TY - JOUR
T1 - Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure is associated with childhood DNA CpG methylation
AU - Breton, Carrie V.
AU - Siegmund, Kimberly D.
AU - Joubert, Bonnie R.
AU - Wang, Xinhui
AU - Qui, Weiliang
AU - Carey, Vincent
AU - Nystad, Wenche
AU - Håberg, Siri E.
AU - Ober, Carole
AU - Nicolae, Dan
AU - Barnes, Kathleen C.
AU - Martinez, Fernando
AU - Liu, Andy
AU - Lemanske, Robert
AU - Strunk, Robert
AU - Weiss, Scott
AU - London, Stephanie
AU - Gilliland, Frank
AU - Raby, Benjamin
PY - 2014/6/25
Y1 - 2014/6/25
N2 - Background: Smoking while pregnant is associated with a myriad of negative health outcomes in the child. Some of the detrimental effects may be due to epigenetic modifications, although few studies have investigated this hypothesis in detail. Objectives: To characterize site-specific epigenetic modifications conferred by prenatal smoking exposure within asthmatic children. Methods: Using Illumina HumanMethylation27 microarrays, we estimated the degree of methylation at 27,578 distinct DNA sequences located primarily in gene promoters using whole blood DNA samples from the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) subset of Asthma BRIDGE childhood asthmatics (n = 527) ages 5-12 with prenatal smoking exposure data available. Using beta-regression, we screened loci for differential methylation related to prenatal smoke exposure, adjusting for gender, age and clinical site, and accounting for multiple comparisons by FDR. Results: Of 27,578 loci evaluated, 22,131 (80%) passed quality control assessment and were analyzed. Sixty-five children (12%) had a history of prenatal smoke exposure. At an FDR of 0.05, we identified 19 CpG loci significantly associated with prenatal smoke, of which two replicated in two independent populations. Exposure was associated with a 2% increase in mean CpG methylation in FRMD4A (p = 0.01) and Cllorf52 (p = 0.001) compared to no exposure. Four additional genes, XPNPEP1, PPEF2, SMPD3 and CRYGN, were nominally associated in at least one replication group. Conclusions: These data suggest that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke is associated with reproducible epigenetic changes that persist well into childhood. However, the biological significance of these altered loci remains unknown.
AB - Background: Smoking while pregnant is associated with a myriad of negative health outcomes in the child. Some of the detrimental effects may be due to epigenetic modifications, although few studies have investigated this hypothesis in detail. Objectives: To characterize site-specific epigenetic modifications conferred by prenatal smoking exposure within asthmatic children. Methods: Using Illumina HumanMethylation27 microarrays, we estimated the degree of methylation at 27,578 distinct DNA sequences located primarily in gene promoters using whole blood DNA samples from the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) subset of Asthma BRIDGE childhood asthmatics (n = 527) ages 5-12 with prenatal smoking exposure data available. Using beta-regression, we screened loci for differential methylation related to prenatal smoke exposure, adjusting for gender, age and clinical site, and accounting for multiple comparisons by FDR. Results: Of 27,578 loci evaluated, 22,131 (80%) passed quality control assessment and were analyzed. Sixty-five children (12%) had a history of prenatal smoke exposure. At an FDR of 0.05, we identified 19 CpG loci significantly associated with prenatal smoke, of which two replicated in two independent populations. Exposure was associated with a 2% increase in mean CpG methylation in FRMD4A (p = 0.01) and Cllorf52 (p = 0.001) compared to no exposure. Four additional genes, XPNPEP1, PPEF2, SMPD3 and CRYGN, were nominally associated in at least one replication group. Conclusions: These data suggest that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke is associated with reproducible epigenetic changes that persist well into childhood. However, the biological significance of these altered loci remains unknown.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0099716
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0099716
M3 - Article
C2 - 24964093
AN - SCOPUS:84903535514
VL - 9
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 6
M1 - e99716
ER -