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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
卷 161, 期 1, 页码 31-39出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.01.015
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- National Institutes of Health [ES016772, R21ES014947, K01CA104517, R01DK085173, R01 ES015165]
Objective To determine whether aberrant DNA methylation at differentially methylated regions (DMRs) regulating insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) expression in umbilical cord blood is associated with overweight or obesity in a multiethnic cohort. Study design Umbilical cord blood leukocytes of 204 infants born between 2005 and 2009 in Durham, North Carolina, were analyzed for DNA methylation at two IGF2 DMRs by using pyrosequencing. Anthropometric and feeding data were collected at age 1 year. Methylation differences were compared between children >85th percentile of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weight-for-age (WFA) and children <= 85th percentile of WFA at 1 year by using generalized linear models, adjusting for post-natal caloric intake, maternal cigarette smoking, and race/ethnicity. Results The methylation percentages at the H19 imprint center DMR was higher in infants with WFA > 85th percentile (62.7%; 95% CI, 59.9%-65.5%) than in infants with WFA <= 85th percentile (59.3%; 95% CI, 58.2%-60.3%; P = .02). At the intragenic IGF2 DMR, methylation levels were comparable between infants with WFA <= 85th percentile and infants with WFA > 85th percentile. Conclusions Our findings suggest that IGF2 plasticity may be mechanistically important in early childhood overweight or obese status. If confirmed in larger studies, these findings suggest aberrant DNA methylation at sequences regulating imprinted genes may be useful identifiers of children at risk for the development of early obesity. (J Pediatr 2012;square:square-square).
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