A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era

M Meloni, T Moll, A Issaka… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies demonstrating epigenetic and developmental sensitivity to early
environments, as exemplified by fields like the Developmental Origins of Health and …

Epigenetics applied to psychiatry: clinical opportunities and future challenges

L Kular, S Kular - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric disorders are clinically heterogeneous and debilitating chronic diseases
resulting from a complex interplay between gene variants and environmental factors …

Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function

JS Hawe, R Wilson, KT Schmid, L Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We determined the relationships between DNA sequence variation and DNA methylation
using blood samples from 3,799 Europeans and 3,195 South Asians. We identify …

Novel diagnostic DNA methylation episignatures expand and refine the epigenetic landscapes of Mendelian disorders

MA Levy, H McConkey, J Kerkhof… - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
Overlapping clinical phenotypes and an expanding breadth and complexity of genomic
associations are a growing challenge in the diagnosis and clinical management of …

DNMT inhibitors increase methylation in the cancer genome

AK Giri, T Aittokallio - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) decitabine and azacytidine are approved
therapies for myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia, and their …

Characterisation of ethnic differences in DNA methylation between UK-resident South Asians and Europeans

HR Elliott, K Burrows, JL Min, T Tillin, D Mason… - Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
Ethnic differences in non-communicable disease risk have been described between
individuals of South Asian and European ethnicity that are only partially explained by …

Evidence for differences in DNA methylation between Germans and Japanese

J Becker, P Böhme, A Reckert, SB Eickhoff… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
As a contribution to the discussion about the possible effects of ethnicity/ancestry on age
estimation based on DNA methylation (DNAm) patterns, we directly compared age …

Genome-wide association study of blood lipids in Indians confirms universality of established variants

K Bandesh, G Prasad, AK Giri, Y Kauser… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - nature.com
Lipids foster energy production and their altered levels have been coupled with metabolic
ailments. Indians feature high prevalence of metabolic diseases, yet uncharacterized for …

Epigenome-wide methylation study identified two novel CpGs associated with T2DM risk and a network of co-methylated CpGs capable of patient's classifications

AK Giri, G Prasad, V Parekatt… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) pandemic needs markers that can precisely
predict the disease risk in an individual. Alterations in DNA methylations due to exposure …

Methylation profiles at birth linked to early childhood obesity

D Lariviere, SJC Craig, IM Paul, EE Hohman… - … Origins of Health and …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Childhood obesity represents a significant global health concern and identifying its risk
factors is crucial for developing intervention programs. Many “omics” factors associated with …