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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Lene Christiansen Qihua Tan Morten Frost
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-61496 | ArrayExpress | 2015-01-02
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): GSE61496PRJNA261326
REPOSITORIES: GEO, ArrayExpress
Tan Qihua Q Frost Morten M Heijmans Bastiaan T BT von Bornemann Hjelmborg Jacob J Tobi Elmar W EW Christensen Kaare K Christiansen Lene L
BMC genomics 20141204
BACKGROUND: A low birth weight has been extensively related to poor adult health outcomes. Birth weight can be seen as a proxy for environmental conditions during prenatal development. Identical twin pairs discordant for birth weight provide an extraordinary model for investigating the association between birth weight and adult life health while controlling for not only genetics but also postnatal rearing environment. We performed an epigenome-wide profiling on blood samples from 150 pairs of ad ...[more]