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SUBMITTER: Lesseur C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599179 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current environmental health reports 20181201 4
<h4>Purpose of review</h4>Herein, we summarize existent epidemiological studies relating adverse maternal metabolic environments of maternal obesity and gestational diabetes and placental DNA methylation.<h4>Recent findings</h4>Multiple studies have evaluated associations between intrauterine exposure to gestational diabetes and/or maternal glucose levels and DNA methylation at candidate metabolic genes as well as in epigenome-wide studies. Some of the genomic regions more consistently associate ...[more]