Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives

S Villicaña, JT Bell - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Multiple recent studies highlight that genetic variants can have strong impacts on a
significant proportion of the human DNA methylome. Methylation quantitative trait loci, or …

Clinical epigenetics: seizing opportunities for translation

M Berdasco, M Esteller - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Biomarker discovery and validation are necessary for improving the prediction of clinical
outcomes and patient monitoring. Despite considerable interest in biomarker discovery and …

DNA hypermethylation in disease: mechanisms and clinical relevance

M Ehrlich - Epigenetics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing numbers of studies implicate abnormal DNA methylation in cancer and many non-
malignant diseases. This is consistent with numerous findings about differentiation …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular senescence in neurodegenerative diseases

C Martínez-Cué, N Rueda - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cellular senescence is a homeostatic biological process characterized by a permanent state
of cell cycle arrest that can contribute to the decline of the regenerative potential and …

Epigenetic regulation in neurodegenerative diseases

A Berson, R Nativio, SL Berger, NM Bonini - Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation, including DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling,
and histone post-translational modifications, are involved in multiple aspects of neuronal …

g: Profiler—a web server for functional interpretation of gene lists (2016 update)

J Reimand, T Arak, P Adler, L Kolberg… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Functional enrichment analysis is a key step in interpreting gene lists discovered in diverse
high-throughput experiments. g: Profiler studies flat and ranked gene lists and finds …

DNA methylation clocks and their predictive capacity for aging phenotypes and healthspan

T Bergsma, E Rogaeva - Neuroscience insights, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of age predictors based on DNA methylation (DNAm) profile is rising due to
their potential in predicting healthspan and application in age-related illnesses, such as …

Monoaminergic neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease

G Šimić, MB Leko, S Wray, CR Harrington… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
None of the proposed mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) fully explains the distribution
patterns of the neuropathological changes at the cellular and regional levels, and their …

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 …

Neuronal brain-region-specific DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility are associated with neuropsychiatric trait heritability

LF Rizzardi, PF Hickey, V Rodriguez DiBlasi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic modifications confer stable transcriptional patterns in the brain, and both normal
and abnormal brain function involve specialized brain regions. We examined DNA …