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Yeung E, Biedrzycki RJ, Gómez Herrera LC, Issarapu P, Dou J, Marques IF, Mansuri SR, Page CM, Harbs J, Khodasevich D, Poisel E, Niu Z, Allard C, Casey E, Berstein FM, Mancano G, Elliott HR, Richmond R, He Y, Ronkainen J, Sebert S, Bell EM, Sharp G, Mumford SL, Schisterman EF, Chandak GR, Fall CHD, Sahariah SA, Silver MJ, Prentice AM, Bouchard L, Domellof M, West C, Holland N, Cardenas A, Eskenazi B, Zillich L, Witt SH, Send T, Breton C, Bakulski KM, Fallin MD, Schmidt RJ, Stein DJ, Zar HJ, Jaddoe VWV, Wright J, Grazuleviciene R, Gutzkow KB, Sunyer J, Huels A, Vrijheid M, Harlid S, London S, Hivert MF, Felix J, Bustamante M, Guan W. Maternal age is related to offspring DNA methylation: A meta-analysis of results from the PACE consortium. Aging Cell 2024:e14194. [PMID: 38808605 DOI: 10.1111/acel.14194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
Abstract
Worldwide trends to delay childbearing have increased parental ages at birth. Older parental age may harm offspring health, but mechanisms remain unclear. Alterations in offspring DNA methylation (DNAm) patterns could play a role as aging has been associated with methylation changes in gametes of older individuals. We meta-analyzed epigenome-wide associations of parental age with offspring blood DNAm of over 9500 newborns and 2000 children (5-10 years old) from the Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics consortium. In newborns, we identified 33 CpG sites in 13 loci with DNAm associated with maternal age (PFDR < 0.05). Eight of these CpGs were located near/in the MTNR1B gene, coding for a melatonin receptor. Regional analysis identified them together as a differentially methylated region consisting of 9 CpGs in/near MTNR1B, at which higher DNAm was associated with greater maternal age (PFDR = 6.92 × 10-8) in newborns. In childhood blood samples, these differences in blood DNAm of MTNR1B CpGs were nominally significant (p < 0.05) and retained the same positive direction, suggesting persistence of associations. Maternal age was also positively associated with higher DNA methylation at three CpGs in RTEL1-TNFRSF6B at birth (PFDR < 0.05) and nominally in childhood (p < 0.0001). Of the remaining 10 CpGs also persistent in childhood, methylation at cg26709300 in YPEL3/BOLA2B in external data was associated with expression of ITGAL, an immune regulator. While further study is needed to establish causality, particularly due to the small effect sizes observed, our results potentially support offspring DNAm as a mechanism underlying associations of maternal age with child health.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edwina Yeung
- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Population Health Research, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Richard J Biedrzycki
- Division of Intramural Research, Glotech Inc., Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
| | - Laura C Gómez Herrera
- ISGlobal, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
| | - Prachand Issarapu
- MRC Unit the Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Banjul, The Gambia
| | - John Dou
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - Irene Fontes Marques
- 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
| | - Sohail Rafik Mansuri
- Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC-Group), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
| | - Christian Magnus Page
- Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Justin Harbs
- Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Dennis Khodasevich
- Environmental Health Sciences, Berkeley Public Health, CERCH, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - Eric Poisel
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Zhongzheng Niu
- Department of Population and Public Health Science, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Catherine Allard
- Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
| | - Emma Casey
- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| | - Fernanda Morales Berstein
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol Medical School Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Giulia Mancano
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol Medical School Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Hannah R Elliott
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol Medical School Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Rebecca Richmond
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol Medical School Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Yiyan He
- Research Unit of Population Health, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | | | - Sylvain Sebert
- Research Unit of Population Health, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Erin M Bell
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, USA
| | - Gemma Sharp
- Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | - Sunni L Mumford
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Enrique F Schisterman
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Giriraj R Chandak
- Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC-Group), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
| | - Caroline H D Fall
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, UK
| | | | - Matt J Silver
- MRC Unit the Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Banjul, The Gambia
| | - Andrew M Prentice
- MRC Unit the Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Banjul, The Gambia
| | - Luigi Bouchard
- Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Centre intégré Universitaire de santé et de Services Sociaux (CIUSSS) du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, CIUSSS du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean - Hôpital de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
| | - Magnus Domellof
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Christina West
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Pediatrics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Nina Holland
- Environmental Health Sciences, Berkeley Public Health, CERCH, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - Andres Cardenas
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
| | - Brenda Eskenazi
- Environmental Health Sciences, Berkeley Public Health, CERCH, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - Lea Zillich
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Stephanie H Witt
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Tabea Send
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Carrie Breton
- Department of Population and Public Health Science, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Kelly M Bakulski
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
| | - M Daniele Fallin
- Dean's Office, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| | - Rebecca J Schmidt
- Department of Public Health Sciences and the M.I.N.D. Institute, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA
| | - Dan J Stein
- Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Heather J Zar
- South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Vincent W V Jaddoe
- 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
| | - John Wright
- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK
| | | | - Kristine Bjerve Gutzkow
- Division of Climate and Environmental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
| | - Jordi Sunyer
- ISGlobal, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM-Parc Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Anke Huels
- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| | - Martine Vrijheid
- ISGlobal, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
| | - Sophia Harlid
- Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Stephanie London
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Marie-France Hivert
- Division of Chronic Disease Research across the Lifecourse (CoRAL); Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Janine Felix
- 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
| | - Mariona Bustamante
- ISGlobal, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
| | - Weihua Guan
- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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