Publications

Here, you can view the publications of EU Child Cohort Network researchers. Just click on the respective title to read or download the original article.
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2024

  1. Aguilar-Lacasana S et al. (2024). Green space exposure and blood DNA methylation at birth and in childhood – A multi-cohort study. Environ Int 188: 108684.
  2. Barry KM et al. (2024). Early Childcare Arrangements Prior to School Entry and Children’s Internalising and Externalising Symptoms: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Six European Child Cohort Studies (EU Child Cohort Network). Lancet Reg. 45: 101036.
  3. Bergeron J et al. (2024). Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts. Eur J Epidemiol.
  4. Cadman T et al. (2024). Urban environment in pregnancy and postpartum depression: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 12 European birth cohorts. Environ Int 185: 108453.
  5. Fernandes A et al. (2024). Green spaces and respiratory, cardiometabolic, and neurodevelopmental outcomes: An individual-participant data meta-analysis of >35.000 European children. Environment International 190: 108853.
  6. Pizzi C et al. (2024). Socioeconomic position during pregnancy and pre-school exposome in children from eight European birth cohort studies. Social Science & Medicine 359: 117275.
  7. Popovic M. et al. (2024). Regression discontinuity design in perinatal epidemiology and birth cohort research. Front Public Health 12:1377456
  8. Scelo G et al. (2024). Transporting results in an observational epidemiology setting: purposes, methods, and applied example. Front Epidemiol 4: 1335241.

2023

  1. Cadman T et al. (2023). Associations of Maternal Educational Level, Proximity to Greenspace During Pregnancy, and Gestational Diabetes With Body Mass Index From Infancy to Early Adulthood: A Proof-of-Concept Federated Analysis in 18 Birth Cohorts. Am J Epidemiol.
  2. Descarpentrie A et al. (2023). Lifestyle patterns in European preschoolers: Associations with socio-demographic factors and body mass index. Pediatr Obes 18(12): e13079.
  3. Elhakeem A et al. (2023). Effect of common pregnancy and perinatal complications on offspring metabolic traits across the life course: a multi-cohort study. BMC Med 21(1): 23.
  4. Elhakeem A et al. (2023). Long-term cardiometabolic health in people born after assisted reproductive technology: a multi-cohort analysis. Eur Heart J.
  5. Fernandes A et al. (2023). School-Based Interventions to Support Healthy Indoor and Outdoor Environments for Children: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(3): 1746.
  6. Guerlich K et al. (2023). Sleep duration in preschool age and later behavioral and cognitive outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis in five European cohorts. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry.
  7. Lioret S et al. (2023). The effectiveness of interventions during the first 1,000 days to improve energy balance-related behaviors or prevent overweight/obesity in children from socio-economically disadvantaged families of high-income countries: a systematic review. Obes Rev 24(1): e13524.
  8. Marques I et al. (2023). Associations of green and blue space exposure in pregnancy with epigenetic gestational age acceleration. Epigenetics 18(1): 2165321.
  9. Nader JL et al. (2023). Measures of Early-life Behavior and Later Psychopathology in the LifeCycle Project – EU Child Cohort Network: A Cohort Description. J Epidemiol 33(6): 321-31.
  10. Vinther JL et al. (2023). Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies. PLoS Med 20(1): e1004036.

