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Candidate gene study for smoking, alcohol use, and body weight in a sample of pregnant women.


ABSTRACT: Prenatal smoking, alcohol use, and obesity have significant effects on maternal and fetal health. However, not much is known about the genetic contributions to these risk factors among pregnant women. We evaluate the associations between several candidate genes and smoking, alcohol use, pre-pregnancy body weight, and weight gain during pregnancy in a sample of pregnant women.The study analyzes a sample of about 1900 mothers from the Danish National Birth Cohort. We test the association between 1450 SNPs in/near 117 genes/loci and various risk factor measures.Only a few SNPs in FTO were significantly associated with pre-pregnancy obesity and body mass index (4 and 2 SNPs, respectively) after SNP-level correction for multiple testing. A few loci were significantly related to various smoking measures (any smoking, quitting and cigarette number) with gene/locus-level correction for multiple testing, but not after SNP-level correction. Similarly, some loci were significant for the alcohol measures at the gene/locus-level but not at SNP-level correction.The study suggests that the majority of the evaluated candidate genes may not play an important role in influencing these risk factors among pregnant women, highlighting the importance of other genetic factors and non-genetic contributors to their etiology.

SUBMITTER: Wehby GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4289663 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Candidate gene study for smoking, alcohol use, and body weight in a sample of pregnant women.

Wehby George L GL   Prater Kaitlin N KN   Ryckman Kelli K KK   Kummet Colleen C   Murray Jeffrey C JC  

The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians 20140711 7


<h4>Objective</h4>Prenatal smoking, alcohol use, and obesity have significant effects on maternal and fetal health. However, not much is known about the genetic contributions to these risk factors among pregnant women. We evaluate the associations between several candidate genes and smoking, alcohol use, pre-pregnancy body weight, and weight gain during pregnancy in a sample of pregnant women.<h4>Methods</h4>The study analyzes a sample of about 1900 mothers from the Danish National Birth Cohort.  ...[more]

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