Epigenetics and depressive disorders: a review of current progress and future directions

V Januar, R Saffery, J Ryan - International journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: Several broad lines of evidence support the involvement of epigenetic
processes in neurodevelopment and psychiatric disorders. Epigenetic disruption also …

Genomic DNA methylation distinguishes subtypes of human focal cortical dysplasia

K Kobow, M Ziemann, H Kaipananickal, I Khurana… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a major cause of drug‐resistant focal epilepsy in
children, and the clinicopathological classification remains a challenging issue in daily …

dotdotdot: an automated approach to quantify multiplex single molecule fluorescent in situ hybridization (smFISH) images in complex tissues

KR Maynard, M Tippani, Y Takahashi… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Multiplex single-molecule fluorescent in situ hybridization (smFISH) is a powerful method for
validating RNA sequencing and emerging spatial transcriptomic data, but quantification …

[HTML][HTML] A patient-derived cell atlas informs precision targeting of glioblastoma

P Johansson, C Krona, S Kundu, M Doroszko… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a malignant brain tumor with few therapeutic options. The disease
presents with a complex spectrum of genomic aberrations, but the pharmacological …

Alterations in DNA methylation of Fkbp5 as a determinant of blood–brain correlation of glucocorticoid exposure

ER Ewald, GS Wand, F Seifuddin, X Yang… - …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Epigenetic studies that utilize peripheral tissues to identify molecular substrates
of neuropsychiatric disorders rely on the assumption that disease-relevant, cellular …

Epigenomics of Alzheimer's disease

DA Bennett, L Yu, J Yang, HU Klein… - Translating Epigenetics to …, 2017 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a large and growing public health problem. It is characterized by
the accumulation of amyloid-β peptides and abnormally phosphorylated tau proteins that are …

The effects of DNA methylation on human psychology

F Kader, M Ghai, L Maharaj - Behavioural brain research, 2018 - Elsevier
DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic modification in the human genome; pivotal in
development, genomic imprinting, X inactivation, chromosome stability, gene expression …

Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling identifies convergent molecular signatures associated with idiopathic and syndromic autism in post-mortem human brain …

CCY Wong, RG Smith, E Hannon… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a collection of complex neuropsychiatric
disorders characterized by deficits in social functioning, communication and repetitive …

Targeted attenuation of elevated histone marks at SNCA alleviates α‐synuclein in Parkinson's disease

S Guhathakurta, J Kim, L Adams, S Basu… - EMBO Molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
Epigenetic deregulation of α‐synuclein plays a key role in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Analysis of the SNCA promoter using the ENCODE database revealed the presence of …

Distinct chromatin signatures of DNA hypomethylation in aging and cancer

RF Perez, JR Tejedor, GF Bayon, AF Fernández… - Aging …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer is an aging‐associated disease, but the underlying molecular links between these
processes are still largely unknown. Gene promoters that become hypermethylated in aging …