2022

  1. Abellan A et al. (2022). In utero exposure to bisphenols and asthma, wheeze, and lung function in school-age children: a prospective meta-analysis of 8 European birth cohorts. Environ Int 162: 107178.
  2. Aubert AM et al. (2022). Predictors of maternal dietary quality and dietary inflammation during pregnancy: An individual participant data meta-analysis of seven European cohorts from the ALPHABET consortium. Clin Nutr 41(9): 1991-2002.
  3. Bond TA et al. (2022). Exploring the causal effect of maternal pregnancy adiposity on offspring adiposity: Mendelian randomization using polygenic risk scores. BMC Medicine 20, Article number: 34.
  4. Caramaschi D et al. (2022). Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide associations between DNA methylation at birth and childhood cognitive skills. Mol Psychiatry 27(4): 2126-35.
  5. Choudhary P et al. (2022). The relationship of life-course patterns of adiposity with type 2 diabetes, depression, and their comorbidity in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966. Int J Obes (Lond) 46(8): 1470-7.
  6. Clayton GL et al. (2022). From menarche to menopause: the impact of reproductive factors on the metabolic profile of over 65,000 women. medRxiv: 2022.04.17.22273947.
  7. Deng Z et al. (2022). A bit of salt, a trace of life: Gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children. J Health Econ 83: 102614.
  8. Deng Z et al. (2022). Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall, and later-life health. Journal of Applied Econometrics 37(4): 771-87.
  9. Elhakeem A et al. (2022). Association of Assisted Reproductive Technology With Offspring Growth and Adiposity From Infancy to Early Adulthood. JAMA Netw Open 5(7): e2222106.
  10. Elhakeem A et al. (2022). Association of assisted reproductive technology with long-term offspring cardiometabolic health: a multi-cohort study. medRxiv: 2022.04.13.22273455.
  11. Elhakeem A et al. (2022). Effect of common pregnancy and perinatal complications on offspring metabolic traits across the life course: a multi-cohort study. medRxiv: 2022.04.05.22273388.
  12. Elhakeem A et al. (2022). Using linear and natural cubic splines, SITAR, and latent trajectory models to characterise nonlinear longitudinal growth trajectories in cohort studies. BMC Medical Research Methodology 22, Article number: 68.
  13. Fernandez-Barres S et al. (2022). Urban environment and health behaviours in children from six European countries. Environ Int 165: 107319.
  14. Jacob CM et al. (2022). Acceptability of the FIGO Nutrition Checklist in Preconception and Early Pregnancy to Assess Nutritional Status and Prevent Excess Gestational Weight Gain: A Study of Women and Healthcare Practitioners in the UK. Nutrients 14(17).
  15. Jacob CM et al. (2022). The preconception period as a platform for preventing diabetes and non-communicable diseases. Practical Diabetes 39(4): 14-8.
  16. Jami ES et al. (2022). Genome-wide Association Meta-analysis of Childhood and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 61(7): 934-45.
  17. Kupers LK et al. (2022). Maternal Mediterranean diet in pregnancy and newborn DNA methylation: a meta-analysis in the PACE Consortium. Epigenetics: 1-13.
  18. Lee YK et al. (2022). Tailoring an online breastfeeding course for Southeast Asian paediatric trainees- A qualitative study of user experience from Malaysia and Thailand. BMC Med Educ 22(1): 209.
  19. Lozano M et al. (2022). DNA methylation changes associated with prenatal mercury exposure: A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies from PACE consortium. Environ Res 204(Pt B): 112093.
  20. Maritano S et al. (2022). Maternal pesticides exposure in pregnancy and the risk of wheezing in infancy: A prospective cohort study. Environ Int 163: 107229.
  21. Mensink-Bout SM et al. (2022). Associations of physical condition with lung function and asthma in adolescents from the general population. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 33(6).
  22. Mensink-Bout SM et al. (2022). Maternal diet in pregnancy and child’s respiratory outcomes: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 18 000 children. Eur Respir J 59(4).
  23. Monasso GS et al. (2022). Body fat, pericardial fat, liver fat and arterial health at age 10 years. Pediatr Obes 17(10): e12926.
