Placental DNA Methylation Alterations Associated with Maternal Tobacco Smoking at the RUNX3 Gene Are Also Associated with Gestational Age

Overview

Journal Epigenomics

Specialty Genetics

Date 2013 Nov 29

PMID 24283877

Citations 53

Authors

Jennifer Z J Maccani

Devin C Koestler

Eugene Andres Houseman

Carmen J Marsit

Karl T Kelsey

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Abstract

Aims: The developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis states that later-life disease may be influenced by the quality of the in utero environment. Environmental toxicants can have detrimental effects on fetal development, potentially through effects on placental development and function. Maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight, preterm birth and other complications, and exposure to cigarette smoke in utero has been linked to gross pathologic and molecular changes to the placenta, including differential DNA methylation in placental tissue. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between maternal smoking during pregnancy, methylation changes in the placenta and gestational age.

Materials & Methods: We used Illumina(®)'s (CA, USA) Human Methylation27 BeadChip technology platform to investigate the methylation status of 21,551 autosomal, non-SNP-associated CpG loci in DNA extracted from 206 human placentas and examined loci whose variation in methylation was associated with maternal smoking during pregnancy.

Results: We found that methylation patterns of a number of loci within the RUNX3 gene were significantly associated with smoking during pregnancy, and one of these loci was associated with decreased gestational age (p = 0.04).

Conclusion: Our findings, demonstrating maternal smoking-induced changes in DNA methylation at specific loci, suggest a mechanism by which in utero tobacco smoke exposure could exert its detrimental effects upon the health of the fetus.

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