Association of maternal prenatal smoking GFI1-locus and cardio-metabolic phenotypes in 18,212 adults

• Main Authors: Chambers, John Campbell, Parmar, Priyanka, Lowry, Estelle, Cugliari, Giovanni, Suderman, Matthew, Wilson, Rory, Karhunen, Ville, Andrew, Toby, Wiklund, Petri, Wielscher, Matthias, Guarrera, Simonetta, Teumer, Alexander, Lehne, Benjamin, Milani, Lili, de Klein, Niek, Mishra, Pashupati P., Melton, Phillip E., Mandaviya, Pooja R., Kasela, Silva, Nano, Jana, Zhang, Weihua, Zhang, Yan, Mori, Trevor A., Bonnefond, Amelie, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Peters, Annette, Schöttker, Ben, Gieger, Christian, Anderson, Denise, Boomsma, Dorret I., Grabe, Hans J., Panico, Salvatore, Veldink, Jan H., van Meurs, Joyce B.J., van den Berg, Leonard, Heijmans, Bastiaan T., Muka, Taulant, Kooner, Jaspal S., Fischer, Krista, Waldenberger, Melanie, Beilin, Lawrence J., Franke, Lude, Loh, Marie, van Greevenbroek, Marleen M.J., Nauck, Matthias, Kähönen, Mika, Hurme, Mikko A., Raitakari, Olli T., Franco, Oscar H., Slagboom, P.Eline, van der Harst, Pim, Kunze, Sonja, Felix, Stephan B., Zhang, Tao, Chen, Wei, Froguel, Philippe, Huang, Rae-Chi, Lehtimäki, Terho, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Relton, Caroline L., Matullo, Giuseppe, Brenner, Hermann, Verweij, Niek, Li, Shengxu, Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Sebert, Sylvain
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83145; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49115
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: DNA methylation at the GFI1-locus has been repeatedly associated with exposure to smoking from the foetal period onwards. We explored whether DNA methylation may be a mechanism that links exposure to maternal prenatal smoking with offspring's adult cardio-metabolic health. Methods:...