abstract：BACKGROUND:Adiponectin critically contributes to metabolic homeostasis, especially by insulin-sensitizing action. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is characterized by insulin resistance leading to materno-fetal hyperglycemia and detrimental birth outcomes. By investigating paired subcutaneous (SAT) and visceral adip...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Ott R,Stupin JH,Melchior K,Schellong K,Ziska T,Dudenhausen JW,Henrich W,Rancourt RC,Plagemann A

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tobacco smoking is a risk factor for multiple diseases, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Many smoking-associated signals have been detected in the blood methylome, but the extent to which these changes are widespread to metabolically relevant tissues, and impact gene expression or metabolic hea...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Tsai PC,Glastonbury CA,Eliot MN,Bollepalli S,Yet I,Castillo-Fernandez JE,Carnero-Montoro E,Hardiman T,Martin TC,Vickers A,Mangino M,Ward K,Pietiläinen KH,Deloukas P,Spector TD,Viñuela A,Loucks EB,Ollikainen M,Kelsey K

更新日期：2018-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Testicular germ cell tumor such as seminoma is strongly associated with male reproductive problems commonly associated with the alteration of sperm parameters as described in testicular dysgenesis syndrome. Interestingly, numerous studies have reported that the precursor of germ cell cancer, germ cell neopla...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Bruno C,Blagoskonov O,Barberet J,Guilleman M,Daniel S,Tournier B,Binquet C,Choux C,Fauque P

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age is one of the most important risk factors for developing breast cancer. However, age-related changes in normal breast tissue that potentially lead to breast cancer are incompletely understood. Quantifying tissue-level DNA methylation can contribute to understanding these processes. We hypothesized that o...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Hofstatter EW,Horvath S,Dalela D,Gupta P,Chagpar AB,Wali VB,Bossuyt V,Storniolo AM,Hatzis C,Patwardhan G,Von Wahlde MK,Butler M,Epstein L,Stavris K,Sturrock T,Au A,Kwei S,Pusztai L

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed human malignancy worldwide. Upregulation of inhibitory immune checkpoints by tumor-infiltrating immune cells (TIICs) or their ligands by tumor cells leads to tumor evasion from host immunosurveillance. Changes in DNA methylation pattern and enrichm...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Sasidharan Nair V,Toor SM,Taha RZ,Shaath H,Elkord E

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous mutation of the transcription factor HNF1B is the most common cause of monogenetic developmental renal disease. Disease-associated mutations fall into two categories: HNF1B intragenic mutations and a 1.3 Mb deletion at chromosome 17q12. An increase in neurodevelopmental disorders has been observed in indi...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Clissold RL,Ashfield B,Burrage J,Hannon E,Bingham C,Mill J,Hattersley A,Dempster EL

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered DNA methylation events contribute to the pathogenesis and progression of metabolic disorders, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Investigations of global DNA methylation patterns in liver biopsies representing severe NAFLD fibrosis have been limited. We used the HumanMethylation 450K BeadChip ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Gerhard GS,Malenica I,Llaci L,Chu X,Petrick AT,Still CD,DiStefano JK

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Methylation-associated SOX family genes have been proved to be involved in multiple essential processes during carcinogenesis and act as potential biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, staging, prediction of prognosis, and monitoring of response to therapy. Herein, we revealed SOX30 methylation and its clinical i...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Zhou JD,Wang YX,Zhang TJ,Li XX,Gu Y,Zhang W,Ma JC,Lin J,Qian J

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency have been established to be strongly associated with increased overall mortality and deaths from specific aging-related diseases. Recently, an epigenetic "mortality risk score" (MS) based on whole blood DNA methylation at the 10 most prominent mortality-related cytosine...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Gao X,Zhang Y,Schöttker B,Brenner H

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Reduced expression of retinoic acid-induced 2 (RAI2) was found in breast cancer. The regulation and function of RAI2 in human colorectal cancer (CRC) remain unclear. Methods:Eight CRC cell lines and 237 cases of primary CRC were analyzed. Methylation-specific PCR (MSP), flow cytometry, xenograft mouse model...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Yan W,Wu K,Herman JG,Xu X,Yang Y,Dai G,Guo M

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Maternal social environmental stressors during pregnancy are associated with adverse birth and child developmental outcomes, and epigenetics has been proposed as a possible mechanism for such relationships. Methods:In a Mexican-American birth cohort of 241 maternal-infant pairs, cord blood samples were meas...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Coker ES,Gunier R,Huen K,Holland N,Eskenazi B

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Staging and pathological grading systems are convenient but imperfect predictors of recurrence in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Identifying biomarkers for HNSCC that will progress and cause death is a critical research area, particularly if the biomarker can be linked to selection of patient...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Misawa K,Mima M,Imai A,Mochizuki D,Misawa Y,Endo S,Ishikawa R,Kanazawa T,Mineta H

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous disease of the lungs that is currently the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Genetic factors account for only a small amount of COPD risk, but epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, have the potential to mediate the interaction...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Clifford RL,Fishbane N,Patel J,MacIsaac JL,McEwen LM,Fisher AJ,Brandsma CA,Nair P,Kobor MS,Hackett TL,Knox AJ

