TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal stress, Preterm birth, And dna methylation at imprint regulatory sequences in humans
AU - Vidal, Adriana C.
AU - Neelon, Sara E.Benjamin
AU - Liu, Ying
AU - Tuli, Abbas M.
AU - Fuemmeler, Bernard F.
AU - Hoyo, Cathrine
AU - Murtha, Amy P.
AU - Huang, Zhiqing
AU - Schildkraut, Joellen
AU - Overcash, Francine
AU - Kurtzberg, Joanne
AU - Jirtle, Randy L.
AU - Iversen, Edwin S.
AU - Murphy, Susan K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In infants exposed to maternal stress in utero, phenotypic plasticity through epigenetic events may mechanistically explain increasedrisk of preterm birth (PTB), which confers increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, cardiovascular disease, and cancers in adulthood. Weexamined associations between prenatal maternal stress and PTB, evaluating the role of DNA methylation at imprint regulatory regions. We enrolledwomen from prenatal clinics in Durham, NC. Stress was measured in 537 women at 12 weeks of gestation using the Perceived Stress Scale. DNAmethylation at differentially methylated regions (DMRs) associated with H19, IGF2, MEG3, MEST, SGCE/PEG10, PEG3, NNAT, and PLAGL1 wasmeasured from peripheral and cord blood using bisulfite pyrosequencing in a sub-sample of 79 mother-infant pairs. We examined associations betweenPTB and stress and evaluated differences in DNA methylation at each DMR by stress. Maternal stress was not associated with PTB (OR = 0.98;95% CI, 0.40-2.40; P = 0.96), after adjustment for maternal body mass index (BMI), income, and raised blood pressure. However, elevated stresswas associated with higher infant DNA methylation at the MEST DMR (2.8% difference, P < 0.01) after adjusting for PTB. Maternal stress may beassociated with epigenetic changes at MEST, a gene relevant to maternal care and obesity. Reduced prenatal stress may support the epigenomic profileof a healthy infant.
AB - In infants exposed to maternal stress in utero, phenotypic plasticity through epigenetic events may mechanistically explain increasedrisk of preterm birth (PTB), which confers increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, cardiovascular disease, and cancers in adulthood. Weexamined associations between prenatal maternal stress and PTB, evaluating the role of DNA methylation at imprint regulatory regions. We enrolledwomen from prenatal clinics in Durham, NC. Stress was measured in 537 women at 12 weeks of gestation using the Perceived Stress Scale. DNAmethylation at differentially methylated regions (DMRs) associated with H19, IGF2, MEG3, MEST, SGCE/PEG10, PEG3, NNAT, and PLAGL1 wasmeasured from peripheral and cord blood using bisulfite pyrosequencing in a sub-sample of 79 mother-infant pairs. We examined associations betweenPTB and stress and evaluated differences in DNA methylation at each DMR by stress. Maternal stress was not associated with PTB (OR = 0.98;95% CI, 0.40-2.40; P = 0.96), after adjustment for maternal body mass index (BMI), income, and raised blood pressure. However, elevated stresswas associated with higher infant DNA methylation at the MEST DMR (2.8% difference, P < 0.01) after adjusting for PTB. Maternal stress may beassociated with epigenetic changes at MEST, a gene relevant to maternal care and obesity. Reduced prenatal stress may support the epigenomic profileof a healthy infant.
KW - Epigenetics
KW - Imprinting
KW - Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)
KW - Perceived stress
KW - Perinatal
KW - Pregnancy
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U2 - 10.4137/GEG.S18067
DO - 10.4137/GEG.S18067
M3 - Article
C2 - 25512713
AN - SCOPUS:84988376973
SN - 1179-237X
VL - 1
SP - 37
EP - 44
JO - Genetics and Epigenetics
JF - Genetics and Epigenetics
IS - 6
ER -