Associations with early-life socio-economic position in adult DNA methylation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disadvantaged socio-economic position (SEP) in childhood is associated with increased adult mortality and morbidity. We aimed to establish whether childhood SEP was associated with differential methylation of adult DNA.

Methods

Forty adult males from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study were selected from SEP extremes in both early childhood and mid-adulthood. We performed genome-wide methylation analysis on blood DNA taken at 45 years using MeDIP (methylated DNA immunoprecipitation). We mapped in triplicate the methylation state of promoters of approximately 20,000 genes and 400 microRNAs. Probe methylation scores were averaged across triplicates and differential methylation between groups of individuals was determined. Differentially methylated promoter sites of

SUBMITTER: Borghol N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3304522 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature