The role of DNA methylation in personalized medicine for immune-related diseases

MK Gupta, H Peng, Y Li, CJ Xu - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
Epigenetics functions as a bridge between host genetic & environmental factors, aiding in
human health and diseases. Many immune-related diseases, including infectious and …

Epigenetic perspectives associated with COVID-19 infection and related cytokine storm: an updated review

A Dey, K Vaishak, D Deka, AK Radhakrishnan, S Paul… - Infection, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has put the world in a medical crisis for the past three years; …

Epigenome-wide association analysis of infant bronchiolitis severity: a multicenter prospective cohort study

Z Zhu, Y Li, RJ Freishtat, JC Celedón… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory infection in infants, yet its pathobiology
remains unclear. Here we present blood DNA methylation data from 625 infants hospitalized …

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 …

Quantifying the stochastic component of epigenetic aging

H Tong, VB Dwaraka, Q Chen, Q Luo, JA Lasky-Su… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation clocks can accurately estimate chronological age and, to some extent, also
biological age, yet the process by which age-associated DNA methylation (DNAm) changes …

Host A-to-I RNA editing signatures in intracellular bacterial and single-strand RNA viral infections

ZY Wei, ZX Wang, JH Li, YS Wen, D Gao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Microbial infection is accompanied by remodeling of the host transcriptome.
Involvement of A-to-I RNA editing has been reported during viral infection but remains to be …

An improved epigenetic counter to track mitotic age in normal and precancerous tissues

T Zhu, H Tong, Z Du, S Beck… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The cumulative number of stem cell divisions in a tissue, known as mitotic age, is thought to
be a major determinant of cancer-risk. Somatic mutational and DNA methylation (DNAm) …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of whole-blood DNA methylation signatures and rules associated with COVID-19 severity

F Yuan, JX Ren, HP Liao, W Guo, L Chen… - Frontiers in Bioscience …, 2023 - imrpress.com
Background: Different severities of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cause different
levels of respiratory symptoms and systemic inflammation. DNA methylation, a heritable …

Identification of methylation signatures and rules for predicting the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection with machine learning methods

Z Liu, M Meng, SJ Ding, XC Zhou, KY Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 at various severities have different clinical
manifestations and treatments. Mild or moderate patients usually recover with conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-biased expression of the TLR7 gene in severe COVID-19 patients: Insights from transcriptomics and epigenomics

A Gómez-Carballa, J Pardo-Seco, S Pischedda… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is abundant epidemiological data indicating that the incidence of severe cases of
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is significantly higher in males than females worldwide …