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Michels KB, Binder AM. Impact of folic acid supplementation on the epigenetic profile in healthy unfortified individuals - a randomized intervention trial. Epigenetics 2024; 19:2293410. [PMID: 38096372 PMCID: PMC10730197 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2023.2293410] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Folate is an essential mediator in one-carbon metabolism, which provides methyl groups for DNA synthesis and methylation. The availability of active methyl groups can be influenced by the uptake of folic acid. We conducted a randomized intervention trial to test the influence of folic acid supplementation on DNA methylation in an unfortified population in Germany. A total of 16 healthy male volunteers (age range 23-61 y) were randomized to receive either 400 μg (n = 9) or 800 μg (n = 7) folic acid supplements daily for 8 weeks. Infinium Human Methylation 450K BeadChip Microarrays were used to assay site-specific DNA methylation across the genome. Microarray analyses were conducted on PBL DNA. We estimated several epigenetic clocks and mean DNA methylation across all autosomal probes on the array. AgeAccel was estimated as the residual variation in each metric. In virtually all participants, both serum and red blood cell (RBC) folate increased successively throughout the trial period. Participants with a larger increase in RBC folate had a larger increase in DNAmAge AgeAccel (Spearman Rho: 0.56, p-value = 0.03). No notable changes in the methylome resulting from the folic acid supplementation emerged. In this population with adequate folate levels derived from diet, an increase in RBC folate had a modest impact on the epigenetic clock predicting chronologic age.
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- Karin B. Michels
- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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Kusters CDJ, Paul KC, Lu AT, Ferrucci L, Ritz BR, Binder AM, Horvath S. Correction to: Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio in men are associated with decreased Pheno‑/GrimAge and DNA‑methylation based PAI1. GeroScience 2024; 46:2791-2792. [PMID: 37921956 PMCID: PMC10828359 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-023-00995-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Cynthia D J Kusters
- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 708822, Los Angeles, CA, 90095‑7088, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Altos Labs, San Diego, USA
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute On Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Altos Labs, San Diego, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Huang BZ, Binder AM, Quon B, Patel YM, Lum-Jones A, Tiirikainen M, Murphy SE, Loo L, Maunakea AK, Haiman CA, Wilkens LR, Koh WP, Cai Q, Aldrich MC, Siegmund KD, Hecht SS, Yuan JM, Blot WJ, Stram DO, Le Marchand L, Park SL. Epigenome-wide association study of total nicotine equivalents in multiethnic current smokers from three prospective cohorts. Am J Hum Genet 2024; 111:456-472. [PMID: 38367619 PMCID: PMC10940014 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.01.012] [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] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024] Open
Abstract
The impact of tobacco exposure on health varies by race and ethnicity and is closely tied to internal nicotine dose, a marker of carcinogen uptake. DNA methylation is strongly responsive to smoking status and may mediate health effects, but study of associations with internal dose is limited. We performed a blood leukocyte epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) of urinary total nicotine equivalents (TNEs; a measure of nicotine uptake) and DNA methylation measured using the MethylationEPIC v1.0 BeadChip (EPIC) in six racial and ethnic groups across three cohort studies. In the Multiethnic Cohort Study (discovery, n = 1994), TNEs were associated with differential methylation at 408 CpG sites across >250 genomic regions (p < 9 × 10-8). The top significant sites were annotated to AHRR, F2RL3, RARA, GPR15, PRSS23, and 2q37.1, all of which had decreasing methylation with increasing TNEs. We identified 45 novel CpG sites, of which 42 were unique to the EPIC array and eight annotated to genes not previously linked with smoking-related DNA methylation. The most significant signal in a novel gene was cg03748458 in MIR383;SGCZ. Fifty-one of the 408 discovery sites were validated in the Singapore Chinese Health Study (n = 340) and the Southern Community Cohort Study (n = 394) (Bonferroni corrected p < 1.23 × 10-4). Significant heterogeneity by race and ethnicity was detected for CpG sites in MYO1G and CYTH1. Furthermore, TNEs significantly mediated the association between cigarettes per day and DNA methylation at 15 sites (average 22.5%-44.3% proportion mediated). Our multiethnic study highlights the transethnic and ethnic-specific methylation associations with internal nicotine dose, a strong predictor of smoking-related morbidities.
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- Brian Z Huang
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Population Sciences of the Pacific Program-Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA.
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Kusters CDJ, Paul KC, Lu AT, Ferruci L, Ritz BR, Binder AM, Horvath S. Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio in men are associated with decreased Pheno-/GrimAge and DNA-methylation based PAI1. GeroScience 2024; 46:1053-1069. [PMID: 37369886 PMCID: PMC10828310 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-023-00832-3] [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] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Sex hormones are hypothesized to drive sex-specific health disparities. Here, we study the association between sex steroid hormones and DNA methylation-based (DNAm) biomarkers of age and mortality risk including Pheno Age Acceleration (AA), Grim AA, and DNAm-based estimators of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 (PAI1), and leptin concentrations. We pooled data from three population-based cohorts, the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, and the InCHIANTI Study, including 1,062 postmenopausal women without hormone therapy and 1,612 men of European descent. Sex-stratified analyses using a linear mixed regression were performed, with a Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) adjustment for multiple testing. Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) was associated with a decrease in DNAm PAI1 among men (per 1 standard deviation (SD): -478 pg/mL; 95%CI: -614 to -343; P:1e-11; BH-P: 1e-10), and women (-434 pg/mL; 95%CI: -589 to -279; P:1e-7; BH-P:2e-6). The testosterone/estradiol (TE) ratio was associated with a decrease in Pheno AA (-0.41 years; 95%CI: -0.70 to -0.12; P:0.01; BH-P: 0.04), and DNAm PAI1 (-351 pg/mL; 95%CI: -486 to -217; P:4e-7; BH-P:3e-6) among men. In men, testosterone was associated with a decrease in DNAm PAI1 (-481 pg/mL; 95%CI: -613 to -349; P:2e-12; BH-P:6e-11). SHBG was associated with lower DNAm PAI1 among men and women. Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio were associated with lower DNAm PAI and a younger epigenetic age in men. A decrease in DNAm PAI1 is associated with lower mortality and morbidity risk indicating a potential protective effect of testosterone on lifespan and conceivably cardiovascular health via DNAm PAI1.
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- Cynthia D J Kusters
- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, Box 708822, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, CA, 90095-7088, Los Angeles, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Altos Labs, San Diego, USA
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute On Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Altos Labs, San Diego, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Caan BJ, Brown JC, Lee C, Binder AM, Weltzien E, Ross MC, Quesenberry CP, Campbell KL, Cespedes Feliciano EM, Castillo A, Quinney S, Yang S, Meyerhardt JA, Schmitz KH. Effect of home-based resistance training on chemotherapy relative dose intensity and tolerability in colon cancer: The FORCE randomized control trial. Cancer 2024. [PMID: 38265970 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.35204] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Many patients with colon cancer cannot fully adhere to postoperative chemotherapy due to dose-limiting toxicities, resulting in lower relative dose intensity (RDI) and potentially compromising overall survival. This study examined whether home-based resistance training (RT) during adjuvant chemotherapy improves RDI and patient-reported toxicities versus usual care (UC) in colon cancer patients. METHODS Multicenter, randomized control trial (RCT) conducted at community and academic practices. Enrollment of patients receiving postoperative chemotherapy for colon cancer occurred between February 23, 2018, and September 29, 2021; final follow-up was March 21, 2022. Participants were randomized to RT (n = 90) or UC (n = 91) for the duration of chemotherapy. Participants in the RT group engaged in twice weekly home-based progressive RT. At the end of the study, UC was given an online exercise program. RESULTS Among 181 randomized patients (mean age, 55.2 [SD, 12.8] years, 95 [52.5%] were men), there were no differences in the mean RDI among those in RT (79% [SD, 19%]) and those in UC (82% [SD, 19%]); (mean difference -0.04 [95% confidence interval (CI), -0.09 to 0.02]). Assignment to RT did not significantly reduce the number of moderate/severe symptoms per week across follow-up (relative rate: 0.94 [95% CI, 0.72-1.22]). Additionally, time since randomization did not significantly modify the effect of RT on the overall number of symptoms (p = .06). CONCLUSIONS Among patients with colon cancer, these results do not support home-based RT as an adjunct to chemotherapy specifically to improve planned treatment intensity.
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- Bette J Caan
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Cancer Metabolism Program, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Cancer Metabolism Program, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Ponce D, Rodríguez F, Miranda JP, Binder AM, Santos JL, Michels KB, Cutler GB, Pereira A, Iñiguez G, Mericq V. Differential methylation pattern in pubertal girls associated with biochemical premature adrenarche. Epigenetics 2023; 18:2200366. [PMID: 37053179 PMCID: PMC10114989 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2023.2200366] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Biochemical premature adrenarche is defined by elevated serum DHEAS [≥40 μg/dL] before age 8 y in girls. This condition is receiving more attention due to its association with obesity, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, and polycystic ovary syndrome. Nevertheless, the link between early androgen excess and these risk factors remains unknown. Epigenetic modifications, and specifically DNA methylation, have been associated with the initiation and progression of numerous disorders, including obesity and insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to determine if prepubertal androgen exposure is associated with a different methylation profile in pubertal girls. Eighty-six healthy girls were studied. At age 7 y, anthropometric measurements were begun and DHEAS levels were determined. Girls were classified into Low DHEAS (LD) [<42 μg/dL] and High DHEAS (HD) [≥42 μg/dL] groups. At Tanner stages 2 and 4 a DNA methylation microarray was performed to identify differentially methylated CpG positions (DMPs) between HD and LD groups. We observed a differential methylation pattern between pubertal girls with and without biochemical PA. Moreover, a set of DNA methylation markers, selected by the LASSO method, successfully distinguished between HD and LD girls regardless of Tanner stage. Additionally, a subset of these markers were significantly associated with glucose-related measures such as insulin level, HOMA-IR, and glycaemia. This pilot study provides evidence consistent with the hypothesis that high DHEAS concentration, or its hormonally active metabolites, may induce a unique blood methylation signature in pubertal girls, and that this methylation pattern is associated with altered glucose metabolism.
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- Diana Ponce
- Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Nutrition, Diabetes, and Metabolism, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Diabetes, and Metabolism, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Research, School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Cheng E, Caan BJ, Cawthon PM, Evans WJ, Hellerstein MK, Shankaran M, Campbell KL, Binder AM, Sternfeld B, Meyerhardt JA, Schmitz KH, Cespedes Feliciano EM. D3-creatine dilution, computed tomography and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry for assessing myopenia and physical function in colon cancer: A cross-sectional study. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2023; 14:2768-2778. [PMID: 37899757 PMCID: PMC10751410 DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.13353] [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: 10/20/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Low skeletal muscle mass (myopenia) is common in cancer populations and is associated with functional decline and mortality, but prior oncology studies did not assess total body skeletal muscle mass. Instead, they measured surrogates such as cross-sectional area (CSA) of skeletal muscle at L3 from computed tomography (CT) or appendicular lean mass (ALM) from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). D3-creatine (D3Cr) dilution is a non-invasive method to assess total body skeletal muscle mass, which has been examined in a variety of populations but not in cancer. To compare the associations of D3Cr muscle mass, CT CSA, and DXA ALM with myopenia and physical function, we conducted a cross-sectional study among 119 patients with colon cancer (2018-2022). METHODS For each technique (D3Cr, CT and DXA), myopenia was defined as the lowest sex-specific quartile of its measurement. Physical function was measured by the short physical performance battery and grip strength. We calculated Pearson correlations (r) among three techniques, computed Cohen's kappa coefficients (κ) to assess the agreement of myopenia, and estimated Pearson correlations (r) of three techniques with physical function. All analyses were sex-specific. RESULTS Sixty-one (51.3%) participants were male, the mean (standard deviation) age was 56.6 (12.9) years, and most (68.9%) had high physical function (short physical performance battery: ≥11 points). Correlations and myopenia agreement among three techniques were greater in men than women; for example, regarding D3Cr muscle mass versus CT CSA, r was 0.73 (P < 0.001) for men versus 0.45 (P < 0.001) for women, and κ was 0.82 (95% CI: 0.65, 0.99) for men versus 0.24 (95% CI: -0.08, 0.52) for women. Among men, higher D3Cr muscle mass was significantly correlated with faster gait speed (r = 0.43, P < 0.01) and stronger grip strength (r = 0.32, P < 0.05); similar correlations were observed for CT CSA and DXA ALM. However, among women, no measure of muscle or lean mass was significantly associated with physical function. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study using D3-creatine dilution method to assess muscle mass in a cancer population. Regardless of the techniques used for muscle or lean mass assessment, we observed stronger correlations, greater myopenia agreement, and more significant associations with physical function in men with colon cancer than women. D3Cr, CT and DXA are not interchangeable methods for assessing myopenia and physical function, especially in women with colon cancer. Future studies should consider relative advantages of these techniques and examine the D3-creatine dilution method in other cancer types.