  24. Monasso GS et al. (2022). Fetal and Childhood Exposure to Parental Tobacco Smoking and Arterial Health at Age 10 Years. Am J Hypertens 35(10): 867-74.
  25. Monasso GS et al. (2022). Infant weight growth patterns, childhood BMI, and arterial health at age 10 years. Obesity (Silver Spring) 30(3): 770-8.
  26. Monasso GS et al. (2022). Maternal plasma fatty acid patterns in mid-pregnancy and offspring epigenetic gestational age at birth. Epigenetics: 1-11.
  27. Munoz-Hernando J et al. (2022). Usefulness of the waist-to-height ratio for predicting cardiometabolic risk in children and its suggested boundary values. Clin Nutr 41(2): 508-16.
  28. Neumann A et al. (2022). Epigenome-wide contributions to individual differences in childhood phenotypes: a GREML approach. Clin Epigenetics 14(1): 53.
  29. Nordstrom T et al. (2022). Cohort Profile: 46 years of follow-up of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966). Int J Epidemiol 50(6): 1786-7j.
  30. Pervjakova N et al. (2022). Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes. Hum Mol Genet 31(19): 3377-91.
  31. Pinot de Moira A et al. (2022). Associations of early-life pet ownership with asthma and allergic sensitization: A meta-analysis of more than 77,000 children from the EU Child Cohort Network. J Allergy Clin Immunol 150(1): 82-92.
  32. Poeran-Bahadoer SD et al. (2022). Influence of maternal vomiting during early pregnancy on school-age respiratory health. Pediatr Pulmonol 57(2): 367-75.
  33. Quezada-Pinedo HG et al. (2022). Ethnic differences in adverse iron status in early pregnancy: a cross-sectional population-based study. J Nutr Sci 11: e39.
  34. Ruiz-Arenas C et al. (2022). Identification of autosomal cis expression quantitative trait methylation (cis eQTMs) in children’s blood. Elife 11.
  35. Sammallahti S et al. (2022). Longitudinal associations of DNA methylation and sleep in children: a meta-analysis. Clin Epigenetics 14(1): 83.
  36. Solomon O et al. (2022). Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in newborns and children show widespread sex differences in blood DNA methylation. Mutat Res Rev Mutat Res 789: 108415.
  37. Taeubert MJ et al. (2022). Maternal iron status in early pregnancy and DNA methylation in offspring: an epigenome-wide meta-analysis. Clin Epigenetics 14(1): 59.
  38. Tobi EW et al. (2022). Maternal Glycemic Dysregulation During Pregnancy and Neonatal Blood DNA Methylation: Meta-analyses of Epigenome-Wide Association Studies. Diabetes Care 45(3): 614-23.
  39. Torres Toda M et al. (2022). Exposure to natural environments during pregnancy and birth outcomes in 11 European birth cohorts. Environ Int 170: 107648.
  40. van Meel ER et al. (2022). Early-life respiratory tract infections and the risk of school-age lower lung function and asthma: a meta-analysis of 150 000 European children. Eur Respir J 60(4).
  41. Vinther JL et al. (2022). Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: findings from analyses of individual data on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies. medRxiv: 2022.06.01.22275859.
  42. Voerman E et al. (2022). Associations of maternal and infant metabolite profiles with foetal growth and the odds of adverse birth outcomes. Pediatr Obes 17(2): e12844.
  43. Vogelezang S et al. (2022). Genetics of early-life head circumference and genetic correlations with neurological, psychiatric and cognitive outcomes. BMC Med Genomics 15(1): 124.
  44. Watson D et al. (2022). A scoping review of nutritional interventions and policy guidelines in the interconception period for prevention of noncommunicable diseases. Reproductive, Female and Child Health 1(1): 18-41.
  45. Wiertsema CJ et al. (2022). Innovative approach for first-trimester fetal organ volume measurements using a Virtual Reality system: The Generation R Next Study. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 48(3): 599-609.
  46. Winkler TW et al. (2022). Differential and shared genetic effects on kidney function between diabetic and non-diabetic individuals. Commun Biol 5(1): 580.
  47. Wootton RE et al. (2022). Decline in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits over the life course in the general population: trajectories across five population birth cohorts spanning ages 3 to 45 years. Int J Epidemiol 51(3): 919-30.
  48. Zugna D et al. (2022). Applied causal inference methods for sequential mediators. BMC Med Res Methodol 22(1): 301.

