of the gene-body region near the 5' end, for which a 1% higher methylation level was significantly associated with a 72% increased risk of ever having wheezed by 6 years. The association of one CpG locus, cg00360107 was replicated using Pyrosequencing. Increased AXL methylation was also associated with lower mRNA expression level of this gene in lung tissue from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset. Furthermore, AXL DNA methylation was strongly linked to underlying genetic polymorphisms. Conclusions AXL DNA methylation at birth was associated with higher risk for asthma-related symptoms in early childhood.
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- Lu Gao
- 0000 0001 2156 6853grid.42505.36Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- 0000 0001 2156 6853grid.42505.36Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- 0000 0001 2156 6853grid.42505.36Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- 0000 0001 2156 6853grid.42505.36Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- 0000 0001 2173 6074grid.40803.3fDepartment of Biological Sciences, Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
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- 0000 0001 2156 6853grid.42505.36Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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- 0000 0004 1936 7961grid.26009.3dDivision of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710 USA
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- 0000 0001 2173 6074grid.40803.3fDepartment of Biological Sciences, Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
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- 0000 0001 2156 6853grid.42505.36Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
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Breton CV, Marsit CJ, Faustman E, Nadeau K, Goodrich JM, Dolinoy DC, Herbstman J, Holland N, LaSalle JM, Schmidt R, Yousefi P, Perera F, Joubert BR, Wiemels J, Taylor M, Yang IV, Chen R, Hew KM, Freeland DMH, Miller R, Murphy SK. Small-Magnitude Effect Sizes in Epigenetic End Points are Important in Children's Environmental Health Studies: The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center's Epigenetics Working Group. Environ Health Perspect 2017; 125:511-526. [PMID: 28362264 PMCID: PMC5382002 DOI: 10.1289/ehp595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Characterization of the epigenome is a primary interest for children's environmental health researchers studying the environmental influences on human populations, particularly those studying the role of pregnancy and early-life exposures on later-in-life health outcomes. OBJECTIVES Our objective was to consider the state of the science in environmental epigenetics research and to focus on DNA methylation and the collective observations of many studies being conducted within the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers, as they relate to the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis. METHODS We address the current laboratory and statistical tools available for epigenetic analyses, discuss methods for validation and interpretation of findings, particularly when magnitudes of effect are small, question the functional relevance of findings, and discuss the future for environmental epigenetics research. DISCUSSION A common finding in environmental epigenetic studies is the small-magnitude epigenetic effect sizes that result from such exposures. Although it is reasonable and necessary that we question the relevance of such small effects, we present examples in which small effects persist and have been replicated across populations and across time. We encourage a critical discourse on the interpretation of such small changes and further research on their functional relevance for children's health. CONCLUSION The dynamic nature of the epigenome will require an emphasis on future longitudinal studies in which the epigenome is profiled over time, over changing environmental exposures, and over generations to better understand the multiple ways in which the epigenome may respond to environmental stimuli.
