Overall lack of replication of associations between dietary intake of folate and vitamin B-12 and DNA methylation in peripheral blood

PA Dugué; JA Chamberlain; JK Bassett; AM Hodge; MT Brinkman; JHE Joo; CH Jung; EM Wong; E Makalic; DF Schmidt; JL Hopper; DD Buchanan; DR English; RL Milne; MC Southey; GG Giles

Journal article

Overall lack of replication of associations between dietary intake of folate and vitamin B-12 and DNA methylation in peripheral blood

PA Dugué, JA Chamberlain, JK Bassett, AM Hodge, MT Brinkman, JHE Joo, CH Jung, EM Wong, E Makalic, DF Schmidt, JL Hopper, DD Buchanan, DR English, RL Milne, MC Southey, GG Giles

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz253

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Funding Acknowledgements

Supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; grant 1088405). Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS) cohort recruitment was funded by VicHealth and Cancer Council Victoria. The MCCS was further supported by the NHMRC (grants 396414 and 209057) and by infrastructure provided by Cancer Council Victoria. The nested case-control methylation studies were supported by the NHMRC (grants 1011618, 1026892, 1027505, 1050198, 1043616, and 1074383). MCS is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow (1061177). DDB is a University of Melbourne Research at Melbourne Accelerator Program (R@MAP) Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC RD Wright Career Development Fellow.