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- Title
Placental and Cord Blood Methylation of Genes Involved in Energy Homeostasis: Association With Fetal Growth and Neonatal Body Composition.
- Authors
Díaz, Marta; García, Cristina; Sebastiani, Giorgia; de Zegher, Francis; López-Bermejo, Abel; Ibáñez, Lourdes
- Abstract
Low weight at birth is associated with subsequent susceptibility to diabetes. Epigenetic modulation is among the mechanisms potentially mediating this association. We performed a genome-wide DNA methylation analysis in placentas from term infants born appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) or small-for-gestational-age (SGA) to identify new genes related to fetal growth and neonatal body composition. Candidate genes were validated by bisulfite pyrosequencing (30 AGA, 21 SGA) and also analyzed in cord blood. Gene expression analyses were performed by RT-PCR. Neonatal body composition was assessed by dual X-ray absorptiometry at age 2 weeks. The ATG2B, NKX6.1, and SLC13A5 genes (respectively related to autophagy, β-cell development and function, and lipid metabolism) were hypermethylated in placenta and cord blood from SGA newborns, whereas GPR120 (related to free fatty acid regulation) was hypomethylated in placenta and hypermethylated in cord blood. Gene expression levels were opposite to methylation status, and both correlated with birth weight, circulating IGF-I, and total and abdominal fat at age 2 weeks. In conclusion, alterations in methylation and expression of genes involved in the regulation of energy homeostasis were found to relate to fetal growth and neonatal body composition and thus may be among the early mechanisms modulating later susceptibility to diabetes.
- Subjects
LOW birth weight; PLACENTA; BLOOD; METHYLATION; FETAL development; HUMAN body composition; ADIPOSE tissues; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH size; BIRTH weight; BODY composition; BODY weight; CELL receptors; ENERGY metabolism; CORD blood; HOMEOSTASIS; MEMBRANE proteins; POLYMERASE chain reaction; DURATION of pregnancy; PROTEINS; STATURE; BONE density; CASE-control method; DNA methylation; GENE expression profiling; ION transport (Biology); ABDOMINAL adipose tissue; ANATOMY
- Publication
Diabetes, 2017, Vol 66, Issue 3, p779
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2337/db16-0776