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Comparison of estimates of the effect of maternal BMI on offspring DNA methylation at birth and at adolescence. Of the 86 sites where maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy was associated with newborn blood methylation, 72 had the same direction of association in the analysis of adolescents. Plotted here are the 22/86 methylation sites with a P-value < 0.05 in the analysis of adolescents, ordered by effect size in newborns.