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- En Cheng
- Department of Epidemiology and Population HealthAlbert Einstein College of MedicineBronxNew YorkUSA
- Division of ResearchKaiser Permanente Northern CaliforniaOaklandCaliforniaUSA
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- Division of ResearchKaiser Permanente Northern CaliforniaOaklandCaliforniaUSA
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- San Francisco Coordinating CenterCalifornia Pacific Medical Center Research InstituteSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and ToxicologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
- Division of GeriatricsDuke University Medical CenterDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and ToxicologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and ToxicologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of MedicineUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverCanada
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific ProgramUniversity of Hawaii Cancer CenterHonoluluHawaiiUSA
- Department of EpidemiologyUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Division of ResearchKaiser Permanente Northern CaliforniaOaklandCaliforniaUSA
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- Division of Hematology and OncologyUniversity of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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Welch BM, Keil AP, Buckley JP, Engel SM, James-Todd T, Zota AR, Alshawabkeh AN, Barrett ES, Bloom MS, Bush NR, Cordero JF, Dabelea D, Eskenazi B, Lanphear BP, Padmanabhan V, Sathyanarayana S, Swan SH, Aalborg J, Baird DD, Binder AM, Bradman A, Braun JM, Calafat AM, Cantonwine DE, Christenbury KE, Factor-Litvak P, Harley KG, Hauser R, Herbstman JB, Hertz-Picciotto I, Holland N, Jukic AMZ, McElrath TF, Meeker JD, Messerlian C, Michels KB, Newman RB, Nguyen RH, O’Brien KM, Rauh VA, Redmon B, Rich DQ, Rosen EM, Schmidt RJ, Sparks AE, Starling AP, Wang C, Watkins DJ, Weinberg CR, Weinberger B, Wenzel AG, Wilcox AJ, Yolton K, Zhang Y, Ferguson KK. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Phthalate Exposure and Preterm Birth: A Pooled Study of Sixteen U.S. Cohorts. Environ Health Perspect 2023; 131:127015. [PMID: 38117586 PMCID: PMC10732302 DOI: 10.1289/ehp12831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Phthalate exposures are ubiquitous during pregnancy and may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in preterm birth. OBJECTIVES We investigated race and ethnicity in the relationship between biomarkers of phthalate exposure and preterm birth by examining: a) how hypothetical reductions in racial and ethnic disparities in phthalate metabolites might reduce the probability of preterm birth; and b) exposure-response models stratified by race and ethnicity. METHODS We pooled individual-level data on 6,045 pregnancies from 16 U.S. cohorts. We investigated covariate-adjusted differences in nine urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations by race and ethnicity [non-Hispanic White (White, 43%), non-Hispanic Black (Black, 13%), Hispanic/Latina (38%), and Asian/Pacific Islander (3%)]. Using g-computation, we estimated changes in the probability of preterm birth under hypothetical interventions to eliminate disparities in levels of urinary phthalate metabolites by proportionally lowering average concentrations in Black and Hispanic/Latina participants to be approximately equal to the averages in White participants. We also used race and ethnicity-stratified logistic regression to characterize associations between phthalate metabolites and preterm birth. RESULTS In comparison with concentrations among White participants, adjusted mean phthalate metabolite concentrations were consistently higher among Black and Hispanic/Latina participants by 23%-148% and 4%-94%, respectively. Asian/Pacific Islander participants had metabolite levels that were similar to those of White participants. Hypothetical interventions to reduce disparities in metabolite mixtures were associated with lower probabilities of preterm birth for Black [13% relative reduction; 95% confidence interval (CI): - 34 % , 8.6%] and Hispanic/Latina (9% relative reduction; 95% CI: - 19 % , 0.8%) participants. Odds ratios for preterm birth in association with phthalate metabolites demonstrated heterogeneity by race and ethnicity for two individual metabolites (mono-n-butyl and monoisobutyl phthalate), with positive associations that were larger in magnitude observed among Black or Hispanic/Latina participants. CONCLUSIONS Phthalate metabolite concentrations differed substantially by race and ethnicity. Our results show hypothetical interventions to reduce population-level racial and ethnic disparities in biomarkers of phthalate exposure could potentially reduce the probability of preterm birth. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12831.
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- Barrett M. Welch
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
- University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Rutgers School of Public Health, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Community Health (CERCH), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Seattle Children’s Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA
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- National Center for Environmental Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., a DLH Holdings Company, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Community Health (CERCH), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Community Health (CERCH), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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- University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- The Lundquist Institute at Harbor, UCLA Medical Center, West Carson, California, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, Northwell Health, Queens, New York, USA
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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Kim CE, Binder AM, Corvalan C, Pereira A, Shepherd J, Calafat AM, Botelho JC, Hampton JM, Trentham-Dietz A, Michels KB. Time-specific impact of mono-benzyl phthalate (MBzP) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) on breast density of a Chilean adolescent Cohort. Environ Int 2023; 181:108241. [PMID: 37857187 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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INTRODUCTION High mammographic density is among the strongest and most established predictors for breast cancer risk. Puberty, the period during which breasts undergo exponential mammary growth, is considered one of the critical stages of breast development for environmental exposures. Benzylbutyl phthalate (BBP) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are pervasive endocrine disrupting chemicals that may increase hormone-sensitive cancers. Evaluating the potential impact of BBP and PFOA exposure on pubertal breast density is important to our understanding of early-life environmental influences on breast cancer etiology. OBJECTIVE To prospectively assess the effect of biomarker concentrations of monobenzyl phthalate (MBzP) and PFOA at specific pubertal window of susceptibility (WOS) on adolescent breast density. METHOD This study included 376 Chilean girls from the Growth and Obesity Cohort Study with data collection at four timepoints: Tanner breast stages 1 (B1) and 4 (B4), 1- year post- menarche (1YPM) and 2-years post-menarche (2YPM). Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry was used to assess the absolute fibroglandular volume (FGV) and percent breast density (%FGV) at 2YPM. We used concentrations of PFOA in serum and MBzP in urine as an index of exposure to PFOA and BBP, respectively. Parametric G-formula was used to estimate the time-specific effects of MBzP and PFOA on breast density. The models included body fat percentage as a time-varying confounder and age, birthweight, age at menarche, and maternal education as fixed covariates. RESULTS A doubling of serum PFOA concentration at B4 resulted in a non-significant increase in absolute FGV (β:11.25, 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.28, 23.49)), while a doubling of PFOA concentration at 1YPM resulted in a decrease in % FGV (β:-4.61, 95% CI: -7.45, -1.78). We observed no associations between urine MBzP and breast density measures. CONCLUSION In this cohort of Latina girls, PFOA serum concentrations corresponded to a decrease in % FGV. No effect was observed between MBzP and breast density measures across pubertal WOS.
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- Claire E Kim
- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer, Honolulu, HI, USA
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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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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences and Carbone Cancer Center, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences and Carbone Cancer Center, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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Cheng E, Caan BJ, Cawthon PM, Evans WJ, Hellerstein MK, Shankaran M, Nyangau E, Campbell KL, Lee C, Binder AM, Meyerhardt JA, Schmitz KH, Cespedes Feliciano EM. Body Composition, Relative Dose Intensity, and Adverse Events among Patients with Colon Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023; 32:1373-1381. [PMID: 37450841 PMCID: PMC10592319 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-23-0227] [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] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite evidence that low muscle increases the risk of chemotoxicity, most chemotherapies are dosed on body surface area without considering body composition. Among 178 patients with colon cancer, we assessed muscle and adipose tissue with multiple techniques and examined their associations with relative dose intensity (RDI) and adverse events. METHODS We estimated (i) cross-sectional skeletal muscle area (SMA) and total adipose tissue (TAT) area at L3 from computed tomography (CT); (ii) appendicular lean mass (ALM) and total body fat (TBF) mass from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA); and (iii) total body skeletal muscle mass using D3-creatine (D3Cr) dilution. We standardized each measurement by its sex-specific standard deviation (SD). The primary outcome was reduced RDI (RDI <85%). The secondary outcome was the number of moderate and severe adverse events during each cycle of chemotherapy. We estimated the associations of muscle and adipose tissue measurements (per SD increase) with reduced RDI using logistic regression and adverse events using generalized estimating equations for repeated measures. RESULTS Higher CT SMA and DXA ALM were significantly associated with a lower risk of reduced RDI [odds ratios: 0.56 (0.38-0.81) for CT SMA; 0.56 (0.37-0.84) for DXA ALM]. No measurements of muscle or adipose tissue were associated with adverse events. CONCLUSIONS More muscle was associated with improved chemotherapy completion among patients with colon cancer, whereas muscle and adipose tissue were not associated with adverse events. IMPACT Considering body composition may help personalize dosing for colon cancer chemotherapy by identifying patients at risk for poor chemotherapy outcomes.
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- En Cheng
- 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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- San Francisco Coordinating Center, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Division of Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Kusters CDJ, Paul KC, Lu AT, Ferrucci L, Ritz BR, Binder AM, Horvath S. Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio in men are associated with better epigenetic estimators of mortality risk. medRxiv 2023:2023.02.16.23285997. [PMID: 36865294 PMCID: PMC9980235 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.16.23285997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Introduction Sex hormones are hypothesized to drive sex-specific health disparities. Here, we study the association between sex steroid hormones and DNA methylation-based (DNAm) biomarkers of age and mortality risk including Pheno Age Acceleration (AA), Grim AA, and DNAm-based estimators of Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 (PAI1), and leptin concentrations. Methods We pooled data from three population-based cohorts, the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort (FHS), the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), and the InCHIANTI Study, including 1,062 postmenopausal women without hormone therapy and 1,612 men of European descent. Sex hormone concentrations were standardized with mean 0 and standard deviation of 1, for each study and sex separately. Sex-stratified analyses using a linear mixed regression were performed, with a Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) adjustment for multiple testing. Sensitivity analysis was performed excluding the previously used training-set for the development of Pheno and Grim age. Results Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) is associated with a decrease in DNAm PAI1 among men (per 1 standard deviation (SD): -478 pg/mL; 95%CI: -614 to -343; P:1e-11; BH-P: 1e-10), and women (-434 pg/mL; 95%CI: -589 to -279; P:1e-7; BH-P:2e-6). The testosterone/estradiol (TE) ratio was associated with a decrease in Pheno AA (-0.41 years; 95%CI: -0.70 to -0.12; P:0.01; BH-P: 0.04), and DNAm PAI1 (-351 pg/mL; 95%CI: -486 to -217; P:4e-7; BH-P:3e-6) among men. In men, 1 SD increase in total testosterone was associated with a decrease in DNAm PAI1 (-481 pg/mL; 95%CI: -613 to -349; P:2e-12; BH-P:6e-11). Conclusion SHBG was associated with lower DNAm PAI1 among men and women. Higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio were associated with lower DNAm PAI and a younger epigenetic age in men. A decrease in DNAm PAI1 is associated with lower mortality and morbidity risk indicating a potential protective effect of testosterone on lifespan and conceivably cardiovascular health via DNAm PAI1.
