Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Integrated analysis of environmental and genetic influences on cord blood DNA methylation in new-borns

  • Darina Czamara,
  • Gökçen Eraslan,
  • Christian M. Page,
  • Jari Lahti,
  • Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen,
  • Esa Hämäläinen,
  • Eero Kajantie,
  • Hannele Laivuori,
  • Pia M. Villa,
  • Rebecca M. Reynolds,
  • Wenche Nystad,
  • Siri E. Håberg,
  • Stephanie J. London,
  • Kieran J. O’Donnell,
  • Elika Garg,
  • Michael J. Meaney,
  • Sonja Entringer,
  • Pathik D. Wadhwa,
  • Claudia Buss,
  • Meaghan J. Jones,
  • David T. S. Lin,
  • Julie L. MacIsaac,
  • Michael S. Kobor,
  • Nastassja Koen,
  • Heather J. Zar,
  • Karestan C. Koenen,
  • Shareefa Dalvie,
  • Dan J. Stein,
  • Ivan Kondofersky,
  • Nikola S. Müller,
  • Fabian J. Theis,
  • Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium,
  • Katri Räikkönen,
  • Elisabeth B. Binder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10461-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Environmental influences during prenatal development may have implications for health and disease later in life. Here, Czamara et al. assess DNA methylation in cord blood from new-born under various models including environmental and genetic effects individually and their additive or interaction effects.