Impact on birth weight of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy mediated by DNA methylation

Impact on birth weight of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy mediated by DNA methylation

Abstract Background Cigarette smoking has severe adverse health consequences in adults and in the offspring of mothers who smoke during pregnancy. One of the most widely reported effects of smoking during pregnancy is reduced birth weight which is in turn associated with chronic disease in adulthood...

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Main Authors: Stephanie H. Witt, Josef Frank, Maria Gilles, Maren Lang, Jens Treutlein, Fabian Streit, Isabell A. C. Wolf, Verena Peus, Barbara Scharnholz, Tabea S. Send, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Sugirthan Sivalingam, Helene Dukal, Jana Strohmaier, Marc Sütterlin, Janine Arloth, Manfred Laucht, Markus M. Nöthen, Michael Deuschle, Marcella Rietschel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
DNA methylation
Smoking
Birth weight
Mediation analysis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4652-7

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