2021

  1. Ahmed TB et al. (2021). Total Fatty Acid and Polar Lipid Species Composition of Human Milk. Nutrients 14(1).
  2. Alemany S et al. (2021). Prenatal and postnatal exposure to acetaminophen in relation to autism spectrum and attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in childhood: Meta-analysis in six European population-based cohorts. Eur J Epidemiol 36(10): 993-1004.
  3. Ardura-Garcia C et al. (2021). ERS International Congress 2020: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly. ERJ Open Res 7(1).
  4. Auvinen J et al. (2021). Systematic evaluation of the association between hemoglobin levels and metabolic profile implicates beneficial effects of hypoxia. Sci Adv 7(29).
  5. Bell JA et al. (2021). Sex differences in systemic metabolites at four life stages: cohort study with repeated metabolomics. BMC Med 19(1): 58.
  6. Birks LE et al. (2021). Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile communication: Description of modeled dose in brain regions and the body in European children and adolescents. Environ Res 193: 110505.
  7. Brands B et al. (2021). Global e-Learning in Early Nutrition and Lifestyle for International Healthcare Professionals: Design and Evaluation of the Early Nutrition Specialist Programme (ENS). Nutrients 13(3).
  8. Cadman T et al. (2021). Joint associations of parental personality traits and socio‐economic position with trajectories of offspring depression: Findings from up to 6925 families in a UK birth cohort. JCPP Advances 1(3): e12028.
  9. Cadman T et al. (2021). The role of school enjoyment and connectedness in the association between depressive and externalising symptoms and academic attainment: Findings from a UK prospective cohort study. J Affect Disord 295: 974-980.
  10. Chen LW et al. (2021). Associations of maternal dietary inflammatory potential and quality with offspring birth outcomes: An individual participant data pooled analysis of 7 European cohorts in the ALPHABET consortium. PLoS Med 18(1): e1003491.
  11. Chen LW et al. (2021). Maternal dietary quality, inflammatory potential and childhood adiposity: an individual participant data pooled analysis of seven European cohorts in the ALPHABET consortium. BMC Med 19(1): 33.
  12. Choedon T et al. (2021). Population estimates and determinants of severe maternal thinness in India. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 155(3): 380-397.
  13. Demmelmair H et al. (2021). Perinatal Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Status and Obesity Risk. Nutrients 13(11).
  14. de Prado-Bert P et al. (2021). The early-life exposome and epigenetic age acceleration in children. Environ Int 155: 106683.
  15. El Marroun H et al. (2021). Alcohol use and brain morphology in adolescence: A longitudinal study in three different cohorts. Eur J Neurosci 54(6): 6012-26.
  16. Eriksson MD et al. (2021). Higher carotid-radial pulse wave velocity is associated with non-melancholic depressive symptoms in men – findings from Helsinki Birth Cohort Study. Ann Med 53(1): 531-40.
  17. Florian S et al. (2021). Parental migrant status and health inequalities at birth: The role of immigrant educational selectivity. Soc Sci Med 278: 113915.
  18. Geurtsen ML et al. (2021). Associations Between Intake of Sugar-Containing Beverages in Infancy With Liver Fat Accumulation at School Age. Hepatology 73(2): 560-70.
  19. Geurtsen ML et al. (2021). Maternal Early-Pregnancy Glucose Concentrations and Liver Fat Among School-Age Children. Hepatology.
  20. Gomez-Alonso MDC et al. (2021). DNA methylation and lipid metabolism: an EWAS of 226 metabolic measures. Clin Epigenetics 13(1): 7.
  21. Gonzalez J. et al (2021). Metabolomic Signatures in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Patients with Mild or Quiescent Disease Treated with Partial Enteral Nutrition: A Feasibility Study. SLAS TECHNOLOGY 26(2): 165-177
  22. Grote V et al. (2021). Effect of milk protein content in Toddler formula on later BMI and obesity risk: protocol of the multicentre randomised controlled Toddler Milk Intervention (ToMI) trial. BMJ Open 11(12): e048290.
  23. Guerlich K et al. (2021). Sleep duration and problem behaviour in 8-year-old children in the Childhood Obesity Project. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry.
  24. Hartwig FP et al. (2021). Bias in two-sample Mendelian randomization when using heritable covariable-adjusted summary associations. Int J Epidemiol.
  25. Huang RC et al. (2021). Adiposity associated DNA methylation signatures in adolescents are related to leptin and perinatal factors. Epigenetics: 1-18.
  26. Hu C et al. (2021). A population-based study on associations of stool microbiota with atopic diseases in school-age children. J Allergy Clin Immunol 148(2): 612-20.
  27. Hu C et al. (2021). Association between nasal and nasopharyngeal bacterial colonization in early life and eczema phenotypes. Clin Exp Allergy 51(5): 716-25.
  28. Hughes RA et al. (2021). Combining Longitudinal Data From Different Cohorts to Examine the Life-Course Trajectory. Am J Epidemiol.
  29. Jacob CM et al. (2021). A systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions with health education to reduce body mass index in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 18(1): 1.
  30. Jacob CM et al. (2021). Test, Trace and Learn: lessons about COVID-19 from young people Testare, tracciare e imparare: lezioni sul COVID-19 dai giovani. Epidemiol Prev 45(6): 441-442.
  31. Julvez J et al. (2021). Early life multiple exposures and child cognitive function: A multi-centric birth cohort study in six European countries. Environ Pollut 284: 117404.
  32. Karhunen V et al. (2021). The link between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and obesity-related traits: genetic and prenatal explanations. Transl Psychiatry 11(1): 455.
  33. Kurilshikov A et al. (2021). Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition. Nat Genet 53(2): 156-65.
  34. Larrosa S. et al (2021). Fibre Intake Is Associated with Cardiovascular Health in European Children. Nutrients 13(1):12.
  35. Laru J et al. (2021). BMI in childhood and adolescence is associated with impaired reproductive function-a population-based cohort study from birth to age 50 years. Hum Reprod 36(11): 2948-61.
  36. Looman KIM et al. (2021). Increased Th22 cell numbers in a general pediatric population with filaggrin haploinsufficiency: The Generation R Study. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 32(6): 1360-8.
  37. Lubczynska MJ et al. (2021). Air pollution exposure during pregnancy and childhood and brain morphology in preadolescents. Environ Res 198: 110446.
  38. Luo M et al. (2021). Neonatal DNA methylation and childhood low prosocial behavior: An epigenome-wide association meta-analysis. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 186(4): 228-41.
