Table 3 Top methylation quantitative trait loci significantly associated with CpG sites from epigenome wide association study of BMI or GWG in gestational week 28 ± 2, and their associated phenotypes in published genome wide association studies (p < 0.001).

From: Epigenome-wide association study of DNA methylation in maternal blood leukocytes with BMI in pregnancy and gestational weight gain

CpG

Ancestry

mQTLs

Number of variants

Top gene variant

Chromosome

Associated phenotypes

Kolonne2

Kolonne3

      

Phenotype

Direction

p-value

cg02786370

European

Cis

231

rs7694454

4

Basophile count (PMID: 27863252)

4.33e-04

  

Trans

13

rs9472010

6

Coronary artery disease (PMID: 29212778)

+

7.10e-04

   

68

rs10119911

9

BMI (PMID: 25673413, 26426971).

5.16e-04

      

Hemoglobin concentration (PMID: 27863252)

+

7.21e-04

      

Allergic disease (PMID: 29083406)

2.39e-05

      

Asthma (PMID: 29273806)

5.98e-04

cg164733643

European

Cis

418

rs12059241

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  1. EWAS epigenome wide association study, GWAS genome wide association study, mQTL methylation quantitative trait loci,
  2. MoBa-START the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study of assisted reproductive technology.
  3. *using body mass index at week 30, p < 0.05.