[HTML][HTML] Impact of BMI and waist circumference on epigenome-wide DNA methylation and identification of epigenetic biomarkers in blood: an EWAS in multi-ethnic …

Y Chen, I Kassam, SH Lau, JS Kooner, R Wilson… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) on general adiposity (body mass index, BMI)
and abdominal adiposity (waist … and suggests that obesity can drive methylation change. The …

An epigenome-wide association study of obesity-related traits

K Dhana, KVE Braun, J Nano… - American journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… and body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), … change in DNA methylation
could also be a consequence of … replicated the findings in African Americans. Epidemiologists …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenome-wide association study in whole blood of measures of adiposity among Ghanaians: the RODAM study

KAC Meeks, P Henneman, A Venema, T Burr… - Clinical …, 2017 - Springer
… as indicated by waist circumference (WC), among … Other studies have shown that DNA
methylation changes induced … the first EWAS on adiposity among sub-Saharan Africans. Notably, …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenome-wide association study of plasma lipids in West Africans: the RODAM study

EL van der Linden, KAC Meeks, F Chilunga… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
… ) in West-Africans are lacking. The aim of this study was to identify DNA-methylation loci …
To ensure normal distribution of the lipid traits, rank-based inverse normal transformation was

[HTML][HTML] … epigenome-wide study of obesity in African American youth and young adults: novel findings, replication in neutrophils, and relationship with gene expression

X Wang, Y Pan, H Zhu, G Hao, Y Huang, V Barnes… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
… an epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) on obesity in … of cell type composition and
obesity-related cardio-metabolic … discover more obesity-related epigenome-wide changes and …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of BMI in nine cohorts: Examining the utility of epigenetically predicted BMI

WL Do, D Sun, K Meeks, PA Dugué, E Demerath… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
… six trans-ethnic epigenome-wide association studies (EWASs) of BMI … differed between
individuals of European and African … mediated changes in gene function which do not change the …

… of glucometabolic traits, adipose tissue DNA methylation, and gene expression identifies epigenetic regulatory mechanisms of insulin resistance and obesity in African …

NK Sharma, ME Comeau, D Montoya, M Pellegrini… - Diabetes, 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
… further completed epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) to test for the association of
… omics paradigm to trace molecular changes through layers of biological information, and it …

Epigenomewide association study of BMI in Black populations from InterGEN and GENOA

JY Taylor, Y Huang, W Zhao, ML Wright, Z Wang… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… ) among Black/African American (AA) populations, who are … this study was unable to
determine whether the DNAm changes associated with BMI are causal or a consequence of BMI. …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenome-wide association study of metabolic syndrome in African-American adults

T Akinyemiju, AN Do, A Patki, S Aslibekyan, D Zhi… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
waist circumference were obtained by trained health professionals during in-home visits at
… randomization study in Caucasian populations reported that lipids change methylation at …

[HTML][HTML] Replication and expansion of epigenome-wide association literature in a black South African population

HT Cronjé, HR Elliott, C Nienaber-Rousseau… - Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
… previously published epigenome-wide association studies of … , smoking, body mass index,
waist circumference, C-reactive … amounting to 0.87% methylation change per year increase in …