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Remodeling of the sperm epigenome by lifestyle factors before conception could account for altered metabolism in the next generation offspring. Here, we hypothesized that endurance training changes the epigenome of human spermatozoa. Using small RNA (sRNA) sequencing and reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RR...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Ingerslev LR,Donkin I,Fabre O,Versteyhe S,Mechta M,Pattamaprapanont P,Mortensen B,Krarup NT,Barrès R

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The dynamic methylation of human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 DNA is thought to be associated with the progression of cervical lesions. Previous studies that did not consider the physical status of HPV 16 may have incorrectly mapped HPV 16 methylomes. In order to identify reliable biomarkers for squamous cervical...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Liu L,Ying C,Zhao Z,Sui L,Zhang X,Qian C,Wang Q,Chen L,Guo Q,Wu J

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:New efficient therapies for urothelial carcinoma (UC) are urgently required. Small-molecule drugs targeting chromatin regulators are reasonable candidates because these regulators are frequently mutated or deregulated in UC. Indeed, in previous work, Romidepsin, which targets class I histone deacetylases (HD...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Hölscher AS,Schulz WA,Pinkerneil M,Niegisch G,Hoffmann MJ

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study was aimed at understanding whether bronchial biopsy specimen can be used as a surrogate for DNA methylation analysis in surgically resected lung cancer. Methods:A genome-wide methylation was analyzed in 42 surgically resected tumor tissues, 136 bronchial washing, 12 sputum, and 8 bronchial biopsy...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Um SW,Kim HK,Kim Y,Lee BB,Kim D,Han J,Kim H,Shim YM,Kim DH

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：Background:AXL is one of the TAM (TYRO3, AXL and MERTK) receptor tyrosine kinases and may affect numerous immune-related health conditions. However, the role for AXL in asthma, including its epigenetic regulation, has not been extensively studied. Methods:We investigated the association between AXL DNA methylation at ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Gao L,Millstein J,Siegmund KD,Dubeau L,Maguire R,Gilliland FD,Murphy SK,Hoyo C,Breton CV

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol consumption during pregnancy is a significant public health problem and can result in a continuum of adverse outcomes to the fetus known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Subjects with FASD show significant neurological deficits, ranging from microencephaly, neurobehavioral, and mental heal...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Rachdaoui N,Li L,Willard B,Kasumov T,Previs S,Sarkar D

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter to the editor, we highlight some concerns with a recently published method to estimate gestational age at delivery from DNA methylation data. We conduct novel analyses to highlight the implications of different choices in study design and statistical methods for the prediction of phenotypes from methyla...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Simpkin AJ,Suderman M,Howe LD

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many conventional chemotherapeutic drugs are known to be involved in DNA damage, thus ultimately leading to apoptosis of leukemic cells. However, they fail to completely eliminate leukemia stem cells (LSCs) due to their higher DNA repair capacity of cancer stem cells than that of bulk cancer cells, which bec...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Li Y,Wang Y,Zhou Y,Li J,Chen K,Zhang L,Deng M,Deng S,Li P,Xu B

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) is increasingly available for the improvement of the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies other than fresh embryo transfer (ET). There have been numerous findings that FET provides better obstetric and perinatal outcomes. However, the birth weight of infants ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Hiura H,Hattori H,Kobayashi N,Okae H,Chiba H,Miyauchi N,Kitamura A,Kikuchi H,Yoshida H,Arima T

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The DNA modification 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is now referred to as the sixth base of DNA with evidence of tissue-specific patterns and correlation with gene regulation and expression. This epigenetic mark was recently reported as a potential biomarker for multiple types of cancer, but its application ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Gilat N,Tabachnik T,Shwartz A,Shahal T,Torchinsky D,Michaeli Y,Nifker G,Zirkin S,Ebenstein Y

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypericin-mediated photodynamic therapy (HY-PDT) has recently captured increased attention as an alternative minimally invasive anticancer treatment, although cancer cells may acquire resistance. Therefore, combination treatments may be necessary to enhance HY-PDT efficacy. Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HD...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Halaburková A,Jendželovský R,Kovaľ J,Herceg Z,Fedoročko P,Ghantous A

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous pulmonary diseases manifest with upper lobe predominance including cystic fibrosis, smoking-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and tuberculosis. Zonal hypoxia, characteristic of these pulmonary maladies, and oxygen stress in general is known to exert profound effects on various important...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Armstrong DA,Nymon AB,Ringelberg CS,Lesseur C,Hazlett HF,Howard L,Marsit CJ,Ashare A

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Goblet cell metaplasia, a common feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is associated with mucus hypersecretion which contributes to the morbidity and mortality among patients. Transcription factors SAM-pointed domain-containing Ets-like factor (SPDEF) and forkhead box protein A2 (FOXA2) re...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Song J,Heijink IH,Kistemaker LEM,Reinders-Luinge M,Kooistra W,Noordhoek JA,Gosens R,Brandsma CA,Timens W,Hiemstra PS,Rots MG,Hylkema MN

