Father’s adolescent body silhouette is associated with offspring asthma, lung function and BMI through DNA methylation

Father’s adolescent body silhouette is associated with offspring asthma, lung function and BMI through DNA methylation

Abstract Boys’ pubertal overweight associates with future offspring’s asthma and low lung function. To identify how paternal overweight is associated with offspring’s DNA methylation (DNAm), we conducted an epigenome-wide association study of father’s body silhouette (FBS) at three timepoints (age 8...

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Main Authors: Negusse Tadesse Kitaba, Toril Mørkve Østergaard, Marianne Lønnebotn, Simone Accordini, Francisco Gómez Real, Andrei Malinovschi, Anna Oudin, Bryndis Benediktsdottir, Francisco Javier Callejas González, Leopoldo Palacios Gómez, Mathias Holm, Nils Oskar Jõgi, Shyamali C. Dharmage, Svein Magne Skulstad, Vivi Schlünssen, Cecilie Svanes, John W. Holloway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-05-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08121-9
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