Characteristics of the epigenetic subsample (1,650 mother–newborn pairs) from the CHILD, FAMILY, START cohorts.

Manhattan plots of the meta-analyzed association between cord blood DNAm and maternal smoking in Europeans.

Manhattan plots summarized the meta-analyzed association p-values between cord blood DNA methylation levels and current maternal smoking (A) or smoking exposure (B) at a common set of 2,114 CpG sites. The red line denotes the smallest -log10(p-value) that is below the FDR correction threshold of 0.05. The red dots represent established associations with maternal smoking reported in Joubert and colleagues (18).

Meta-analysis results of maternal smoking and smoking exposure that were significant after false discovery rate correction in European cohorts.

Relationships between maternal smoking MRS and maternal smoking history categories for each of the studies.

Maternal smoking methylation score (y-axis) was shown as a function of maternal smoking history (x-axis) in levels of severity for prenatal exposure for each study. Each severity level was compared to the never-smoking group and the corresponding two sample t-test p-value was reported. An omnibus test p-value to test whether a mean difference in methylation score was present among all smoking history categories.

Significant associations between maternal smoking methylation risk score and phenotypes in CHILD, FAMILY and START.