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- Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
- National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, USA
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- Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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Gruzieva O, Xu CJ, Breton CV, Annesi-Maesano I, Antó JM, Auffray C, Ballereau S, Bellander T, Bousquet J, Bustamante M, Charles MA, de Kluizenaar Y, den Dekker HT, Duijts L, Felix JF, Gehring U, Guxens M, Jaddoe VV, Jankipersadsing SA, Merid SK, Kere J, Kumar A, Lemonnier N, Lepeule J, Nystad W, Page CM, Panasevich S, Postma D, Slama R, Sunyer J, Söderhäll C, Yao J, London SJ, Pershagen G, Koppelman GH, Melén E. Epigenome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Methylation in Children Related to Prenatal NO2 Air Pollution Exposure. Environ Health Perspect 2017; 125:104-110. [PMID: 27448387 PMCID: PMC5226705 DOI: 10.1289/ehp36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Revised: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 06/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Prenatal exposure to air pollution is considered to be associated with adverse effects on child health. This may partly be mediated by mechanisms related to DNA methylation. OBJECTIVES We investigated associations between exposure to air pollution, using nitrogen dioxide (NO2) as marker, and epigenome-wide cord blood DNA methylation. METHODS We meta-analyzed the associations between NO2 exposure at residential addresses during pregnancy and cord blood DNA methylation (Illumina 450K) in four European and North American studies (n = 1,508) with subsequent look-up analyses in children ages 4 (n = 733) and 8 (n = 786) years. Additionally, we applied a literature-based candidate approach for antioxidant and anti-inflammatory genes. To assess influence of exposure at the transcriptomics level, we related mRNA expression in blood cells to NO2 exposure in 4- (n = 111) and 16-year-olds (n = 239). RESULTS We found epigenome-wide significant associations [false discovery rate (FDR) p < 0.05] between maternal NO2 exposure during pregnancy and DNA methylation in newborns for 3 CpG sites in mitochondria-related genes: cg12283362 (LONP1), cg24172570 (3.8 kbp upstream of HIBADH), and cg08973675 (SLC25A28). The associations with cg08973675 methylation were also significant in the older children. Further analysis of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory genes revealed differentially methylated CpGs in CAT and TPO in newborns (FDR p < 0.05). NO2 exposure at the time of biosampling in childhood had a significant impact on CAT and TPO expression. CONCLUSIONS NO2 exposure during pregnancy was associated with differential offspring DNA methylation in mitochondria-related genes. Exposure to NO2 was also linked to differential methylation as well as expression of genes involved in antioxidant defense pathways. Citation: Gruzieva O, Xu CJ, Breton CV, Annesi-Maesano I, Antó JM, Auffray C, Ballereau S, Bellander T, Bousquet J, Bustamante M, Charles MA, de Kluizenaar Y, den Dekker HT, Duijts L, Felix JF, Gehring U, Guxens M, Jaddoe VV, Jankipersadsing SA, Merid SK, Kere J, Kumar A, Lemonnier N, Lepeule J, Nystad W, Page CM, Panasevich S, Postma D, Slama R, Sunyer J, Söderhäll C, Yao J, London SJ, Pershagen G, Koppelman GH, Melén E. 2017. Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of methylation in children related to prenatal NO2 air pollution exposure. Environ Health Perspect 125:104-110; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP36.
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- Olena Gruzieva
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Address corresponence to O. Gruzieva, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden. Telephone: 46852480022. E-mail:
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- Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Department of Pulmonology, and
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Paris, France
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- CHU (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire) Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Early Origin of the Child’s Health And Development (ORCHAD) team, Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistique Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS-UMR1153) Inserm, Université Paris Descartes, Villejuif, France
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- The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Delft, the Netherlands
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- Generation R Study Group,
- Department of Epidemiology, and
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre), University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Generation R Study Group,
- Department of Epidemiology, and
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre), University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Generation R Study Group,
- Department of Epidemiology, and
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre), University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus University Medical Centre–Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Generation R Study Group,
- Department of Epidemiology, and
- Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC (Medical Centre), University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Department of Pulmonology, and
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Unit of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Team of Environmental Epidemiology, Inserm and University Grenoble-Alpes, IAB (U1209), Grenoble, France
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- Division for Physical and Mental health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division for Physical and Mental health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division for Physical and Mental health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Department of Pulmonology, and
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- Team of Environmental Epidemiology, Inserm and University Grenoble-Alpes, IAB (U1209), Grenoble, France
