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Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood

IMPORTANCE: DNA methylation has been proposed as an epigenetic mechanism by which the childhood neighborhood environment may have implications for the genome that compromise adult health. OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether childhood neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with differences...

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Autores principales: Reuben, Aaron, Sugden, Karen, Arseneault, Louise, Corcoran, David L., Danese, Andrea, Fisher, Helen L., Moffitt, Terrie E., Newbury, Joanne B., Odgers, Candice, Prinz, Joey, Rasmussen, Line J. H., Williams, Ben, Mill, Jonathan, Caspi, Avshalom
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Publicado: American Medical Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32478847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6095
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author Reuben, Aaron
Sugden, Karen
Arseneault, Louise
Corcoran, David L.
Danese, Andrea
Fisher, Helen L.
Moffitt, Terrie E.
Newbury, Joanne B.
Odgers, Candice
Prinz, Joey
Rasmussen, Line J. H.
Williams, Ben
Mill, Jonathan
Caspi, Avshalom
author_facet Reuben, Aaron
Sugden, Karen
Arseneault, Louise
Corcoran, David L.
Danese, Andrea
Fisher, Helen L.
Moffitt, Terrie E.
Newbury, Joanne B.
Odgers, Candice
Prinz, Joey
Rasmussen, Line J. H.
Williams, Ben
Mill, Jonathan
Caspi, Avshalom
author_sort Reuben, Aaron
collection PubMed
description IMPORTANCE: DNA methylation has been proposed as an epigenetic mechanism by which the childhood neighborhood environment may have implications for the genome that compromise adult health. OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether childhood neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with differences in DNA methylation by age 18 years. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This longitudinal cohort study analyzed data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative birth cohort of children born between 1994 and 1995 in England and Wales and followed up from age 5 to 18 years. Data analysis was performed from March 15, 2019, to June 30, 2019. EXPOSURES: High-resolution neighborhood data (indexing deprivation, dilapidation, disconnection, and dangerousness) collected across childhood. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: DNA methylation in whole blood was drawn at age 18 years. Associations between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and methylation were tested using 3 prespecified approaches: (1) testing probes annotated to candidate genes involved in biological responses to growing up in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods and investigated in previous epigenetic research (stress reactivity–related and inflammation-related genes), (2) polyepigenetic scores indexing differential methylation in phenotypes associated with growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods (obesity, inflammation, and smoking), and (3) a theory-free epigenome-wide association study. RESULTS: A total of 1619 participants (806 female individuals [50%]) had complete neighborhood and DNA methylation data. Children raised in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods exhibited differential DNA methylation in genes involved in inflammation (β = 0.12; 95% CI, 0.06-0.19; P < .001) and smoking (β = 0.18; 95% CI, 0.11-0.25; P < .001) but not obesity (β = 0.05; 95% CI, −0.01 to 0.11; P = .12). An epigenome-wide association study identified multiple CpG sites at an arraywide significance level of P < 1.16 × 10(−7) in genes involved in the metabolism of hydrocarbons. Associations between neighborhood disadvantage and methylation were small but robust to family-level socioeconomic factors and to individual-level tobacco smoking. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Children raised in more socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods appeared to enter young adulthood epigenetically distinct from their less disadvantaged peers. This finding suggests that epigenetic regulation may be a mechanism by which the childhood neighborhood environment alters adult health.
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spelling pubmed-72650952020-06-15 Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood Reuben, Aaron Sugden, Karen Arseneault, Louise Corcoran, David L. Danese, Andrea Fisher, Helen L. Moffitt, Terrie E. Newbury, Joanne B. Odgers, Candice Prinz, Joey Rasmussen, Line J. H. Williams, Ben Mill, Jonathan Caspi, Avshalom JAMA Netw Open Original Investigation IMPORTANCE: DNA methylation has been proposed as an epigenetic mechanism by which the childhood neighborhood environment may have implications for the genome that compromise adult health. OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether childhood neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with differences in DNA methylation by age 18 years. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This longitudinal cohort study analyzed data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative birth cohort of children born between 1994 and 1995 in England and Wales and followed up from age 5 to 18 years. Data analysis was performed from March 15, 2019, to June 30, 2019. EXPOSURES: High-resolution neighborhood data (indexing deprivation, dilapidation, disconnection, and dangerousness) collected across childhood. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: DNA methylation in whole blood was drawn at age 18 years. Associations between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and methylation were tested using 3 prespecified approaches: (1) testing probes annotated to candidate genes involved in biological responses to growing up in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods and investigated in previous epigenetic research (stress reactivity–related and inflammation-related genes), (2) polyepigenetic scores indexing differential methylation in phenotypes associated with growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods (obesity, inflammation, and smoking), and (3) a theory-free epigenome-wide association study. RESULTS: A total of 1619 participants (806 female individuals [50%]) had complete neighborhood and DNA methylation data. Children raised in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods exhibited differential DNA methylation in genes involved in inflammation (β = 0.12; 95% CI, 0.06-0.19; P < .001) and smoking (β = 0.18; 95% CI, 0.11-0.25; P < .001) but not obesity (β = 0.05; 95% CI, −0.01 to 0.11; P = .12). An epigenome-wide association study identified multiple CpG sites at an arraywide significance level of P < 1.16 × 10(−7) in genes involved in the metabolism of hydrocarbons. Associations between neighborhood disadvantage and methylation were small but robust to family-level socioeconomic factors and to individual-level tobacco smoking. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Children raised in more socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods appeared to enter young adulthood epigenetically distinct from their less disadvantaged peers. This finding suggests that epigenetic regulation may be a mechanism by which the childhood neighborhood environment alters adult health. American Medical Association 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7265095/ /pubmed/32478847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6095 Text en Copyright 2020 Reuben A et al. JAMA Network Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License.
spellingShingle Original Investigation
Reuben, Aaron
Sugden, Karen
Arseneault, Louise
Corcoran, David L.
Danese, Andrea
Fisher, Helen L.
Moffitt, Terrie E.
Newbury, Joanne B.
Odgers, Candice
Prinz, Joey
Rasmussen, Line J. H.
Williams, Ben
Mill, Jonathan
Caspi, Avshalom
Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood
title Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood
title_full Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood
title_fullStr Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood
title_full_unstemmed Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood
title_short Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood With DNA Methylation in Young Adulthood
title_sort association of neighborhood disadvantage in childhood with dna methylation in young adulthood
topic Original Investigation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32478847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.6095
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