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Pre-adolescence DNA methylation is associated with BMI status change from pre- to post-adolescence.
Clinical epigenetics - 25 Mar 2021
Wang Jiajing, Zhang Hongmei, Rezwan Faisal I, Relton Caroline, Arshad S Hasan, Holloway John W
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BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that DNA methylation (DNAm) is associated with body mass index (BMI). However, it is unknown whether DNAm at pre-adolescence is associated with BMI status transition from pre- to post-adolescence. In the Isle of Wight (IoW) birth cohort, genome-wide DNA methylation in whole blood was measured using Illumina Infinium Human450 and EPIC BeadChip arrays in n = 325 subjects, and...
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