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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
Mothers and Babies Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia
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Correct timing of parturition requires inflammatory gene activation in the gestational tissues at term and repression during pregnancy. Promoter methylation at CpG dinucleotides represses gene activity; therefore, we examined the possibility that DNA methylation is involved in the regulation of labour-associated genes in human pregnancy. Amnion and decidua were collected at 11–17 weeks of gestation and at term following elective Caesarean delivery or spontaneous labour. Methylation of the inflammatory genes PTGS2, BMP2, NAMPT and CXCL2 was analysed using the Methyl-Profiler PCR System and bisulphite sequencing. Methylation of the glucocorticoid, progesterone and oestrogen receptor genes, involved in the hormonal regulation of gestational tissue function, and the expression of the DNA methyltransferases DNMT1, -3A and -3B were also determined. Variable proportions of inflammatory and steroid receptor gene copies, to a maximum of 50.9%, were densely methylated in both tissues consistent with repression. Densely methylated copy proportions were significantly different between genes showing no relationship with varying expression during pregnancy, between tissues and in individuals. Methylated copy proportions of all genes in amnion and most genes in decidua were highly correlated in individuals. DNMT1 and -3A were expressed in both tissues with significantly higher levels in the amnion at 11–17 weeks than at term. We conclude that the unmethylated portion of gene copies is responsible for the full range of regulated expression in the amnion and decidua during normal pregnancy. Dense methylation of individually variable gene copy proportions happens in the first trimester amnion influenced by sequence context and affected strongly by individual circumstances.
