Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Genome-wide approach identifies a novel gene-maternal pre-pregnancy BMI interaction on preterm birth

  • Xiumei Hong,
  • Ke Hao,
  • Hongkai Ji,
  • Shouneng Peng,
  • Ben Sherwood,
  • Antonio Di Narzo,
  • Hui-Ju Tsai,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Irina Burd,
  • Guoying Wang,
  • Yuelong Ji,
  • Deanna Caruso,
  • Guangyun Mao,
  • Tami R. Bartell,
  • Zhongyang Zhang,
  • Colleen Pearson,
  • Linda Heffner,
  • Sandra Cerda,
  • Terri H. Beaty,
  • M. Daniele Fallin,
  • Aviva Lee-Parritz,
  • Barry Zuckerman,
  • Daniel E. Weeks,
  • Xiaobin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15608
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Preterm birth (PTB) has high prevalence and PTB infants have greater risk for mortality. Here, Hong and colleagues perform a genome-wide gene × environment interaction analysis and find that maternalCOL24A1variants have a significant interaction with maternal pre-pregnancy obesity in increasing PTB risk.