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Characteristics of epigenetic aging across gestational and perinatal tissues |
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| Author: | Dieckmann, Linda1,2; Lahti-Pulkkinen, Marius3,4,5; Kvist, Tuomas3; |
| Organizations: |
1Department of Translational Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, München, Germany 2International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry, München, Germany 3Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
4National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
5Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 6Section of Informatics and Data Science, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA 7Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Human Genetics, Helsinki, Finland 8Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland 9Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University Hospital and Tampere University, Tampere, Finland 10Children’s Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 11Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 12Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland 13Hyvinkää Hospital, Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, Hyvinkää, Finland 14Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland 15Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Human Potential Translational Research Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 16Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore 17Faculty of Medicine, PEDEGO Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 18Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 19Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 4.2 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021060233045 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springer Nature,
2021
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| Publish Date: | 2021-06-02 |
| Description: |
AbstractBackground: Epigenetic clocks have been used to indicate differences in biological states between individuals of same chronological age. However, so far, only few studies have examined epigenetic aging in newborns—especially regarding different gestational or perinatal tissues. In this study, we investigated which birth- and pregnancy-related variables are most important in predicting gestational epigenetic age acceleration or deceleration (i.e., the deviation between gestational epigenetic age estimated from the DNA methylome and chronological gestational age) in chorionic villus, placenta and cord blood tissues from two independent study cohorts (ITU, n = 639 and PREDO, n = 966). We further characterized the correspondence of epigenetic age deviations between these tissues. Results: Among the most predictive factors of epigenetic age deviations in single tissues were child sex, birth length, maternal smoking during pregnancy, maternal mental disorders until childbirth, delivery mode and parity. However, the specific factors related to epigenetic age deviation and the direction of association differed across tissues. In individuals with samples available from more than one tissue, relative epigenetic age deviations were not correlated across tissues. Conclusion: Gestational epigenetic age acceleration or deceleration was not related to more favorable or unfavorable factors in one direction in the investigated tissues, and the relative epigenetic age differed between tissues of the same person. This indicates that epigenetic age deviations associate with distinct, tissue specific, factors during the gestational and perinatal period. Our findings suggest that the epigenetic age of the newborn should be seen as a characteristic of a specific tissue, and less as a general characteristic of the child itself see all
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| Series: |
Clinical epigenetics |
| ISSN: | 1868-7075 |
| ISSN-E: | 1868-7083 |
| ISSN-L: | 1868-7075 |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Article number: | 97 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13148-021-01080-y |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1186/s13148-021-01080-y |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics |
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| Funding: |
Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The ITU and the PREDO studies are funded by Academy of Finland (Award Numbers: 284859, 312670, 1324596). The funder had no role in the design of the ITU study, or conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data, preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. ML-P receives funding from the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki Funds. |
| Copyright information: |
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