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dc.contributor.author | Li, Chengchen | |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Zeyuan | |
dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Theresa | |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, Yunfeng | |
dc.contributor.author | Hui, Qin | |
dc.contributor.author | Crusto, Cindy A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wright, Michelle L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Jacquelyn Y. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sun, Yan V. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-17T09:50:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-17T09:50:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | African American women are a ected by earlier onset of age-associated health deteriorations and obesity disproportionally, but little is known about the mechanism linking body mass index (BMI) and biological aging among this population. DNA methylation age acceleration (DNAm AA), measuring the di erence betweenDNAmethylation age and chronological age, is a novel biomarker of the biological aging process, and predicts aging-related disease outcomes. The present study estimated cross-tissue DNA methylation age acceleration using saliva samples from 232 African American mothers. Cross-sectional regression analyses were performed to assess the association of BMI with DNAmAA. The average chronological age andDNAmethylation age were 31.67 years, and 28.79 years, respectively. After adjusting for smoking, hypertension diagnosis history, and socioeconomic factors (education, marital status, household income), a 1 kg/m2 increase in BMI is associated with 0.14 years increment of DNAm AA (95% CI: (0.08, 0.21)). The conclusion: in African American women, high BMI is independently associated with saliva-based DNA methylation age acceleration, after adjusting for smoking, hypertension, and socioeconomic status. This finding supports that high BMI accelerates biological aging, and plays a key role in age-related disease outcomes among African American women. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Psychology | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | pm2020 | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institutes of Health grant | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Li, C., Wang, Z., Hardy, T. et al, 2019, 'Association of obesity with DNA methylation age acceleration in African American mothers from the InterGEN study', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 20, no. 17, art. 4273, pp. 1-10. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 1661-6596 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1422-0067 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.3390/ijms20174273 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75342 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_ZA |
dc.subject | DNA methylation age acceleration | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Aging | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Obesity | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Body mass index (BMI) | en_ZA |
dc.subject | African American women | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) | en_ZA |
dc.title | Association of obesity with DNA methylation age acceleration in African American mothers from the InterGEN study | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |