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  1. The Editors of Clinical Epigenetics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 5 (2013).

    Authors: Ulrich Mahlknecht

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2014 6:3

    Content type: Reviewer Acknowledgement

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  2. In 31 solid tumor patients treated with the demethylating agent decitabine, we performed tumor biopsies before and after the first cycle of decitabine and used immunohistochemistry (IHC) to assess whether deci...

    Authors: David J Stewart, Maria I Nunez, Jaroslav Jelinek, David Hong, Sanjay Gupta, Jean-Pierre Issa, Ignacio I Wistuba and Razelle Kurzrock

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2014 6:2

    Content type: Research

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  3. The mechanism of action of olanzapine in treating schizophrenia is not clear. This research reports the effects of a therapeutic equivalent treatment of olanzapine on DNA methylation in a rat model in vivo.

    Authors: Melkaye G Melka, Benjamin I Laufer, Patrick McDonald, Christina A Castellani, Nagalingam Rajakumar, Richard O’Reilly and Shiva M Singh

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2014 6:1

    Content type: Research

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  4. Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a congenital overgrowth disorder associated with abnormalities in 11p15.5 imprinted genes. The most common cause is loss of methylation (epimutation) at the imprinting cont...

    Authors: Louise Tee, Derek HK Lim, Renuka P Dias, Marie-Odile Baudement, Amy A Slater, Gail Kirby, Tom Hancocks, Helen Stewart, Carol Hardy, Fiona Macdonald and Eamonn R Maher

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:23

    Content type: Research

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  5. Asthma is characterized by airflow limitation and airway reactivity (AR). Interleukin-13 (IL-13) is involved in the pathogenesis of asthma. Two functional SNPs, rs20541 and rs1800925, of the IL-13 gene (IL13) hav...

    Authors: Veeresh K Patil, John W Holloway, Hongmei Zhang, Nelis Soto-Ramirez, Susan Ewart, S Hasan Arshad and Wilfried Karmaus

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:22

    Content type: Short report

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  6. Prospective studies have shown that low levels of circulating insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) are associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes. In the present study, we investigated DNA m...

    Authors: Tianwei Gu, Harvest F Gu, Agneta Hilding, Louise K Sjöholm, Claes-Göran Östenson, Tomas J Ekström and Kerstin Brismar

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:21

    Content type: Research

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  7. Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7 (IGFBP-7) is able to interact with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) as well as insulin. Previous studies have suggested that serum IGFBP-7 levels may be associa...

    Authors: Harvest F Gu, Tianwei Gu, Agneta Hilding, Yiming Zhu, Lars Kärvestedt, Claes-Göran Östenson, Maode Lai, Masahiko Kutsukake, Jan Frystyk, Kazuhiro Tamura and Kerstin Brismar

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:20

    Content type: Research

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  8. Smoking is the largest preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. In previous work, we demonstrated that altered DNA methylation at the aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor (AHRR) is cor...

    Authors: Robert A Philibert, Steven R H Beach, Man-Kit Lei and Gene H Brody

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:19

    Content type: Research

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  9. Epigenetic mechanisms are thought to be critical in mediating the role of the intrauterine environment on lifelong health and disease. Twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a rare condition wherein fetuses ...

    Authors: Carmen J Marsit, Devin C Koestler, Debra Watson-Smith, Charlotte M Boney, James F Padbury and Francois Luks

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:18

    Content type: Research

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  10. A remarkable correspondence exists between the cytogenetic locations of the known fragile sites and frequently reported sites of hypermethylation. The best-known features of fragile sites are sequence motifs t...

    Authors: Steven S Smith

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:17

    Content type: Hypothesis

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  11. Despite therapeutic advances in targeted therapy, metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains incurable for the vast majority of patients. Key molecular events in the pathogenesis of RCC include inactivation...

    Authors: Christopher J Ricketts, Mark R Morris, Dean Gentle, Salwati Shuib, Michael Brown, Noel Clarke, Wenbin Wei, Paul Nathan, Farida Latif and Eamonn R Maher

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:16

    Content type: Research

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  12. Epidemiological evidence indicates yet unknown epigenetic mechanisms underlying a propensity for overweight and type 2 diabetes. We analyzed the extent of methylation at lysine 4 and lysine 9 of histone H3 in ...

