Sex differences in the intergenerational link between maternal and neonatal whole blood DNA methylation: a genome-wide analysis in 2 birth cohorts

Abstract Background The mother–child inheritance of DNA methylation (DNAm) variations could contribute to the inheritance of disease susceptibility across generations. However, no study has investigated patterns of mother–child associations in DNAm at the genome-wide scale. It remains unknown whethe...

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Main Authors: Jie Hu, Xin Xu, Jun Li, Yu Jiang, Xiumei Hong, Kathryn M. Rexrode, Guoying Wang, Frank B. Hu, Hongmei Zhang, Wilfried J. Karmaus, Xiaobin Wang, Liming Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-03-01
Series:Clinical Epigenetics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-023-01442-8