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Imprinted genes play important functions in placentation and pregnancy; however, research on their roles in different placental diseases is limited. It is believed that epigenetic alterations, such as DNA meth...
The Illumina Methylation array platform has facilitated countless epigenetic studies on DNA methylation (DNAme) in health and disease, yet relatively few studies have so studied its reliability, i.e., the cons...
Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke have become the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity worldwide. Therefore, sensitive and accurate biomarkers for early detection of CHD and stroke are urge...
The original article was published in Clinical Epigenetics 2024 16:88
To assess the impact of postnatal processing on placental DNA methylation, array data from flash-frozen placental tissue was compared to perfluorocarbon-immersed and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded placental ...
Fibrosis is an abnormal tissue healing process characterized by the excessive accumulation of ECM components, such as COL I and COL III, in response to tissue injury or chronic inflammation. Recent advances in ep...
DNA-hypomethylating agents (HMAs) induce notable remission rates in AML/MDS patients with TP53 mutations; however, secondary resistance often develops rapidly. In the DECIDER trial (NCT00867672), elderly AML pati...
Breast tumorigenesis is a complex and multistep process accompanied by both genetic and epigenetic dysregulation. In contrast to the extensive studies on DNA epigenetic modifications 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5...
Plasma growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) and N‐terminal proB‐type natriuretic peptide (NT‐proBNP) are cardiovascular biomarkers that associate with a range of diseases. Epigenetic scores (EpiScores) for...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignant tumor with the third and second highest incidence and mortality rates among various malignant tumors. Despite significant advancements in the present therapy for C...
Early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer and its precancerous lesions can significantly improve patients’ survival rates. The purpose of this research is to identify methylation markers s...
Gene expression is an intricate biological process that bridges gap between the genotype and the phenotype. Canonical and hereditable epigenetic mechanisms, such as histone and DNA modifications, regulate the ...
Telomere shortening and epigenetic modifications are key factors in aging and hematologic diseases. This study investigates the relationship of telomere length and epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) with hemato...
Cardiac fibrosis is the hallmark of all forms of chronic heart disease. Activation and proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts are the prime mediators of cardiac fibrosis. Existing studies show that ROS and infla...
Human aging and white blood cell (WBC) count are complex traits influenced by multiple genetic factors. Predictors of chronological age have been developed using epigenetic clocks. However, the bidirectional c...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are major causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide; yet the understanding of their molecular basis is incomplete. Multi-omics studies have significant potential to uncover the...
The relationship between periodontitis and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been extensively studied, but the role of biological aging in this relationship remains poorly understood. This study is dedicated to...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) affect over half a billion people worldwide and are the leading cause of global deaths. In particular, due to population aging and worldwide spreading of risk factors, the prevale...
The effect of vaccination on the epigenome remains poorly characterized. In previous research, we identified an association between seroprotection against influenza and DNA methylation at sites associated with...
Early gastric cancer is treated endoscopically, but patients require surveillance due to the risk of metachronous gastric lesions (MGLs). Epigenetic alterations, particularly aberrant DNA methylation in genes,...
The epigenetic status of patients 6-month post-COVID-19 infection remains largely unexplored. The existence of long-COVID, or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), suggests potential long-term ch...
Current research on the epigenetic repercussions of exposure to a combination of pollutants is limited. This study aims to discern DNA methylation probes associated with exposure to multiple pollutants, servin...
Gestational DNA methylation age (GAmAge) has been developed and validated in European ancestry samples. Its applicability to other ethnicities and associations with fetal stress and newborn phenotypes such as ...
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are crucial regulators of gene expression, DNA synthesis, and cellular processes, making them essential targets in cancer research. HDAC6, specifically, influences protein stabilit...
In this study, we aimed to validate the performance of the PAX1 and JAM3 methylation (PAX1m/JAM3m) test as a triage tool for detecting cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or worse (CIN3 +) in non-16/18 hig...
Age-related eye diseases (AREDs) have become increasingly prevalent with the aging population, serving as the leading causes of visual impairment worldwide. Epigenetic clocks are generated based on DNA methyla...
More than 50% of oral cancer (OC) patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease associated with poor prognosis and quality of life, supporting an urgent need to improve early OC detection. The identificat...
The plasma metabolome reflects the physiological state of various biological processes and can serve as a proxy for disease risk. Plasma metabolite variation, influenced by genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, c...
Childhood maltreatment (CM) is linked to long-term adverse health outcomes, including accelerated biological aging and cognitive decline. This study investigates the relationship between CM and various aging b...
Oesophageal cancer remains a challenging disease with high mortality rates and few therapeutic options. In view of these difficulties, epigenetic drugs have emerged as potential alternatives for patient care. ...
Adaptive nanopore sequencing as a diagnostic method for imprinting disorders and episignature analysis revealed an intragenic duplication of Exon 6 and 7 in UBE3A (NM_000462.5) in a patient with relatively mild A...
Imprinting disorders are rare diseases resulting from altered expression of imprinted genes, which exhibit parent-of-origin-specific expression patterns regulated through differential DNA methylation. A subgro...
Lupus nephritis (LN) is the most common cause of kidney injury in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and is associated with increased mortality. DNA methylation, one of the most important epigenetic m...
Esophagogastric junction cancer (EJC) refers to malignant tumors that develop at the junction between the stomach and the esophagus. TUSC1 is a recently identified tumor suppressor gene known for its involveme...
Obesity is a major health burden. Preadipocytes proliferate and differentiate in mature adipocytes in the adipogenic process, which could be a potential therapeutic approach for obesity. Deficiency of SIRT6, a...
Colon cancer ranks as the second most lethal form of cancer globally. In recent years, there has been active investigation into using the methylation profile of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), derived from bloo...
Walking stands as the most prevalent physical activity in the daily lives of individuals and is closely associated with physical functioning and the aging process. Nonetheless, the precise cause-and-effect con...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) benefits patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), but the underlying biological processes are unclear. We conducted an epigenome-wide association study in 32 TRD pati...
Healthy sleep is vital for maintaining optimal mental and physical health. Accumulating evidence suggests that sleep loss and disturbances play a significant role in the biological aging process, early onset o...
Doxorubicin (Dox) is an effective chemotherapeutic drug for various cancers, but its clinical application is limited by severe cardiotoxicity. Dox treatment can transcriptionally activate multiple cardiotoxici...
Stress during pregnancy can lead to adverse maternal and infant health outcomes through epigenetic changes in the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. Among farmers in low-income countries, one important stres...
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare disease characterized by rapid progression, early metastasis, and a high mortality rate.
DNA methylation may have a regulatory role in monogenic sensorineural hearing loss and complex, polygenic phenotypic forms of hearing loss, including age-related hearing impairment or Meniere disease. The purp...
The Correction to this article has been published in Clinical Epigenetics 2024 16:129
Pediatric central nervous system tumors remain challenging to diagnose. Imaging approaches do not provide sufficient detail to discriminate between different tumor types, while the histopathological examinatio...
Presbycusis, also referred to as age-related hearing loss (ARHL), is a condition that results from the cumulative effects of aging on an individual's auditory capabilities. Given the limited understanding of e...
Infants with frequent viral and bacterial respiratory infections exhibit compromised immunity to routine immunizations. They are also more likely to develop chronic respiratory diseases in later childhood. Thi...
Epigenetic scores (EpiScores), reflecting DNA methylation (DNAm)-based surrogates for complex traits, have been developed for multiple circulating proteins. EpiScores for pro-inflammatory proteins, such as C-r...
Gastrointestinal malignancies encompass a diverse group of cancers that pose significant challenges to global health. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) plays a pivotal role in immune surveillance, orc...