[HTML][HTML] Causal relationship between gut microbiota and cancers: a two-sample Mendelian randomisation study

Y Long, L Tang, Y Zhou, S Zhao, H Zhu - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Evidence from observational studies and clinical trials suggests that the gut
microbiota is associated with cancer. However, the causal association between gut …

Linking prenatal environmental exposures to lifetime health with epigenome-wide association studies: state-of-the-science review and future recommendations

KM Bakulski, F Blostein, SJ London - Environmental health …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The prenatal environment influences lifetime health; epigenetic mechanisms
likely predominate. In 2016, the first international consortium paper on cigarette smoking …

Epigenetics applied to child and adolescent mental health: Progress, challenges and opportunities

CAM Cecil, A Neumann, E Walton - JCPP advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Epigenetic processes are fast emerging as a promising molecular system in the
search for both biomarkers and mechanisms underlying human health and disease risk …

[HTML][HTML] Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age

E Bernabeu, DL McCartney, DA Gadd, RF Hillary… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Epigenetic clocks can track both chronological age (cAge) and biological age
(bAge). The latter is typically defined by physiological biomarkers and risk of adverse health …

[HTML][HTML] Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals

RF Hillary, DL McCartney, HM Smith, E Bernabeu… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background DNA methylation is a dynamic epigenetic mechanism that occurs at cytosine-
phosphate-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) sites. Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omics signatures of the human early life exposome

L Maitre, M Bustamante, C Hernández-Ferrer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Environmental exposures during early life play a critical role in life-course health, yet the
molecular phenotypes underlying environmental effects on health are poorly understood. In …

Arsenic exposure, blood DNA methylation, and cardiovascular disease

A Domingo-Relloso, K Makhani… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Epigenetic dysregulation has been proposed as a key mechanism for arsenic-
related cardiovascular disease (CVD). We evaluated differentially methylated positions …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analyses identify DNA methylation associated with kidney function and damage

P Schlosser, A Tin, PR Matias-Garcia, CHL Thio… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease is a major public health burden. Elevated urinary albumin-to-
creatinine ratio is a measure of kidney damage, and used to diagnose and stage chronic …

Causality-enriched epigenetic age uncouples damage and adaptation

K Ying, H Liu, AE Tarkhov, MC Sadler, AT Lu, M Moqri… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning models based on DNA methylation data can predict biological
age but often lack causal insights. By harnessing large-scale genetic data through …

Low-input and single-cell methods for Infinium DNA methylation BeadChips

SM Lee, CE Loo, RD Prasasya… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Infinium BeadChip is the most widely used DNA methylome assay technology
for population-scale epigenome profiling. However, the standard workflow requires over 200 …