Maternal folic acid supplementation mediates offspring health via DNA methylation

HY Liu, SM Liu, YZ Zhang - Reproductive Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The clinical significance of periconceptional folic acid supplementation (FAS) in the
prevention of neonatal neural tube defects (NTDs) has been recognized for decades …

Abnormal methylation caused by folic acid deficiency in neural tube defects

R Cao, J Xie, L Zhang - Open Life Sciences, 2022 - degruyter.com
Neural tube closure disorders, including anencephaly, spina bifida, and encephalocele,
cause neural tube defects (NTDs). This congenital disability remained not only a major …

Benchmark dose modeling estimates of the concentrations of inorganic arsenic that induce changes to the neonatal transcriptome, proteome, and epigenome in a …

JE Rager, SS Auerbach, GA Chappell… - Chemical research in …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Prenatal inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure influences the expression of critical genes and
proteins associated with adverse outcomes in newborns, in part through epigenetic …

Aberrant methylation of Pax3 gene and neural tube defects in association with exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

S Lin, A Ren, L Wang, C Santos, Y Huang, L Jin, Z Li… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Neural tube defects (NTDs) are common and severe congenital
malformations. Pax3 is an essential gene for neural tube closure in mice but it is unknown …

Fetal DNA hypermethylation in tight junction pathway is associated with neural tube defects: A genome-wide DNA methylation analysis

L Wang, S Lin, J Zhang, T Tian, L Jin, A Ren - Epigenetics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a spectrum of severe congenital malformations of fusion
failure of the neural tube during early embryogenesis. Evidence on aberrant DNA …

TRIM4 is associated with neural tube defects based on genome-wide DNA methylation analysis

H Zhang, Y Guo, H Gu, X Wei, W Ma, D Liu, K Yu… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Neural tube defects (NTDs) are complex abnormalities associated with
gene-environment interactions. The underlying cause has not been determined. Methods …

Low folate concentration impacts mismatch repair deficiency in neural tube defects

H Li, X Wang, H Zhao, F Wang, Y Bao, J Guo… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: To know the cause of sequence variants in neural tube defect (NTD). Materials &
methods: We sequenced genes implicated in neural tube closure (NTC) in a Chinese cohort …

Hypomethylation of GRHL3 gene is associated with the occurrence of neural tube defects

T Tian, L Wang, Y Shen, B Zhang, RH Finnell… - Epigenomics, 2018 - Future Medicine
Aim: To investigate the relationship between GRHL3 methylation and the etiology of neural
tube defects (NTDs). Materials & methods: Analyze data from a genome-wide DNA …

Ectopic cross-talk between thyroid and retinoic acid signaling: a possible etiology for spinal neural tube defects

H Li, B Bai, Q Zhang, Y Bao, J Guo, S Chen, C Miao… - Gene, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous studies have highlighted the connections between neural tube defects (NTDs) and
both thyroid hormones (TH) and vitamin A. However, whether the two hormonal signaling …

Embryonic exposure to decitabine induces multiple neural tube defects in developing zebrafish

V Rajesh, PK Divya - Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 2023 - Springer
Neural tube defects are severe congenital disorders of the central nervous system that
originate during embryonic development when the neural tube fails to close completely. It …