Cohort profile: Epigenetics in Pregnancy (EPIPREG) - population-based sample of European and South Asian pregnant women with epigenome-wide DNA methylation (850k) in peripheral blood leukocytes.

Pregnancy is a valuable model to study the association between DNA methylation and several cardiometabolic traits, due to its direct potential to influence mother's and child's health. Epigenetics in Pregnancy (EPIPREG) is a population-based sample with the aim to study associations betwee...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Fragoso-Bargas, Julia O Opsahl, Nadezhda Kiryushchenko, Yvonne Böttcher, Sindre Lee-Ødegård, Elisabeth Qvigstad, Kåre Rønn Richardsen, Christin W Waage, Line Sletner, Anne Karen Jenum, Rashmi B Prasad, Leif C Groop, Gunn-Helen Moen, Kåre I Birkeland, Christine Sommer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256158