ArticleEpigenetics & chromatin2022
Prenatal vitamin intake in first month of pregnancy and DNA methylation in cord blood and placenta in two prospective cohorts.
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- Placental Metabolism Is Linked to Prenatal Vitamin Supplement Use in the First Month of Pregnancy in the MARBLES Cohort.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- The Association of Prenatal Dietary Factors with Child Autism Diagnosis and Autism-Related Traits Using a Mixtures Approach: Results from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
- Placenta-Related Parameters at Delivery in Relation to Folic Acid Supplementation in Different Pregnancies.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Prenatal Metal Exposures and Child Social Responsiveness Scale Scores in 2 Prospective Studies.Environmental health insights · 2024Article
- Epigenomic signatures reveal mechanistic clues and predictive markers for autism spectrum disorder.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- The influence of early environment and micronutrient availability on developmental epigenetic programming: lessons from the placenta.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
- Prenatal lead (Pb) exposure is associated with differential placental DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation in a human population.Epigenetics · 2022Article
- Prenatal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Epigenetic Aging at Birth in Newborns.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrenatal vitamin use is recommended before and during pregnancies for normal fetal development. Prenatal vitamins do not have a standard formulation, but many contain calcium, folic acid, iodine, iron, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, and vitamins A, B6, B12, and D, and usually they contain higher concentrations of folic acid and iron than regular multivitamins in the US Nutrient levels can impact epigenetic factors such as DNA methylation, but relationships between maternal prenatal vitamin use and DNA methylation have been relatively understudied. We examined use of prenatal vitamins in the first month of pregnancy in relation to cord blood and placenta DNA methylation in two prospective pregnancy cohorts: the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) and Markers of Autism Risk Learning Early Signs (MARBLES) studies.
resultsIn placenta, prenatal vitamin intake was marginally associated with -0.52% (95% CI -1.04, 0.01) lower mean array-wide DNA methylation in EARLI, and associated with -0.60% (-1.08, -0.13) lower mean array-wide DNA methylation in MARBLES. There was little consistency in the associations between prenatal vitamin intake and single DNA methylation site effect estimates across cohorts and tissues, with only a few overlapping sites with correlated effect estimates. However, the single DNA methylation sites with p-value < 0.01 (EARLI cord n
conclusionsTogether, our findings suggest that prenatal vitamin intake in the first month of pregnancy may be related to lower placental global DNA methylation and related to DNA methylation in brain-related pathways in both placenta and cord blood.
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