The key role of epigenetics in human disease prevention and mitigation

AP Feinberg - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Epigenetics in Disease Prevention and Mitigation Epigenetics is the regulation of gene
expression through alterations in DNA or associated factors (other than the DNA sequence) …

Maternal immune activation and abnormal brain development across CNS disorders

I Knuesel, L Chicha, M Britschgi, SA Schobel… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Epidemiological studies have shown a clear association between maternal infection and
schizophrenia or autism in the progeny. Animal models have revealed maternal immune …

Upper cortical layer–driven network impairment in schizophrenia

MY Batiuk, T Tyler, K Dragicevic, S Mei, R Rydbirk… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Schizophrenia is one of the most widespread and complex mental disorders. To
characterize the impact of schizophrenia, we performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing …

Integrative analysis of multi-omics data for discovery and functional studies of complex human diseases

YV Sun, YJ Hu - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Complex and dynamic networks of molecules are involved in human diseases. High-
throughput technologies enable omics studies interrogating thousands to millions of makers …

DNA methylation methods: Global DNA methylation and methylomic analyses

S Li, TO Tollefsbol - Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
DNA methylation provides a pivotal layer of epigenetic regulation in eukaryotes that has
significant involvement for numerous biological processes in health and disease. The …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated genetic-epigenetic analysis of schizophrenia: evidence for co-localization of genetic associations and differential DNA methylation

E Hannon, E Dempster, J Viana, J Burrage, AR Smith… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Schizophrenia is a highly heritable, neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by
episodic psychosis and altered cognitive function. Despite success in identifying genetic …

Epigenetic mechanisms in neurogenesis

B Yao, KM Christian, C He, P Jin, G Ming… - Nature reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
In the embryonic and adult brain, neural stem cells proliferate and give rise to neurons and
glia through highly regulated processes. Epigenetic mechanisms—including DNA and …

Epigenetic basis of mental illness

EJ Nestler, CJ Peña, M Kundakovic… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychiatric disorders are complex multifactorial illnesses involving chronic alterations in
neural circuit structure and function as well as likely abnormalities in glial cells. While …

DNA extracted from saliva for methylation studies of psychiatric traits: evidence tissue specificity and relatedness to brain

AK Smith, V Kilaru, T Klengel, KB Mercer… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation has become increasingly recognized in the etiology of psychiatric
disorders. Because brain tissue is not accessible in living humans, epigenetic studies are …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation meta-analysis reveals cellular alterations in psychosis and markers of treatment-resistant schizophrenia

E Hannon, EL Dempster, G Mansell, J Burrage, N Bass… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We performed a systematic analysis of blood DNA methylation profiles from 4483
participants from seven independent cohorts identifying differentially methylated positions …