Maternal smoking during pregnancy and cord blood DNA methylation: new insight on sex differences and effect modification by maternal folate levels

Maternal smoking during pregnancy may affect newborn DNA methylation (DNAm). However, little is known about how these associations vary by a newborn’s sex and/or maternal nutrition. To fill in this research gap, we investigated epigenome-wide DNAm associations with maternal smoking during pregnancy...

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Main Authors: Boyang Zhang, Xiumei Hong, Hongkai Ji, Wan-yee Tang, Mary Kimmel, Yuelong Ji, Colleen Pearson, Barry Zuckerman, Pamela J. Surkan, Xiaobin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-05-01
Series:Epigenetics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2018.1475978