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Occupational exposure to pesticides is associated with differential DNA methylation.

Abstract：

OBJECTIVES:Occupational pesticide exposure is associated with a wide range of diseases, including lung diseases, but it is largely unknown how pesticides influence airway disease pathogenesis. A potential mechanism might be through epigenetic mechanisms, like DNA methylation. Therefore, we assessed associations between occupational exposure to pesticides and genome-wide DNA methylation sites. METHODS:1561 subjects of LifeLines were included with either no (n=1392), low (n=108) or high (n=61) exposure to any type of pesticides (estimated based on current or last held job). Blood DNA methylation levels were measured using Illumina 450K arrays. Associations between pesticide exposure and 420 938 methylation sites (CpGs) were assessed using robust linear regression adjusted for appropriate confounders. In addition, we performed genome-wide stratified and interaction analyses by gender, smoking and airway obstruction status, and assessed associations between gene expression and methylation for genome-wide significant CpGs (n=2802). RESULTS:In total for all analyses, high pesticide exposure was genome-wide significantly (false discovery rate P<0.05) associated with differential DNA methylation of 31 CpGs annotated to 29 genes. Twenty of these CpGs were found in subjects with airway obstruction. Several of the identified genes, for example, RYR1, ALLC, PTPRN2, LRRC3B, PAX2 and VTRNA2-1, are genes previously linked to either pesticide exposure or lung-related diseases. Seven out of 31 CpGs were associated with gene expression levels. CONCLUSIONS:We show for the first time that occupational exposure to pesticides is genome-wide associated with differential DNA methylation. Further research should reveal whether this differential methylation plays a role in the airway disease pathogenesis induced by pesticides.

journal_name

Occup Environ Med

journal_title

Occupational and environmental medicine

authors

van der Plaat DA,de Jong K,de Vries M,van Diemen CC,Nedeljković I,Amin N,Kromhout H,Biobank-based Integrative Omics Study Consortium.,Vermeulen R,Postma DS,van Duijn CM,Boezen HM,Vonk JM

doi

10.1136/oemed-2017-104787

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-06-01 00:00:00

pages

427-435

issue

eissn

1351-0711

issn

1470-7926

pii

oemed-2017-104787

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Occupational exposure to pesticides is associated with differential DNA methylation.