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Table 1 Characteristics of participating study cohorts

From: Maternal asthma and newborn DNA methylation

Cohort

Tissue

Chip

Ethnicity

Male %

Sustained smoking during pregnancy, (%)

Maternal asthma during pregnancy, N (%)

Maternal asthma ever, N (%)

Paternal asthma ever, N (%)

   
      

Total N: 3899

Total N: 7433

Total N: 4919

   
      

Case N (%)

N

Case N (%)

N

Case N (%)

N

ALSPAC

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

48.5

9.4

NA

NA

84 (10)

841

58 (7)

815

CHS

Newborn blood spots

450 K

EUR

40.9

7.6

NA

NA

19 (9)

210

12 (6)

210

DCHS

Cord blood

450 K

African/Admixed

55.7

29.4

NA

NA

7 (3)

262

NA

NA

EDEN

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

60.2

24.2

17 (11)

161

17 (11)

161

12 (7)

161

GENR

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

48.6

10.8

NA

NA

57 (7)

868

53 (6)

868

INMA

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

51.6

14.4

NA

NA

31 (8)

376

28 (7)

376

IOW

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

51.1

24.5

19 (21)

90

35 (35)

99

23 (28)

82

LINA

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

52.7

14.8

NA

NA

50 (11)

456

38 (9)

439

MoBA1

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

53.3

15.2

85 (8)

1001

124 (12)

1040

64 (8)

776

MoBA2

Cord blood

450 K

EUR

56.5

12.2

51 (8)

637

74 (11)

660

50 (11)

452

MINERvA

Newborn peripheral blood

450 K

EUR

49.9

NA

30 (2)

1259

30 (2)

1259

NA

NA

NorthPop

Cord blood

EPIC

EUR

47.6

0.4

49 (22)

220

105 (16)

672

41 (19)

211

UpstateKIDS

Blood spots

EPIC

EUR. African

50.9

4.1

27 (5)

531

93 (18)

529

61 (12)

529