DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

DNA methylation clocks in aging: categories, causes, and consequences

AE Field, NA Robertson, T Wang, A Havas, T Ideker… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Age-associated changes to the mammalian DNA methylome are well documented and
thought to promote diseases of aging, such as cancer. Recent studies have identified …

Epigenetic encoding, heritability and plasticity of glioma transcriptional cell states

R Chaligne, F Gaiti, D Silverbush, JS Schiffman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed extensive transcriptional cell state diversity in
cancer, often observed independently of genetic heterogeneity, raising the central question …

The origin of highly elevated cell-free DNA in healthy individuals and patients with pancreatic, colorectal, lung, or ovarian cancer

AK Mattox, C Douville, Y Wang, M Popoli, J Ptak… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) concentrations from patients with cancer are often elevated
compared with those of healthy controls, but the sources of this extra cfDNA have never …

An epigenetic role of mitochondria in cancer

Y Liu, C Chen, X Wang, Y Sun, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Shi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are not only the main energy supplier but are also the cell metabolic center
regulating multiple key metaborates that play pivotal roles in epigenetics regulation. These …

Circulating tumour DNA methylation markers for diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

R Xu, W Wei, M Krawczyk, W Wang, H Luo, K Flagg… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
An effective blood-based method for the diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) has not yet been developed. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) carrying …

Circulating tumor DNA methylation profiles enable early diagnosis, prognosis prediction, and screening for colorectal cancer

H Luo, Q Zhao, W Wei, L Zheng, S Yi, G Li… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has emerged as a useful diagnostic and prognostic
biomarker in many cancers. Here, we conducted a study to investigate the potential use of …

Senescence mechanisms and targets in the heart

MS Chen, RT Lee, JC Garbern - Cardiovascular research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cellular senescence is a state of irreversible cell cycle arrest associated with ageing.
Senescence of different cardiac cell types can direct the pathophysiology of cardiovascular …

The DNA methylation landscape in cancer

K Skvortsova, C Stirzaker, P Taberlay - Essays in biochemistry, 2019 - portlandpress.com
As one of the most abundant and well-studied epigenetic modifications, DNA methylation
plays an essential role in normal development and cellular biology. Global alterations to the …

lncRNA epigenetic landscape analysis identifies EPIC1 as an oncogenic lncRNA that interacts with MYC and promotes cell-cycle progression in cancer

Z Wang, B Yang, M Zhang, W Guo, Z Wu, Y Wang, L Jia… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
We characterized the epigenetic landscape of genes encoding long noncoding RNAs
(lncRNAs) across 6,475 tumors and 455 cancer cell lines. In stark contrast to the CpG island …