Effects of the social environment and stress on glucocorticoid receptor gene methylation: a systematic review

G Turecki, MJ Meaney - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
The early-life social environment can induce stable changes that influence
neurodevelopment and mental health. Research focused on early-life adversity revealed …

Advanced cell culture techniques for cancer drug discovery

CJ Lovitt, TB Shelper, VM Avery - Biology, 2014 - mdpi.com
Human cancer cell lines are an integral part of drug discovery practices. However, modeling
the complexity of cancer utilizing these cell lines on standard plastic substrata, does not …

Differential DNA methylation in purified human blood cells: implications for cell lineage and studies on disease susceptibility

LE Reinius, N Acevedo, M Joerink, G Pershagen… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Methylation of cytosines at CpG sites is a common epigenetic DNA modification that can be
measured by a large number of methods, now even in a genome-wide manner for hundreds …

Intragenic DNA methylation modulates alternative splicing by recruiting MeCP2 to promote exon recognition

AK Maunakea, I Chepelev, K Cui, K Zhao - Cell research, 2013 - nature.com
Although the function of DNA methylation in gene promoter regions is well established in
transcriptional repression, the function of the evolutionarily conserved widespread …

Caloric restriction delays age-related methylation drift

S Maegawa, Y Lu, T Tahara, JT Lee, J Madzo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, caloric restriction consistently results in extended lifespan. Epigenetic
information encoded by DNA methylation is tightly regulated, but shows a striking drift …

The molecular bases of the suicidal brain

G Turecki - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
Suicide ranks among the leading causes of death around the world and takes a heavy
emotional and public health toll on most societies. Both distal and proximal factors contribute …

Tet family proteins and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in development and disease

L Tan, YG Shi - Development, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Over the past few decades, DNA methylation at the 5-position of cytosine (5-methylcytosine,
5mC) has emerged as an important epigenetic modification that plays essential roles in …

Prenatal maternal stress predicts methylation of genes regulating the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical system in mothers and newborns in the Democratic …

DA Kertes, HS Kamin, DA Hughes… - Child …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to stress early in life permanently shapes activity of the hypothalamic–pituitary–
adrenocortical (HPA) axis and the brain. Prenatally, glucocorticoids pass through the …

Methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) are consistently detected across ancestry, developmental stage, and tissue type

AK Smith, V Kilaru, M Kocak, LM Almli, KB Mercer… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Individual genotypes at specific loci can result in different patterns of DNA
methylation. These methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) influence methylation across …

Identification and systematic annotation of tissue-specific differentially methylated regions using the Illumina 450k array

RC Slieker, SD Bos, JJ Goeman, JVMG Bovée… - Epigenetics & …, 2013 - Springer
Background DNA methylation has been recognized as a key mechanism in cell
differentiation. Various studies have compared tissues to characterize epigenetically …