Fig. 1: Manhattan plot.

Epigenome wide association study (EWAS) of body mass index (BMI) and DNA methylation of maternal peripheral blood leukocytes drawn in gestational week 28 ± 2 in women of European (A) and South Asian (B) ancestry. X-axis: chromosome position in ascending order from 1 to the left to X on the right, y-axis: −log10p-value, red line: Bonferroni-corrected p-value, blue line: FDR 5%, Red dots: CpG sites significantly associated with BMI using Bonferroni correction, blue dots: CpG sites significantly associated with the BMI after correction for FDR < 0.05.