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Does Dietary Provision of Guanidinoacetic Acid Induce Global DNA Hypomethylation in Healthy Men and Women?

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Title
Does Dietary Provision of Guanidinoacetic Acid Induce Global DNA Hypomethylation in Healthy Men and Women?
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Lifestyle Genomics, April 2018
DOI 10.1159/000487336
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Sergej M. Ostojic, Marija Mojsin, Patrik Drid, Milan Vranes

Abstract

Guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) is an experimental dietary additive and has been reported to induce methyl depletion when provided by the diet. However, no study evaluated whether supplemental GAA affects DNA methylation, a critical epigenetic process for genome regulation. In this open-label, repeated-measure interventional trial, we evaluated the impact of 12 weeks of GAA supplementation on global DNA methylation in 14 healthy participants (8 women and 6 men, age 22.2 ± 2.3 years, body mass index 24.8 ± 5.7). Dietary provision of GAA had no effect on global DNA methylation, with 5-methylcytosine (m5C) nonsignificantly increased by 13.4% at postadministration when averaged across participants (95% confidence interval -5.5 to 32.3; p = 0.26). Notable DNA hypomethylation (corresponding to a 5% drop in m5C) was found in 3 of 14 participants at follow-up. Global DNA methylation seems to be unaltered by dietary provision of 3 g of GAA per day for 12 weeks in healthy men and women.

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Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 22%
Researcher 4 15%
Other 3 11%
Professor 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 8 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 15%
Sports and Recreations 4 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 12 44%
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#15,504,780
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