Newborn umbilical cord blood DNAm was assessed with the Illumina® HumanMethylation450 (450k) or HumanMethylationEPIC (EPIC) BeadChip assay at Illumina or cohort-specific laboratories. Cohorts performed sample processing, quality control and normalization as described in Supplementary methods.
We used normalized, untransformed beta values, ranging from 0 (completely unmethylated) to 1 (completely methylated), after trimming extreme outliers (3×interquartile range from the quartile limit).
We excluded probes mapped to X/Y chromosomes, polymorphic CpGs (overlapping with known single-nucleotide-polymorphisms [SNPs]),29 (link) control or cross-reactive probes (targeting repetitive sequences/co-hybridizing to alternate sequences).30 (link),31 (link)Function-related information was derived from GeneCards and GWAS Catalog (https://www.genecards.org; https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas, accessed August 17th, 2020).