Epigenetic mechanisms may play a major role in the biological embedding of early-life stress (ELS). One proposed mechanism is that glucocorticoid (GC) release following ELS exposure induces long-lasting altera...
Authors: Tobias Wiechmann, Simone Röh, Susann Sauer, Darina Czamara, Janine Arloth, Maik Ködel, Madita Beintner, Lisanne Knop, Andreas Menke, Elisabeth B. Binder and Nadine Provençal
It is thought that germ cells and preimplantation embryos during development are most susceptible to endogenous and exogenous environmental factors because the epigenome in those cells is undergoing dramatic e...
Authors: Shizhao Li, Min Chen, Yuanyuan Li and Trygve O. Tollefsbol
The emergence of nanotechnology applied to medicine has revolutionized the treatment of human cancer. As in the case of classic drugs for the treatment of cancer, epigenetic drugs have evolved in terms of thei...
Authors: Annalisa Roberti, Adolfo F. Valdes, Ramón Torrecillas, Mario F. Fraga and Agustin F. Fernandez
DNA methylation has recently been identified as a mediator between in utero famine exposure and a range of metabolic and psychiatric traits. However, genome-wide analyses are scarce and cross-sectional analyse...
Authors: Yujie He, Lot D. de Witte, Lotte C. Houtepen, Danny M. Nispeling, Zhida Xu, Qiong Yu, Yaqin Yu, Elly M. Hol, René S. Kahn and Marco P. Boks
Circadian rhythms orchestrate crucial physiological functions and behavioral aspects around a day in almost all living forms. The circadian clock is a time tracking system that permits organisms to predict and...
Authors: Ignacio Pacheco-Bernal, Fernando Becerril-Pérez and Lorena Aguilar-Arnal
Neuropathic pain (NP) is ranked as one of the major forms of chronic pain and emerges as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system. Despite great advances into the ...
Authors: Simin Tang, Jun Zhou, Huan Jing, Meijuan Liao, Sen Lin, Zhenxing Huang, Teng Huang, Jiying Zhong and HanbingWang
TP53 is frequently mutated across various tissue types of cancers. In normal cells, long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1, L1) is mostly repressed by DNA methylation in its 5′ untranslated region but is act...
Authors: Yun-Joo Shin, Younghoon Kim, Xianyu Wen, Nam-Yun Cho, Sun Lee, Woo Ho Kim and Gyeong Hoon Kang
To identify novel epigenetic signatures that could provide predictive information that is complementary to promoter methylation status of the O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene for predicting ...
Authors: An-An Yin, Ya-Long He, Amandine Etcheverry, Yu-He Liu, Marc Aubry, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Bo-Lin Liu, Jean Mosser, Zi-Fan Lu and Xiang Zhang
Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 12 (ZBTB12) is a predicted transcription factor with potential role in hematopoietic development. Recent evidence linked low methylation level of ZBTB12 exon1 to myoc...
Authors: Fabrizia Noro, Francesco Gianfagna, Alessandro Gialluisi, Amalia De Curtis, Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Emanuela Napoleone, Chiara Cerletti, Maria Benedetta Donati, Giovanni de Gaetano, Marc F. Hoylaerts, Licia Iacoviello and Benedetta Izzi
Obstetric complications have long been retrospectively associated with a wide range of short- and long-term health consequences, including neurodevelopmental alterations such as those observed in schizophrenia...
Authors: Helena Palma-Gudiel, Elisenda Eixarch, Fátima Crispi, Sebastián Morán, Anthony S. Zannas and Lourdes Fañanás
Epidemiological studies have found that prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is associated with increased risk for neural tube defects (NTDs). Aberrant DNA methylation, excessive apopto...
Authors: Yun Huang, Aiguo Ren, Linlin Wang, Lei Jin, Shanshan Lin, Zhiwen Li and Jasmine A. McDonald
miR-340-5p, localized to 5q35, is a tumor suppressor miRNA implicated in multiple cancers. As a CpG island is present at the putative promoter region of its host gene, RNF130, we hypothesized that the intronic mi...
Authors: Zhenhai Li, Kwan Yeung Wong, George A. Calin, Wee-Joo Chng, Godfrey Chi-fung Chan and Chor Sang Chim
Ubiquitin-like protein containing PHD and RING finger domains 1 (UHRF1) is a major regulator of epigenetic mechanisms and is overexpressed in various human malignancies. In this study, we examined the involvem...
DNA methylation is associated with cancer, metabolic, neurological, and autoimmune disorders. Hypomethylation of aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor (AHRR) especially at cg05575921 is associated with smoking a...
DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) are epigenetic enzymes involved in embryonic development, cell differentiation, epithelial to mesenchymal transition, and control of gene expression, whose overexpression or enha...
Authors: Clemens Zwergel, Michael Schnekenburger, Federica Sarno, Cecilia Battistelli, Maria Cristina Manara, Giulia Stazi, Roberta Mazzone, Rossella Fioravanti, Christina Gros, Frédéric Ausseil, Cristina Florean, Angela Nebbioso, Raffaele Strippoli, Toshikazu Ushijima, Katia Scotlandi, Marco Tripodi…
Genetic aberrations in DNA repair genes are linked to cancer, but less is reported about epigenetic regulation of DNA repair and functional consequences. We investigated the intragenic methylation loss at the ...
Authors: Christoph Weigel, Jittiporn Chaisaingmongkol, Yassen Assenov, Christine Kuhmann, Volker Winkler, Irene Santi, Olga Bogatyrova, Simone Kaucher, Justo L. Bermejo, Suet Y. Leung, Tsun L. Chan, Felix Lasitschka, Manfred H. Bohrer, Alexander Marx, Roland Heyny-von Haußen, Christel Herold-Mende…
It is well established that estrogens and other hormonal factors influence breast cancer susceptibility. We hypothesized that a woman’s total lifetime estrogen exposure accumulates changes in DNA methylation, ...
Authors: Annelie Johansson, Domenico Palli, Giovanna Masala, Sara Grioni, Claudia Agnoli, Rosario Tumino, Maria Concetta Giurdanella, Francesca Fasanelli, Carlotta Sacerdote, Salvatore Panico, Amalia Mattiello, Silvia Polidoro, Michael E. Jones, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Nick Orr, Katarzyna Tomczyk…
Mismatch repair (MMR)-deficiency increases the risk of colorectal tumorigenesis. To determine whether the tumors develop on a normal or disturbed epigenetic background and how radiation affects this, we quanti...
Authors: Maria Herberg, Susann Siebert, Marianne Quaas, Torsten Thalheim, Karen Rother, Michelle Hussong, Janine Altmüller, Christiane Kerner, Joerg Galle, Michal R. Schweiger and Gabriela Aust
ADNP syndrome is a rare Mendelian disorder characterized by global developmental delay, intellectual disability, and autism. It is caused by truncating mutations in ADNP, which is involved in chromatin regulation...
Authors: Eric G. Bend, Erfan Aref-Eshghi, David B. Everman, R. Curtis Rogers, Sara S. Cathey, Eloise J. Prijoles, Michael J. Lyons, Heather Davis, Katie Clarkson, Karen W. Gripp, Dong Li, Elizabeth Bhoj, Elaine Zackai, Paul Mark, Hakon Hakonarson, Laurie A. Demmer…
Accumulating evidence suggests that epigenetic changes play key roles in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the dynamic regulation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosi...
Authors: Er-Feng Yuan, Ying Yang, Lin Cheng, Xujing Deng, Shao-Min Chen, Xin Zhou and Song-Mei Liu
Ageing is one of the principal risk factors for many chronic diseases. However, there is considerable between-person variation in the rate of ageing and individual differences in their susceptibility to diseas...
Authors: Peter D. Fransquet, Jo Wrigglesworth, Robyn L. Woods, Michael E. Ernst and Joanne Ryan
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) manifest a host of ovarian defects like impaired folliculogenesis, anovulation, and poor oocyte quality, which grossly affect their reproductive health. Addressing t...
Congenital malformations associated with maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 16, upd(16)mat, resemble those observed in newborns with the lethal developmental lung disease, alveolar capillary dysplasia w...
Authors: Katharina V. Schulze, Przemyslaw Szafranski, Harry Lesmana, Robert J. Hopkin, Aaron Hamvas, Jennifer A. Wambach, Marwan Shinawi, Gladys Zapata, Claudia M. B. Carvalho, Qian Liu, Justyna A. Karolak, James R. Lupski, Neil A. Hanchard and Paweł Stankiewicz
Despite improvements in cancer management, most pancreatic cancers are still diagnosed at an advanced stage. We have recently identified promoter DNA methylation of the genes ADAMTS1 and BNC1 as potential blood b...
Authors: Maryam A. L. Eissa, Lane Lerner, Eihab Abdelfatah, Nakul Shankar, Joseph K. Canner, Nesrin M. Hasan, Vesal Yaghoobi, Barry Huang, Zachary Kerner, Felipe Takaesu, Christopher Wolfgang, Ruby Kwak, Michael Ruiz, Matthew Tam, Thomas R. Pisanic II, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue…
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune fibrosing disease with an incompletely understood genetic and non-genetic etiology. Defining its etiology is important to allow the development of effective predic...
