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Paternal obesity is associated with IGF2 hypomethylation in newborns: results from a Newborn Epigenetics Study (NEST) cohort

  • Randy Jirtle
    ,
  • Adelheid Soubry
    ,
  • Joellen M. Schildkraut
    ,
  • Amy Murtha
    ,
  • Frances Wang
    ,
  • Zhiqing Huang
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Abstract

Data from epidemiological and animal model studies suggest that nutrition during pregnancy may affect the health status of subsequent generations. These transgenerational effects are now being explained by disruptions at the level of the epigenetic machinery. Besides in vitro environmental exposures, the possible impact on the reprogramming of methylation profiles at imprinted genes at a much earlier time point, such as during spermatogenesis or oogenesis, has not previously been considered. In this study, our aim was to determine associations between preconceptional obesity and DNA methylation profiles in the offspring, particularly at the differentially methylated regions (DMRs) of the imprinted Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 (IGF2) gene.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Article number

29

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

BMC Medicine (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 06/02/2013

Publication status

Published - 06/02/2013

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/296166
  • Scopus: 84873253940

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