DNA methylome of human neonatal umbilical cord: Enrichment of differentially methylated regions compared to umbilical cord blood DNA at transcription factor genes involved in body patterning and effects of maternal folate deficiency or children’s sex

• Kenichi Sakurai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7056-2151

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• Keiko Shioda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States of America

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• Akifumi Eguchi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Metabolic Medicine, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

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• Masahiro Watanabe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sustainable Health Science, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

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• Hidenori Miyaso,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Sustainable Health Science, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

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• Chisato Mori ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cmori@faculty.chiba-u.jp (CM); shioda@helix.mgh.harvard.edu (TS)

  Affiliations Department of Sustainable Health Science, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, Department of Bioenvironmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1144-8316

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• Toshi Shioda

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cmori@faculty.chiba-u.jp (CM); shioda@helix.mgh.harvard.edu (TS)

  Affiliation Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States of America

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