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Beatrix Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sachs Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Breton CV, Yao J, Millstein J, Gao L, Siegmund KD, Mack W, Whitfield-Maxwell L, Lurmann F, Hodis H, Avol E, Gilliland FD. Prenatal Air Pollution Exposures, DNA Methyl Transferase Genotypes, and Associations with Newborn LINE1 and Alu Methylation and Childhood Blood Pressure and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the Children's Health Study. Environ Health Perspect 2016; 124:1905-1912. [PMID: 27219456 PMCID: PMC5132634 DOI: 10.1289/ehp181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2015] [Revised: 11/05/2015] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although exposure to ambient air pollutants increases cardiovascular disease risk in adults little is known about the effects of prenatal exposure. Genetic variation and epigenetic alterations are two mechanisms that may influence the effects of early-life exposures on cardiovascular phenotypes. OBJECTIVES We investigated whether genetic and epigenetic variation modify associations between prenatal air pollution on markers of cardiovascular risk in childhood. METHODS We used linear regression analysis to investigate the associations between prenatal pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3), long interspersed nuclear elements (LINE1) and AluYb8 DNA methylation levels measured in newborn blood spot tests, and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and blood pressure (BP) in 459 participants as part of the Children's Health Study. Interaction terms were also included to test for effect modification of these associations by genetic variation in methylation reprogramming genes. RESULTS Prenatal exposure to NO2 in the third trimester of pregnancy was associated with higher systolic BP in 11-year-old children. Prenatal exposure to multiple air pollutants in the first trimester was associated with lower DNA methylation in LINE1, whereas later exposure to O3 was associated with higher LINE1 methylation levels in newborn blood spots. The magnitude of associations with prenatal air pollution varied according to genotype for 11 SNPs within DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), DNA methyltransferase 3 Beta (DNMT3B), Tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2), and Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) genes. Although first-trimester O3 exposure was not associated with CIMT and systolic BP overall, associations within strata of DNMT1 or DNMT3B were observed, and the magnitude and the direction of these associations depended on DNMT1 genotypes. CONCLUSIONS Genetic and epigenetic variation in DNA methylation reprogramming genes and in LINE1 retrotransposons may play important roles in downstream cardiovascular consequences of prenatal air pollution exposure. Citation: Breton CV, Yao J, Millstein J, Gao L, Siegmund KD, Mack W, Whitfield-Maxwell L, Lurmann F, Hodis H, Avol E, Gilliland FD. 2016. Prenatal air pollution exposures, DNA methyl transferase genotypes, and associations with newborn LINE1 and Alu methylation and childhood blood pressure and carotid intima-media thickness in the Children's Health Study. Environ Health Perspect 124:1905-1912; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP181.
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- Carrie V. Breton
- Department of Preventive Medicine, and
- Address correspondence to C.V. Breton, Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto St., Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. Telephone: (323) 442-7383. E-mail:
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, and
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, and
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, and
- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, and
- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, and
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Hartiala J, Breton CV, Tang WHW, Lurmann F, Hazen SL, Gilliland FD, Allayee H. Ambient Air Pollution Is Associated With the Severity of Coronary Atherosclerosis and Incident Myocardial Infarction in Patients Undergoing Elective Cardiac Evaluation. J Am Heart Assoc 2016; 5:JAHA.116.003947. [PMID: 27468926 PMCID: PMC5015312 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.116.003947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Background The effect of air pollution exposure on atherosclerosis severity or incident clinical events in patients with coronary artery disease is not known. Methods and Results We conducted a prospective longitudinal cohort study of 6575 Ohio residents undergoing elective diagnostic coronary angiography. Multinomial regression and Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the relationship between exposure to fine particulate matter <2.5 μm in diameter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide on coronary artery disease severity at baseline and risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or all‐cause mortality over 3 years of follow‐up. Among participants with coronary artery disease, exposure to PM2.5 levels was associated with increased likelihood of having coronary atherosclerosis that was mild (odds ratio 1.43, 95% CI 1.11–1.83, P=0.005) and severe (odds ratio 1.63, 95% CI 1.26–2.11, P<0.0001), with the effect on severe coronary artery disease being significantly increased compared with mild disease (Ptrend=0.03). Exposure to higher PM2.5 levels was also significantly associated with increased risk of incident myocardial infarction (hazard ratio 1.33, 95% CI 1.02–1.73, P=0.03) but not stroke or all‐cause mortality. The association of PM2.5 with incident myocardial infarction was not affected after adjustment for Framingham Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) risk score or statin therapy. In comparison, there were no significant associations between nitrogen dioxide levels and all‐cause mortality or risk of stroke after adjustment for Framingham ATP III risk score. Conclusions Exposure to PM2.5 increased the likelihood of having severe coronary artery disease and the risk of incident myocardial infarction among patients undergoing elective cardiac evaluation. These results suggest that ambient air pollution exposure may be a modifiable risk factor for risk of myocardial infarction in a highly susceptible patient population.
