ArticleScientific reports2015
Telomere length in the two extremes of abnormal fetal growth and the programming effect of maternal arterial hypertension.
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- Factors influencing the birth weight of ART-conceived offspring.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2025Review
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- Preterm Birth and Its Association with Maternal Diet, and Placental and Neonatal Telomere Length.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Variability in newborn telomere length is explained by inheritance and intrauterine environment.BMC medicine · 2022Observational
- Prenatal exposure to maternal psychological distress and telomere length in childhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Telomere length in healthy newborns is not affected by adverse intrauterine environments.Genetics and molecular biology · 2021Article
- Leukocyte telomere length is associated with elevated plasma glucose and HbA1c in young healthy men independent of birth weight.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Higher maternal vitamin D concentrations are associated with longer leukocyte telomeres in newborns.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018Article
- Implication of Oxidative Stress in Fetal Programming of Cardiovascular Disease.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- Correlation of cord blood telomere length with birth weight.BMC research notes · 2017Article
- Early life adiposity and telomere length across the life course: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Wellcome open research · 2017Article
- Preterm infants have significantly longer telomeres than their term born counterparts.PloS one · 2017Observational
- Association of peripheral leukocyte telomere length and its variation with pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer risk in Chinese population.Oncotarget · 2016Article
- Cord blood telomere length in Latino infants: relation with maternal education and infant sex.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2016Article
- Influence of In Utero Maternal and Neonate Factors on Cord Blood Leukocyte Telomere Length: Clues to the Racial Disparity in Prostate Cancer?Prostate cancer · 2016Article
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Abstract
We tested the hypothesis that leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with birth weight in both extremes of abnormal fetal growth: small (SGA) and large for gestational age newborns (LGA). Clinical and laboratory variables of the mothers and the neonates were explored; 45 newborns with appropriate weight for gestational age (AGA), 12 SGA and 12 LGA were included. Whether the differences might be explained by variation in OBFC1 (rs9419958) and CTC1 (rs3027234) genes associated with LTL was determined. A significant association between birth weight and LTL was observed; LTL was significantly shorter in LGA newborns (1.01 ± 0.12) compared with SGA (1.73 ± 0.19) p < 0.005, mean ± SE. Maternal (Spearman R = -0.6, p = 0.03) and neonatal LTL (R = -0.25, p = 0.03) were significantly and inversely correlated with maternal history of arterial hypertension in previous gestations. Neonatal LTL was not significantly associated with either rs9419950 or rs3027234, suggesting that the association between neonatal LTL and birth weight is not influenced by genetic variation in genes that modify the interindividual LTL. In conclusion, telomere biology seems to be modulated by abnormal fetal growth; modifications in telomere length might be programmed by an adverse environment in utero.
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