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- Cynthia DJ Kusters
- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Altos Labs, San Diego, USA
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Altos Labs, San Diego, USA
- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Cespedes Feliciano EM, Vasan S, Luo J, Binder AM, Chlebowski RT, Quesenberry C, Banack HR, Caan BJ, Paskett ED, Williams GR, Barac A, LaCroix AZ, Peters U, Reding KW, Pan K, Shadyab AH, Qi L, Anderson GL. Long-term Trajectories of Physical Function Decline in Women With and Without Cancer. JAMA Oncol 2023; 9:395-403. [PMID: 36656572 PMCID: PMC9857739 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.6881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Importance Patients with cancer experience acute declines in physical function, hypothesized to reflect accelerated aging driven by cancer-related symptoms and effects of cancer therapies. No study has examined long-term trajectories of physical function by cancer site, stage, or treatment compared with cancer-free controls. Objective Examine trajectories of physical function a decade before and after cancer diagnosis among older survivors and cancer-free controls. Design, Setting, and Participants This prospective cohort study enrolled patients from 1993 to 1998 and followed up until December 2020. The Women's Health Initiative, a diverse cohort of postmenopausal women, included 9203 incident cancers (5989 breast, 1352 colorectal, 960 endometrial, and 902 lung) matched to up to 5 controls (n = 45 358) on age/year of enrollment and study arm. Exposures Cancer diagnosis (site, stage, and treatment) via Medicare and medical records. Main Outcomes and Measures Trajectories of self-reported physical function (RAND Short Form 36 [RAND-36] scale; range: 0-100, higher scores indicate superior physical function) estimated from linear mixed effects models with slope changes at diagnosis and 1-year after diagnosis. Results This study included 9203 women with cancer and 45 358 matched controls. For the women with cancer, the mean (SD) age at diagnosis was 73.0 (7.6) years. Prediagnosis, physical function declines of survivors with local cancers were similar to controls; after diagnosis, survivors experienced accelerated declines relative to controls, whose scores declined 1 to 2 points per year. Short-term declines in the year following diagnosis were most severe in women with regional disease (eg, -5.3 [95% CI, -6.4 to -4.3] points per year in regional vs -2.8 [95% CI, -3.4 to -2.3] for local breast cancer) or who received systemic therapy (eg, for local endometrial cancer, -7.9 [95% CI, -12.2 to -3.6] points per year with any chemotherapy; -3.1 [95% CI, -6.0 to -0.3] with radiation therapy alone; and -2.6 [95% CI, -4.2 to -1.0] with neither, respectively). While rates of physical function decline slowed in the later postdiagnosis period (eg, women with regional colorectal cancer declined -4.3 [95% CI, -5.9 to -2.6] points per year in the year following diagnosis vs -1.4 [95% CI, -1.7 to -1.0] points per year in the decade thereafter), survivors had estimated physical function significantly below that of age-matched controls 5 years after diagnosis. Conclusions and Relevance In this prospective cohort study, survivors of cancer experienced accelerated declines in physical function after diagnosis, and physical function remained below that of age-matched controls even years later. Patients with cancer may benefit from supportive interventions to preserve physical functioning.
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Indiana at Bloomington, Bloomington
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- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu
- Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, New York
- Epidemiology Division, University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus
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- Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
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- Cardio-Oncology Program, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Medical Oncology, The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, California
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- Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
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Kim DH, Binder AM, Zhou H, Jung SY. DNA methylation patterns associated with breast cancer prognosis that are specific to tumor subtype and menopausal status. Front Genet 2023; 14:1133443. [PMID: 36936429 PMCID: PMC10018014 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1133443] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Tumor subtype and menopausal status are strong predictors of breast cancer (BC) prognosis. We aimed to find and validate subtype- or menopausal-status-specific changes in tumor DNA methylation (DNAm) associated with all-cause mortality or BC progression. Associations between site-specific tumor DNAm and BC prognosis were estimated among The Cancer Genome Atlas participants (n = 692) with Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array data. All-cause mortality and BC progression were modeled using Cox proportional hazards models stratified by tumor subtypes, adjusting for age, race, stage, menopausal status, tumor purity, and cell type proportion. Effect measure modification by subtype and menopausal status were evaluated by incorporating a product term with DNAm. Site-specific inference was used to identify subtype- or menopausal-status-specific differentially methylated regions (DMRs) and functional pathways. The validation of the results was carried out on an independent dataset (GSE72308; n = 180). We identified a total of fifteen unique CpG probes that were significantly associated ( P ≤ 1 × 10 - 7 with survival outcomes in subtype- or menopausal-status-specific manner. Seven probes were associated with overall survival (OS) or progression-free interval (PFI) for women with luminal A subtype, and four probes were associated with PFI for women with luminal B subtype. Five probes were associated with PFI for post-menopausal women. A majority of significant probes showed a lower risk of OS or BC progression with higher DNAm. We identified subtype- or menopausal-status-specific DMRs and functional pathways of which top associated pathways differed across subtypes or menopausal status. None of significant probes from site-specific analyses met genome-wide significant level in validation analyses while directions and magnitudes of coefficients showed consistent pattern. We have identified subtype- or menopausal-status-specific DNAm biomarkers, DMRs and functional pathways associated with all-cause mortality or BC progression, albeit with limited validation. Future studies with larger independent cohort of non-post-menopausal women with non-luminal A subtypes are warranted for identifying subtype- and menopausal-status-specific DNAm biomarkers for BC prognosis.
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- Do Hyun Kim
- Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- *Correspondence: Alexandra M. Binder,
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- Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Translational Sciences Section, School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Lu AT, Binder AM, Zhang J, Yan Q, Reiner AP, Cox SR, Corley J, Harris SE, Kuo PL, Moore AZ, Bandinelli S, Stewart JD, Wang C, Hamlat EJ, Epel ES, Schwartz JD, Whitsel EA, Correa A, Ferrucci L, Marioni RE, Horvath S. DNA methylation GrimAge version 2. Aging (Albany NY) 2022; 14:9484-9549. [PMID: 36516495 PMCID: PMC9792204 DOI: 10.18632/aging.204434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We previously described a DNA methylation (DNAm) based biomarker of human mortality risk DNAm GrimAge. Here we describe version 2 of GrimAge (trained on individuals aged between 40 and 92) which leverages two new DNAm based estimators of (log transformed) plasma proteins: high sensitivity C-reactive protein (logCRP) and hemoglobin A1C (logA1C). We evaluate GrimAge2 in 13,399 blood samples across nine study cohorts. After adjustment for age and sex, GrimAge2 outperforms GrimAge in predicting mortality across multiple racial/ethnic groups (meta P=3.6x10-167 versus P=2.6x10-144) and in terms of associations with age related conditions such as coronary heart disease, lung function measurement FEV1 (correlation= -0.31, P=1.1x10-136), computed tomography based measurements of fatty liver disease. We present evidence that GrimAge version 2 also applies to younger individuals and to saliva samples where it tracks markers of metabolic syndrome. DNAm logCRP is positively correlated with morbidity count (P=1.3x10-54). DNAm logA1C is highly associated with type 2 diabetes (P=5.8x10-155). DNAm PAI-1 outperforms the other age-adjusted DNAm biomarkers including GrimAge2 in correlating with triglyceride (cor=0.34, P=9.6x10-267) and visceral fat (cor=0.41, P=4.7x10-41). Overall, we demonstrate that GrimAge version 2 is an attractive epigenetic biomarker of human mortality and morbidity risk.
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- Ake T. Lu
- Dept. of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA,San Diego Institute of Science, Altos Labs, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA,Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Dept. of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- San Diego Institute of Science, Altos Labs, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Geriatric Unit, Local Health Unit Tuscany Centre, Firenze, Tuscany 40125, Italy
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- Dept. of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-8050, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0848, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0848, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Dept. of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-8050, USA,Dept. of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Population Health Science, Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, Scotland, UK
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- Dept. of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA,San Diego Institute of Science, Altos Labs, San Diego, CA 92121, USA,Dept. of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Yoon LS, Binder AM, Pereira A, Calafat AM, Shepherd J, Corvalán C, Michels KB. Variability in urinary phthalates, phenols, and parabens across childhood and relation to adolescent breast composition in Chilean girls. Environ Int 2022; 170:107586. [PMID: 36302292 PMCID: PMC10517447 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107586] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Epidemiologic evidence suggests that environmental factors acting as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are associated with mammographic breast density and the risk of breast cancer. Exposure to EDCs during puberty, a period of rapid breast development, may affect susceptibility to breast carcinogenesis. METHODS In a cohort of 366 Chilean adolescents from the Growth and Obesity Cohort Study, we evaluated the relation between urinary concentrations of 15 suspected EDC biomarkers across three pubertal time points (Tanner breast stage 1 (B1), 4 (B4), and 1-year post-menarche) and breast fibroglandular volume (FGV; percent FGV [%FGV] and absolute FGV [aFGV]) and total breast volume (tBV) at 2-years post-menarche. We used linear mixed models to test differences in creatinine-corrected EDC biomarker concentrations at B4 and 1-year post-menarche compared to B1 and calculated intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) of EDC concentrations across time points to appraise the consistency of measurements. We fit multivariable generalized estimating equations (GEEs) to evaluate windows of susceptibility for the association between log10-transformed EDCs and log10-transformed breast outcomes. GEEs were adjusted for age, body fat percentage, total caloric intake, and maternal education. RESULTS Urinary EDC biomarker concentrations highly varied across pubertal time points (ICC range 0.01-0.30). For 12 EDCs, biomarker concentrations decreased over time. Triclosan measured at 1-year post-menarche was inversely associated with %FGV at 2-years post-menarche (β = -0.025, 95 % confidence interval = -0.041, -0.008). Mono(2-ethyl-5-carboxypentyl) phthalate and the sum of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate metabolite concentrations at B4 were positively associated with aFGV and tBV at 2-years post-menarche. No measured phenols were associated with aFGV and tBV, while no measured parabens were associated with %FGV and aFGV. CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests relatively high variability in EDC biomarker concentrations across the peripubertal time period. We also found evidence to suggest that there may be pubertal windows of susceptibility to select EDCs for the association with adolescent breast density.
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- Lara S Yoon
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA; Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Macul, Santiago 7830490, Chile.
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop F17, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Macul, Santiago 7830490, Chile.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA; Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Elsässerstraße 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.
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Fernandez-Jimenez N, Fore R, Cilleros-Portet A, Lepeule J, Perron P, Kvist T, Tian FY, Lesseur C, Binder AM, Lozano M, Martorell-Marugán J, Loke YJ, Bakulski KM, Zhu Y, Forhan A, Sammallahti S, Everson TM, Chen J, Michels KB, Belmonte T, Carmona-Sáez P, Halliday J, Daniele Fallin M, LaSalle JM, Tost J, Czamara D, Fernández MF, Gómez-Martín A, Craig JM, Gonzalez-Alzaga B, Schmidt RJ, Dou JF, Muggli E, Lacasaña M, Vrijheid M, Marsit CJ, Karagas MR, Räikkönen K, Bouchard L, Heude B, Santa-Marina L, Bustamante M, Hivert MF, Bilbao JR. A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index and placental DNA methylation identifies 27 CpG sites with implications for mother-child health. Commun Biol 2022; 5:1313. [PMID: 36446949 PMCID: PMC9709064 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04267-y] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Higher maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (ppBMI) is associated with increased neonatal morbidity, as well as with pregnancy complications and metabolic outcomes in offspring later in life. The placenta is a key organ in fetal development and has been proposed to act as a mediator between the mother and different health outcomes in children. The overall aim of the present work is to investigate the association of ppBMI with epigenome-wide placental DNA methylation (DNAm) in 10 studies from the PACE consortium, amounting to 2631 mother-child pairs. We identify 27 CpG sites at which we observe placental DNAm variations of up to 2.0% per 10 ppBMI-unit. The CpGs that are differentially methylated in placenta do not overlap with CpGs identified in previous studies in cord blood DNAm related to ppBMI. Many of the identified CpGs are located in open sea regions, are often close to obesity-related genes such as GPX1 and LGR4 and altogether, are enriched in cancer and oxidative stress pathways. Our findings suggest that placental DNAm could be one of the mechanisms by which maternal obesity is associated with metabolic health outcomes in newborns and children, although further studies will be needed in order to corroborate these findings.
