Down syndrome

SE Antonarakis, BG Skotko, MS Rafii… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Trisomy 21, the presence of a supernumerary chromosome 21, results in a collection of
clinical features commonly known as Down syndrome (DS). DS is among the most …

Epigenomic signatures reveal mechanistic clues and predictive markers for autism spectrum disorder

JM LaSalle - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) comprises a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental
outcomes in children with a commonality in deficits in social communication and language …

Effects of aneuploidy on cell behaviour and function

R Li, J Zhu - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Aneuploidy, a genomic alternation characterized by deviations in the copy number of
chromosomes, affects organisms from early development through to aging. Although it is a …

Risk factors for Down syndrome

F Coppedè - Archives of toxicology, 2016 - Springer
Down syndrome (DS) originates, in most of the cases (95%), from a full trisomy of
chromosome 21. The remaining cases are due to either mosaicism for chromosome 21 or …

The genome-wide impact of trisomy 21 on DNA methylation and its implications for hematopoiesis

IS Muskens, S Li, T Jackson, N Elliot… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Down syndrome is associated with genome-wide perturbation of gene expression, which
may be mediated by epigenetic changes. We perform an epigenome-wide association study …

Epigenetic dysregulation in the developing Down syndrome cortex

N El Hajj, M Dittrich, J Böck, TFJ Kraus, I Nanda… - Epigenetics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Using Illumina 450K arrays, 1.85% of all analyzed CpG sites were significantly
hypermethylated and 0.31% hypomethylated in fetal Down syndrome (DS) cortex throughout …

Trisomy of a Down syndrome critical region globally amplifies transcription via HMGN1 overexpression

CT Mowery, JM Reyes, L Cabal-Hierro, KJ Higby… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Down syndrome (DS, trisomy 21) is associated with developmental abnormalities
and increased leukemia risk. To reconcile chromatin alterations with transcriptome changes …

A single-cell transcriptome atlas of human euploid and aneuploid blastocysts

S Wang, L Leng, Q Wang, Y Gu, J Li, Y An, Q Deng… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aneuploidy is frequently detected in early human embryos as a major cause of early
pregnancy failure. However, how aneuploidy affects cellular function remains elusive. Here …

Human iPSC-derived Down syndrome astrocytes display genome-wide perturbations in gene expression, an altered adhesion profile, and increased cellular …

B Ponroy Bally, WT Farmer, EV Jones… - Human Molecular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Down syndrome (DS), caused by the triplication of human chromosome 21, leads to
significant alterations in brain development and is a major genetic cause of intellectual …

Clustering by phenotype and genome-wide association study in autism

A Narita, M Nagai, S Mizuno, S Ogishima… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous
characteristics. A simulation study demonstrated that attempts to categorize patients with a …