  39. Maitre L et al. (2021). Early-life environmental exposure determinants of child behavior in Europe: A longitudinal, population-based study. Environ Int 153: 106523.
  40. Mensink-Bout SM et al. (2021). Cardio-metabolic risk factors during childhood in relation to lung function and asthma. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 32(5): 945-52.
  41. Min JL et al. (2021). Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation. Nat Genet 53(9): 1311-21.
  42. Moccia C et al. (2021). Birthweight DNA methylation signatures in infant saliva. Clin Epigenetics 13(1): 57.
  43. Modi N et al. (2021). Health of women and children is central to covid-19 recovery. BMJ 373: n899.
  44. Monasso GS et al. (2021). Associations of circulating folate, vitamin B12 and homocysteine concentrations in early pregnancy and cord blood with epigenetic gestational age: the Generation R Study. Clin Epigenetics 13(1): 95.
  45. Monasso GS et al. (2021). Associations of Early Pregnancy and Neonatal Circulating Folate, Vitamin B-12, and Homocysteine Concentrations with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children at 10 y of Age. J Nutr 151(6): 1628-36.
  46. Monasso GS et al. (2021). Epigenetic age acceleration and cardiovascular outcomes in school-age children: The Generation R Study. Clin Epigenetics 13(1): 205.
  47. Monasso GS et al. (2021). Vitamin B12, folate and homocysteine concentrations during pregnancy and early signs of atherosclerosis at school-age. Clin Nutr 40(9): 5133-40.
  48. Mulder RH et al. (2021). Epigenome-wide change and variation in DNA methylation in childhood: trajectories from birth to late adolescence. Hum Mol Genet 30(1): 119-34.
  49. Nader JL et al. (2021). Cohort description: Measures of early-life behaviour and later psychopathology in the LifeCycle Project – EU Child Cohort Network. J Epidemiol.  Online ahead of print.
  50. Nedelec R et al. (2021). Maternal and infant prediction of the child BMI trajectories; studies across two generations of Northern Finland birth cohorts. Int J Obes (Lond) 45(2): 404-14.
  51. Newton-Tanzer E et al. (2021). Acute Metabolic Response in Adults to Toddler Milk Formulas with Alternating Higher and Lower Protein and Fat Contents, a Randomized Cross-Over Trial. Nutrients 13(9).
  52. Penkler M et al. (2021). Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, resilience and social justice in the COVID era. J Dev Orig Health Dis. Online ahead of print.
  53. Penova-Veselinovic B et al. (2021). DNA methylation patterns within whole blood of adolescents born from assisted reproductive technology are not different from adolescents born from natural conception. Hum Reprod 36(7): 2035-49.
  54. Pinot de Moira A et al. (2021). The EU Child Cohort Network’s core data: establishing a set of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) variables. Eur J Epidemiol 36(5): 565-80. 
  55. Polanska K et al. (2021). Dietary Quality and Dietary Inflammatory Potential During Pregnancy and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms in Childhood: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of Four European Cohorts. Biol Psychiatry 89(6): 550-9.
  56. Popovic M et al. (2021). Determination of saliva epigenetic age in infancy, and its association with parental socio-economic characteristics and pregnancy outcomes. J Dev Orig Health Dis, 12(2), 319-327.
  57. Quezada-Pinedo HG et al. (2021). Maternal iron status during early pregnancy and school-age, lung function, asthma, and allergy: The Generation R Study. Pediatr Pulmonol 56(6): 1771-8.
  58. Quezada-Pinedo HG et al. (2021). Maternal Iron Status in Pregnancy and Child Health Outcomes after Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients 13(7).
  59. Rasella D et al. (2021). Developing an integrated microsimulation model for the impact of fiscal policies on child health in Europe: the example of childhood obesity in Italy. BMC Med 19(1): 310.
  60. Rijlaarsdam J et al. (2021). Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns associated with general psychopathology in children. J Psychiatr Res 140: 214-20.
  61. Ronkainen J et al. (2021). Maternal haemoglobin levels in pregnancy and child DNA methylation: a study in the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics consortium. Epigenetics: 1-13.
  62. Sammallahti S et al. (2021). Maternal anxiety during pregnancy and newborn epigenome-wide DNA methylation. Mol Psychiatry 26(6): 1832-45.
  63. Sammallahti S et al. (2021). Prenatal maternal and cord blood vitamin D concentrations and negative affectivity in infancy. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry.
  64. Sethi V et al. (2021). Screening and management options for severe thinness during pregnancy in India. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 155(3): 357-379.
  65. Sharp GC et al. (2021). Paternal body mass index and offspring DNA methylation: findings from the PACE consortium. Int J Epidemiol 50(4): 1297-315.
  66. Sirkka O et al. (2021). Dietary Patterns in Early Childhood and the Risk of Childhood Overweight: The GECKO Drenthe Birth Cohort. Nutrients 13(6).
  67. Taylor K et al. (2021). Effect of Maternal Prepregnancy/Early-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and Pregnancy Smoking and Alcohol on Congenital Heart Diseases: A Parental Negative Control Study. J Am Heart Assoc 10(11): e020051.
  68. Ubalde-Lopez M et al. (2021). Working life, health and well-being of parents: a joint effort to uncover hidden treasures in European birth cohorts. Scand J Work Environ Health 47(7): 550-60.
  69. van den Dries MA et al. (2021). Prenatal Exposure to Nonpersistent Chemical Mixtures and Fetal Growth: A Population-Based Study. Environ Health Perspect 129(11): 117008.
  70. van Dongen J et al. (2021). DNA methylation signatures of aggression and closely related constructs: A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide studies across the lifespan. Mol Psychiatry 26(6): 2148-62.
  71. Vehmeijer FOL et al. (2021). Associations of Hair Cortisol Concentrations With Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Childhood. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 106(9): e3400-e13.
  72. Vrijheid M et al. (2021). Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE): Project overview. Environ Epidemiol 5(5): e166.
  73. Wang G et al. (2021). Spirometric phenotypes from early childhood to young adulthood: a Chronic Airway Disease Early Stratification study. ERJ Open Res 7(4).
  74. Warembourg C et al. (2021). Urban environment during early-life and blood pressure in young children. Environ Int 146: 106174.
  75. Wiertsema CJ et al. (2021). First trimester fetal proportion volumetric measurements using a Virtual Reality approach. Prenat Diagn 41(7): 868-76.
  76. Zou R et al. (2021). Maternal polyunsaturated fatty acids during pregnancy and offspring brain development in childhood. Am J Clin Nutr 114(1): 124-33.

