NAFLD and thyroid function: pathophysiological and therapeutic considerations

E Hatziagelaki, SA Paschou, M Schön… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2022 - cell.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a worldwide rising challenge because of hepatic,
but also extrahepatic, complications. Thyroid hormones are master regulators of energy and …

New genetic and epigenetic insights into the chemokine system: The latest discoveries aiding progression toward precision medicine

H Xu, S Lin, Z Zhou, D Li, X Zhang, M Yu… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past thirty years, the importance of chemokines and their seven-transmembrane G
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) has been increasingly recognized. Chemokine …

Tracking single-cell evolution using clock-like chromatin accessibility loci

Y Xiao, W Jin, L Ju, J Fu, G Wang, M Yu, F Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell chromatin accessibility sequencing (scATAC-seq) reconstructs developmental
trajectory by phenotypic similarity. However, inferring the exact developmental trajectory is …

Activation, decommissioning, and dememorization: enhancers in a life cycle

X Wu, X Wu, W Xie - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Spatiotemporal regulation of cell type-specific gene expression is essential to convert a
zygote into a complex organism that contains hundreds of distinct cell types. A class of cis …

[HTML][HTML] Paternal epigenetic influences on placental health and their impacts on offspring development and disease

SS Bhadsavle, MC Golding - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Our efforts to understand the developmental origins of birth defects and disease have
primarily focused on maternal exposures and intrauterine stressors. Recently, research into …

Epigenome editing for targeted DNA (de) methylation: a new perspective in modulating gene expression

K Seem, S Kaur, S Kumar… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Traditionally, it has been believed that inheritance is driven as phenotypic variations
resulting from changes in DNA sequence. However, this paradigm has been challenged and …

Extensive DNA methylome rearrangement during early lamprey embryogenesis

A Angeloni, S Fissette, D Kaya, JM Hammond… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation (5mC) is a repressive gene regulatory mark widespread in vertebrate
genomes, yet the developmental dynamics in which 5mC patterns are established vary …

Photoperiod Induces DNA Methylation changes in the melatonin receptor 1A gene in Ewes

X He, W Wang, W Sun, M Chu - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Accurate timing of photoperiod changes is vital for animal reproduction.
Previous research has shown that the polymorphisms and expression of melatonin receptor …

[PDF][PDF] Locus-level L1 DNA methylation profiling reveals the epigenetic and transcriptional interplay between L1s and their integration sites

S Lanciano, C Philippe, A Sarkar, D Pratella… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Long interspersed element 1 (L1) retrotransposons are implicated in human
disease and evolution. Their global activity is repressed by DNA methylation, but …

Whole blood DNA methylation changes are associated with anti-TNF drug concentration in patients with Crohn's disease

S Lin, E Hannon, M Reppell, JF Waring… - Journal of Crohn's …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Anti-tumour necrosis factor [TNF] treatment failure in patients
with inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] is common and frequently related to low drug …