Increased vitamin D levels at birth and in early infancy increase offspring allergy risk—evidence for involvement of epigenetic mechanisms - 05/02/16

Kristin M. Junge, PhD ^a, Tobias Bauer, PhD ^b, Stefanie Geissler, PhD ^c, Frank Hirche, PhD ^d, Loreen Thürmann, MSc ^a, Mario Bauer, MD ^a, Saskia Trump, PhD ^a, Matthias Bieg, MSc ^{b, d}, Dieter Weichenhan, PhD ^e, Lei Gu, PhD ^b, Jan-Philipp Mallm, PhD ^f, Naveed Ishaque, PhD ^{b, d}, Oliver Mücke ^e, Stefan Röder, PhD ^g, Gunda Herberth, PhD ^a, Ulrike Diez, MD ^h, Michael Borte, MD ^h, Karsten Rippe, PhD ^f, Christoph Plass, PhD ^e, Carl Hermann, PhD ^{b, i}, Gabriele I. Stangl, PhD ^c, ∗

  These authors contributed equally to this study.

, Roland Eils, PhD ^{b, d, i, j,} ∗

  These authors contributed equally to this study.

, Irina Lehmann, PhD ^{a, g,} ∗

  These authors contributed equally to this study.

^a Department of Environmental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Leipzig, Germany 

^b Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany 

^c Institute for Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 

^d Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology, DKFZ-HIPO, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany 

^e Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany 

^f Research Group Genome Organization & Function, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Bioquant, Heidelberg, Germany 

^g Core Facility Studies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Leipzig, Germany 

^h Children's Hospital, Municipal Hospital “St Georg”, Leipzig, Germany 

ⁱ Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, and Bioquant Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany 

^j Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany