Gene–environment interactions in Alzheimer disease: the emerging role of epigenetics

L Migliore, F Coppedè - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
With the exception of a few monogenic forms, Alzheimer disease (AD) has a complex
aetiology that is likely to involve multiple susceptibility genes and environmental factors. The …

Epigenetics of Alzheimer's disease

M Nikolac Perkovic, A Videtic Paska, M Konjevod… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
There are currently no validated biomarkers which can be used to accurately diagnose
Alzheimer's disease (AD) or to distinguish it from other dementia-causing neuropathologies …

DNA methylation signatures of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology in the cortex are primarily driven by variation in non-neuronal cell-types

G Shireby, EL Dempster, S Policicchio… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease characterized by the
progressive accumulation of amyloid-beta and neurofibrillary tangles of tau in the neocortex …

Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex

GL Shireby, JP Davies, PT Francis, J Burrage… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Human DNA methylation data have been used to develop biomarkers of ageing, referred to
as 'epigenetic clocks', which have been widely used to identify differences between …

Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of DNA methylation differences in prefrontal cortex implicates the immune processes in Alzheimer's disease

L Zhang, TC Silva, JI Young, L Gomez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
DNA methylation differences in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been reported. Here, we
conducted a meta-analysis of more than 1000 prefrontal cortex brain samples to prioritize …

A comparative overview of epigenomic profiling methods

M Mehrmohamadi, MH Sepehri, N Nazer… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past decade, assays that profile different aspects of the epigenome have grown
exponentially in number and variation. However, standard guidelines for researchers to …

Alzheimer's disease-associated (hydroxy) methylomic changes in the brain and blood

R Lardenoije, JAY Roubroeks, E Pishva, M Leber… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex multifactorial
affliction, the pathogenesis of which is thought to involve gene-environment interactions that …

A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease highlights novel differentially methylated loci across cortex

RG Smith, E Pishva, G Shireby, AR Smith… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenome-wide association studies of Alzheimer's disease have highlighted
neuropathology-associated DNA methylation differences, although existing studies have …

A meta-analysis of brain DNA methylation across sex, age, and Alzheimer's disease points for accelerated epigenetic aging in neurodegeneration

C Pellegrini, C Pirazzini, C Sala, L Sambati… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by specific alterations of brain DNA methylation
(DNAm) patterns. Age and sex, two major risk factors for AD, are also known to largely affect …

Epigenome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease replicates 22 differentially methylated positions and 30 differentially methylated regions

QS Li, Y Sun, T Wang - Clinical epigenetics, 2020 - Springer
Background Growing evidence shows that epigenetic modifications play a role in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). We performed an epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) to …