Gene environment interactions in the etiology of neural tube defects

RH Finnell, CD Caiaffa, SE Kim, Y Lei, J Steele… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Human structural congenital malformations are the leading cause of infant mortality in the
United States. Estimates from the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention …

Histone variant and cell context determine H3K27M reprogramming of the enhancer landscape and oncogenic state

S Nagaraja, MA Quezada, SM Gillespie, M Arzt… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Development of effective targeted cancer therapies is fundamentally limited by our
molecular understanding of disease pathogenesis. Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is …

[HTML][HTML] Organoids as a new model system to study neural tube defects

Y Wu, S Peng, RH Finnell, Y Zheng - FASEB journal: official …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The neural tube is the first critically important structure that develops in the embryo. It serves
as the primordium of the central nervous system; therefore, the proper formation of the …

scChIX-seq infers dynamic relationships between histone modifications in single cells

J Yeung, M Florescu, P Zeller, BA De Barbanson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Regulation of chromatin states involves the dynamic interplay between different histone
modifications to control gene expression. Recent advances have enabled mapping of …

Interplay of RFX transcription factors 1, 2 and 3 in motile ciliogenesis

S Lemeille, M Paschaki, D Baas, L Morlé… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cilia assembly is under strict transcriptional control during animal development. In
vertebrates, a hierarchy of transcription factors (TFs) are involved in controlling the …

Construction of single-cell cross-species chromatin accessibility landscapes with combinatorial-hybridization-based ATAC-seq

G Zhang, Y Fu, L Yang, F Ye, P Zhang, S Zhang, L Ma… - Developmental Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Despite recent advances in single-cell genomics, the lack of maps for single-cell candidate
cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in non-mammal species has limited our exploration of …

All-age whole mount in situ hybridization to reveal larval and juvenile expression patterns in zebrafish

F Vauti, LA Stegemann, V Vögele, RW Köster - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The zebrafish Danio rerio is a valuable and common model for scientists in the fields of
genetics and developmental biology. Since zebrafish are also amenable to genetic …

Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI) and pineal anlage tumor (PAT) harbor a medulloblastoma signature by DNA methylation profiling

O Lopez-Nunez, R Alaggio, I John, A Ciolfi, L Pedace… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI) is a rare tumor of
uncertain origin, morphologically overlapping other rare neoplasms such as pineal anlage …

The Intricate Epigenetic and Transcriptional Alterations in Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas: Targeting the Crosstalk as the Oncogenic Achilles' Heel

P Huchedé, P Leblond, M Castets - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGGs) are a deadly and heterogenous subgroup of gliomas
for which the development of innovative treatments is urgent. Advances in high-throughput …

Pediatric Diffuse Midline Glioma H3K27-Altered: From Developmental Origins to Therapeutic Challenges

M Mandorino, A Maitra, D Armenise, OM Baldelli… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Diffuse midline glioma (DMG), especially diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
(DIPG), is a deadly pediatric brain tumor that is difficult to diagnose and lacks any real …