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  • Reproductive Medicine

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  • Maternal diabetes is a significant risk factor for congenital anomalies, particularly neural tube defects (NTDs) in offspring.
  • DNA methylation, an epigenetic mechanism, is crucial for embryonic development and may be implicated in diabetes-induced NTDs.

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  • To investigate the impact of maternal diabetes on embryonic DNA methylation patterns.
  • To identify specific genes involved in neural tube closure that exhibit altered DNA methylation and expression in response to maternal diabetes.

Main Methods:

  • Comparison of DNA methylation distribution between embryos from diabetic and nondiabetic models.
  • Analysis of differentially methylated CpGs (dmCpGs) and CpG islands in various genomic regions (promoter, gene body, transcription start/end sites).
  • Quantitative assessment of gene expression for key neural tube development genes (Sphk1, Twist1, Shroom3).

Main Results:

  • Overall DNA methylation distribution showed no significant difference between diabetic and nondiabetic embryos.
  • Nondiabetic embryos exhibited higher methylation levels at dmCpGs near transcription start/end sites and gene bodies compared to diabetic embryos.
  • Diabetic embryos displayed increased methylation in CpG islands, particularly in promoter and gene body regions of Sphk1, Twist1, and Shroom3, with corresponding alterations in gene expression.

Conclusions:

  • Maternal diabetes induces specific alterations in embryonic DNA methylation, especially within CpG islands and key developmental genes.
  • Aberrant DNA methylation and subsequent changes in gene expression (Sphk1, Twist1, Shroom3) in diabetic embryos may contribute to the pathophysiology of NTDs.
  • Epigenetic dysregulation via DNA methylation is a potential mechanism linking maternal diabetes to embryonic NTDs.