Authors: Paula S. Ramos, Kip D. Zimmerman, Sandra Haddad, Carl D. Langefeld, Thomas A. Medsger Jr and Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick
There is increasing evidence that folate, an important component of one-carbon metabolism, modulates the epigenome. Alcohol, which can disrupt folate absorption, is also known to affect the epigenome. We inves...
Authors: F. Perrier, V. Viallon, S. Ambatipudi, A. Ghantous, C. Cuenin, H. Hernandez-Vargas, V. Chajès, L. Baglietto, M. Matejcic, H. Moreno-Macias, T. Kühn, H. Boeing, A. Karakatsani, A. Kotanidou, A. Trichopoulou, S. Sieri…
Maternal mood disorders and their treatment during pregnancy may have effects on the offspring epigenome. We aim to evaluate associations of maternal prenatal antidepressant use, anxiety, and depression with c...
Authors: Andres Cardenas, Sabrina Faleschini, Andrea Cortes Hidalgo, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Dawn L. DeMeo, Augusto A. Litonjua, Alexander Neumann, Janine F. Felix, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Hanan El Marroun, Henning Tiemeier, Emily Oken, Marie-France Hivert and Heather H. Burris
Epigenetics is defined as the science that studies the modifications of gene expression that are not owed to mutations or changes in the genetic sequence. Recently, strong evidences are pinpointing toward a so...
Authors: Zeina Nehme, Sébastien Pasquereau and Georges Herbein
Global DNA methylation alterations are hallmarks of cancer. The tumor-suppressive TET enzymes, which are involved in DNA demethylation, are decreased in prostate cancer (PCa); in particular, TET2 is specifical...
Authors: Shivani Kamdar, Ruth Isserlin, Theodorus Van der Kwast, Alexandre R. Zlotta, Gary D. Bader, Neil E. Fleshner and Bharati Bapat
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is caused due to the disturbance of imprinted genes at chromosome 11p15. The molecular confirmation of this syndrome is possible in approximately 85% of the cases, whereas in ...
Authors: I. M. Krzyzewska, M. Alders, S. M. Maas, J. Bliek, A. Venema, P. Henneman, F. I. Rezwan, K. v. d. Lip, A. N. Mul, D. J. G. Mackay and M. M. A. M. Mannens
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is hypothesized to involve epigenetic dysfunction. Previous studies of DNA modifications in Alzheimer’s disease have been unable to distingu...
Authors: Adam R. Smith, Rebecca G. Smith, Ehsan Pishva, Eilis Hannon, Janou A. Y. Roubroeks, Joe Burrage, Claire Troakes, Safa Al-Sarraj, Carolyn Sloan, Jonathan Mill, Daniel L. van den Hove and Katie Lunnon
Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening can effectively reduce disease-related mortality by detecting CRC at earlier stages. We have previously demonstrated that the presence of SDC2 methylation in stool DNA is signifi...
Authors: Yoon Dae Han, Tae Jeong Oh, Tae-Ha Chung, Hui Won Jang, Youn Nam Kim, Sungwhan An and Nam Kyu Kim
The delta-like non-canonical Notch ligand 1 (DLK1)-maternally expressed 3(MEG3) locus (DLK1-MEG3 locus) plays a critical role in the maintenance and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. Accumulating evide...
Authors: Zachariah Payne Sellers, Lukasz Bolkun, Janusz Kloczko, Marzena Liliana Wojtaszewska, Krzysztof Lewandowski, Marcin Moniuszko, Mariusz Z. Ratajczak and Gabriela Schneider
Major challenges in understanding the functional consequences of genetic risk factors for human disease are which tissues and cell types are affected and the limited availability of suitable tissue. The aim of...
Authors: Sally Mortlock, Restuadi Restuadi, Rupert Levien, Jane E. Girling, Sarah J. Holdsworth-Carson, Martin Healey, Zhihong Zhu, Ting Qi, Yang Wu, Samuel W. Lukowski, Peter A. W. Rogers, Jian Yang, Allan F. McRae, Jenny N. Fung and Grant W. Montgomery
Activation of transcription enhancers, especially super-enhancers, is one of the critical epigenetic features of tumorigenesis. However, very few studies have systematically identified the enhancers specific i...
Authors: Qing-Lan Li, Dan-Ya Wang, Lin-Gao Ju, Jie Yao, Chuan Gao, Pin-Ji Lei, Lian-Yun Li, Xiao-Lu Zhao and Min Wu
Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported the title of this article has been misspelled.