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- Nora Fernandez-Jimenez
- grid.11480.3c0000000121671098Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Leioa, Basque Country Spain
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.11480.3c0000000121671098Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Leioa, Basque Country Spain
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- grid.418110.d0000 0004 0642 0153University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, CNRS, Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, IAB, Grenoble, France
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- grid.411172.00000 0001 0081 2808Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC Canada
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- grid.7737.40000 0004 0410 2071Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
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- grid.59734.3c0000 0001 0670 2351Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY USA
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- grid.410445.00000 0001 2188 0957Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI USA ,grid.19006.3e0000 0000 9632 6718Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- grid.5338.d0000 0001 2173 938XEpidemiology and Environmental Health Joint Research Unit, FISABIO-Universitat Jaume I-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain ,grid.5338.d0000 0001 2173 938XPreventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Sciences, Toxicology and Forensic Medicine Department, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
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- grid.4489.10000000121678994Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain ,grid.4489.10000000121678994Bioinformatics Unit. GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer, University of Granada, Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain
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- grid.1058.c0000 0000 9442 535XMurdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, VIC Australia ,grid.1008.90000 0001 2179 088XDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia
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- grid.214458.e0000000086837370Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- grid.27860.3b0000 0004 1936 9684Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, MIND Institute, Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA USA
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- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Université de Paris, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), INSERM, INRAE, Paris, France
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- grid.5645.2000000040459992XDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA ,grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
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- grid.59734.3c0000 0001 0670 2351Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY USA
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- grid.19006.3e0000 0000 9632 6718Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA USA ,grid.5963.9Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- grid.411342.10000 0004 1771 1175Health Research Institute of Asturias, ISPA and Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute of Cadiz (INiBICA), Research Unit, Puerta del Mar University Hospital, Cadiz, Spain
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- grid.4489.10000000121678994Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain ,grid.4489.10000000121678994Bioinformatics Unit. GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer, University of Granada, Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain
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- grid.1058.c0000 0000 9442 535XMurdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, VIC Australia ,grid.1008.90000 0001 2179 088XDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia
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- grid.21107.350000 0001 2171 9311Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
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- grid.27860.3b0000 0004 1936 9684Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, MIND Institute, Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA USA
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- grid.418135.a0000 0004 0641 3404Laboratory for Epigenetics & Environment, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, CEA-Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Evry, France
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- grid.419548.50000 0000 9497 5095Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- grid.4489.10000000121678994University of Granada, Center for Biomedical Research (CIBM), Granada, Spain ,grid.507088.2Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain ,grid.466571.70000 0004 1756 6246CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- grid.507088.2Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain ,grid.413740.50000 0001 2186 2871Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), Granada, Spain
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- grid.1058.c0000 0000 9442 535XMurdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, VIC Australia ,grid.1021.20000 0001 0526 7079Deakin University, IMPACT – the Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, School of Medicine, Geelong, Australia
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- grid.507088.2Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain ,grid.413740.50000 0001 2186 2871Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), Granada, Spain
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- grid.27860.3b0000 0004 1936 9684Department of Public Health Sciences and the MIND Institute, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA USA
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- grid.214458.e0000000086837370Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- grid.1058.c0000 0000 9442 535XMurdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, VIC Australia ,grid.1008.90000 0001 2179 088XDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia
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- grid.507088.2Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain ,grid.466571.70000 0004 1756 6246CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain ,grid.413740.50000 0001 2186 2871Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), Granada, Spain
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- grid.466571.70000 0004 1756 6246CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain ,grid.434607.20000 0004 1763 3517ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain ,grid.5612.00000 0001 2172 2676Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA ,grid.189967.80000 0001 0941 6502Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA
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- grid.86715.3d0000 0000 9064 6198Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC Canada
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- grid.7737.40000 0004 0410 2071Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- grid.86715.3d0000 0000 9064 6198Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC Canada ,grid.459278.50000 0004 4910 4652Department of Laboratory Medicine, CIUSSS du Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean – Hôpital Universitaire de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC Canada
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- grid.508487.60000 0004 7885 7602Université de Paris, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), INSERM, INRAE, Paris, France
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- grid.466571.70000 0004 1756 6246CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain ,grid.432380.eBiodonostia, Epidemiology and Public Health Area, Environmental Epidemiology and Child Development Group, 20014 San Sebastian, Basque Country Spain ,Health Department of Basque Government, Sub-directorate of Public Health of Gipuzkoa, San Sebastian, Basque Country Spain
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- grid.466571.70000 0004 1756 6246CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain ,grid.434607.20000 0004 1763 3517ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain ,grid.5612.00000 0001 2172 2676Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA USA ,grid.411172.00000 0001 0081 2808Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, QC Canada ,grid.32224.350000 0004 0386 9924Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.11480.3c0000000121671098Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Leioa, Basque Country Spain ,grid.512890.7CIBER of diabetes and associated metabolic disorders (CIBERDEM), Madrid, Spain
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Jain P, Binder AM, Chen B, Parada H, Gallo LC, Alcaraz J, Horvath S, Bhatti P, Whitsel EA, Jordahl K, Baccarelli AA, Hou L, Stewart JD, Li Y, Justice JN, LaCroix AZ. Analysis of Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Healthy Longevity Among Older US Women. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2223285. [PMID: 35895062 PMCID: PMC9331104 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.23285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [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: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
IMPORTANCE Accelerated biological aging is associated with decreased physical capability and cognitive functioning, which are associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE We investigated associations between epigenetic age acceleration (EAA), a biomarker associated with aging, and healthy longevity among older women. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cohort study was a secondary analysis of participants in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) who were eligible to survive to age 90 years by September 30, 2020. Participants were located in multiple centers. This study was restricted to women with genome-wide DNA methylation data, generated from baseline blood samples within 3 WHI ancillary studies. Median (IQR) follow-up times from baseline were 21.6 (19.6-22.9) years and 21.4 (19.8-22.7) years for women who survived to age 90 years with and without intact mobility, respectively, and 13.2 (8.8-16.7) for women who did not survive to age 90 years. Data were analyzed from December 2020 to July 2021. EXPOSURES EAA was estimated using 4 established "clocks": Horvath pantissue, Hannum, Pheno, and Grim. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Using multinomial logistic regression, odds ratios (ORs) and 95% CIs were estimated for 3 healthy longevity outcomes for each clock: survival to age 90 years with intact mobility, survival to age 90 years without intact mobility, and no survival to age 90 years. RESULTS Among 1813 women, there were 464 women (mean [SD] age at baseline, 71.6 [3.5] years) who survived to age 90 years with intact mobility and cognitive functioning, 420 women (mean [SD] age at baseline, 71.3 [3.2] years) who survived to age 90 years without intact mobility and cognitive functioning, and 929 women (mean [SD] age at baseline, 70.2 [3.4] years) who did not survive to age 90 years. Women who survived to age 90 years with intact mobility and cognitive function were healthier at baseline compared with women who survived without those outcomes or who did not survive to age 90 years (eg, 143 women [30.8%] vs 101 women [24.0%] and 202 women [21.7%] with 0 chronic conditions). The odds of surviving to age 90 years with intact mobility were lower for every 1 SD increase in EAA compared with those who did not survive to age 90 years as measured by AgeAccelHorvath (OR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.69-0.96; P = .01), AgeAccelHannum (OR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.56-0.80; P < .001), AgeAccelPheno (OR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.51-0.72; P < .001), and AgeAccelGrim (OR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.55-0.84; P < .001). ORs were similar for women who survived to age 90 years with intact mobility and cognitive function (eg, AgeAccelHorvath: OR per 1 SD increase in EAA, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.71-0.98; P = .03) compared with women who did not survive to age 90 years. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE These findings suggest that EAA may be a valid biomarker associated with healthy longevity among older women and may be used for risk stratification and risk estimation of future functional and cognitive aging. Outcomes suggest that future studies may focus on the potential for public health interventions to counteract EAA and its association with poor health outcomes to lower disease burden while increasing longevity.
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- Purva Jain
- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla
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- Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, San Diego State University
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, San Diego State University
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla
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Paul KC, Binder AM, Horvath S, Kusters C, Yan Q, Rosario ID, Yu Y, Bronstein J, Ritz B. Accelerated hematopoietic mitotic aging measured by DNA methylation, blood cell lineage, and Parkinson's disease. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:696. [PMID: 34565328 PMCID: PMC8474781 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-08009-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 04/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Aging and inflammation are important components of Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis and both are associated with changes in hematopoiesis and blood cell composition. DNA methylation (DNAm) presents a mechanism to investigate inflammation, aging, and hematopoiesis in PD, using epigenetic mitotic aging and aging clocks. Here, we aimed to define the influence of blood cell lineage on epigenetic mitotic age and then investigate mitotic age acceleration with PD, while considering epigenetic age acceleration biomarkers. RESULTS We estimated epigenetic mitotic age using the "epiTOC" epigenetic mitotic clock in 10 different blood cell populations and in a population-based study of PD with whole-blood. Within subject analysis of the flow-sorted purified blood cell types DNAm showed a clear separation of epigenetic mitotic age by cell lineage, with the mitotic age significantly lower in myeloid versus lymphoid cells (p = 2.1e-11). PD status was strongly associated with accelerated epigenetic mitotic aging (AccelEpiTOC) after controlling for cell composition (OR = 2.11, 95 % CI = 1.56, 2.86, p = 1.6e-6). AccelEpiTOC was also positively correlated with extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration, a DNAm aging biomarker related to immune system aging (with cell composition adjustment: R = 0.27, p = 6.5e-14), and both were independently associated with PD. Among PD patients, AccelEpiTOC measured at baseline was also associated with longitudinal motor and cognitive symptom decline. CONCLUSIONS The current study presents a first look at epigenetic mitotic aging in PD and our findings suggest accelerated hematopoietic cell mitosis, possibly reflecting immune pathway imbalances, in early PD that may also be related to motor and cognitive progression.
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- Kimberly C Paul
- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
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McCartney DL, Min JL, Richmond RC, Lu AT, Sobczyk MK, Davies G, Broer L, Guo X, Jeong A, Jung J, Kasela S, Katrinli S, Kuo PL, Matias-Garcia PR, Mishra PP, Nygaard M, Palviainen T, Patki A, Raffield LM, Ratliff SM, Richardson TG, Robinson O, Soerensen M, Sun D, Tsai PC, van der Zee MD, Walker RM, Wang X, Wang Y, Xia R, Xu Z, Yao J, Zhao W, Correa A, Boerwinkle E, Dugué PA, Durda P, Elliott HR, Gieger C, de Geus EJC, Harris SE, Hemani G, Imboden M, Kähönen M, Kardia SLR, Kresovich JK, Li S, Lunetta KL, Mangino M, Mason D, McIntosh AM, Mengel-From J, Moore AZ, Murabito JM, Ollikainen M, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Polidoro S, Porteous DJ, Raitakari O, Rich SS, Sandler DP, Sillanpää E, Smith AK, Southey MC, Strauch K, Tiwari H, Tanaka T, Tillin T, Uitterlinden AG, Van Den Berg DJ, van Dongen J, Wilson JG, Wright J, Yet I, Arnett D, Bandinelli S, Bell JT, Binder AM, Boomsma DI, Chen W, Christensen K, Conneely KN, Elliott P, Ferrucci L, Fornage M, Hägg S, Hayward C, Irvin M, Kaprio J, Lawlor DA, Lehtimäki T, Lohoff FW, Milani L, Milne RL, Probst-Hensch N, Reiner AP, Ritz B, Rotter JI, Smith JA, Taylor JA, van Meurs JBJ, Vineis P, Waldenberger M, Deary IJ, Relton CL, Horvath S, Marioni RE. Genome-wide association studies identify 137 genetic loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of aging. Genome Biol 2021; 22:194. [PMID: 34187551 PMCID: PMC8243879 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02398-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [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: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Biological aging estimators derived from DNA methylation data are heritable and correlate with morbidity and mortality. Consequently, identification of genetic and environmental contributors to the variation in these measures in populations has become a major goal in the field. RESULTS Leveraging DNA methylation and SNP data from more than 40,000 individuals, we identify 137 genome-wide significant loci, of which 113 are novel, from genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analyses of four epigenetic clocks and epigenetic surrogate markers for granulocyte proportions and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 levels, respectively. We find evidence for shared genetic loci associated with the Horvath clock and expression of transcripts encoding genes linked to lipid metabolism and immune function. Notably, these loci are independent of those reported to regulate DNA methylation levels at constituent clock CpGs. A polygenic score for GrimAge acceleration showed strong associations with adiposity-related traits, educational attainment, parental longevity, and C-reactive protein levels. CONCLUSION This study illuminates the genetic architecture underlying epigenetic aging and its shared genetic contributions with lifestyle factors and longevity.
