Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index and placental DNA methylation identifies 27 CpG sites with implications for mother-child health

  • Nora Fernandez-Jimenez,
  • Ruby Fore,
  • Ariadna Cilleros-Portet,
  • Johanna Lepeule,
  • Patrice Perron,
  • Tuomas Kvist,
  • Fu-Ying Tian,
  • Corina Lesseur,
  • Alexandra M. Binder,
  • Manuel Lozano,
  • Jordi Martorell-Marugán,
  • Yuk J. Loke,
  • Kelly M. Bakulski,
  • Yihui Zhu,
  • Anne Forhan,
  • Sara Sammallahti,
  • Todd M. Everson,
  • Jia Chen,
  • Karin B. Michels,
  • Thalia Belmonte,
  • Pedro Carmona-Sáez,
  • Jane Halliday,
  • M. Daniele Fallin,
  • Janine M. LaSalle,
  • Jorg Tost,
  • Darina Czamara,
  • Mariana F. Fernández,
  • Antonio Gómez-Martín,
  • Jeffrey M. Craig,
  • Beatriz Gonzalez-Alzaga,
  • Rebecca J. Schmidt,
  • John F. Dou,
  • Evelyne Muggli,
  • Marina Lacasaña,
  • Martine Vrijheid,
  • Carmen J. Marsit,
  • Margaret R. Karagas,
  • Katri Räikkönen,
  • Luigi Bouchard,
  • Barbara Heude,
  • Loreto Santa-Marina,
  • Mariona Bustamante,
  • Marie-France Hivert,
  • Jose Ramon Bilbao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04267-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index (ppBMI) and placental DNA methylation from 2631 mother-child pairs identifies 27 CpG sites associated with ppBMI, providing insight into how maternal obesity could be associated with metabolic health outcomes in offspring.