18q12. 3‐q21. 1 microdeletion detected in the prenatally alcohol‐exposed dizygotic twin with discordant fetal alcohol syndrome phenotype

H Kahila, H Marjonen, P Auvinen… - … Genetics & Genomic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Furthermore, we explored alterations in DNA methylation profile of imprinting control region
at growth-related insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2)/H19 locus in twins' white blood cells (…

Differences of circular RNA expression profiles between monozygotic twins' blood, with the forensic application in bloodstain and saliva

J Wang, G Fu, Q Wang, G Ma, Z Wang, C Lu… - Forensic Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
… exhibited DNA methylation disparities exceeding 0.1 beta values. Although DNA methylation
has been shown to differ in degree among MZT individuals, the use of DNA methylation for …

Mechanisms of discordance in monozygotic twins: why and when?

A Matias, S Silva, I Blickstein - … Origins of Differences in Monozygotic Twins, 2020 - Elsevier
… Transposition of a transposon is regulated by DNA methylation; therefore abnormal DNA
methylation of a transposon may be associated with activity of transposition. Thus transposon …

Epigenome-wide association study of systemic effects of obesity susceptibility in human twins

GE Duncan, A Avery, MB Maamar, EE Nilsson… - Epigenetics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… systemic DNA methylation alterations that are associated with obesity using 22 discordant
twin … Analysis of differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs) was used to identify epigenetic …

Exploratory analysis of age and sex dependent DNA methylation patterns on the X-chromosome in whole blood samples

S Li, JB Lund, K Christensen, J Baumbach… - Genome Medicine, 2020 - Springer
DNA methylation profiles for all samples used in this study were analysed by the same platform,
ie the Illumina Human Methylation … nucleotide resolution in genomic DNA from the whole …

Cap Analysis of Gene Expression Clarifies Transcriptomic Divergence Within Monozygotic Twin Pairs

…, T Honda, Osaka Twin Research Group - Twin Research and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
… Our results showed that the expression profiles of HERVs and LINEs diverged even within
MZ twin pairs. Considering the physiological significance of retrotransposons, differences in …

Clinical value of DNA methylation markers in autoimmune rheumatic diseases

E Ballestar, AH Sawalha, Q Lu - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
… strong links between DNA methylation profiles and different … of DNA methylation profiles as
novel clinical markers. In this Review, we provide an updated discussion on DNA methylation

Modeling dependency structures in 450k DNA methylation data

HE Nustad, I Steinsland, M Ollikainen, E Cazaly… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation has been shown to be spatially dependent … The twin dataset used in the
current study are located in the … structure to publicly available DNA methylation data with the …

Revisiting genetic artifacts on DNA methylation microarrays exposes novel biological implications

B Planterose Jiménez, M Kayser, A Vidaki - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
… of monozygotic twins, and we estimate minor allele frequency from DNA methylation data
and … Finally, we propose a novel strategy based on co-methylation that can discern between …

Genetic and environmental determinants of variation in the plasma lipidome of older Australian twins

MWK Wong, A Thalamuthu, N Braidy, KA Mather, Y Liu… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
… -aged twins (75 monozygotic/55 dizygotic pairs) enrolled in the Older Australian Twins Study
(OATS) and explored corresponding gene expression and DNA methylation associations. …