DNA methylation links prenatal smoking exposure to later life health outcomes in offspring.

Petri WiklundVille KarhunenRebecca C RichmondPriyanka ParmarAlina RodriguezManeka De SilvaMatthias WielscherFaisal I RezwanTom G RichardsonJuha VeijolaKarl-Heinz HerzigJohn W HollowayCaroline L ReltonSylvain SebertMarjo-Riitta Jarvelin

Published in: Clinical epigenetics (2019)

DNA methylation may represent a biological mechanism through which maternal smoking is associated with increased risk of psychiatric morbidity in the exposed offspring.

Keyphrases

dna methylation
high fat diet
smoking cessation
genome wide
gene expression
pregnant women
mental health
birth weight
pregnancy outcomes
copy number
adipose tissue
type diabetes
metabolic syndrome
insulin resistance
physical activity
skeletal muscle
preterm birth