[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation biomarkers in aging and age-related diseases

Y Salameh, Y Bejaoui, N El Hajj - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent research efforts provided compelling evidence of genome-wide DNA methylation
alterations in aging and age-related disease. It is currently well established that DNA …

The bigger picture of FTO—the first GWAS-identified obesity gene

RJF Loos, GSH Yeo - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2014 - nature.com
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that cluster in the first intron of fat mass and
obesity associated (FTO) gene are associated obesity traits in genome-wide association …

Epigenome-wide association of DNA methylation markers in peripheral blood from Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control …

JC Chambers, M Loh, B Lehne, A Drong… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Indian Asians, who make up a quarter of the world's population, are
at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether DNA methylation is …

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 …

Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of human pancreatic islets from type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic donors identifies candidate genes that influence insulin …

T Dayeh, P Volkov, S Salö, E Hall, E Nilsson… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Impaired insulin secretion is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Epigenetics may affect
disease susceptibility. To describe the human methylome in pancreatic islets and determine …

Epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) of BMI, BMI change and waist circumference in African American adults identifies multiple replicated loci

EW Demerath, W Guan, ML Grove… - Human molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Obesity is an important component of the pathophysiology of chronic diseases. Identifying
epigenetic modifications associated with elevated adiposity, including DNA methylation …

Complete Pipeline for Infinium® Human Methylation 450K BeadChip Data Processing Using Subset Quantile Normalization for Accurate DNA Methylation Estimation

N Touleimat, J Tost - Epigenomics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Huge progress has been made in the development of array-or sequencing-
based technologies for DNA methylation analysis. The Illumina Infinium® Human …

DNA methylation biomarkers: cancer and beyond

T Mikeska, JM Craig - Genes, 2014 - mdpi.com
Biomarkers are naturally-occurring characteristics by which a particular pathological process
or disease can be identified or monitored. They can reflect past environmental exposures …

Diabetic nephropathy—emerging epigenetic mechanisms

M Kato, R Natarajan - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2014 - nature.com
Diabetic nephropathy (DN), a severe microvascular complication frequently associated with
both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, is a leading cause of renal failure. The condition …

FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

J Yang, RJF Loos, JE Powell, SE Medland… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
There is evidence across several species for genetic control of phenotypic variation of
complex traits,,,, such that the variance among phenotypes is genotype dependent …