• Fathers’ preconception smoking and offspring DNA methylation 

      Kitaba, Negusse Tadesse; Knudsen, Gerd Toril Mørkve; Johannessen, Ane; Rezwan, Faisal I.; Malinovschi, Andrei; Oudin, Anna; Benediktsdottir, Bryndis; Martino, David; González, Francisco Javier Callejas; Gómez, Leopoldo Palacios; Holm, Mathias; Jögi, Nils Oskar; Dharmage, Shyamali C.; Skulstad, Svein Magne; Watkins, Sarah H.; Suderman, Matthew; Gomez Real, Francisco; Schlünssen, Vivi; Svanes, Cecilie; Holloway, John W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Experimental studies suggest that exposures may impact respiratory health across generations via epigenetic changes transmitted specifically through male germ cells. Studies in humans are, however, limited. ...
    • Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in neonates reveals widespread differential DNA methylation associated with birthweight 

      Küpers, Leanne K.; Monnereau, Claire; Sharp, Gemma C.; Yousefi, Paul; Salas, Lucas A.; Ghantous, Akram; Page, Christian Magnus; Reese, Sarah E.; Wilcox, Allen J.; Czamara, Darina; Starling, Anne P.; Novoloaca, Alexei; Lent, Samantha; Roy, Ritu; Hoyo, Cathrine; Breton, Carrie V.; Allard, Catherine; Just, Allan C.; Bakulski, Kelly M.; Holloway, John W.; Everson, Todd M.; Xu, Cheng-Jian; Huang, Rae-Chi; van der Plaat, Diana A.; Wielscher, Matthias; Merid, Simon Kebede; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Rezwan, Faisal I.; Lahti, Jari; van Dongen, Jenny; Langie, Sabine A.S.; Richardson, Tom G.; Magnus, Maria Christine; Nohr, Ellen A.; Xu, Zongli; Duijts, Liesbeth; Zhao, Shanshan; Zhang, Weiming; Plusquin, Michelle; DeMeo, Dawn L.; Solomon, Olivia; Heimovaara, Joosje H.; Jima, Dereje D.; Gao, Lu; Bustamante, Mariona; Perron, Patrice; Wright, Robert O.; Hertz-Picciotto, Irva; Zhang, Hongmei; Karagas, Margaret R.; Gehring, Ulrike; Marsit, Carmen J.; Beilin, Lawrence J.; Vonk, Judith M.; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Bergström, Anna; Örtqvist, Anne K.; Ewart, Susan; Villa, Pia M.; Moore, Sophie E.; Willemsen, Gonneke; Standaert, Arnout R.L.; Håberg, Siri Eldevik; Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.; Taylor, Jack A.; Räikkönen, Katri; Yang, Ivana V.; Kechris, Katerina; Nawrot, Tim S.; Silver, Matt J.; Gong, Yun Yun; Richiardi, Lorenzo; Kogevinas, Manolis; Litonjua, Augusto A.; Eskenazi, Brenda; Huen, Karen; Mbarek, Hamdi; Maguire, Rachel L.; Dwyer, Terence; Vrijheid, Martine; Bouchard, Luigi; Baccarelli, Andrea A.; Croen, Lisa A.; Karmaus, Wilfried; Anderson, Denise; de Vries, Maaike; Sebert, Sylvain; Kere, Juha; Karlsson, Robert; Arshad, Syed Hasan; Hämäläinen, Esa; Routledge, Michael N.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Feinberg, Andrew P.; Newschaffer, Craig J.; Govarts, Eva; Moisse, Matthieu; Fallin, M. Daniele; Melén, Erik; Prentice, Andrew M.; Kajantie, Eero; Almqvist, Catarina; Oken, Emily; Dabelea, Dana; Boezen, H. Marike; Melton, Philip E.; Wright, Rosalind J.; Koppelman, Gerard H.; Trevisi, Letizia; Hivert, Marie-France; Sunyer, Jordi; Munthe-Kaas, Monica Cheng; Murphy, Susan K.; Corpeleijn, Eva; Wiemels, Joseph L.; Holland, Nina; Herceg, Zdenko; Binder, Elisabeth B.; Davey Smith, George; Jaddoe, Vincent V.W.; Lie, Rolv T.; Nystad, Wenche; London, Stephanie J.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Relton, Caroline L.; Snieder, Harold; Felix, Janine F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-23)
      Birthweight is associated with health outcomes across the life course, DNA methylation may be an underlying mechanism. In this meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies of 8,825 neonates from 24 birth cohorts in ...
    • Preconceptional smoking alters spermatozoal miRNAs of murine fathers and affects offspring’s body weight 

      Hammer, Barbara; Kadalayil, Latha; Boateng, Eistine; Buschmann, Dominik; Rezwan, Faisal I.; Wolff, Martin; Reuter, Sebastian; Bartel, Sabine; Knudsen, Gerd Toril Mørkve; Svanes, Cecilie; Holloway, John W.; Krauss-Etschmann, Susanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Active smoking has been reported among 7% of teenagers worldwide, with ages ranging from 13 to 15 years. An epidemiological study suggested that preconceptional paternal smoking is associated with adolescent ...
    • Transgenerational and intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in allergic diseases 

      Knudsen, Gerd Toril Mørkve; Rezwan, Faisal I.; Jiang, Yu; Karmaus, Wilfried; Svanes, Cecilie; Holloway, John W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09)
      It has become clear that early life (including in utero exposures) is a key window of vulnerability during which environmental exposures can alter developmental trajectories and initiate allergic disease development. ...