“…Several other traits previously reported to be related to birth order were also identified, including blood pressure 2 (cardiac autonomic responses (deceleration capacity), diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure, atherosclerosis, preeclampsia, maternal hypertensive disorders in pregnancy), metabolism 4 (serum liver enzyme levels (alanine aminotransferase, ALT), serum liver enzyme levels (gamma-glutamyl transferase, GGT), metabolic trait, hepatic steatosis, hepatic fat), birth weight 52 and body mass index (BMI) 53 . The top association in our DMR analysis was ZBED9 , recently identified as a regulatory gene for blood pressure 54 .…”