Nature Communications (May 2021)

Epigenome-wide association meta-analysis of DNA methylation with coffee and tea consumption

  • Irma Karabegović,
  • Eliana Portilla-Fernandez,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jiantao Ma,
  • Silvana C. E. Maas,
  • Daokun Sun,
  • Emily A. Hu,
  • Brigitte Kühnel,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Srikant Ambatipudi,
  • Giovanni Fiorito,
  • Jian Huang,
  • Juan E. Castillo-Fernandez,
  • Kerri L. Wiggins,
  • Niek de Klein,
  • Sara Grioni,
  • Brenton R. Swenson,
  • Silvia Polidoro,
  • Jorien L. Treur,
  • Cyrille Cuenin,
  • Pei-Chien Tsai,
  • Ricardo Costeira,
  • Veronique Chajes,
  • Kim Braun,
  • Niek Verweij,
  • Anja Kretschmer,
  • Lude Franke,
  • Joyce B. J. van Meurs,
  • André G. Uitterlinden,
  • Robert J. de Knegt,
  • M. Arfan Ikram,
  • Abbas Dehghan,
  • Annette Peters,
  • Ben Schöttker,
  • Sina A. Gharib,
  • Nona Sotoodehnia,
  • Jordana T. Bell,
  • Paul Elliott,
  • Paolo Vineis,
  • Caroline Relton,
  • Zdenko Herceg,
  • Hermann Brenner,
  • Melanie Waldenberger,
  • Casey M. Rebholz,
  • Trudy Voortman,
  • Qiuwei Pan,
  • Myriam Fornage,
  • Daniel Levy,
  • Manfred Kayser,
  • Mohsen Ghanbari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22752-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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While coffee and tea consumption has been associated with risk of diseases, their mechanisms of action remain elusive. Here the authors present a large EWAS on coffee and tea consumption in cohorts of European and African-American ancestries, finding that coffee consumption is associated with differential DNA methylation levels at multiple CpGs.