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- Jaana Hartiala
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Institute for Genetic Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Institute for Genetic Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Breton CV, Gao L, Yao J, Siegmund KD, Lurmann F, Gilliland F. Particulate matter, the newborn methylome, and cardio-respiratory health outcomes in childhood. Environ Epigenet 2016; 2:dvw005. [PMID: 29492287 PMCID: PMC5804519 DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvw005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Revised: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Ambient air pollution is associated with adverse health outcomes including cardio-respiratory diseases. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation may play a role in driving such associations. We investigated the effects of prenatal particulate matter (PM) exposure on DNA methylation of 178,309 promoter regions in 240 newborns using the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip, using a generalized linear regression model with a quasi-binomial link family, adjusted for gender, plate, and cell types. PM-associated CpG loci were then investigated for their associations with childhood asthma, carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), and blood pressure (BP) using logistic or linear regression. Thirty-one loci were associated with either PM10 or PM2.5 using FDR-corrected p-values of less than 0.15. Two loci were evaluated for replication in a separate population of 280 Children's Health Study (CHS) subjects using Pyrosequencing, of which one successfully replicated (COLEC11 cg03579365). Three of the 31 loci were also associated with physician-diagnosed asthma at 6 years old, two were associated with CIMT and one with systolic BP at 10 years old. A higher methylation level in TM9SF2 (cg02015529) and UBE2S (cg00035623), respectively, was associated with a 2SD increase in prenatal PM and was also associated with 36% and 98% increased odds of asthma; whereas methylation of TDRD6 (cg22329831) was negatively associated with PM and a 24% decreased odds of asthma. Prenatal PM exposure was associated with altered DNA methylation in newborn blood in a small number of gene promoters, some of which were also associated with cardio-respiratory health outcomes later in childhood. Keywords: methylation, particulate matter, air pollution, asthma, cardiovascular.
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- Carrie V. Breton
- University of Southern California, Dept of Preventive Medicine, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
- *Correspondence address: Carrie Breton, ScD., Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA. Tel: +1 (323) 442-7383; Fax: +1 (323) 442-3272; E-mail:
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- University of Southern California, Dept of Preventive Medicine, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- University of Southern California, Dept of Preventive Medicine, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- University of Southern California, Dept of Preventive Medicine, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Sonoma Technology Inc, 1455 N. McDowell Blvd, Suite D, Petaluma, CA 94954-6503, USA
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- University of Southern California, Dept of Preventive Medicine, 2001 N Soto St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Millstein J, Chen GK, Breton CV. cit: hypothesis testing software for mediation analysis in genomic applications. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 32:2364-5. [PMID: 27153715 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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MOTIVATION The challenges of successfully applying causal inference methods include: (i) satisfying underlying assumptions, (ii) limitations in data/models accommodated by the software and (iii) low power of common multiple testing approaches. RESULTS The causal inference test (CIT) is based on hypothesis testing rather than estimation, allowing the testable assumptions to be evaluated in the determination of statistical significance. A user-friendly software package provides P-values and optionally permutation-based FDR estimates (q-values) for potential mediators. It can handle single and multiple binary and continuous instrumental variables, binary or continuous outcome variables and adjustment covariates. Also, the permutation-based FDR option provides a non-parametric implementation. CONCLUSION Simulation studies demonstrate the validity of the cit package and show a substantial advantage of permutation-based FDR over other common multiple testing strategies. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The cit open-source R package is freely available from the CRAN website (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cit/index.html) with embedded C ++ code that utilizes the GNU Scientific Library, also freely available (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/). CONTACT joshua.millstein@usc.edu SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Joshua Millstein
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
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