Linking prenatal environmental exposures to lifetime health with epigenome-wide association studies: state-of-the-science review and future recommendations

KM Bakulski, F Blostein, SJ London - Environmental health …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The prenatal environment influences lifetime health; epigenetic mechanisms
likely predominate. In 2016, the first international consortium paper on cigarette smoking …

Challenges and perspectives in computational deconvolution of genomics data

LX Garmire, Y Li, Q Huang, C Xu, SA Teichmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deciphering cell-type heterogeneity is crucial for systematically understanding tissue
homeostasis and its dysregulation in diseases. Computational deconvolution is an efficient …

A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types

N Loyfer, J Magenheim, A Peretz, G Cann, J Bredno… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic mark that governs gene expression and
chromatin organization, thus providing a window into cellular identity and developmental …

Exercise is associated with younger methylome and transcriptome profiles in human skeletal muscle

S Voisin, K Seale, M Jacques, S Landen… - Aging …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Exercise training prevents age‐related decline in muscle function. Targeting epigenetic
aging is a promising actionable mechanism and late‐life exercise mitigates epigenetic aging …

A meta-analysis of immune-cell fractions at high resolution reveals novel associations with common phenotypes and health outcomes

Q Luo, VB Dwaraka, Q Chen, H Tong, T Zhu, K Seale… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Changes in cell-type composition of tissues are associated with a wide range of
diseases and environmental risk factors and may be causally implicated in disease …

Methylation differences in Alzheimer's disease neuropathologic change in the aged human brain

AL Lang, T Eulalio, E Fox, K Yakabi, SA Bukhari… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2022 - Springer
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia with advancing age as its
strongest risk factor. AD neuropathologic change (ADNC) is known to be associated with …

[PDF][PDF] A phase II trial of guadecitabine plus atezolizumab in metastatic urothelial carcinoma progressing after initial immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

HJ Jang, G Hostetter, AW Macfarlane, Z Madaj… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: On the basis of preclinical evidence of epigenetic contribution to sensitivity and
resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), we hypothesized that guadecitabine …

NTRK‐rearranged spindle cell neoplasms are ubiquitous tumours of myofibroblastic lineage with a distinct methylation class

A Tauziède‐Espariat, M Duchesne, J Baud… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims NTRK gene fusions have been described in a wide variety of central nervous system
(CNS) and soft tissue tumours, including the provisional tumour type 'spindle cell neoplasm …

Hierarchical deconvolution for extensive cell type resolution in the human brain using DNA methylation

Z Zhang, JK Wiencke, KT Kelsey, DC Koestler… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The human brain comprises heterogeneous cell types whose composition can
be altered with physiological and pathological conditions. New approaches to discern the …

Genetic effects on the skin methylome in healthy older twins

CJ Shore, S Villicaña, JSES Moustafa… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
Whole-skin DNA methylation variation has been implicated in several diseases, including
melanoma, but its genetic basis has not yet been fully characterized. Using bulk skin tissue …