Structural racism generates racial inequities in US primary education, including segregated
schools, inequitable funding and resources, racial disparities in discipline and achievement …

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a polygenic disorder with few risk variants showing robust
replication in large-scale genome-wide association studies. To understand the role of DNA …

ABSTRACT Non-coding 886 (nc886, vtRNA2–1) is the only human polymorphically
imprinted gene, in which the methylation status is not determined by genetics. Existing …

Biomarkers based on DNA methylation are relevant in the field of environmental health for
precision health. Although tobacco smoking is one of the factors with a strong and consistent …

Objective Multiple sclerosis (MS) has a complex pathobiology, with genetic and
environmental factors being crucial players. Understanding the mechanisms underlying …

Background: Recent studies have identified thousands of associations between DNA
methylation CpGs and complex diseases/traits, emphasizing the critical role of epigenetics …

Background The effects of adverse life events on physical and psychological health, with
DNA methylation (DNAm) as a critical underlying mechanism, have been extensively …

Biological aging is a relevant risk factor for chronic diseases, and several indicators for
measuring this factor have been proposed, with telomere length (TL) among the most …

In the post-GWAS era, great interest has arisen in the mapping of epigenetic inter-individual
variation towards investigating the emergence of phenotype in health and disease. Relevant …

T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is a predominantly paediatric cancer that
stems from malignant transformation of developing T cells. While the disease has an overall …