TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheiner, Ricarda
T1  - Birth weight and sucrose responsiveness predict cognitive skills of honeybee foragers
JF  - Animal behaviour
N2  - Honeybees, Apis mellifera, can differ considerably in their birth weights but the consequences of these weight differences for behaviour are unknown. I investigated how these birth weight differences affected their cognitive skills when the bees reached foraging age. Individual sucrose responsiveness measured by the proboscis extension response is a strong determinant of appetitive olfactory learning performance in honeybees. Most of the observed learning differences between individuals or between genetic bee strains correlate with differences in their sucrose responsiveness. My second aim was therefore to investigate whether the sucrose responsiveness of newly emerged bees could predict the learning behaviour of the bees 3 weeks later. Both birth weight and sucrose responsiveness measured at emergence could predict olfactory learning scores as demonstrated by significant positive correlations. Heavy bees and bees with high sucrose responsiveness later learned better than lighter individuals or bees with lower responsiveness to sucrose at emergence. These results demonstrate for the first time a fundamental relationship between sensory responsiveness and morphology at emergence and later cognitive skills in insects. Because sensory responsiveness is closely linked to division of labour in honeybees, differences in weight and sucrose responsiveness at emergence might be involved in regulating division of labour.
KW  - Apis mellifera
KW  - birth weight
KW  - division of labour
KW  - foraging
KW  - honeybee
KW  - learning
KW  - maternal provisioning
KW  - sucrose responsiveness
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.05.011
SN  - 0003-3472
VL  - 84
IS  - 2
SP  - 305
EP  - 308
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Rogol, Alan D.
A1  - Iancu, Mirela
A1  - Hanc, Tomasz
A1  - Moelyo, Annang Giri
A1  - Suchomlinov, Andrej
A1  - Lebedeva, Lidia
A1  - Limony, Yehuda
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Veldre, Gudrun
A1  - Godina, Elena Z.
A1  - Kirchengast, Sylvia
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Groth, Detlef
A1  - Tutkuviene, Janina
A1  - Böker, Sonja
A1  - Ozer, Basak Koca
A1  - Navazo, Barbara
A1  - Spake, Laure
A1  - Koziel, Slawomir
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
T1  - Growth during times of fear and emotional stress
BT  - Proceedings of the 28th Aschauer Soiree, held at Potsdam, Germany, and online, November 14th 2020
JF  - Human biology and public health
N2  - Twenty-one scientists met for this year’s virtual conference on Auxology held at the University Potsdam, Germany, to discuss child and adolescent growth during times of fear and emotional stress. Growth within the broad range of normal for age and sex is considered a sign of good general health whereas fear and emotional stress can lead to growth faltering. Stunting is a sign of social disadvantage and poor parental education. Adverse childhood experiences affect child development, particularly in families with low parental education and low socioeconomic status. Negative effects were also shown in Indian children exposed prenatally and in early postnatal life to the cyclone Aila in 2009. Distrust, fears and fake news regarding the current Corona pandemic received particular attention though the effects generally appeared weak. Mean birth weight was higher; rates of low, very and extremely low birth weight were lower. Other topics discussed by the participants, were the influences of economic crises on birth weight, the measurement of self-confidence and its impact on growth, the associations between obesity, peer relationship, and behavior among Turkish adolescents, height trends in Indonesia, physiological neonatal weight loss, methods for assessing biological maturation in sportsmen, and a new method for skeletal age determination. The participants also discussed the association between acute myocardial infarction and somatotype in Estonia, rural-urban growth differences in Mongolian children, socio-environmental conditions and sexual dimorphism, biological mortality bias, and new statistical techniques for describing inhomogeneity in the association of bivariate variables, and for detecting and visualizing extensive interactions among variables.