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- Daniel L McCartney
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, 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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- 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 Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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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- Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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- Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Longitudinal Study Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, 33520, Tampere, Finland
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 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 Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 05446, 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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- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, 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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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, 33521, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Children's Minnesota Research Institute, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust, London, SE1 9RT, UK
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- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Longitudinal Study Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Gerontology Research Center, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55101, Mainz, Germany
- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
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- Longitudinal Study Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, 06100, Ankara, Turkey
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- Deans Office, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Longitudinal Study Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Rd. South, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Dept of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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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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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, and Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, 33520, Tampere, Finland
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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- Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, 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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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
- Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK.
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Aim: To investigate associations of psychosocial stressors and resilience factors with DNA methylation age in saliva of Latinx children of immigrants before and after the 2016 presidential election (2015-2018). Materials & methods: We compared psychosocial exposures with four distinct measures of epigenetic age assessed in saliva of children (6-13 years, n = 71 pre-election; n = 35 post-election). Exploratory genome-wide analyses were also conducted. Results: We found distinct associations across epigenetic clocks and time points: for example, greater maternal social status pre-election and fear of parent deportation post-election both associated with decreased Hannum Age (p ≤ 0.01). Conclusion: Though limited in size, our unique study design provides novel hypotheses regarding how the social environment may influence epigenetic aging and genome-wide methylation, potentially contributing to racial/ethnic health inequalities.
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- Elizabeth S Clausing
- Department of Anthropology at The University of California, San Diego, 92093 CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology at The University of California, Los Angeles, 90095 CA, USA
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- Department of Anthropology at The University of California, San Diego, 92093 CA, USA
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Binder AM, Tinker L, Wallace R, Manson JE, Qi L, Bhatti P, Whitsel EA, LaCroix AZ, Horvath S. Abstract PS7-28: Association between epigenetic age acceleration and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Women’s Health Initiative. Cancer Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs20-ps7-28] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Earlier age of menopause and bilateral oophorectomy are associated with accelerated biologic aging based on epigenetic clocks. While these relationships suggest women with greater epigenetic age acceleration (AgeAccel) might be at a reduced risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, prior studies conflict with this theory. We hypothesized this paradox may be attributable to an interaction between epigenetic and reproductive aging on cancer risk. We evaluated this premise among 5,044 postmenopausal women in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Observational Study and Clinical Trial with AgeAccel estimated in whole blood. Among a subset of 1,135 of these women, estradiol (E2) and sex hormone-binding globulin were assayed in baseline serum samples. For WHI participants with DNA methylation assays, we modeled the log odds of incident postmenopausal breast cancer during follow-up as a function of AgeAccel, adjusting for age at menopause, race/ethnicity, age at WHI screening, bilateral oophorectomy, nulliparity, alcohol consumption, smoking, body mass index, duration of postmenopausal hormone therapy use, exercise, clinical trial arm, and hysterectomy status at baseline. We repeated this analysis among the subset of participants with DNA methylation and E2 assays, and appraised the degree to which bioavailable E2 levels contributed to the observed association between AgeAccel and incident postmenopausal breast cancer. Finally, we evaluated whether bioavailable E2 levels modified the relationship between AgeAccel and cancer risk. Generalized estimating equations were used to model associations with AgeAccel, integrating repeated measures among a subset of participants and using inverse probability weights to account for sample selection probabilities. Based on our fully adjusted models, increased extrinsic AgeAccel was associated with decreased odds of incident postmenopausal invasive breast cancer during follow-up. This association was consistent among the subset of participants with E2 assays, and robust to adjustment for bioavailable E2 concentration. We found the inverse relationship between extrinsic AgeAccel and incident breast cancer was strongest among white non-Hispanic women with low levels of bioavailable E2. This study represents the largest investigation of the association between AgeAccel and postmenopausal breast cancer risk, and the first evaluation of how bioavailable E2 levels may influence this relationship. Our analyses inform our understanding of the relationship between the epigenetic and reproductive aging process, and the potential implications for postmenopausal breast cancer risk.
Citation Format: Alexandra M. Binder, Lesley Tinker, Robert Wallace, JoAnn E. Manson, Lihong Qi, Parveen Bhatti, Eric A. Whitsel, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Steve Horvath. Association between epigenetic age acceleration and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Women’s Health Initiative [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Virtual Symposium; 2020 Dec 8-11; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(4 Suppl):Abstract nr PS7-28.
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- Alexandra M. Binder
- 1Cancer Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI
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- 2Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- 3Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA
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- 4Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- 5Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
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- 6Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- 7Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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- 8Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- 9Department of Human Genetics and Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Leseva MN, Binder AM, Ponsonby AL, Vuillermin P, Saffery R, Michels KB. Differential gene expression and limited epigenetic dysregulation at the materno-fetal interface in preeclampsia. Hum Mol Genet 2020; 29:335-350. [PMID: 31868881 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddz287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Despite the many advances made in the diagnosis and management of preeclampsia, this syndrome remains a leading cause of maternal mortality and life-long morbidity, as well as adverse fetal outcomes. Successful prediction and therapeutic intervention require an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms, which underlie preeclampsia pathophysiology. We have used an integrated approach to discover placental genetic and epigenetic markers of preeclampsia and validated our findings in an independent cohort of women. We observed the microRNA, MIR138, to be upregulated in singleton preeclamptic placentas; however, this appears to be a female infant sex-specific effect. We did not identify any significant differentially methylated positions (DMPs) in singleton pregnancies, indicating that DNA methylation changes in mild forms of the disease are likely limited. However, we identified infant sex-specific preeclampsia-associated differentially methylated regions among singletons. Disease-associated DMPs were more obvious in a limited sampling of twin pregnancies. Interestingly, 2 out of the 10 most significant changes in methylation over larger regions overlap between singletons and twins and correspond to NAPRT1 and ZNF417.
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- Milena N Leseva
- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Discovery Theme, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.,Cell Biology Theme, The Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- Cell Biology Theme, The Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.,School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia.,Child Health Research Unit, Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
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- Cell Biology Theme, The Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110, Germany.,Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Michels KB, Keller K, Pereira A, Kim CE, Santos JL, Shepherd J, Corvalan C, Binder AM. Association between indicators of systemic inflammation biomarkers during puberty with breast density and onset of menarche. Breast Cancer Res 2020; 22:104. [PMID: 33004039 PMCID: PMC7531086 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-020-01338-y] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Background Systemic inflammation may play a role in shaping breast composition, one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. Pubertal development presents a critical window of breast tissue susceptibility to exogenous and endogenous factors, including pro-inflammatory markers. However, little is known about the role of systemic inflammation on adolescent breast composition and pubertal development among girls. Methods We investigated associations between circulating levels of inflammatory markers (e.g., interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 (TNFR2), and C-reactive protein (CRP)) at Tanner stages 2 and 4 and breast composition at Tanner stage 4 in a cohort of 397 adolescent girls in Santiago, Chile (Growth and Obesity Cohort Study, 2006–2018). Multivariable linear models were used to examine the association between breast composition and each inflammatory marker, stratifying by Tanner stage at inflammatory marker measurement. Accelerated failure time models were used to evaluate the association between inflammatory markers concentrations at each Tanner stage and time to menarche. Results In age-adjusted linear regression models, a doubling of TNFR2 at Tanner 2 was associated with a 26% (95% CI 7–48%) increase in total breast volume at Tanner 4 and a 22% (95% CI 10–32%) decrease of fibroglandular volume at Tanner 4. In multivariable models further adjusted for body fatness and other covariates, these associations were attenuated to the null. The time to menarche was 3% (95% CI 1–5%) shorter among those in the highest quartile of IL-6 at Tanner 2 relative to those in the lowest quartile in fully adjusted models. Compared to those in the lowest quartile of CRP at Tanner 4, those in the highest quartile experienced 2% (95% CI 0–3%) longer time to menarche in multivariable models. Conclusions Systemic inflammation during puberty was not associated with breast volume or breast density at the conclusion of breast development among pubertal girls after adjusting for body fatness; however, these circulating inflammation biomarkers, specifically CRP and IL-6, may affect the timing of menarche onset.
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- Karin B Michels
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Room 71-264 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. .,Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Room 71-264 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Room 71-264 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.,Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
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Yan Q, Paul KC, Lu AT, Kusters C, Binder AM, Horvath S, Ritz B. Epigenetic mutation load is weakly correlated with epigenetic age acceleration. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 12:17863-17894. [PMID: 32991324 PMCID: PMC7585066 DOI: 10.18632/aging.103950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
DNA methylation (DNAm) age estimators are widely used to study aging-related conditions. It is not yet known whether DNAm age is associated with the accumulation of stochastic epigenetic mutations (SEMs), which reflect dysfunctions of the epigenetic maintenance system. Here, we defined epigenetic mutation load (EML) as the total number of SEMs per individual. We assessed associations between EML and DNAm age acceleration estimators using biweight midcorrelations in four population-based studies (total n = 6,388). EML was not only positively associated with chronological age (meta r = 0.171), but also with four measures of epigenetic age acceleration: the Horvath pan tissue clock, intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration, the Hannum clock, and the GrimAge clock (meta-analysis correlation ranging from r = 0.109 to 0.179). We further conducted pathway enrichment analyses for each participant's SEMs. The enrichment result demonstrated the stochasticity of epigenetic mutations, meanwhile implicated several pathways: signaling, neurogenesis, neurotransmitter, glucocorticoid, and circadian rhythm pathways may contribute to faster DNAm age acceleration. Finally, investigating genomic-region specific EML, we found that EMLs located within regions of transcriptional repression (TSS1500, TSS200, and 1stExon) were associated with faster age acceleration. Overall, our findings suggest a role for the accumulation of epigenetic mutations in the aging process.
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- Qi Yan
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA,Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA,Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA,Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Huang BZ, Binder AM, Sugar CA, Chao CR, Setiawan VW, Zhang ZF. Methylation of immune-regulatory cytokine genes and pancreatic cancer outcomes. Epigenomics 2020; 12:1273-1285. [PMID: 32867538 DOI: 10.2217/epi-2019-0335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 02/06/2023] Open
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Aim: Given the immunosuppressive nature of pancreatic cancer, we investigated the relationship between epigenetic modification of immune-regulatory cytokine genes and pancreatic cancer outcomes. Materials & methods: We evaluated DNA methylation of 184 pancreatic tumor samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas for 111 CpG loci in seven cytokine genes: IL10, IL6, IL8, TGFβ1, TGFβ2, TGFβ3 and TNF. We used Cox regression to evaluate the associations between methylation and overall survival, disease-specific survival and disease progression (α = 0.05). Results: Poorer survival was associated with increased methylation in fifteen CpG probes in TGFβ1, TGFβ2, TGFβ3 and TNF. We also detected improved outcomes for three loci in IL10, IL8 and IL6. Conclusion: Epigenetic regulation of cytokine-related gene expression may be associated with pancreatic cancer outcomes.
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- Brian Z Huang
- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.,Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.,Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.,Department of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.,Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.,Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Michels KB, De Vivo I, Calafat AM, Binder AM. In utero exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and telomere length at birth. Environ Res 2020; 182:109053. [PMID: 31923847 PMCID: PMC8667573 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.109053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 11/01/2019] [Revised: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Telomere length correlates with morbidity and mortality. While telomere length appears to be influenced by hormone levels, the potential impact of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) has not been studied. We examined the association between maternal gestational concentrations of biomarkers of EDC exposure and telomere length at birth in the Harvard Epigenetic Birth Cohort. EDC (phenols and phthalates) biomarker concentrations were measured in maternal spot urine samples during the first trimester and telomere length in maternal and cord blood collected at delivery among 181 mother-newborn singleton dyads. Maternal and newborn telomere length exhibited a positive correlation (Spearman ρ = 0.20 (p-value< 0.01). Infant telomere length was associated with maternal biomarker concentrations of specific EDCs, and most of these associations were observed to be infant sex-specific. Prenatal exposure to triclosan, a non-paraben phenol with antimicrobial properties, was one of the most strongly associated EDCs with telomere length; telomere length was 20% (95% CI 5%-33%) shorter among boys in the highest quartile of maternal biomarker concentrations compared to the lowest quartile. In contrast, we observed longer telomere length associated with increased gestational concentrations of mono-isobutyl phthalate, and among boys, with increased concentrations of mono-2-ethylhexyl phthalate. In this birth cohort, we observed associations between maternal gestational exposure to select EDC biomarkers and telomere length, most of which were sex-specific. These findings need to be confirmed in future studies.