2020

  1. Al Rashid K et al. (2020). Association of the serum metabolomic profile by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with sperm parameters: a cross-sectional study of 325 men. F S Sci 1(2): 142-60.
  2. Beaumont RN et al. (2020). Common maternal and fetal genetic variants show expected polygenic effects on risk of small- or large-for-gestational-age (SGA or LGA), except in the smallest 3% of babies. PLoS Genet 16(12): e1009191.
  3. Bjerregaard LG et al. (2020). Possible Modifiers of the Association Between Change in Weight Status From Child Through Adult Ages and Later Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care 43(5): 1000-7.
  4. Cabre-Riera A et al. (2020). Estimated whole-brain and lobe-specific radiofrequency electromagnetic fields doses and brain volumes in preadolescents. Environ Int 142: 105808.
  5. Caramaschi D. et al. (2020). Epigenome-wide association study of seizures in childhood and adolescence. Clin Epigenetics. 12(1): 8.
  6. Dall’ Aglio L et al. (2020). Epigenome-wide associations between observed maternal sensitivity and offspring DNA methylation: a population-based prospective study in children. Psychol Med: 1-11.
  7. Ehakeem A et al. (2020). Age at puberty and accelerometer-measured physical activity: Findings from two independent UK cohorts. Ann Hum Biol 47(4): 391-9.
  8. El Marroun H et al. (2020). Association of Gestational Age at Birth With Brain Morphometry. JAMA Pediatr 174(12): 1149-58.
  9. Geurtsen ML et al. (2020). Associations of maternal early-pregnancy blood glucose and insulin concentrations with DNA methylation in newborns. Clin Epigenetics 12(1): 134.
  10. Hamoen M et al. (2020). Development of a prediction model to target screening for high blood pressure in children. Prev Med 132: 105997.
  11. Hanson M. et al. (2020). New guidelines, position paper, and insights from the FIGO Pregnancy Obesity and Nutrition Initiative (PONI). Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 151(S1), 1-3.
  12. Hu C et al. (2020). Associations of eczema phenotypes with emotional and behavioural problems from birth until school age. The Generation R Study. Br J Dermatol 183(2): 311-20.
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  45. van Meel ER et al. (2020). The influence of Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus on childhood respiratory health: A population-based prospective cohort study. Clin Exp Allergy 50(4): 499-507.
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2019