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epigenetics changes have been shown to be affected by cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoke (CS)-mediated DNA methylation can potentially affect several cellular and pathophysiological processes, acute exacerbations, and comorbidity in the lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Sundar IK,Yin Q,Baier BS,Yan L,Mazur W,Li D,Susiarjo M,Rahman I

更新日期：2017-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of DNA methylation in development and disease has 'exploded' as a field in recent years, with three major classes of measurement now routine. These encompass (i) locus-specific, (ii) genome-scale/wide and (iii) 'global' methylation approaches. Measures of global methylation refer to the level of 5-methylcyto...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Vryer R,Saffery R

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreatic cancer has a 5-year survival rate of only 5-7%. Difficulties in detecting pancreatic cancer at early stages results in the high mortality and substantiates the need for additional diagnostic tools. Surgery is the only curative treatment and unfortunately only possible in localized tumours. A diagn...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Henriksen SD,Madsen PH,Larsen AC,Johansen MB,Drewes AM,Pedersen IS,Krarup H,Thorlacius-Ussing O

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13148-016-0190-9.]. ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Pandey RV,Pulverer W,Kallmeyer R,Beikircher G,Pabinger S,Kriegner A,Weinhäusel A

更新日期：2016-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tumor-specific microregional effects of the anticancer agent RRx-001, a novel epigenetic-based radio/chemosensitizer with nitrogen oxide-donating properties in phase II clinical trials, were investigated with whole tissue section quantitative immunohistological staining in mouse SCCVII and human U87 tumo...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Oronsky B,Scicinski J,Cabrales P,Minchinton A

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world. Squamous cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 90 % of esophageal cancer cases. Genetic and epigenetic changes have been found to accumulate during the development of various cancers, including esophageal squamous carcinoma (ESCC). Tobacco smok...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Ma K,Cao B,Guo M

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the significant global loss of DNA hydroxymethylation marks in prostate cancer tissues, the locus-specific role of hydroxymethylation in prostate tumorigenesis is unknown. We characterized hydroxymethylation and methylation marks by performing whole-genome next-generation sequencing in representative...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Kamdar SN,Ho LT,Kron KJ,Isserlin R,van der Kwast T,Zlotta AR,Fleshner NE,Bader G,Bapat B

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) latency represents the major barrier to virus eradication in infected individuals because cells harboring latent HIV-1 provirus are not affected by current antiretroviral therapy (ART). We previously demonstrated that DNA methylation of HIV-1 long terminal repeat (...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Trejbalová K,Kovářová D,Blažková J,Machala L,Jilich D,Weber J,Kučerová D,Vencálek O,Hirsch I,Hejnar J

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a modified epigenome with modified tri-methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) at specific loci across the genome. H3K4me3 is a canonical chromatin mark of active transcription. Recent studies have suggested that H3K4me3 breadth has an import...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Zhang Z,Shi L,Dawany N,Kelsen J,Petri MA,Sullivan KE

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity has dramatically increased within a few generations, reaching epidemic levels. In addition to genetic risk factors, epigenetic mechanisms triggered by changing environment are investigated for their role in the pathogenesis of these complex diseases. Epigen...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Al Muftah WA,Al-Shafai M,Zaghlool SB,Visconti A,Tsai PC,Kumar P,Spector T,Bell J,Falchi M,Suhre K

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inadequate maternal nutrition during early fetal development can create permanent alterations in the offspring, leading to poor health outcomes. While nutrients involved in one-carbon cycle metabolism are important to fetal growth, associations with specific nutrients remain inconsistent. This study estimate...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： McCullough LE,Miller EE,Mendez MA,Murtha AP,Murphy SK,Hoyo C

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A key focus in cancer research is the discovery of biomarkers that accurately diagnose early lesions in non-invasive tissues. Several studies have identified malignancy-associated DNA methylation changes in blood, yet no general cancer biomarker has been identified to date. Here, we explore the potential of ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Roos L,van Dongen J,Bell CG,Burri A,Deloukas P,Boomsma DI,Spector TD,Bell JT

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:About half of all prostate cancers harbor the TMPRSS2:ERG (T2E) gene fusion. While T2E-positive and T2E-negative tumors represent specific molecular subtypes of prostate cancer (PCa), previous studies have not yet comprehensively investigated how these tumor subtypes differ at the epigenetic level. We theref...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Geybels MS,Alumkal JJ,Luedeke M,Rinckleb A,Zhao S,Shui IM,Bibikova M,Klotzle B,van den Brandt PA,Ostrander EA,Fan JB,Feng Z,Maier C,Stanford JL

更新日期：2015-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be a T cell-mediated autoimmune disorder. MS pathogenesis is likely due to a genetic predisposition triggered by a variety of environmental factors. Epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, provide a logical interface for environmental factors to influence the genome. ...

journal_title：Clinical epigenetics

authors： Maltby VE,Graves MC,Lea RA,Benton MC,Sanders KA,Tajouri L,Scott RJ,Lechner-Scott J

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00