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rare overall, babies born using fertility treatments, such as <em>in vitro</em> fertilization, have up to a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29696471" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">11-fold higher risk</a> of inheriting them. A new mouse study from the Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) suggests that the problem lies with the technology, not the mother’s age.</p><p>The study, published today in <em><a href="https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-019-0751-9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clinical Epigenetics</a></em>, found that fertility treatments, not maternal age, leads to epigenetic changes associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann, Silver-Russell and Angelman syndromes, which could explain why these disorders are more common among children born through assisted reproductive technology. </p><p>“Women of advanced maternal age might have one less thing to worry about,” said lead author Audrey Kindsfather, a medical student researcher at MWRI. “We need clinical studies to back that up, but this is a promising animal model that clinical studies could be based on.” </p><p>Women are <a href="https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/18/theyre-waiting-longer-but-u-s-women-today-more-likely-to-have-children-than-a-decade-ago/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">increasingly </a>delaying childbirth, but as a woman ages, so does her reproductive system. Older women tend to rely more on fertility treatments to conceive, and their eggs are more prone to genetic disorders, such as <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/downsyndrome/data.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Down syndrome</a>. </p><p>The researchers reasoned that maternal age might contribute to epigenetic disorders as well, but it’s impossible to answer that question using human data, so they turned to mice. </p><p>Kindsfather and colleagues grouped female mice by age, ranging from adolescence to the mouse equivalent of a 45-year-old woman. Some of the mice in each age group went through common steps involved in several fertility treatments – either hormone injections to kick ovulation into high gear, culturing embryos in a Petri dish, or both – while control mice conceived naturally.</p><p>Then, the researchers quantified epigenetic changes in the mouse mothers’ embryos by measuring the amount of DNA methylation – the molecular locks clasped around a particular gene, keeping it from being expressed. Surprisingly, maternal age had no impact.</p><p>“It wasn’t what we were expecting,” said senior author <a href="https://mageewomens.org/investigator/mellissa-rw-mann-ph-d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mellissa Mann, Ph.D.</a>, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the <a href="http://www.medschool.pitt.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">University of Pittsburgh</a>. “We know that as a woman ages, there are a lot of molecular changes happening to her eggs, so we thought that these changes could be leading to abnormal DNA methylation. We were quite surprised that it didn’t.”</p><p>In contrast, hormone therapy and embryo culture both disrupted DNA methylation at the genes associated with human epigenetic disorders. When used in combination, the effects were amplified. </p><p>Fertility treatments have come a long way since the first “test-tube baby” was born over 40 years ago, but this study highlights that there’s still room for improvement. </p><p>“These are wonderful technologies, but not the same as spontaneously conceiving,” Kindsfather said. “Lots more research needs to be done to improve fertility treatments.”</p><p>Additional authors on the study include Megan Czekalski, Catherine Pressimone, and Margaret Erisman, all of Pitt and MWRI.</p><p>The study was funded, in part, by a grant from the <a href="http://www.health.pa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pennsylvania Department of Health </a>(2018 Health Research Formula Fund). The Department specifically disclaims responsibility for any analyses, interpretations or conclusions. 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