Project description:Study of influence of gender and Lead(Pb) exposure on DNA methylation for whole blood measured in dried blood spots for a Detroit cohort of child between the age of 3 months to 5years
Project description:Study of influence of gender and Lead(Pb) exposure on DNA methylation for whole blood measured in dried blood spots for a Detroit cohort of child between the age of 3 months to 5years DNA methylation profiling of dried blood spots for a Detroit cohort of child between the ages of 3 months to 5 years Differential methylation study
Project description:We report that the DNA methylation profile of a child’s neonatal whole blood can be significantly influenced by his or her mother’s neonatal blood lead levels (BLL). We recruited 35 mother-infant pairs in Detroit and measured the whole blood lead (Pb) levels and DNA methylation levels at over 450,000 loci from current blood and neonatal blood from both the mother and the child. We found that mothers with high neonatal BLL correlate with altered DNA methylation at 564 loci in their children’s neonatal blood. Our results suggest that Pb exposure during pregnancy affects the DNA methylation status of the fetal germ cells, which leads to altered DNA methylation in grandchildren’s neonatal dried blood spots. This is the first demonstration that an environmental exposure in pregnant mothers can have an epigenetic effect on the DNA methylation pattern in the grandchildren. For the study, we selected 35 dried blood spots (DBS) collected from mother-infant pairs from Health Fairs ran in three Detroit communities, because they have a high prevalence (8-11%) of high BLL in children. The sample set consisted of 25 male children and 18 female children. We also collected the neonatal DBS and mother neonatal DBS for these mother-infant pairs from the Michigan Neonatal Biobank. Then we measured a blood lead levels in dried blood spots using using atomic absorbtion spectrophotometry. Finally we measured the DNA methylation levels using human methylation 450K array from Illumina. Then we normalized the data for technical biases and tried to infer the the locus specific DNA methylation changes due to Pb exposure which was carried over from the grandmothers to the grandchildren by the Pb –exposed fetal germ cells of the mother using statistical model proposed by Sofer et al, 2012.
Project description:Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of DNA extracted from dried blood spots from preterm and term subjects using longitudinal samples collected at birth and 18 years of age. Infinium HM450 arrays were used to measure methylation at 347,789 autosomal CpGs. DNA was analysed from individuals at birth and 18-years and included 12 preterm and 12 term controls.
Project description:We report that the DNA methylation profile of a child’s neonatal whole blood can be significantly influenced by his or her mother’s neonatal blood lead levels (BLL). We recruited 35 mother-infant pairs in Detroit and measured the whole blood lead (Pb) levels and DNA methylation levels at over 450,000 loci from current blood and neonatal blood from both the mother and the child. We found that mothers with high neonatal BLL correlate with altered DNA methylation at 564 loci in their children’s neonatal blood. Our results suggest that Pb exposure during pregnancy affects the DNA methylation status of the fetal germ cells, which leads to altered DNA methylation in grandchildren’s neonatal dried blood spots. This is the first demonstration that an environmental exposure in pregnant mothers can have an epigenetic effect on the DNA methylation pattern in the grandchildren.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of human samples from dried neonatal blood spots taken at birth from a cohort of pregnant people and their infants in Michigan. The Illumina MethylationEPIC Beadchip array was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across over 850,000 CpGs in dried neonatal blood spot samples. Samples were collected from 166 infants at birth.
Project description:A dataset containing dried blood spots from human blood used as quality control samples to monitor variation, used as technical replicates (TR), digestion replicates (DR) and HeLa samples. Dried blood spots are blood from a finger prick spotted onto Whatman cards and dried. An aliquot of pooled, mixed-gender blood sample (Golden West Biosolutions, LLC., Human Whole Blood Lot# PS1000.104) were spotted on the same Whatman cards and used as DRs. 6 DRs were added to each digestion plate to be digested with the cohort data. During LC-MS acquisition, the 6 DRs are run at the beginning of each batch. In addition, the pooled, mixed-gender blood samples were bulk digested and included as TRs. 2 TRs were run for every acquisition batch, with the goal of assessing LC-MS performance. To further this goal, 2 HeLa samples were also run between every 2 MS batches.
Project description:DNA samples were derived from dried blood spots taken for newborn screening when infants were several days of age, after obtaining permission from the participants when they were aged 18 years, or from their parents if they were younger than 18 years.
Project description:Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of DNA extracted from dried blood spots from preterm and term subjects using longitudinal samples collected at birth and 18 years of age. Infinium HM450 arrays were used to measure methylation at 347,789 autosomal CpGs. DNA was analysed from individuals at birth and 18-years and included 12 preterm and 12 term controls. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 48 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450K Human Methylation Beadchip
Project description:Exposure to a high fat (HF) diet in utero is associated with increased incidence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome later in life. However, the molecular basis of this enhanced susceptibility for metabolic disease is poorly understood. We performed genome-wide DNA methylation analysis to examine DNA methylation patterns in liver of offspring exposed to a Control or HF maternal diet. WT mice were fed a C (9.5% fat, 3.59 kcal/g) or HF (35.5% fat, 5.29 kcal/g) diet for 2 wk before mating, throughout pregnancy and lactation. Offspring were weaned to a low fat (5.6% fat, 3.4 kcal/g) diet and were sacrificed at 5wks of age. DNA methylation analysis revealed the majority of differentially methylated regions were hypermethylated in HF liver. Chromosomal distribution analysis showed hypermethylation hot spots on chromosomes 4 (atherosclerosis susceptibility QTL1) and 18 (insulin dependent susceptibility 21). Most of the hypermethylated genes in these hot spots are associated with cardiovascular system development and function. In summary, exposure to a maternal HF diet significantly alters the DNA methylation patterns in the liver of exposed offspring and contributes to programmed development of metabolic disease later in life.