    Authors: Åsa Jufvas, Simon Sjödin, Kim Lundqvist, Risul Amin, Alexander V Vener and Peter Strålfors

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:15

    Content type: Research

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  20. Authors: Athar Aziz, E Joanna Baxter, Carol Edwards, Clara Yujing Cheong, Mitsuteru Ito, Anthony Bench, Rebecca Kelley, Yvonne Silber, Philip A Beer, Keefe Chng, Marilyn B Renfree, Kirsten McEwen, Dionne Gray, Jyoti Nangalia, Ghulam J Mufti, Eva Hellstrom-Lindberg…

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5(Suppl 1):S5

    Content type: Meeting abstract

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 5 Supplement 1

  23. Authors: Gabriella Ficz, Timothy A Hore, Fatima Santos, Heather J Lee, Wendy Dean, Julia Arand, Felix Krueger, David Oxley, Yu-Lee Paul, Jörn Walter, Simon J Cook, Simon Andrews, Miguel R Branco and Wolf Reik

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5(Suppl 1):S2

    Content type: Meeting abstract

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 5 Supplement 1

  25. Prenatal alcohol exposure is known to result in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, a continuum of physiological, behavioural, and cognitive phenotypes that include increased risk for anxiety and learning-associ...

    Authors: Randa L Stringer, Benjamin I Laufer, Morgan L Kleiber and Shiva M Singh

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:14

    Content type: Short report

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  26. A large proportion of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are not fit for intensive and potentially curative therapy due to advanced age or comorbidity. Previous studies have demonstrated that a subset ...

    Authors: Hanne Fredly, Elisabeth Ersvær, Astrid Olsnes Kittang, Galina Tsykunova, Bjørn Tore Gjertsen and Øystein Bruserud

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:13

    Content type: Research

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  27. Several new therapeutic strategies are now considered for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients unfit for intensive chemotherapy, including modulation of protein lysine acetylation through inhibition of histon...

    Authors: Hanne Fredly, Bjørn Tore Gjertsen and Øystein Bruserud

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:12

    Content type: Review

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  28. The NAD-dependent protein deacetylase SIRT1 has a wide range of different targets, which may be regulated either directly through deacetylation and thus potentially altering their activity or localization or i...

    Authors: Judith Katto, Nicole Engel, Wasim Abbas, Georges Herbein and Ulrich Mahlknecht

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:11

    Content type: Research

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  29. Sirtuin 1 (Sirt1) is a nuclear enzyme from the class III histone deacetylases that modulates gene expression and is involved in bone and cartilage remodeling. The goal of our study was to evaluate Sirt1 activi...

    Authors: Daniel Wendling, Wasim Abbas, Marie Godfrin-Valnet, Xavier Guillot, Kashif Aziz Khan, Jean-Pierre Cedoz, Lucile Baud, Clément Prati and Georges Herbein

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:10

    Content type: Research

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  30. Reactivation of silenced tumor suppressor genes by DNMT inhibitors has provided an alternative approach to cancer therapy. However, DNMT inhibitors have also been shown to induce or enhance tumorigenesis via D...

    Authors: Mathilde Cheray, Romain Pacaud, Arulraj Nadaradjane, François M Vallette and Pierre-François Cartron

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:9

    Content type: Short report

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  31. Epidemiological studies demonstrate that foetal growth restriction and low birth weight affect long-term health. Derangements in tissue-specific epigenetic programming of foetal and placental tissues are a sug...

    Authors: Emilie Herzog, Jubby Galvez, Anton Roks, Lisette Stolk, Michael Verbiest, Paul Eilers, Jan Cornelissen, Eric Steegers and Régine Steegers-Theunissen

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:8

    Content type: Short report

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  32. DNA methylation of CpG islands within the promoter region of genes is an epigenetic modification with an important role in the development of cancer and it is typically mediated by DNA methyltransferases (DNMT...

    Authors: Kathrin Kullmann, Mustafa Deryal, Mei Fang Ong, Werner Schmidt and Ulrich Mahlknecht

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:7

    Content type: Case study

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  33. Preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication of placental origin is associated with altered expression of angiogenic factors and their receptors. Recently, there is considerable interest in understanding the role of...

    Authors: Deepali P Sundrani, Umakar S Reddy, Asmita A Joshi, Savita S Mehendale, Preeti M Chavan-Gautam, Anandwardhan A Hardikar, Giriraj R Chandak and Sadhana R Joshi

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:6

    Content type: Research

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  35. The editors of Clinical Epigenetics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 4 (2012).

    Authors: Ulrich Mahlknecht

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:4

    Content type: Reviewer Acknowledgement

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  36. 5-Aza-2′-deoxycytidine (5-AZA-CdR, decitabine), an epigenetic drug that inhibits DNA methylation, is currently used to treat myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and is under investigation for treating acute myeloi...

    Authors: Metin Karahoca and Richard L Momparler

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:3

    Content type: Review

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  37. Cancer-specific hypermethylation of (promoter) CpG islands is common during the tumorigenesis of colon cancer. Although associations between certain genetic aberrations, such as BRAF mutation and microsatellite i...

