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Table 2 OCPs and PCBs—significant adjusted difference (BACON-corrected FDR p values < 0.05) in placenta DNA methylation associated with maternal plasma concentration of POPs (n = 260)

From: Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in maternal plasma and epigenome-wide placental DNA methylation

Class

Chemicals

CpG

Gene

logFC

[95% CI]

BACON-corrected p value

BACON-corrected FDR p value

OCPs

HCB

cg27066638

GMIP

− 7.98

[− 10.47, − 5.48]

6.70E−08

2.74E−02

cg11792277

C6orf217

1.27

[0.87, 1.67]

1.69E−07

3.46E−02

Trans-nonachlor

cg27641830

RBM39

− 5.52

[− 6. 18, − 4.24]

9.07E−12

3.71E−06

cg04689409

THNSL1

− 2.76

[− 3.47, − 2.05]

8.13E−10

1.66E−04

cg19851715

HIST1H2BI

0.60

[0.44, 0.77]

7.14E−09

9.73E−04

cg00718518

SH3PXD2B

− 0.26

[− 0.34, − 0.18]

3.23E−07

3.04E−02

cg19358877

ZNF471

− 2.47

[− 3.52, − 1.69]

4.52E−07

3.04E−02

cg13406593

QRFP*

− 0.29

[− 0.39, − 0.20]

5.14E−07

3.04E−02

cg17462356

FASN

− 2.76

[− 3.64, − 1.89]

5.75E−07

3.04E−02

cg23330710

PIGT

− 1.37

[− 1.81, − 0.94]

5.95E−07

3.04E−02

cg07814876

GGPS1;ARID4B

− 2.18

[− 2.88, − 1.49]

6.73E−07

3.06E−02

cg04568710

ALG10B

− 0.95

[− 1.26, − 0.64]

1.07E−06

4.37E−02

p,p′-DDE

cg24596729

LMX1A*

0.13

[0.10, 0.16]

1.27E−10

5.20E−05

cg13910813

AKNA

− 0.26

[− 0.33, − 0.19]

7.74E−09

1.58E−03

PCBs

PCB 138/158

cg06219267

FBXO24

− 0.63

[− 0.81, − 0.46]

2.95E−09

1.21E−03

cg02537221

NHEJ1

− 0.68

[− 0.88, − 0.49]

8.82E−09

1.80E−03

cg01110147

PSMA3

0.23

[0.16, 0.29]

9.17E−08

1.25E−02

PCB 153

cg06219267

FBXO24

− 0.63

[− 0.81, − 0.44]

7.04E−08

2.88E−02

PCB 180

cg18663897

NDUFA10

− 0.56

[− 0.70, − 0.42]

2.02E−10

8.27E−05

cg19179910

MUC21

− 0.45

[− 0.57, − 0.32]

5.25E−08

1.07E−02

cg11562147

C6orf222

0.11

[0.08, 0.14]

1.36E−07

1.39E−02

cg26184687

MKNK2

− 0.18

[− 0.23, − 0.12]

1.11E−07

1.39E−02

cg17874528

KLHL25

− 0.23

[− 0.30, − 0.16]

3.21E−07

2.63E−02

  1. Adjusted for maternal self-reported race/ethnicity, maternal age in years, fetal sex, maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, total lipid, cotinine level, methylation sample plate, first three methylation principal component (PCs), the first 10 genotype PCs, and surrogate variable analysis (SVA)
  2. logFC logarithm of fold change, FDR false discovery rate
  3. * Annotation from the nearest gene