KW  - stunting
KW  - birth weight
KW  - fear
KW  - emotional stress
KW  - economy
KW  - SEPE
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph.v2.15
SN  - 2748-9957
IS  - 2
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Lu, Yong-Ping
A1  - Reichetzeder, Christoph
A1  - Prehn, Cornelia
A1  - Yin, Liang-Hong
A1  - Yun, Chen
A1  - Zeng, Shufei
A1  - Chu, Chang
A1  - Adamski, Jerzy
A1  - Hocher, Berthold
T1  - Cord blood Lysophosphatidylcholine 16:1 is positively associated with birth weight
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Background/Aims: Impaired birth outcomes, like low birth weight, have consistently been associated with increased disease susceptibility to hypertension in later life. Alterations in the maternal or fetal metabolism might impact on fetal growth and influence birth outcomes. Discerning associations between the maternal and fetal metabolome and surrogate parameters of fetal growth could give new insight into the complex relationship between intrauterine conditions, birth outcomes, and later life disease susceptibility. Methods: Using flow injection tandem mass spectrometry, targeted metabolomics was performed in serum samples obtained from 226 mother/child pairs at delivery. Associations between neonatal birth weight and concentrations of 163 maternal and fetal metabolites were analyzed. Results: After FDR adjustment using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure lysophosphatidylcholines (LPC) 14:0, 16:1, and 18:1 were strongly positively correlated with birth weight. In a stepwise linear regression model corrected for established confounding factors of birth weight, LPC 16: 1 showed the strongest independent association with birth weight (CI: 93.63 - 168.94; P = 6.94x10(-11)). The association with birth weight was stronger than classical confounding factors such as offspring sex (CI: - 258.81- -61.32; P = 0.002) and maternal smoking during pregnancy (CI: -298.74 - -29.51; P = 0.017). Conclusions: After correction for multiple testing and adjustment for potential confounders, LPC 16:1 showed a very strong and independent association with birth weight. The underlying molecular mechanisms linking fetal LPCs with birth weight need to be addressed in future studies. (c) 2018 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 631 
KW  - metabolomics
KW  - Lysophosphatidylcholine
KW  - birth weight
KW  - DOHaD
KW  - hypertension
KW  - Type 2 Diabetes
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424566
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 631
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Secular trends in gestational weight gain and parity on birth weight
BT  - an editorial
JF  - Acta paediatrica : nurturing the child
KW  - birth weight
KW  - gestational weight gain
KW  - multipara
KW  - parity
KW  - primipara
KW  - secular trend
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15678
SN  - 0803-5253
SN  - 1651-2227
VL  - 110
IS  - 4
SP  - 1094
EP  - 1096
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Dwi Putra, Sulistyo Emantoko
A1  - Reichetzeder, Christoph
A1  - Hasan, Ahmed Abdallah Abdalrahman Mohamed
A1  - Slowinski, Torsten
A1  - Chu, Chang
A1  - Krämer, Bernhard K.
A1  - Kleuser, Burkhard
A1  - Hocher, Berthold
T1  - Being born large for gestational age is associated with increased global placental DNA methylation
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Being born small (SGA) or large for gestational age (LGA) is associated with adverse birth outcomes and metabolic diseases in later life of the offspring. It is known that aberrations in growth during gestation are related to altered placental function. Placental function is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation. Several studies in recent years have demonstrated associations between altered patterns of DNA methylation and adverse birth outcomes. However, larger studies that reliably investigated global DNA methylation are lacking. The aim of this study was to characterize global placental DNA methylation in relationship to size for gestational age. Global DNA methylation was assessed in 1023 placental samples by LC-MS/MS. LGA offspring displayed significantly higher global placental DNA methylation compared to appropriate for gestational age (AGA; p<0.001). ANCOVA analyses adjusted for known factors impacting on DNA methylation demonstrated an independent association between placental global DNA methylation and LGA births (p<0.001). Tertile stratification according to global placental DNA methylation levels revealed a significantly higher frequency of LGA births in the third tertile. Furthermore, a multiple logistic regression analysis corrected for known factors influencing birth weight highlighted an independent positive association between global placental DNA methylation and the frequency of LGA births (p=0.001).
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1405 
KW  - fetal origins hypothesis
KW  - birth weight
KW  - repetitive elements
KW  - glucocorticoid receptor
KW  - nutrient transport
KW  - growth restriction
KW  - later health
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - genes
KW  - patterns
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-516289
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dwi Putra, Sulistyo Emantoko
A1  - Reichetzeder, Christoph
A1  - Hasan, Ahmed Abdallah Abdalrahman Mohamed
A1  - Slowinski, Torsten
A1  - Chu, Chang
A1  - Krämer, Bernhard K.
A1  - Kleuser, Burkhard
A1  - Hocher, Berthold
T1  - Being born large for gestational age is associated with increased global placental DNA methylation
JF  - Scientific Reports
N2  - Being born small (SGA) or large for gestational age (LGA) is associated with adverse birth outcomes and metabolic diseases in later life of the offspring. It is known that aberrations in growth during gestation are related to altered placental function. Placental function is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation. Several studies in recent years have demonstrated associations between altered patterns of DNA methylation and adverse birth outcomes. However, larger studies that reliably investigated global DNA methylation are lacking. The aim of this study was to characterize global placental DNA methylation in relationship to size for gestational age. Global DNA methylation was assessed in 1023 placental samples by LC-MS/MS. LGA offspring displayed significantly higher global placental DNA methylation compared to appropriate for gestational age (AGA; p<0.001). ANCOVA analyses adjusted for known factors impacting on DNA methylation demonstrated an independent association between placental global DNA methylation and LGA births (p<0.001). Tertile stratification according to global placental DNA methylation levels revealed a significantly higher frequency of LGA births in the third tertile. Furthermore, a multiple logistic regression analysis corrected for known factors influencing birth weight highlighted an independent positive association between global placental DNA methylation and the frequency of LGA births (p=0.001).
KW  - fetal origins hypothesis
KW  - birth weight
KW  - repetitive elements
KW  - glucocorticoid receptor
KW  - nutrient transport
KW  - growth restriction
KW  - later health
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - genes
KW  - patterns
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57725-0
SN  - 2045-2322
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Beaumont, Robin N.
A1  - Warrington, Nicole M.