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- Karin B Michels
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany.
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- Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Yuan V, Price EM, Del Gobbo G, Mostafavi S, Cox B, Binder AM, Michels KB, Marsit C, Robinson WP. Accurate ethnicity prediction from placental DNA methylation data. Epigenetics Chromatin 2019; 12:51. [PMID: 31399127 PMCID: PMC6688210 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-019-0296-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [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: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The influence of genetics on variation in DNA methylation (DNAme) is well documented. Yet confounding from population stratification is often unaccounted for in DNAme association studies. Existing approaches to address confounding by population stratification using DNAme data may not generalize to populations or tissues outside those in which they were developed. To aid future placental DNAme studies in assessing population stratification, we developed an ethnicity classifier, PlaNET (Placental DNAme Elastic Net Ethnicity Tool), using five cohorts with Infinium Human Methylation 450k BeadChip array (HM450k) data from placental samples that is also compatible with the newer EPIC platform. Results Data from 509 placental samples were used to develop PlaNET and show that it accurately predicts (accuracy = 0.938, kappa = 0.823) major classes of self-reported ethnicity/race (African: n = 58, Asian: n = 53, Caucasian: n = 389), and produces ethnicity probabilities that are highly correlated with genetic ancestry inferred from genome-wide SNP arrays (> 2.5 million SNP) and ancestry informative markers (n = 50 SNPs). PlaNET’s ethnicity classification relies on 1860 HM450K microarray sites, and over half of these were linked to nearby genetic polymorphisms (n = 955). Our placental-optimized method outperforms existing approaches in assessing population stratification in placental samples from individuals of Asian, African, and Caucasian ethnicities. Conclusion PlaNET provides an improved approach to address population stratification in placental DNAme association studies. The method can be applied to predict ethnicity as a discrete or continuous variable and will be especially useful when self-reported ethnicity information is missing and genotyping markers are unavailable. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13072-019-0296-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Victor Yuan
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1, Canada.,BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1, Canada.,BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1, Canada.,BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1, Canada.,BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada.,Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, 3182 Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, 3rd Floor, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, C201-4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1, Canada. .,BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada.
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Lee Y, Choufani S, Weksberg R, Wilson SL, Yuan V, Burt A, Marsit C, Lu AT, Ritz B, Bohlin J, Gjessing HK, Harris JR, Magnus P, Binder AM, Robinson WP, Jugessur A, Horvath S. Placental epigenetic clocks: estimating gestational age using placental DNA methylation levels. Aging (Albany NY) 2019; 11:4238-4253. [PMID: 31235674 PMCID: PMC6628997 DOI: 10.18632/aging.102049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [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: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
The human pan-tissue epigenetic clock is widely used for estimating age across the entire lifespan, but it does not lend itself well to estimating gestational age (GA) based on placental DNAm methylation (DNAm) data. We replicate previous findings demonstrating a strong correlation between GA and genome-wide DNAm changes. Using substantially more DNAm arrays (n=1,102 in the training set) than a previous study, we present three new placental epigenetic clocks: 1) a robust placental clock (RPC) which is unaffected by common pregnancy complications (e.g., gestational diabetes, preeclampsia), and 2) a control placental clock (CPC) constructed using placental samples from pregnancies without known placental pathology, and 3) a refined RPC for uncomplicated term pregnancies. These placental clocks are highly accurate estimators of GA based on placental tissue; e.g., predicted GA based on RPC is highly correlated with actual GA (r>0.95 in test data, median error less than one week). We show that epigenetic clocks derived from cord blood or other tissues do not accurately estimate GA in placental samples. While fundamentally different from Horvath's pan-tissue epigenetic clock, placental clocks closely track fetal age during development and may have interesting applications.
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- Yunsung Lee
- Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Program, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology Program, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- B.C. Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- B.C. Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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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 of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- B.C. Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- 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 of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Binder AM, Stiemsma LT, Keller K, van Otterdijk SD, Mericq V, Pereira A, Santos JL, Shepherd J, Michels KB. Inverse association between estrogen receptor-α DNA methylation and breast composition in adolescent Chilean girls. Clin Epigenetics 2018; 10:122. [PMID: 30286806 PMCID: PMC6172836 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-018-0553-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 05/03/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Estrogen receptor-α (ER-α) is a transcriptional regulator, which mediates estrogen-dependent breast development, as well as breast tumorigenesis. The influence of epigenetic regulation of ER-α on adolescent breast composition has not been previously studied and could serve as a marker of pubertal health and susceptibility to breast cancer. We investigated the association between ER-α DNA methylation in leukocytes and breast composition in adolescent Chilean girls enrolled in the Growth and Obesity Cohort Study (GOCS) in Santiago, Chile. Breast composition (total breast volume (BV; cm3), fibroglandular volume (FGV; cm3), and percent fibroglandular volume (%FGV)) was measured at breast Tanner stage 4 (B4). ER-α promoter DNA methylation was assessed by pyrosequencing in blood samples collected at breast Tanner stages 2 (B2; n = 256) and B4 (n = 338). Results After adjusting for fat percentage at breast density measurement, ER-α methylation at B2, and cellular heterogeneity, we observed an inverse association between B4 average ER-α DNA methylation and BV and FGV. Geometric mean BV was 15% lower (95% CI: − 28%, − 1%) among girls in the highest quartile of B4 ER-α methylation (6.96–23.60%) relative to the lowest (0.78–3.37%). Similarly, FGV was 19% lower (95% CI: − 33%, − 2%) among girls in the highest quartile of B4 ER-α methylation relative to the lowest. The association between ER-α methylation and breast composition was not significantly modified by body fat percentage and was not influenced by pubertal timing. Conclusions These findings suggest that the methylation profile of ER-α may modulate adolescent response to estrogen and breast composition, which may influence breast cancer risk in adulthood. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13148-018-0553-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Alexandra M Binder
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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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, Diabetes and Metabolism, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA.
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Binder AM, Corvalan C, Pereira A, Calafat AM, Ye X, Shepherd J, Michels KB. Prepubertal and Pubertal Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposure and Breast Density among Chilean Adolescents. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2018; 27:1491-1499. [PMID: 30158279 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-17-0813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Revised: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND During puberty, mammary tissue undergoes rapid development, which provides a window of heightened susceptibility of breast composition to the influence of endogenous and exogenous hormones. Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) may affect breast development and composition and the risk of developing breast cancer in adulthood. METHODS We evaluated the associations between breast density and urinary concentrations of phenols and phthalates collected at Tanner 1 (B1) and Tanner 4 (B4) in 200 Chilean girls. Total breast volume (BV), fibroglandular volume (FGV), and percent dense breast (%FGV) were evaluated at B4 using dual X-ray absorptiometry. Generalized estimating equations were used to analyze the association between concentrations of EDC biomarkers across puberty and breast density. RESULTS The geometric mean %FGV was 7% higher among girls in the highest relative to the lowest tertile of monocarboxyisooctyl phthalate [1.07; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.01-1.14]. Monoethyl phthalate concentrations at B4 were positively associated with FGV (highest vs. lowest tertile: 1.22; 95% CI, 1.06-1.40). Bisphenol A displayed a U-shaped association with FGV; girls in the middle tertile had at least 10% lower FGV than girls in the lowest or highest tertiles. Monocarboxyisononyl phthalate showed a nonlinear association with BV. No other statistically significant associations were observed. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that the developing breast tissue is susceptible to select EDCs during childhood and adolescence. IMPACT This study may spur further investigations into environmental influences on breast development during puberty and how shifts in pubertal breast density track through the life course to modify breast cancer risk.
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- Alexandra M Binder
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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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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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Population Sciences in the Pacific Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
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Binder AM, Corvalan C, Calafat AM, Ye X, Mericq V, Pereira A, Michels KB. Childhood and adolescent phenol and phthalate exposure and the age of menarche in Latina girls. Environ Health 2018; 17:32. [PMID: 29615064 PMCID: PMC5883544 DOI: 10.1186/s12940-018-0376-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [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] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND The age of menarche has been associated with metabolic and cardiovascular disease, as well as cancer risk. The decline in menarcheal age over the past century may be partially attributable to increased exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). METHODS We assessed the influence of 26 phenol and phthalate biomarkers on the timing of menarche in a longitudinal cohort of Chilean girls. These EDCs were quantified in urine collected prior to the onset of breast development (Tanner 1; B1), and during adolescence (Tanner 4; B4). Multivariable accelerated failure time (AFT) models were used to analyze associations between biomarker concentrations and the age of menarche adjusting for body mass index (BMI) Z-score and maternal education, accounting for within-subject correlation. RESULTS Several biomarkers were significantly associated with the age at menarche; however, these associations were dependent on the timing of biomarker assessment. A log(ng/ml) increase in B1 concentrations of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate biomarkers was associated with later menarche (hazard ratio (HR): 0.77; 95% CI: 0.60, 0.98), whereas higher B1 concentrations of 2,5-dichlorophenol and benzophenone-3 were associated with earlier menarche (HR: 1.13; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.27; HR: 1.17; 95% CI: 1.06, 1.29, respectively). Elevated B4 concentrations of monomethyl phthalate were similarly associated with earlier menarche (HR: 1.30; 95% CI: 1.10, 1.53). The impact of monoethyl phthalate and triclosan concentrations on pubertal timing were significantly modified by BMI Z-score. Higher monoethyl phthalate and triclosan concentrations were associated with earlier menarche among overweight or obese girls, but not among those that were normal weight. CONCLUSIONS This study identifies modulation of sexual maturation by specific EDC biomarkers in Latina girls.
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- Alexandra M. Binder
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA USA
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- Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA USA
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- Institute of Maternal and Child Research, 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 Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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Binder AM, Corvalan C, Mericq V, Pereira A, Santos JL, Horvath S, Shepherd J, Michels KB. Faster ticking rate of the epigenetic clock is associated with faster pubertal development in girls. Epigenetics 2018; 13:85-94. [PMID: 29235933 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2017.1414127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [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: 10/18/2022] Open
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Epigenetic age is an indicator of biological aging, capturing the impact of environmental and behavioral influences across time on cellular function. Deviance between epigenetic age and chronological age (AgeAccel) is a predictor of health. Pubertal timing has similarly been associated with cancer risk and mortality rate among females. We examined the association between AgeAccel and pubertal timing and adolescent breast composition in the longitudinal Growth and Obesity Cohort Study. AgeAccel was estimated in whole blood using the Horvath method at breast Tanner 2 (B2) and 4 (B4). Total breast volume, absolute fibro-glandular volume (FGV), and %FGV were evaluated at B4 using dual X-ray absorptiometry. The impact of AgeAccel (mean: 0; SD: 3.78) across puberty on the time to breast development (thelarche), menarche, and pubertal tempo (thelarche to menarche) was estimated using accelerated failure time models; generalized estimating equations were used to evaluate associations with breast density. A five-year increase in average adolescent AgeAccel was associated with a significant decrease in time to menarche [hazard ratio (HR): 1.37; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.04, 1.80] adjusting for birth weight, maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index, maternal height, maternal education, B2 height, fat percentage, and cell composition. AgeAccel displayed a stronger inverse association with pubertal tempo (HR: 1.48; 95% CI: 1.10, 1.99). A five-year increase in AgeAccel was associated with 5% greater %FGV, adjusting for B4 percent body fat, and maternal traits (95% CI: 1.01, 1.10). Our study provides unique insight into the influence of AgeAccel on pubertal development in girls, which may have implications for adult health.
