Table 4.

Auxiological and epigenetic differences between donors and recipients (mean ± SEM)

	Donors	Recipients	p-value
Birth weight SDS	-1.45 ± 0.2	-0.64 ± 0.2	< 0.01
Birth length SDS	-1.6 ± 0.3	-0.5 ± 0.2	< 0.01
Height SDS (follow-up)	-0.8 ± 0.2	-0.3 ± 0.2	< 0.01
BMI SDS (follow-up)	-0.7 ± 0.2	-0.1 ± 0.2	< 0.01
S-COMT methylation (blood)	50.4 ± 1.4	51.6 ± 1.2	n.s.
S-COMT methylation (saliva)	36.5 ± 2.1	35.0 ± 2.2	n.s.