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Table 3 Top 20 biologic pathways by rank sum across both cohorts and tissues

From: Prenatal vitamin intake in first month of pregnancy and DNA methylation in cord blood and placenta in two prospective cohorts

Biologic pathway

MARBLES cord rank

MARBLES placenta rank

EARLI cord rank

EARLI placenta rank

Rank sum

Behavior

33

29

41

137

240

Nervous system development

718

8

1

8

735

Axon development

255

282

368

13

918

Regulation of synaptic plasticity

116

313

122

434

985

Synapse organization

760

25

285

42

1112

Neurogenesis

1125

5

18

32

1180

Cell morphogenesis involved in differentiation

424

35

671

121

1251

Neuron differentiation

1218

3

17

39

1277

Axonogenesis

149

270

884

11

1314

Neuron development

1257

1

178

35

1471

Central nervous system development

742

67

348

320

1477

Eating behavior

1069

162

104

260

1595

Cognition

30

146

197

1286

1659

Cell morphogenesis involved in neuron differentiation

663

54

975

46

1738

Generation of neurons

1726

10

16

23

1775

Import into cell

165

394

513

767

1839

Neuron recognition

56

716

686

443

1901

Long-term synaptic potentiation

282

363

869

408

1922

Learning or memory

54

334

214

1376

1978

Anatomical structure morphogenesis

1163

471

175

169

1978

  1. Pathway results from missMethyl, using CpG sites associated with prenatal vitamin use in month 1 of pregnancy with P < 0.01 as input (MARBLES cord nCpGs = 4455, MARBLES placenta nCpGs = 9340, EARLI cord nCpGs = 4032, EARLI placenta nCpGs = 3589)