Inter-generational Link of Cardio-Metabolic Risk: Integrate Multi-OMICs with Birth Cohort

心脏代谢风险的代际联系：将多组学与出生队列相结合

• 批准号: 9915936
• 负责人: Liming Liang
• 金额: $ 65.74万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9915936
• 关键词: 21 year old; Address; Adverse effects; Affect; Age; Animal Model; Anti-Inflammatory Agents; Antioxidants; Biological Process; Birth; Blood; Blood Pressure; Boston; Child; Clinical; Clinical Data; Cohort Studies; DNA Methylation; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Dyslipidemias; Endocrine Disruptors; Endothelium; Environment; Epigenetic Process; Folic Acid; Funding; Future; Future Generations; Genes; Genome; Grain; Growth; Health; Homocysteine; Human; Hypertension; Individual; Infant; Inflammation; Insulin Resistance; Intervention; Lead; Life; Link; Low income; Malnutrition; Mediating; Minority; Mothers; Multiomic Data; Multivitamin; Nature; Newborn Infant; Nucleic Acids; Nutrient; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Pathway interactions; Play; Population; Prediabetes syndrome; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Prevention; Process; Property; Public Health; Recommendation; Reproductive Health; Research; Resources; Risk; Risk Assessment; Role; Technology; Time; Umbilical Cord Blood; United States National Institutes of Health; Uterus; Vitamin B Complex; Woman; blood glucose regulation; cardiometabolic risk; cardiometabolism; cardiovascular health; cell growth; cohort; critical developmental period; epidemiologic data; epigenetic regulation; epigenetic variation; epigenome; fetal; fortification; genetic variant; genome wide methylation; genome-wide; health disparity; high risk; human study; improved; in utero; insight; insulin signaling; intergenerational; lipid biosynthesis; maternal obesity; metabolome; methylation pattern; multiple omics; next generation; nutrition; obesity risk; offspring; prenatal; prospective; repaired; reproductive; success

Abstract More than half of U.S. mothers entered pregnancy with overweight or obesity (OWO); maternal obesity is considered a major determinant of the next generations' OWO risk.7 A similar inter-generational link was observed for maternal hypertensive disorders before and during pregnancy. This inter-generational link may originate in utero and amplify the cardio- metabolic risk in current and future generations. However, questions remain about what the underlying mechanisms are and what can be done to mitigate the adverse effects of maternal cardio-metabolic disorders on offspring health. We propose to leverage the exceptional resources of the Boston Birth Cohort (BBC), one of the largest and longest U.S. high-risk urban low-income minority birth cohorts, to investigate the inter-generational link of cardio-metabolic outcomes and the role of maternal folate/B12 nutrition (modifiable early life factors), and to explore plausible epigenetic underpinnings. Furthermore, by combining fetal multi-omics data (genome, epigenome, and metabolome) with maternal and fetal epidemiological and clinical data, we seek to more precisely characterize newborns' future risk for the development of adverse cardio-metabolic outcomes up to age 21 years. Our proposal has a strong scientific premise. Both animal models and human studies implicate the intrauterine period as a critical time for the establishment of epigenetic variability. Epigenetic regulation has been implicated in a range of important biological functions, including adipogenesis, glucose homeostasis, inflammation, and insulin signaling. As such, fetal epigenetic mechanisms are critical for understanding an inter-generational link of cardio- metabolic disorders. However, currently there is no adequately powered prospective birth cohort study to assess the role of the fetal epigenome (using the latest profiling technology) along with maternal folate/B12 status in inter-generational cardio-metabolic risk in U.S. populations. Our proposal is also supported by promising preliminary data from the BBC, indicating that maternal folate status influences offspring DNA methylation and cardio-metabolic outcomes and mitigates the adverse effects of maternal cardio-metabolic disorders on offspring health. Successful completion of this study will improve our understanding of inter-generational cardio-metabolic risk and lead to a new paradigm for early prediction and prevention to halt or reverse the vicious inter-generational cycle, beginning at critical developmental windows when interventions may have the greatest impact on improving life-long health and reducing health disparities in current and future generations.

抽象的 超过一半的美国母亲在怀孕时患有超重或肥胖 (OWO)； 产妇肥胖被认为是下一代 OWO 风险的主要决定因素。7 A 在孕产妇高血压疾病之前和之后观察到类似的代际联系。 怀孕期间。这种代际联系可能起源于子宫并增强了心脏功能。 当前和后代的代谢风险。然而，问题仍然存在： 潜在的机制是什么以及可以采取哪些措施来减轻孕产妇的不利影响 心脏代谢紊乱对后代健康的影响。 我们建议利用波士顿出生队列 (BBC) 的卓越资源，该队列是 最大和最长的美国高风险城市低收入少数族裔出生队列，以调查 心脏代谢结果的代际联系以及母亲叶酸/B12 营养的作用 （可改变的早期生命因素），并探索合理的表观遗传基础。此外， 通过将胎儿多组学数据（基因组、表观基因组和代谢组）与母体和代谢组学数据相结合 胎儿流行病学和临床数据，我们寻求更准确地描述新生儿的未来 21 岁以下发生不良心脏代谢结果的风险。 我们的建议有很强的科学前提。动物模型和人体研究 表明宫内时期是表观遗传变异建立的关键时期。 表观遗传调控与一系列重要的生物学功能有关，包括 脂肪生成、葡萄糖稳态、炎症和胰岛素信号传导。如此看来，胎儿 表观遗传机制对于理解心血管疾病的代际联系至关重要 代谢紊乱。然而，目前还没有足够有力的前瞻性出生队列 评估胎儿表观基因组作用的研究（使用最新的分析技术）以及 美国人群代际心脏代谢风险中母亲叶酸/B12 状况。我们的 该提案还得到了 BBC 有希望的初步数据的支持，表明 母亲叶酸状态影响后代 DNA 甲基化和心脏代谢结果 并减轻母亲心脏代谢紊乱对后代健康的不利影响。 成功完成这项研究将提高我们对代际间的理解 心脏代谢风险，并导致早期预测和预防的新范例，以阻止或预防 扭转代际恶性循环，从关键的发展窗口开始 干预措施可能对改善终生健康和减少健康产生最大影响 当前和未来几代人的差距。