[HTML][HTML] Genetics and epigenetics in asthma

P Ntontsi, A Photiades, E Zervas, G Xanthou… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Asthma is one of the most common respiratory disease that affects both children and adults
worldwide, with diverse phenotypes and underlying pathogenetic mechanisms poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Transgenerational and intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in allergic diseases

TM Knudsen, FI Rezwan, Y Jiang, W Karmaus… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
It has become clear that early life (including in utero exposures) is a key window of
vulnerability during which environmental exposures can alter developmental trajectories …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation-based age estimation in pediatric healthy tissues and brain tumors

T Kling, A Wenger, H Caren - Aging (Albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Several DNA methylation clocks have been developed to reflect chronological age of human
tissues, but most clocks have been trained on adult samples. The rapid methylome changes …

[HTML][HTML] pwrEWAS: a user-friendly tool for comprehensive power estimation for epigenome wide association studies (EWAS)

S Graw, R Henn, JA Thompson, DC Koestler - BMC bioinformatics, 2019 - Springer
Background When designing an epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) to investigate
the relationship between DNA methylation (DNAm) and some exposure (s) or phenotype (s) …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and risk factors for asthma, rhinitis, eczema, and atopy among preschool children in an Andean city

C Ochoa-Avilés, D Morillo, A Rodriguez, PJ Cooper… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Limited data are available on prevalence and associated risk factors for atopy
and allergic diseases from high-altitude urban settings in Latin America. Objective To …

Sonic Hedgehog signalling in the regulation of barrier tissue homeostasis and inflammation

CI Lau, DC Yánez, E Papaioannou, S Ross… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epithelial barrier tissues such as the skin and airway form an essential interface between the
mammalian host and its external environment. These physical barriers are crucial to prevent …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding the role of DNA methylation in allergic diseases: from pathogenesis to therapy

R Han, D Zhu, J Sha, B Zhao, P Jin, C Meng - Cell & Bioscience, 2024 - Springer
Allergic diseases, characterized by a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and
symptoms, encompass a significant category of IgE-mediated atopic disorders, including …

What have mechanistic studies taught us about childhood asthma?

K Laubhahn, KJ Phelan, DJ Jackson, MC Altman… - The Journal of Allergy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Childhood asthma is a chronic heterogeneous syndrome consisting of different disease
entities or phenotypes. The immunologic and cellular processes that occur during asthma …

Immuno‐epigenomic analysis identifies attenuated interferon responses in naive CD4 T cells of adolescents with peanut and multi‐food allergy

S Imran, MR Neeland, S Peng, A Vlahos… - Pediatric Allergy and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background IgE‐mediated food allergies have been linked to suboptimal naïve CD4 T
(nCD4T) cell activation in infancy, underlined by epigenetic and transcriptomic variation …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenomics and transcriptomics in the prediction and diagnosis of childhood asthma: are we there yet?

E Forno, JC Celedón - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Asthma is the most common non-communicable chronic disease of childhood. Despite its
high prevalence, to date we lack methods that are both efficient and accurate in diagnosing …