Making sense of the ageing methylome

K Seale, S Horvath, A Teschendorff, N Eynon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over time, the human DNA methylation landscape accrues substantial damage, which has
been associated with a broad range of age-related diseases, including cardiovascular …

Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer

AP Feinberg, A Levchenko - Science, 2023 - science.org
The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from
pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

[HTML][HTML] Age-dependent instability of mature neuronal fate in induced neurons from Alzheimer's patients

J Mertens, JR Herdy, L Traxler, ST Schafer… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) exclusively affects elderly people. Using direct
conversion of AD patient fibroblasts into induced neurons (iNs), we generated an age …

The key role of epigenetics in human disease prevention and mitigation

AP Feinberg - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Epigenetics in Disease Prevention and Mitigation Epigenetics is the regulation of gene
expression through alterations in DNA or associated factors (other than the DNA sequence) …

Epigenetic modulators, modifiers and mediators in cancer aetiology and progression

AP Feinberg, MA Koldobskiy, A Göndör - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
This year is the tenth anniversary of the publication in this journal of a model suggesting the
existence of'tumour progenitor genes'. These genes are epigenetically disrupted at the …

DNA methylation and healthy human aging

MJ Jones, SJ Goodman, MS Kobor - Aging cell, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The process of aging results in a host of changes at the cellular and molecular levels, which
include senescence, telomere shortening, and changes in gene expression. Epigenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic age acceleration predicts cancer, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality in a German case cohort

L Perna, Y Zhang, U Mons, B Holleczek, KU Saum… - Clinical …, 2016 - Springer
Background Previous studies have developed models predicting methylation age from DNA
methylation in blood and other tissues (epigenetic clock) and suggested the difference …

[HTML][HTML] EMT and tumor metastasis

S Heerboth, G Housman, M Leary, M Longacre… - Clinical and translational …, 2015 - Springer
EMT and MET comprise the processes by which cells transit between epithelial and
mesenchymal states, and they play integral roles in both normal development and cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic heterogeneity in cancer

M Guo, Y Peng, A Gao, C Du, JG Herman - Biomarker research, 2019 - Springer
Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity is one of the hallmarks of human cancers. Tumor
genotype variations among tumors within different patients are known as interpatient …