A1  - Cavadino, Alana
A1  - Tyrrell, Jessica
A1  - Nodzenski, Michael
A1  - Horikoshi, Momoko
A1  - Geller, Frank
A1  - Myhre, Ronny
A1  - Richmond, Rebecca C.
A1  - Paternoster, Lavinia
A1  - Bradfield, Jonathan P.
A1  - Kreiner-Møller, Eskil
A1  - Huikari, Ville
A1  - Metrustry, Sarah
A1  - Lunetta, Kathryn L.
A1  - Painter, Jodie N.
A1  - Hottenga, Jouke-Jan
A1  - Allard, Catherine
A1  - Barton, Sheila J.
A1  - Espinosa, Ana
A1  - Marsh, Julie A.
A1  - Potter, Catherine
A1  - Zhang, Ge
A1  - Ang, Wei
A1  - Berry, Diane J.
A1  - Bouchard, Luigi
A1  - Das, Shikta
A1  - Hakonarson, Hakon
A1  - Heikkinen, Jani
A1  - Helgeland, Øyvind
A1  - Hocher, Berthold
A1  - Hofman, Albert
A1  - Inskip, Hazel M.
A1  - Jones, Samuel E.
A1  - Kogevinas, Manolis
A1  - Lind, Penelope A.
A1  - Marullo, Letizia
A1  - Medland, Sarah E.
A1  - Murray, Anna
A1  - Murray, Jeffrey C.
A1  - Njølstad, Pa ̊l R.
A1  - Nohr, Ellen A.
A1  - Reichetzeder, Christoph
A1  - Ring, Susan M.
A1  - Ruth, Katherine S.
A1  - Santa-Marina, Loreto
A1  - Scholtens, Denise M.
A1  - Sebert, Sylvain
A1  - Sengpiel, Verena
A1  - Tuke, Marcus A.
A1  - Vaudel, Marc
A1  - Weedon, Michael N.
A1  - Willemsen, Gonneke
A1  - Wood, Andrew R.
A1  - Yaghootkar, Hanieh
A1  - Muglia, Louis J.
A1  - Bartels, Meike
A1  - Relton, Caroline L.
A1  - Pennell, Craig E.
A1  - Chatzi, Leda
A1  - Estivill, Xavier
A1  - Holloway, John W.
A1  - Boomsma, Dorret I.
A1  - Montgomery, Grant W.
A1  - Murabito, Joanne M.
A1  - Spector, Tim D.
A1  - Power, Christine
A1  - Ja ̈rvelin, Marjo-Ritta
A1  - Bisgaard, Hans
A1  - Grant, Struan F.A.
A1  - Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.
A1  - Jaddoe, Vincent W.
A1  - Jacobsson, Bo
A1  - Melbye, Mads
A1  - McCarthy, Mark I.
A1  - Hattersley, Andrew T.
A1  - Hayes, M. Geoffrey
A1  - Frayling, Timothy M.
A1  - Hivert, Marie-France
A1  - Felix, Janine F.
A1  - Hyppo ̈nen, Elina
A1  - Lowe, William L. , Jr
A1  - Evans, David M.
A1  - Lawlor, Debbie A.
A1  - Feenstra, Bjarke
A1  - Freathy, Rachel M.
T1  - Genome-wide association study of offspring birth weight in 86 577 women identifies five novel loci and highlights maternal genetic effects that are independent of fetal genetics
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Genome-wide association studies of birth weight have focused on fetal genetics, whereas relatively little is known about the role of maternal genetic variation. We aimed to identify maternal genetic variants associated with birth weight that could highlight potentially relevant maternal determinants of fetal growth. We meta-analysed data on up to 8.7 million SNPs in up to 86 577 women of European descent from the Early Growth Genetics (EGG) Consortium and the UK Biobank. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) and analyses of mother–child pairs to quantify the separate maternal and fetal genetic effects. Maternal SNPs at 10 loci (MTNR1B, HMGA2, SH2B3, KCNAB1, L3MBTL3, GCK, EBF1, TCF7L2, ACTL9, CYP3A7) were associated with offspring birth weight at P < 5 Â 10 À8 . In SEM analyses, at least 7 of the 10 associations were consistent with effects of the maternal genotype acting via the intrauterine environment, rather than via effects of shared alleles with the fetus. Variants, or correlated proxies, at many of the loci had been previously associated with adult traits, including fasting glucose (MTNR1B, GCK and TCF7L2) and sex hormone levels (CYP3A7), and one (EBF1) with gestational duration. The identified associations indicate that genetic effects on maternal glucose, cytochrome P450 activity and gestational duration, and potentially on maternal blood pressure and immune function, are relevant for fetal growth. Further characterization of these associations in mechanistic and causal analyses will enhance understanding of the potentially modifiable maternal determinants of fetal growth, with the goal of reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with low and high birth weights.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 628 
KW  - alleles
KW  - birth weight
KW  - fetus
KW  - genotype
KW  - mothers
KW  - single nucleotide polymorphism
KW  - genetics
KW  - duration of gestation
KW  - genome-wide association study
KW  - offspring
KW  - biobanks
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423100
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 628
ER  -