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Title: | Residential green space in association with the methylation status in a CpG site within the promoter region of the placental serotonin receptor HTR2A | Authors: | DOCKX, Yinthe BIJNENS, Esmee Aerts, JM AERTS, Raf SAENEN, Nelly Casas, L Delcloo, A Dendoncker, N Linard, C Stas, M Van Nieuwenhuyse, A Van Orshoven, J Somers, Ben PLUSQUIN, Michelle NAWROT, Tim |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC | Source: | Epigenetics, 17 (13) , p. 1863 -1874 | Abstract: | Green space could influence adult cognition and childhood neurodevelopment , and is hypothesized to be partly driven by epigenetic modifications. However, it remains unknown whether some of these associations are already evident during foetal development. Similar biological signals shape the developmental processes in the foetal brain and placenta.Therefore, we hypothesize that green space can modify epigenetic processes of cognition-related pathways in placental tissue, such as DNA-methylation of the serotonin receptor HTR2A. HTR2A-methylation was determined within 327 placentas from the ENVIRONAGE (ENVIRonmental influence ON early AGEing) birth cohort using bisulphite-PCR-pyrosequencing. Total green space exposure was calculated using high-resolution land cover data derived from the Green Map of Flanders in seven buffers (50 m-3 km) and stratified into low (<3 m) and high (>= 3 m) vegetation. Residential nature was calculated using the Land use Map of Flanders. We performed multivariate regression models adjusted for several a priori chosen covariables. For an IQR increment in total green space within a 1,000 m, 2,000 m and 3,000 m buffer the methylation of HTR2A increased with 1.47% (95%CI:0.17;2.78), 1.52% (95%CI:0.21;2.83) and 1.42% (95%CI:0.15;2.69), respectively. Additionally,, we found 3.00% (95%CI:1.09;4.91) and 1.98% (95%CI:0.28;3.68) higher HTR2A-methylation when comparing residences with and without the presence of nature in a 50 m and 100 m buffer, respectively. The methylation status of HTR2A in placental tissue is positively associated with maternal green space exposure. Future research is needed to understand better how these epigenetic changes are related to functional modifications in the placenta and the consequent implications for foetal development. | Keywords: | Green space;placenta;DNA methylation;HTR2A;serotonin;epigenetic | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/40391 | ISSN: | 1559-2294 | e-ISSN: | 1559-2308 | DOI: | 10.1080/15592294.2022.2088464 | ISI #: | 000813698300001 | Rights: | 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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