Determinants of Leukocyte Telomere Length at Birth

出生时白细胞端粒长度的决定因素

• 批准号: 8632834
• 负责人: ABRAHAM AVIV
• 金额: $ 64.43万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8632834
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adult; Adult Children; Affect; Age; Ancillary Study; Archives; Area; Behavior; Biological; Biological Markers; Biology; Birth; Blood specimen; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cell division; Characteristics; Childhood; Cognition; Collection; Conceptions; Constitution; DNA Methylation; Data; Development; Disease; Early Intervention; Elderly; Ensure; Epigenetic Process; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Fathers; Fetal Growth; First Pregnancy Trimester; Foundations; Funding; Future; Genes; Genetic; Germ Lines; Gestational Diabetes; Growth; Health; Health behavior; Hematopoietic stem cells; Human; Human Biology; Individual; Investigation; Isoprostanes; Length; Leukocytes; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Style; Link; Longevity; Maternal Exposure; Measurement; Measures; Mediating; Mental Depression; Methylation; Modality; Mothers; Mutation; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Newborn Infant; Obesity; Outcome; Oxidative Stress; Parents; Paternal Age; Pathway interactions; Perinatal Exposure; Placenta; Pre-Eclampsia; Pregnancy; Prenatal care; Preventive; Protocols documentation; Race; Research; Research Infrastructure; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; Science; Site; Smoking; Socioeconomic Status; Specimen; Stress; Therapeutic; Time; Toxic Environmental Substances; Ultrasonography; Umbilical Cord Blood; Variant; Weight Gain; Woman; Work; age related; cardiovascular disorder risk; cohort; critical period; disorder risk; early childhood; experience; father role; fetal blood; follow-up; improved; isoprostaglandin F2alpha type-III; novel; population health; pregnancy hypertension; prenatal exposure; prospective; sex; telomere

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Depletion of hematopoietic stem cell reserves, expressed as the shortening of leukocyte telomere length (LTL), sets a limit on longevity and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Until now, almost all research on LTL has focused on adults. Recent evidence suggests, however, that the factors which influence LTL from conception to birth could be as important as those which influence LTL over the remainder of the life course. The inter-individual variation in LTL at birth is so large that it rivals the averge shortening of LTL over the entire adult life course. In addition, higher paternal age at conception is associated with longer LTL in adult offspring, and since this effect must derive from the paternal germ line, it may be evident by the time of birth. However, no rigorous study has been done of the determinants of LTL at birth. This prospective investigation of the determinants of LTL at birth is an "ancillary study" which builds on a multisite NICHD-funded "parent study" of nulliparous women. The ancillary study will be done in 1,000 trios of mother, father, and baby. It will add to the rich array of data in the parent study in several ways, including the collection of paternal blood samples and the measurement of LTL in mothers, fathers, and babies for the 1,000 trios. The Aims of the study are to: 1) examine the relation of paternal age at conception (PAC) to LTL at birth, 2) examine whether maternal exposures and conditions are determinants of LTL at birth, 3) compare LTL at birth across sex, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, and 4) explore the relation of fetal growth rate to LTL at birth. This study will build a platform or further investigations including genetic and epigenetic influences on LTL at birth and changes in LTL during early childhood years. By identifying the determinants of LTL at birth, this research will provide a foundation for linking experience from conception to birth with health and longevity in later life. Moreover, this research has the potential to transform understanding of population health by opening novel investigations of the pathways through which intra-uterine experiences are biologically embedded in the individual's constitution, and might be reflected in risk factors for disease which emerge in childhood and evolve thereafter.

描述（由申请人提供）：造血干细胞储备的消耗，表现为白细胞端粒长度（LTL）的缩短，限制了寿命，增加了心血管疾病的风险。到目前为止，几乎所有关于LTL的研究都集中在成年人身上。然而，最近的证据表明，从受孕到出生影响LTL的因素可能与在生命过程中影响LTL的因素一样重要。出生时LTL的个体间差异是如此之大，以至于它可以与整个成年生命过程中LTL的平均缩短相媲美。此外，父亲受孕时的年龄也较高