[HTML][HTML] Using methylome data to inform exposome-health association studies: An application to the identification of environmental drivers of child body mass index

S Cadiou, M Bustamante, L Agier, S Andrusaityte… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The exposome is defined as encompassing all environmental exposures one
undergoes from conception onwards. Challenges of the application of this concept to …

Epigenetics and the exposome: DNA methylation as a proxy for health impacts of prenatal environmental exposures

ML Colwell, C Townsel, RL Petroff, JM Goodrich… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The accumulation of everyday exposures can impact health across the life course, but our
understanding of such exposures is impeded by our ability to delineate the relationship …

DNA methylation signatures as biomarkers of prior environmental exposures

C Ladd-Acosta, MD Fallin - Current epidemiology reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review demonstrates the growing body of evidence
connecting DNA methylation to prior exposure. It highlights the potential to use DNA …

450K epigenome-wide scan identifies differential DNA methylation in newborns related to maternal smoking during pregnancy

BR Joubert, SE Håberg, RM Nilsen… - Environmental …, 2012 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, due to in utero exposures
may play a critical role in early programming for childhood and adult illness. Maternal …

Linking prenatal environmental exposures to lifetime health with epigenome-wide association studies: state-of-the-science review and future recommendations

KM Bakulski, F Blostein, SJ London - Environmental Health …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The prenatal environment influences lifetime health; epigenetic mechanisms
likely predominate. In 2016, the first international consortium paper on cigarette smoking …

DNA methylation–based biomarkers of environmental exposures for human population studies

JC Nwanaji-Enwerem, E Colicino - Current environmental health reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This manuscript orients the reader to the underlying motivations
of environmental biomarker development for human population studies and provides the …

Early-life environmental exposures and childhood obesity: an exposome-wide approach

M Vrijheid, S Fossati, L Maitre, S Márquez… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Chemical and nonchemical environmental exposures are increasingly
suspected to influence the development of obesity, especially during early life, but studies …

Cohort profile: pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium

JF Felix, BR Joubert, AA Baccarelli… - International journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetics refers to mitotically heritable changes to the DNA, which do not affect the DNA
sequence, but can influence its function. Currently, DNA methylation is the most studied …

Small-magnitude effect sizes in epigenetic end points are important in children's environmental health studies: the children's environmental health and disease …

CV Breton, CJ Marsit, E Faustman… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Characterization of the epigenome is a primary interest for children's
environmental health researchers studying the environmental influences on human …

Machine learning-based DNA methylation score for fetal exposure to maternal smoking: development and validation in samples collected from adolescents and adults

S Rauschert, PE Melton, A Heiskala… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Fetal exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with the
development of noncommunicable diseases in the offspring. Maternal smoking may induce …