  1. Alemany S. et al. (2019). Common Polygenic Variations for Psychiatric Disorders and Cognition in Relation to Brain Morphology in the General Pediatric Population. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. Online first: S0890-8567(19)30007-3.
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  9. Cardenas A. et al. (2019). Prenatal maternal antidepressants, anxiety, and depression and offspring DNA methylation: epigenome-wide associations at birth and persistence into early childhood. Clin Epigenetics 11(1): 56.
  10. Chandni M.J. (2019). Do the concepts of “life course approach” and “developmental origins of health and disease” underpin current maternity care? Study protocol. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 147(2): 140-146.
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  12. Couto Alves A. et al. (2019). GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI. Sci Adv 5(9): eaaw3095.
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  14. Elhakeem A. (2019). Association Between Age at Puberty and Bone Accrual From 10 to 25 Years of Age. JAMA Netw Open 2(8): e198918.
  15. Geurtsen M.L. (2019). Newborn and childhood differential DNA methylation and liver fat in school-age children. Clin Epigenetics 12(1): 3.
  16. Gruzieva O. et al. (2019). Prenatal Particulate Air Pollution and DNA Methylation in Newborns: An Epigenome-Wide Meta-Analysis. Environ Health Perspect 127(5): 57012.
  17. Haworth S. et al. (2019). Low-frequency variation in TP53 has large effects on head circumference and intracranial volume. Nat Commun 10(1): 357.
  18. Hwang L.D. et al. (2019). Using a two-sample Mendelian randomization design to investigate a possible causal effect of maternal lipid concentrations on offspring birth weight. Int J Epidemiol. 48(5): 1457-1467.
  19. Hu C et al. (2019). Most associations of early-life environmental exposures and genetic risk factors poorly differentiate between eczema phenotypes: the Generation R Study. Br J Dermatol 181(6): 1190-7.
  20. Jacob C.M. et al. (2019). What quantitative and qualitative methods have been developed to measure the implementation of a life-course approach in public health policies at the national level? in Health Evidence Network synthesis report 63. Copenhagen. Publisher: WHO Europe.
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  22. Jacob C.M., Newell M.L., and Hanson M. (2019). Narrative review of reviews of preconception interventions to prevent an increased risk of obesity and non-communicable diseases in children. Obes Rev 20, Suppl 1: 5-17.
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  27. Küpers L.K. et al. (2019). Meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in neonates reveals widespread differential DNA methylation associated with birth weight. Nat Commun 10: 1893.
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  29. Liu J. et al. (2019). An integrative cross-omics analysis of DNA methylation sites of glucose and insulin homeostasis. Nat Commun 10(1): 2581.
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  33. Markovic M et al. (2019). Prenatal exposure to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 28(4): 452-9.
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  36. Miliku K. et al. (2019). Associations of maternal and fetal vitamin D status with childhood body composition and cardiovascular risk factors. Matern Child Nutr 15(2): e12672.
  37. Mills H.L. et al. (2019). The effect of a lifestyle intervention in obese pregnant women on gestational metabolic profiles: findings from the UK Pregnancies Better Eating and Activity Trial (UPBEAT) randomised controlled trial. BMC Med 17(1): 15.
  38. Muetzel RL et al. (2019). Frequent Bullying Involvement and Brain Morphology in Children. Front Psychiatry 10: 696.
  39. Pearce N., Vandenbroucke J.P., and Lawlor D.A. (2019). Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology: Old and New Approaches. Epidemiology 30(3): 311-316.
  40. Popovic M. et al. (2019). Differentially methylated DNA regions in early childhood wheezing: An epigenome‐wide study using saliva. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 30: 305– 314
  41. Poulsen G. et al. (2019). Does smoking during pregnancy mediate educational disparities in preterm delivery? Findings from three large birth cohorts. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 33: 164– 171.
  42. Rantalainen V et al. (2019). APOE varepsilon4, rs405509, and rs440446 promoter and intron-1 polymorphisms and dementia risk in a cohort of elderly Finns-Helsinki Birth Cohort Study. Neurobiol Aging 73: 230 e5- e8.
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  44. Richiardi L. et al. (2019). Baseline selection on a collider: a ubiquitous mechanism occurring in both representative and selected cohort studies. J Epidemiol Community Health 73: 475-480.
  45. Richiardi L (2019). [Research question and study validity] Il quesito di ricerca e la validita degli studi. Epidemiol Prev 43(4): 217-9.
  46. Rodriguez A et al. (2019). Antenatal corticosteroid therapy (ACT) and size at birth: A population-based analysis using the Finnish Medical Birth Register. PLoS Med 16(2): e1002746.
  47. Ronkainen J et al. (2019). Maternal hemoglobin associates with preterm delivery and small for gestational age in two Finnish birth cohorts. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 238: 44-8.
  48. Santos S. et al. (2019). Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and childhood abdominal, pericardial and liver fat assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Obes 43(3): 581-593.
  49. Santos S. et al. (2019). Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: an individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American, and Australian cohorts. BJOG 126(8): 984-995.
  50. Santos S. et al. (2019). Sources of confounding in life course epidemiology. J Dev Orig Health Dis 10(3): 299-305.
  51. Sikdar S. et al. (2019). Comparison of smoking-related DNA methylation between newborns from prenatal exposure and adults from personal smoking. Epigenomics 11(13): 1487-500.
  52. Stott J et al. (2019). Cognitive mediation in people with dementia: Development, structural, and construct validity of the first dementia-specific measure. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 34(11): 1590-8.
  53. Teumer A. et al. (2019). Genome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-mapping elucidate pathways influencing albuminuria. Nat Commun 10(1): 4130.
  54. Theurich M.A. et al. (2019). Commercial complementary food use amongst European infants and children: results from the EU Childhood Obesity Project. Eur J Nutr 59: 1679–1692.
  55. Thyssen J.P. et al. (2019). Interaction between filaggrin mutations and neonatal cat exposure in atopic dermatitis. Allergy 75(6): 1481-1485.
  56. Vehmeijer FOL. (2019). Maternal psychological distress during pregnancy and childhood health outcomes: a narrative review. J Dev Orig Health Dis 10(3): 274-285.
  57. Verdejo-Roman J. et al. (2019). Maternal prepregnancy body mass index and offspring white matter microstructure: results from three birth cohorts. Int J Obes (Lond) 43(10): 1995-2006.
  58. Voerman E. and the LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity and Childhood Outcomes Study Group (2019). Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes. JAMA 321 (17): 1702-1715.
  59. Voerman E. et al. (2019). Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis. PLOS Medicine. Online first: 16(2): e1002744.
  60. Warrington N.M. et al. (2019). Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors. Nat Genet 51(5): 804-814.
  61. Wiklund P. et al. DNA methylation links prenatal smoking exposure to later life health outcomes in offspring. Clin Epigenetics 11(1): 97.
  62. Wuttke M. et al. (2019). A catalog of genetic loci associated with kidney function from analyses of a million individuals. Nat Genet 51(6): 957-972.
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2018