Authors: Paula Walle, Ville Männistö, Vanessa Derenji de Mello, Maija Vaittinen, Alexander Perfilyev, Kati Hanhineva, Charlotte Ling and Jussi Pihlajamäki
Citation:Clinical Epigenetics
2019
11:47
Published on: 12 March 2019
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original article was published in Clinical Epigenetics
2019
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Both SOX2 promoter methylation and air pollution have been associated with lung cancer risk. However, little has been done to assess SOX2 promoter methylation in individuals living in air pollution areas. The ...
Little is known about the effects of chemotherapeutic drugs on DNA methylation status of leukocytes, which may be predictive of treatment benefits and toxicities. Based on a prospective national study, we char...
Authors: Song Yao, Qiang Hu, Sarah Kerns, Li Yan, Adedayo A. Onitilo, Jamal Misleh, Kelley Young, Lianlian Lei, Javier Bautista, Mostafa Mohamed, Supriya G. Mohile, Christine B. Ambrosone, Song Liu and Michelle C. Janelsins
Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expression is increased in activated monocytes, which play a critical role in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the mechanism remains unclear. Regulatory f...
Authors: Pei Du, Keqin Gao, Yu Cao, Shuang Yang, Yang Wang, Ren Guo, Ming Zhao and Sujie Jia
A multitude of recent studies has observed common epigenetic changes develop in tumour cells of multiple lineages following exposure to stresses such as hypoxia, chemotherapeutics, immunotherapy or targeted th...
Authors: Joachim Torrano, Abdullah Al Emran, Heinz Hammerlindl and Helmut Schaider
The human chromosome 14q32.2 imprinted region harbors the primary MEG3/DLK1:IG-differentially methylated region (DMR) and secondary MEG3:TSS-DMR. The MEG3:TSS-DMR can remain unmethylated only in the presence of u...
Epigenetic alternation is a common contributing factor to neoplastic transformation. Although previous studies have reported a cluster of aberrant promoter methylation changes associated with silencing of tumo...
Authors: Simeng Gu, Shujuan Lin, Ding Ye, Sangni Qian, Danjie Jiang, Xiaocong Zhang, Qilong Li, Jinhua Yang, Xiaojiang Ying, Zhenjun Li, Mengling Tang, Jianbing Wang, Mingjuan Jin and Kun Chen
Isolated orofacial clefts are among the most common congenital birth defects. Although the underlying biological mechanisms remain largely unknown, clefts are thought to be complex disorders influenced by gene...
Authors: Zongli Xu, Rolv T. Lie, Allen J. Wilcox, Ola Didrik Saugstad and Jack A. Taylor
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a fatal cancer of the bile duct epithelial cell lining. The misdiagnosis of CCA and other biliary diseases may occur due to the similarity of clinical manifestations and blood tests...
Authors: Wiphawan Wasenang, Ponlatham Chaiyarit, Siriporn Proungvitaya and Temduang Limpaiboon
The current prognosis of thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) is according to the World Health Organization (WHO) histologic classification and the Masaoka staging system. These methods of prognosis have certain li...
Authors: Songlin Li, Yuan Yuan, He Xiao, Jiajia Dai, Yunfei Ye, Qin Zhang, Zhimin Zhang, Yuhan Jiang, Jia Luo, Jing Hu, Chuan Chen and Ge Wang
Ambient air pollution is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood; epigenetic effects including altered DNA methylation could play a role. To eval...
Authors: Mi Kyeong Lee, Cheng-Jian Xu, Megan U. Carnes, Cody E. Nichols, James M. Ward, Sung Ok Kwon, Sun-Young Kim, Woo Jin Kim and Stephanie J. London
Human 15q11–13 is responsible for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) and includes several imprinted genes together with bipartite elements named AS-IC (imprinting center) and PWS-IC. These ...
Genome-wide studies have begun to link subtle variations in both allelic DNA methylation and parent-of-origin genetic effects with early development. Numerous reports have highlighted that the placenta plays a...
Authors: Ana Monteagudo-Sánchez, Marta Sánchez-Delgado, Jose Ramon Hernandez Mora, Nuria Tubío Santamaría, Eduard Gratacós, Manel Esteller, Miguel López de Heredia, Virgina Nunes, Cecile Choux, Patricia Fauque, Guiomar Perez de Nanclares, Lauren Anton, Michal A. Elovitz, Isabel Iglesias-Platas and David Monk
Epigenetic pathways play a pivotal role in the development and function of the immune system. Over the last decade, a growing body of studies has been published out seeking to explain a correlation between epi...
Authors: Roberta Mazzone, Clemens Zwergel, Marco Artico, Samanta Taurone, Massimo Ralli, Antonio Greco and Antonello Mai