    Authors: Eddy H van Roon, Arnoud Boot, Ashwin A Dihal, Robert F Ernst, Tom van Wezel, Hans Morreau and Judith M Boer

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:2

    Content type: Research

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  38. The occurrence of asthma is weakly explained by known genetic variants. Epigenetic marks, DNA methylation (DNA-M) in particular, are considered to add to the explanation of asthma. However, no etiological mode...

    Authors: Nelís Soto-Ramírez, Syed Hasan Arshad, John W Holloway, Hongmei Zhang, Eric Schauberger, Susan Ewart, Veeresh Patil and Wilfried Karmaus

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2013 5:1

    Content type: Research

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  39. The enzyme 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11βHSD1) converts inactive cortisone into active cortisol in insulin target tissues. In people with type 2 diabetes, skeletal muscle (SkM) 11βHSD1 is upregul...

    Authors: Warrick J Inder, Varuni R Obeyesekere, Christina Jang and Richard Saffery

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:24

    Content type: Research

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  40. The putative regulatory role of the male reproductive hormones in the molecular mechanism underlying chromatin condensation remains poorly understood. In the past decade, we developed two adult male rat models...

    Authors: Manjeet Kaur Gill-Sharma, Jyoti Choudhuri, Mukhtar Aleem Ansari and Serena D’Souza

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:23

    Content type: Research

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  41. Studying DNA methylation profiles in detail should be the first step in epigenetic research. Although sodium bisulfite modification of genomic DNA is the gold standard method for DNA methylation analysis, this...

    Authors: Miki Bundo, Fumiko Sunaga, Junko Ueda, Kiyoto Kasai, Tadafumi Kato and Kazuya Iwamoto

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:22

    Content type: Methodology

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  42. The insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and H19 imprinted genes control growth and body composition. Adverse in-utero environments have been associated with obesity-related diseases and linked with altered DNA me...

    Authors: Rae-Chi Huang, John C Galati, Sally Burrows, Lawrence J Beilin, Xin Li, Craig E Pennell, JAM van Eekelen, Trevor A Mori, Leon A Adams and Jeffrey M Craig

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:21

    Content type: Research

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  43. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is a complex autoimmune rheumatic disease of largely unknown cause. Evidence is growing that epigenetic variation, particularly DNA methylation, is associated with autoimmun...

    Authors: Justine A Ellis, Jane E Munro, Raul A Chavez, Lavinia Gordon, Jihoon E Joo, Jonathan D Akikusa, Roger C Allen, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Jeffrey M Craig and Richard Saffery

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:20

    Content type: Research

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  44. Oxidative stress may lead to an increased level of unrepaired cellular DNA damage, which is discussed as one risk for tumor initiation. Mismatch repair (MMR) enzymes act as proofreading complexes that maintain...

    Authors: Olivier J Switzeny, Elisabeth Müllner, Karl-Heinz Wagner, Helmut Brath, Eva Aumüller and Alexander G Haslberger

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:19

    Content type: Research

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  45. Vibration-induced white finger disease (VWF), also known as hand-arm vibration syndrome, is a secondary form of Raynaud’s disease, affecting the blood vessels and nerves. So far, little is known about the path...

    Authors: Susanne Voelter-Mahlknecht, Bernd Rossbach, Christina Schleithoff, Christian L Dransfeld, Stephan Letzel and Ulrich Mahlknecht

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:18

    Content type: Research

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  46. Secondhand smoke (SHS) and ambient air pollution (AAP) exposures have been associated with increased prevalence and severity of asthma and DNA modifications of immune cells. In the current study, we examined t...

    Authors: Arunima Kohli, Marco A Garcia, Rachel L Miller, Christina Maher, Olivier Humblet, S Katharine Hammond and Kari Nadeau

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:17

    Content type: Research

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  47. MicroRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) are short non-coding RNAs that affect the expression of genes involved in normal physiology, but that also become dysregulated in cancer development. In the latter context, studies t...

    Authors: Mansi A Parasramka, W Mohaiza Dashwood, Rong Wang, Hassaan H Saeed, David E Williams, Emily Ho and Roderick H Dashwood

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:16

    Content type: Research

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  48. Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is characterized by severe intrauterine and postnatal growth failure and frequent body asymmetry. Half of the patients with SRS carry a DNA hypomethylation of the imprinting cente...

    Authors: Kai Kannenberg, Karin Weber, Cathrin Binder, Christina Urban, Hans-Joachim Kirschner and Gerhard Binder

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:15

    Content type: Research

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  49. A wet nurse can be used if a baby’s natural mother is unable or chooses not to breastfeed her infant. The practice of using wet nurses is ancient and common to many cultures.

    Authors: Hasan Ozkan, Funda Tuzun, Abdullah Kumral and Nuray Duman

    Citation: Clinical Epigenetics 2012 4:14

    Content type: Hypothesis

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