  1. Beaumont R.N. et al. (2018). Genome-wide association study of offspring birth weight in 86 577 women identifies five novel loci and highlights maternal genetic effects that are independent of fetal genetics. Hum Mol Genet 27(4): 742-756.
  2. Björkqvist J. et al. (2018). Premature birth and circadian preference in young adulthood: evidence from two birth cohorts. Chronobiol Int 35(4): 555-564.
  3. Brand J.S. et al. (2018). Gestational diabetes and ultrasound-assessed fetal growth in South Asian and White European women: findings from a prospective pregnancy cohort. BMC Med 16(1): 203.
  4. Casas M. et al. (2018). The effect of early growth patterns and lung function on the development of childhood asthma: a population-based study. Thorax. Online first: 31 July 2018.
  5. Contreras Z.A., et al. (2018). Does early-onset asthma increase childhood obesity risk? A pooled analysis of 16 European cohorts. Eur Respir J. Online first: 52(3): 1800504.
  6. Demenais F. et al. (2018). Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks. Nat Genet. 50(1): 42-53.
  7. den Dekker H.T. et al. (2018). Fetal and Infant Growth Patterns and Risk of Lower Lung Function and Asthma. The Generation R Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 197(2): 183-192.
  8. Felix J.F. and Cecil C.A.M. (2018). Population DNA methylation studies in the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) framework. J Dev Orig Health Dis 10(3): 306-313.
  9. Felix J.F. et al. (2018). Cohort Profile: Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium. Int J Epidemiol 47(1): 22-3u.
  10. Gaillard R., Wright J. and Jaddoe V.W.V. (2018). Lifestyle intervention strategies in early life to improve pregnancy outcomes and long-term health of offspring: a narrative review. J Dev Ori Health Dis 10(3): 314-321.
  11. Golab B.P. et al. (2018). Influence of maternal obesity on the association between common pregnancy complications and risk of childhood obesity: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2(11): 812-821.
  12. Guxens M. et al. (2018). Air Pollution Exposure During Fetal Life, Brain Morphology, and Cognitive Function in School-Age Children. Biol Psychiatry 84(4): 295-303.
  13. Hamoen M et al. (2018). Dynamic prediction of childhood high blood pressure in a population-based birth cohort: a model development study. BMJ Open 8(11): e023912.
  14. Magnus M.C. et al. (2018). Vitamin D and risk of pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders: mendelian randomisation study. BMJ 361: k2167.
  15. McEachan R.R.C. et al. (2018). Availability, use of, and satisfaction with green space, and children’s mental wellbeing at age 4 years in a multicultural, deprived, urban area: results from the Born in Bradford cohort study. Lancet Planet Health 2(6): e244-e54.
  16. Parmar P. et al. (2018). Association of maternal prenatal smoking GFI1-locus and cardio-metabolic phenotypes in 18,212 adults. EBioMedicine 38: 206-216.
  17. Peng C. et al. (2018). Residential Proximity to Major Roadways at Birth, DNA Methylation at Birth and Midchildhood, and Childhood Cognitive Test Scores: Project Viva (Massachusetts, USA). Environ Health Perspect 126(9): 97006.
  18. Santos S. et. al. (2018). Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America, and Oceania. BMC Medicine. Online first: 16 (201): 1-15.
  19. Santos S. et al. (2018). Sources of confounding in life course epidemiology. J Dev Ori Health Dis 10(3): 299-305.
  20. Sharp G.C. et al. (2018). Maternal alcohol consumption and offspring DNA methylation: findings from six general population-based birth cohorts. Epigenomics 10 (1): 27-42.
  21. van Meel E.R. et al. (2018). A population-based prospective cohort study examining the influence of early-life respiratory tract infections on school-age lung function and asthma. Thorax 73 (2): 167-173.
  22. Viuff A.C. et al. (2018). Maternal depression during pregnancy and cord blood DNA methylation: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Transl Psychiatry 8(1): 244.
  23. Vogelezang S. et al. (2018). Infant breastfeeding and childhood general, visceral, liver, and pericardial fat measures assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Am J Clin Nutr 108(4): 722-729.
  24. Waage J. et al. (2018). Genome-wide association and HLA fine-mapping studies identify risk loci and genetic pathways underlying allergic rhinitis. Nat Genet 50 (8): 1072-1080.
  25. Warrington N.M. et al. (2018). Maternal and fetal genetic contribution to gestational weight gain. Int J Obes (Lond) 42 (4): 775-784.
  26. Wilmink F.A. et al. (2018). Maternal blood pressure and hypertensive disorders during pregnancy and childhood respiratory morbidity: the Generation R Study. Eur Respir J. Online first: 52(5): 1800378.
  27. Zugna D. and Richiardi L. (2018). Effects decomposition in mediation analysis: a numerical example. Epidemiol Prev 42 (2): 127-133.

2017

  1. Elbert NJ et al. (2017). Allergenic food introduction and risk of childhood atopic diseases. PLoS One 12(11): e0187999.
  2. Herzog E.M. et al. (2017). Early- and late-onset preeclampsia and the tissue-specific epigenome of the placenta and newborn. Placenta 58: 122-132.
  3. Lubczynska M.J. et al. (2017). Exposure to elemental composition of outdoor PM2.5 at birth and cognitive and psychomotor function in childhood in four European birth cohorts. Environ Int 109: 170-180.
  4. Popovic M. et al. (2017). Increased correlation between methylation sites in epigenome-wide replication studies:impact on analysis and results. Epigenomics 9: 1489-1502.
  5. Rautio N. et al. (2017). Living environment and its relationship to depressive mood: A systematic review. Int J Soc Psychiatry 64 (1): 92-103.
  6. Richmond R.C. et al. (2017). Using Genetic Variation to Explore the Causal Effect of Maternal Pregnancy Adiposity on Future Offspring Adiposity: A Mendelian Randomisation Study. PLoS Med 14 (1): e1002221.
  7. Sharp G.C. et al. (2017). Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium. Hum Mol Genet 26 (20): 4067-4085.
  8. van Meel E.R. et al. (2017). The role of respiratory tract infections and the microbiome in the development of asthma: A narrative review. Pediatr Pulmonol 52 (10): 1363-1370.

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