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- Alexandra M Binder
- a Department of Epidemiology , Fielding School of Public Health, University of California , Los Angeles , 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles , CA 90095 , USA
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- b Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology , University of Chile , Av el Libano 5524, Santiago , Chile
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- c Institute of Maternal and Child Research , University of Chile , Santa Rosa 1234, 2° piso, Santiago , Chile
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- b Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology , University of Chile , Av el Libano 5524, Santiago , Chile
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- d Department of Nutrition , Diabetes and Metabolism, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile , Av Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, Santiago , Chile
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- e Department of Biostatistics , School of Public Health, and Department of Human Genetics, Gonda Research Center , David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles , 695 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles , CA 90095 , USA
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- f Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging , University of California, San Francisco , 400 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco , CA 94117 , USA
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- a Department of Epidemiology , Fielding School of Public Health, University of California , Los Angeles , 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles , CA 90095 , USA
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The number of epigenetic studies is exponentially increasing. There is anticipation that DNA methylation may close gaps in our understanding of disease etiology, and how certain risk factors affect health and disease, but also that it has potential as a biomarker for disease. Human DNA methylation studies require careful considerations for design and analysis including population and tissue selection, population stratification, cell heterogeneity, confounding, temporality, sample size, appropriate statistical analysis, and validation of results. In this chapter, we discuss relevant aspects for the design of DNA methylation studies and delineate essential steps for their analysis. Specifically, we summarize methods used to extricate biologic signals from technical noise, and statistical approaches to capture meaningful variability based on the research hypothesis.
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- Karin B Michels
- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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van Otterdijk SD, Binder AM, Michels KB. Locus-specific DNA methylation in the placenta is associated with levels of pro-inflammatory proteins in cord blood and they are both independently affected by maternal smoking during pregnancy. Epigenetics 2017; 12:875-885. [PMID: 28820654 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2017.1361592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 10/19/2022] Open
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We investigated the impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy on placental DNA methylation and how this may mediate the association between maternal smoking and pro-inflammatory proteins in cord blood. The study population consisted of 27 individuals exposed to maternal smoking throughout pregnancy, 32 individuals exposed during a proportion of the pregnancy, and 61 unexposed individuals. Methylation of 11 regions within 6 genes in placenta tissue was assessed by pyrosequencing. Levels of 7 pro-inflammatory proteins in cord blood were assessed by electrochemiluminescence. Differential methylation was observed in the CYP1A1 promoter and AHRR gene body regions between women who smoked throughout pregnancy and non-smokers on the fetal-side of the placenta and in the GFI1 promoter between women who quit smoking while pregnant and non-smokers on the maternal-side of the placenta. Maternal smoking resulted in elevated levels of IL-8 protein in cord blood, which was not mediated by DNA methylation of our candidate regions at either the maternal or the fetal side of the placenta. Placental DNA methylation was associated with levels of inflammatory proteins in cord blood. Our observations suggest that maternal smoking during pregnancy affects both placental DNA methylation and the neonate's immune response.
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- Sanne D van Otterdijk
- a Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany.,b Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology , Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA
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- b Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology , Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA.,c Department of Epidemiology , Harvard School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA
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- a Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center , University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany.,b Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology , Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA.,c Department of Epidemiology , Harvard School of Public Health , Boston , MA , USA
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Tserga A, Binder AM, Michels KB. Impact of folic acid intake during pregnancy on genomic imprinting of IGF2/H19 and 1-carbon metabolism. FASEB J 2017; 31:5149-5158. [PMID: 28778973 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201601214rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Folic acid is an essential component of 1-carbon metabolism, which generates methyl groups for DNA methylation. Disruption of genomic imprinting leads to biallelic expression which may affect disease susceptibility possibly reflected in high levels of S-adenosyl-homocysteine (SAH) and low levels of S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM). We investigated the association between folic acid supplementation during pregnancy and loss of imprinting (LOI) of IGF2 and H19 genes in placentas and cord blood of 90 mother-child dyads in association with the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) genotype. Pyrosequencing was used to evaluate deviation from monoallelic expression among 47 placentas heterozygous for H19 and 37 placentas and cord blood tissues heterozygous for IGF2 and H19 methylation levels of 48 placentas. We detected relaxation of imprinting (ROI) and LOI of H19 in placentas not associated with differences in methylation levels of the H19ICR. Placentas retained monoallelic allele-specific gene expression of IGF2, but 32.4% of cord blood samples displayed LOI of IGF2 and 10.8% showed ROI. High SAH levels were significantly associated with low H19 methylation. An interesting positive association between SAM/SAH ratio and high H19 methylation levels was detected among infants with low B12 levels. Our data suggest profound differences in regulation of imprinting in placenta and cord blood; a lack of correlation of the methylome, transcriptome, and proteome; and a complex regulatory feedback network between free methyl groups and genomic imprinting at birth.-Tserga, A., Binder, A. M., Michels, K. B. Impact of folic acid intake during pregnancy on genomic imprinting of IGF2/H19 and 1-carbon metabolism.
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- Aggeliki Tserga
- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; .,Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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van Otterdijk SD, Binder AM, Szarc vel Szic K, Schwald J, Michels KB. DNA methylation of candidate genes in peripheral blood from patients with type 2 diabetes or the metabolic syndrome. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0180955. [PMID: 28727822 PMCID: PMC5519053 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) is increasing and several studies suggested an involvement of DNA methylation in the development of these metabolic diseases. This study was designed to investigate if differential DNA methylation in blood can function as a biomarker for T2D and/or MetS. METHODS Pyrosequencing analyses were performed for the candidate genes KCNJ11, PPARγ, PDK4, KCNQ1, SCD1, PDX1, FTO and PEG3 in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) from 25 patients diagnosed with only T2D, 9 patients diagnosed with T2D and MetS and 11 control subjects without any metabolic disorders. RESULTS No significant differences in gene-specific methylation between patients and controls were observed, although a trend towards significance was observed for PEG3. Differential methylation was observed between the groups in 4 out of the 42 single CpG loci located in the promoters regions of the genes FTO, KCNJ11, PPARγ and PDK4. A trend towards a positive correlation was observed for PEG3 methylation with HDL cholesterol levels. DISCUSSION Altered levels of DNA methylation in PBLs of specific loci might serve as a biomarker for T2D or MetS, although further investigation is required.
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- Sanne D. van Otterdijk
- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Freiburg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Carmona JJ, Accomando WP, Binder AM, Hutchinson JN, Pantano L, Izzi B, Just AC, Lin X, Schwartz J, Vokonas PS, Amr SS, Baccarelli AA, Michels KB. Empirical comparison of reduced representation bisulfite sequencing and Infinium BeadChip reproducibility and coverage of DNA methylation in humans. NPJ Genom Med 2017; 2:13. [PMID: 29263828 PMCID: PMC5642382 DOI: 10.1038/s41525-017-0012-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Revised: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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We empirically examined the strengths and weaknesses of two human genome-wide DNA methylation platforms: rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing and Illumina’s Infinium BeadChip. Rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing required less input DNA, offered more flexibility in coverage, and interrogated more CpG loci at a higher regional density. The Infinium covered slightly more protein coding, cancer-associated and mitochondrial-related genes, both platforms covered all known imprinting clusters, and rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing covered more microRNA genes than the HumanMethylation450, but fewer than the MethylationEPIC. Rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing did not always interrogate exactly the same CpG loci, but genomic tiling improved overlap between different libraries. Reproducibility of rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing and concordance between the platforms increased with CpG density. Only rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing could genotype samples and measure allele-specific methylation, and we confirmed that Infinium measurements are influenced by nearby single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The respective strengths and weaknesses of these two genome-wide DNA methylation platforms need to be considered when conducting human epigenetic studies. Researchers who study human epigenetics need to carefully consider the platform used to measure genome-wide patterns of DNA methylation. A team led by Karin Michels and Andrea Baccarelli from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, empirically examined the strengths and weaknesses of two methylation profiling tools: Illumina’s Infinium BeadChip, which uses a microarray system to interrogate hundreds of thousands of methylation sites across the genome at single-nucleotide resolution; and a high-throughput sequencing-based approach known as rapid multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing, or rmRRBS. The former did a better job at reading methylation in protein-coding and mitochondrial-related genes, while the latter required less input DNA and covered more methylation sites across the genome. The authors conclude that a scientist’s platform preference should depend on the nature of his or her investigation.
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- Juan J Carmona
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Program in Quantitative Genomics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Freiburg Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 USA
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- Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Translational Genomics Core, Partners Healthcare Personalized Medicine, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA.,Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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LaRocca J, Binder AM, McElrath TF, Michels KB. First-Trimester Urine Concentrations of Phthalate Metabolites and Phenols and Placenta miRNA Expression in a Cohort of U.S. Women. Environ Health Perspect 2016; 124:380-7. [PMID: 26090578 PMCID: PMC4786977 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND There is increasing concern that early-life exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can influence the risk of disease development. Phthalates and phenols are two classes of suspected EDCs that are used in a variety of everyday consumer products, including plastics, epoxy resins, and cosmetics. In utero exposure to EDCs may affect disease propensity through epigenetic mechanisms. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether prenatal exposure to multiple EDCs is associated with changes in miRNA expression of human placenta, and whether miRNA alterations are associated with birth outcomes. METHODS Our study was restricted to a total of 179 women co-enrolled in the Harvard Epigenetic Birth Cohort and the Predictors of Preeclampsia Study. We analyzed associations between first-trimester urine concentrations of 8 phenols and 11 phthalate metabolites and expression of 29 candidate miRNAs in placenta by qRT-PCR. RESULTS For three miRNAs--miR-142-3p, miR15a-5p, and miR-185--we detected associations between Σphthalates or Σphenols on expression levels (p < 0.05). By assessing gene ontology enrichment, we determined the potential mRNA targets of these microRNAs predicted in silico were associated with several biological pathways, including the regulation of protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Four gene ontology biological processes were enriched among genes significantly correlated with the expression of miRNAs associated with EDC burden. CONCLUSIONS Overall, these results suggest that prenatal phenol and phthalate exposure is associated with altered miRNA expression in placenta, suggesting a potential mechanism of EDC toxicity in humans.
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- Jessica LaRocca
- Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Maternal–Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Address correspondence to K.B. Michels, Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, 221 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA USA. Telephone: (617) 732-4895. E-mail:
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Binder AM, LaRocca J, Lesseur C, Marsit CJ, Michels KB. Epigenome-wide and transcriptome-wide analyses reveal gestational diabetes is associated with alterations in the human leukocyte antigen complex. Clin Epigenetics 2015; 7:79. [PMID: 26244062 PMCID: PMC4524439 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0116-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [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: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 07/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects approximately 10 % of pregnancies in the United States and increases the risk of adverse health outcomes in the offspring. These adult disease propensities may be set by anatomical and molecular alterations in the placenta associated with GDM. Results To assess the mechanistic aspects of fetal programming, we measured genome-wide methylation (Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips) and expression (Affymetrix transcriptome microarrays) in placental tissue of 41 GDM cases and 41 matched pregnancies without maternal complications from the Harvard Epigenetic Birth Cohort. Specific transcriptional and epigenetic perturbations associated with GDM status included alterations in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, which were validated in an independent cohort, the Rhode Island Child Health Study. Gene ontology enrichment among gene regulation influenced by GDM revealed an over-representation of immune response pathways among differential expression, reflecting these coordinated changes in the MHC region. This differential methylation and expression may be capturing shifts in cellular composition, reflecting physiological changes in the placenta associated with GDM. Conclusions Our study represents the largest investigation of transcriptomic and methylomic differences associated with GDM, providing comprehensive insight into how GDM shapes the intrauterine environment, which may have implications for fetal (re)programming. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13148-015-0116-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Alexandra M Binder
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA ; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA ; Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA ; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115 USA
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Barrow TM, Barault L, Ellsworth RE, Harris HR, Binder AM, Valente AL, Shriver CD, Michels KB. Aberrant methylation of imprinted genes is associated with negative hormone receptor status in invasive breast cancer. Int J Cancer 2015; 137:537-47. [PMID: 25560175 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.29419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Epigenetic regulation of imprinted genes enables monoallelic expression according to parental origin, and its disruption is implicated in many cancers and developmental disorders. The expression of hormone receptors is significant in breast cancer because they are indicators of cancer cell growth rate and determine response to endocrine therapies. We investigated the frequency of aberrant events and variation in DNA methylation at nine imprinted sites in invasive breast cancer and examined the association with estrogen and progesterone receptor status. Breast tissue and blood from patients with invasive breast cancer (n = 38) and benign breast disease (n = 30) were compared with those from healthy individuals (n = 36), matched with the cancer patients by age at diagnosis, ethnicity, body mass index, menopausal status and familial history of cancer. DNA methylation and allele-specific expression were analyzed by pyrosequencing. Tumor-specific methylation changes at IGF2 DMR2 were observed in 59% of cancer patients, IGF2 DMR0 in 38%, DIRAS3 DMR in 36%, GRB10 ICR in 23%, PEG3 DMR in 21%, MEST ICR in 19%, H19 ICR in 18%, KvDMR in 8% and SNRPN/SNURF ICR in 4%. Variation in methylation was significantly greater in breast tissue from cancer patients compared with that in healthy individuals and benign breast disease. Aberrant methylation of three or more sites was significantly associated with negative estrogen-alpha (Fisher's exact test, p = 0.02) and progesterone-A (p = 0.02) receptor status. Aberrant events and increased variation in imprinted gene DNA methylation, therefore, seem to be frequent in invasive breast cancer and are associated with negative estrogen and progesterone receptor status, without loss of monoallelic expression.
