Table 6.

Principal component analysis of early childhood weight and growth influencing DNA methylation levels at five years of age.

	Change in Weight Centiles	Weight Centile at Six Months (n = 50)	Weight Centile at Two Years (n = 56)	BMI Centile at Six Months (n = 50)	BMI Centile at Two Years (n = 56)
PC1 correlation	−0.253 *	0.119	−0.020	0.099	−0.098
PC1 p-value	0.047 *	0.410	0.887	0.495	0.477
PC2 correlation	−0.028	0.054	−0.056	−0.120	−0.044
PC2 p-value	0.826	0.711	0.683	0.405	0.751
PC3 correlation	−0.131	−0.258	0.220	−0.153	0.025
PC3 p-value	0.312	0.071	0.107	0.289	0.854
PC4 correlation	0.087	−0.059	−0.076	−0.035	−0.081
PC4 p-value	0.500	0.683	0.583	0.809	0.555
PC5 correlation	−0.082	0.040	0.021	0.056	−0.055
PC5 p-value	0.524	0.783	0.878	0.699	0.692
PC6 correlation	0.064	−0.283 *	−0.132	−0.386 *	−0.139
PC6 p-value	0.624	0.047 *	0.336	0.006 *	0.312
PC7 correlation	−0.128	−0.128	0.172	−0.174	0.188
PC7 p-value	0.322	0.374	0.209	0.227	0.169
PC8 correlation	0.065	−0.047	−0.017	−0.239	0.080
PC8 p-value	0.614	0.743	0.902	0.094	0.559
PC9 correlation	0.004	−0.339 *	0.131	−0.216	0.022
PC9 p-value	0.978	0.016 *	0.339	0.133	0.873
PC10 correlation	−0.030	−0.147	−0.021	−0.105	0.001
PC10 p-value	0.818	0.307	0.881	0.468	0.993

BMI: body mass index (kg/m²); PC: principal component. * Significant at p < 0.05.