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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Placental Epigenome-Wide Association Study Identified Loci Associated with Childhood Adiposity at 3 Years of Age.

Valérie Gagné-Ouellet, Edith Breton, Kathrine Thibeault, Carol-Ann Fortin, Véronique Desgagné, Élise Girard Tremblay, Andres Cardenas, Renée Guérin, Patrice Perron, Marie-France Hivert and 1 more

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Epigenetic Mechanisms in Childhood Obesity.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025
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  2. Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026
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  6. Maternal Nutrition, Toxicants, and Epigenetic Programming of Obesity Across Generations.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025
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  9. Recent progress in epigenetics of obesity.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Valérie Gagné-OuelletDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Edith BretonDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Kathrine ThibeaultDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Carol-Ann FortinDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Véronique DesgagnéDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Élise Girard TremblayDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Andres CardenasDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2284-3298
Renée GuérinDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Patrice PerronDepartment of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Marie-France HivertDepartment of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Luigi BouchardDepartment of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Université de Sherbrooke · CAUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

American Diabetes Association 1-15-ACE-26CIHR MOP 115071Diabète Québec NAFonds de recherche du Québec en santé 20697
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify placental DNA methylation (DNAm) variations associated with adiposity at 3 years of age. We quantified placental DNAm using the Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChips. We assessed associations between DNAm at single-CpGs and skinfold thickness using robust linear regression models adjusted for gestational age, child's sex, age at follow-up and cellular heterogeneity. We sought replication of DNAm association with child adiposity in an independent cohort. We quantified placental mRNA levels for annotated gene using qRT-PCR and tested for correlation with DNAm. Lower DNAm at cg22593959 and cg22436429 was associated with higher adiposity (

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseAdiposityAdultChild, PreschoolDNA MethylationEpigenomeFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMalePediatric ObesityPlacentaPregnancySkinfold ThicknessDNA methylationEPIC arrayepigeneticsfetal programmingskinfolds thicknesstranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID33003475
PMCPMC7582906
OpenAlexW3090513913

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