ArticleMolecular nutrition & food research2018
Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Dietary Fiber Intake in African American Adolescents.
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- Epigenome-wide association study of diet quality in the Women's Health Initiative and TwinsUK cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- The RASA2/RASA3 ortholog RasGAP1 modulates obesity-linked phenotypes and is associated with leptin-analog signaling inFrontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- The Epigenetic Role of Nutrition Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Diet Quality and Epigenetic Aging in the Women's Health Initiative.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2024Article
- Essential Nutrients, Added Sugar Intake, and Epigenetic Age in Midlife Black and White Women: NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Epigenetic signatures underlying inflammation: an interplay of nutrition, physical activity, metabolic diseases, and environmental factors for personalized nutrition.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2021Review
- Dietary natural products as epigenetic modifiers in aging-associated inflammation and disease.Natural product reports · 2020Review
- Higher chocolate intake is associated with longer telomere length among adolescents.Pediatric research · 2020Article
- Race, Gender, Family Structure, Socioeconomic Status, Dietary Patterns, and Cardiovascular Health in Adolescents.Current developments in nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
scopeLow fiber intake is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer. However, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Two hypotheses are tested: 1) dietary fiber would be associated with DNA methylation levels; 2) those DNA methylation changes would be associated with visceral adiposity and inflammation. Also the possibility that the associations between fiber and DNA methylation levels might be confounded with folic acid intake as sensitivity analysis are explored. METHODS AND
resultsAn epigenome-wide association study is conducted using Illumina 450K Bead-Chip on leukocyte DNA in 284 African American adolescents. Linear regression is performed to identify differentially methylated CpG sites associated with fiber. The methylation levels of 3 CpG sites (cg15200711, cg19462022, and cg07035602) in LPCAT1 and RASA3 genes are associated with fiber (false discovery rate [FDR] < 0.05) after adjustment for covariates including folic acid. The methylation levels of cg07035602 and cg19462022 are also associated with visceral adiposity and inflammation.
conclusionsThe data show that DNA methylation levels at LPCAT1 and RASA3 genes are associated with dietary fiber intake as well as with adiposity and inflammation. Future studies are warranted to determine whether epigenetic regulation may underlie the beneficial effects of fiber intake on adiposity and inflammation.
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