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- Timothy M Barrow
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Clinical Breast Care Project, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Clinical Breast Care Project, Windber Research Institute, Windber, PA
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- Clinical Breast Care Project, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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LaRocca J, Binder AM, McElrath TF, Michels KB. The impact of first trimester phthalate and phenol exposure on IGF2/H19 genomic imprinting and birth outcomes. Environ Res 2014; 133:396-406. [PMID: 24972507 PMCID: PMC4155603 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [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: 01/14/2014] [Revised: 04/21/2014] [Accepted: 04/26/2014] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Genomic imprinting leads to parent-of-origin specific gene expression and is determined by epigenetic modification of genes. The paternally expressed gene insulin-like growth-factor 2 (IGF2) is located about ~100kb from the maternally expressed non-coding gene H19 on human chromosome 11, and both genes play major roles in embryonic and placental growth. Given adverse gestational environments can influence DNA methylation patterns in extra-embryonic tissues, we hypothesized that prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) alters H19 and IGF2 methylation in placenta. Our study was restricted to a total of 196 women co-enrolled in the Predictors of Preeclampsia Study and the Harvard Epigenetic Birth Cohort. First trimester urine concentrations of 8 phenols and 11 phthalate metabolites were measured and used to characterize EDC exposure profiles. We assessed methylation of differentially methylated regions (DMRs) by pyrosequencing of H19, IGF2DMR0, and IGF2DMR2 and correlated values with phenol and phthalate metabolites. We also assessed overall expression and allele-specific expression of H19 and IGF2. We found several significant associations between DNA methylation and additive biomarker measurements. A significant decrease in H19 methylation was associated with high levels of the sum (Σ) of phthalate metabolites and metabolites of low molecular weight (LMW) phthalates. Σphthalate and LMW phthalate concentrations were inversely associated with IGF2DMR0 methylation values. Variation in methylation was not associated with changes in allele-specific expression. However increased deviation of allele-specific expression of H19 was associated with Σdi(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate metabolites and high molecular weight phthalates. Neither methylation nor expression of these imprinted regions had a significant impact on birth length or birth weight. Overall, our study provides new insight into an epigenetic mechanism that occurs following EDC exposure.
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- Jessica LaRocca
- Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Non AL, Binder AM, Kubzansky LD, Michels KB. Genome-wide DNA methylation in neonates exposed to maternal depression, anxiety, or SSRI medication during pregnancy. Epigenetics 2014; 9:964-72. [PMID: 24751725 DOI: 10.4161/epi.28853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Despite the high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy, there is much uncertainty around the impact of high levels of distress or antidepressant medications on the developing fetus. These intrauterine exposures may lead to epigenetic alterations to the DNA during this vulnerable time of fetal development, which may have important lifetime health consequences. In this study we investigated patterns of genome-wide DNA methylation using the Illumina Infinium Human Methylation450 BeadChip in the umbilical cord blood of neonates exposed to non-medicated maternal depression or anxiety (n = 13), or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy (n = 22), relative to unexposed neonates (n = 23). We identified 42 CpG sites with significantly different DNA methylation levels in neonates exposed to non-medicated depression or anxiety relative to controls. CpG site methylation was not significantly different in neonates exposed to SSRIs relative to the controls, after adjusting for multiple comparisons. In neonates exposed either to non-medicated maternal depression or SSRIs, the vast majority of CpG sites displayed lower DNA methylation relative to the controls, but differences were very small. A gene ontology analysis suggests significant clustering of the top genes associated with non-medicated maternal depression/anxiety, related to regulation of transcription, translation, and cell division processes (e.g., negative regulation of translation in response to oxidative stress, regulation of mRNA export from the nucleus, regulation of stem cell division). While the functional consequences of these findings are yet to be determined, these small DNA methylation differences may suggest a possible role for epigenetic processes in the development of neonates exposed to non-medicated maternal depression/anxiety.
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- Amy L Non
- Department Social and Behavioral Sciences; Harvard School of Public Health; Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Epidemiology; Harvard School of Public Health; Boston, MA USA
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- Department Social and Behavioral Sciences; Harvard School of Public Health; Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Epidemiology; Harvard School of Public Health; Boston, MA USA; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center; Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA USA
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Introduction Bisulfite treatment of DNA introduces methylation-dependent sequence changes through selective chemical conversion of nonmethylated cytosine to uracil and serves as pretreatment step for the majority of DNA methylation analysis methods. Methods We have evaluated the conversion performance of five of the most commonly used bisulfite treatment kits [MethylDetector (Active Motif), Epitect+ (Qiagen), Zymo Methylation, Zymo Gold and Zymo Lightning (all from Zymo Research)] by pyrosequencing four different regions with variable methylation levels, including: a repetitive element (ALUSX), a gene with low levels of methylation (IL6ST), an imprinted gene expected to be approximately 50% methylated (IGF2), and a fully methylated gene (ST3GAL2). In addition, we have studied the influence of duration (3 vs. 16 h) and type (fixed temperature vs. cycling program) of incubation protocol on the conversion efficiency of each evaluated kit. Results All kits produced similar conversion rates of ALUSX, IGF2 and ST3GAL2, while the conversion of the low methylated IL6ST gene was variable between kits. The Zymo kits were highly consistent in their performance even when different protocols of incubation were applied, generating full conversion at the low methylated gene IL6; this was not true for the MethylDetector and Epitect+ kits. However, long-cycling incubation could produce similar conversion rates for the same locus in combination with Active Motif and Qiagen kits. Conclusions The selection of a long-cycling protocol during conversion permits standardization of protocols, improving the reproducibility of methylation estimates across laboratories for gene-specific, genome-wide and bisulfite-based sequencing analyses.
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- Benedetta Izzi
- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Freiburg Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany ; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA
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- Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, Mass., USA
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- Institute for Prevention and Cancer Epidemiology, Freiburg Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany ; Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA ; Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, Mass., USA
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Michels KB, Binder AM, Dedeurwaerder S, Epstein CB, Greally JM, Gut I, Houseman EA, Izzi B, Kelsey KT, Meissner A, Milosavljevic A, Siegmund KD, Bock C, Irizarry RA. Recommendations for the design and analysis of epigenome-wide association studies. Nat Methods 2013; 10:949-55. [PMID: 24076989 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 263] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 07/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) hold promise for the detection of new regulatory mechanisms that may be susceptible to modification by environmental and lifestyle factors affecting susceptibility to disease. Epigenome-wide screening methods cover an increasing number of CpG sites, but the complexity of the data poses a challenge to separating robust signals from noise. Appropriate study design, a detailed a priori analysis plan and validation of results are essential to minimize the danger of false positive results and contribute to a unified approach. Epigenome-wide mapping studies in homogenous cell populations will inform our understanding of normal variation in the methylome that is not associated with disease or aging. Here we review concepts for conducting a stringent and powerful EWAS, including the choice of analyzed tissue, sources of variability and systematic biases, outline analytical solutions to EWAS-specific problems and highlight caveats in interpretation of data generated from samples with cellular heterogeneity.
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- Karin B Michels
- 1] Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Binder AM, Michels KB. The causal effect of red blood cell folate on genome-wide methylation in cord blood: a Mendelian randomization approach. BMC Bioinformatics 2013; 14:353. [PMID: 24305512 PMCID: PMC3879006 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2012] [Accepted: 11/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background Investigation of the biological mechanism by which folate acts to affect fetal development can inform appraisal of expected benefits and risk management. This research is ethically imperative given the ubiquity of folic acid fortified products in the US. Considering that folate is an essential component in the one-carbon metabolism pathway that provides methyl groups for DNA methylation, epigenetic modifications provide a putative molecular mechanism mediating the effect of folic acid supplementation on neonatal and pediatric outcomes. Results In this study we use a Mendelian Randomization Unnecessary approach to assess the effect of red blood cell (RBC) folate on genome-wide DNA methylation in cord blood. Site-specific CpG methylation within the proximal promoter regions of approximately 14,500 genes was analyzed using the Illumina Infinium Human Methylation27 Bead Chip for 50 infants from the Epigenetic Birth Cohort at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Using methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genotype as the instrument, the Mendelian Randomization approach identified 7 CpG loci with a significant (mostly positive) association between RBC folate and methylation level. Among the genes in closest proximity to this significant subset of CpG loci, several enriched biologic processes were involved in nucleic acid transport and metabolic processing. Compared to the standard ordinary least squares regression method, our estimates were demonstrated to be more robust to unmeasured confounding. Conclusions To the authors’ knowledge, this is the largest genome-wide analysis of the effects of folate on methylation pattern, and the first to employ Mendelian Randomization to assess the effects of an exposure on epigenetic modifications. These results can help guide future analyses of the causal effects of periconceptional folate levels on candidate pathways.
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- Alexandra M Binder
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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Carmona JJ, Izzi B, Just AC, Barupal J, Binder AM, Hutchinson J, Hofmann O, Schwartz J, Baccarelli A, Michels KB. Comparison of multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (mRRBS) with the 450K Illumina Human BeadChip: from concordance to practical applications for methylomic profiling in epigenetic epidemiologic studies. Epigenetics Chromatin 2013. [PMCID: PMC3600781 DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-6-s1-p36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Non AL, Binder AM, Barault L, Rancourt RC, Kubzansky LD, Michels KB. DNA methylation of stress-related genes and LINE-1 repetitive elements across the healthy human placenta. Placenta 2012; 33:183-7. [PMID: 22222044 DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2011.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [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: 10/20/2011] [Revised: 12/12/2011] [Accepted: 12/16/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVES DNA methylation is known to play a critical role in regulating development of placental morphology and physiology. The methylation of genes mediated by glucocorticoid hormones may be particularly vulnerable to intrauterine stress in the placenta. However little is known about DNA methylation of stress-related genes within a healthy placenta, and particularly whether methylation occurs uniformly across different regions of the placenta, which is a critical question for researchers seeking to analyze methylation patterns. We examined DNA methylation across four regions of the placenta to evaluate methylation levels of stress-related genes within a healthy placenta, and to evaluate whether methylation patterns vary by sampling location. STUDY DESIGN We evaluated levels of DNA methylation of three stress-related genes: NR3C1, BDNF, and 11B-HSD2 and of the repetitive element, LINE-1, in four different sample locations of 20 healthy placentas. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Pyrosequencing was used to quantify levels of methylation at CpG sites within the promoter regions of each of the three stress-related genes, and global methylation of LINE-1. RESULTS Very low levels of methylation were found across all three stress-related genes; no gene showed a median methylation level greater than 4.20% across placental regions. Variation in methylation between placental regions for stress-related genes and for LINE-1 was minimal. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that these frequently studied stress-related genes have low levels of methylation in healthy placenta tissue. Minimal variation between sites suggests that sampling location does not affect DNA methylation analyses of these genes or of LINE-1 repetitive elements.
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- A L Non
- Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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