Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives

S Villicaña, JT Bell - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Multiple recent studies highlight that genetic variants can have strong impacts on a
significant proportion of the human DNA methylome. Methylation quantitative trait loci, or …

Genetic–epigenetic interactions in cis: a major focus in the post-GWAS era

C Do, A Shearer, M Suzuki, MB Terry, J Gelernter… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Studies on genetic–epigenetic interactions, including the mapping of methylation
quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) and haplotype-dependent allele-specific DNA methylation …

Genome-wide identification of DNA methylation QTLs in whole blood highlights pathways for cardiovascular disease

T Huan, R Joehanes, CI Song, F Peng, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Identifying methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) and integrating them with disease-
associated variants from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) may illuminate …

[HTML][HTML] Carbohydrate and fat intake associated with risk of metabolic diseases through epigenetics of CPT1A

CQ Lai, LD Parnell, CE Smith, T Guo… - The American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Epigenome-wide association studies identified the cg00574958 DNA
methylation site at the carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1A (CPT1A) gene to be associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Transgenerational and intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in allergic diseases

TM Knudsen, FI Rezwan, Y Jiang, W Karmaus… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
It has become clear that early life (including in utero exposures) is a key window of
vulnerability during which environmental exposures can alter developmental trajectories …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty and biological age

L Ji, SM Jazwinski, S Kim - Annals of geriatric medicine and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A reliable model of biological age is instrumental in the field of geriatrics and gerontology.
This model should account for the heterogeneity and plasticity of aging and also accurately …

Association of methylation signals with incident coronary heart disease in an epigenome-wide assessment of circulating tumor necrosis factor α

S Aslibekyan, G Agha, E Colicino, AN Do… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) is a proinflammatory cytokine with manifold
consequences for mammalian pathophysiology, including cardiovascular disease. A deeper …

IMAGE: high-powered detection of genetic effects on DNA methylation using integrated methylation QTL mapping and allele-specific analysis

Y Fan, TP Vilgalys, S Sun, Q Peng, J Tung, X Zhou - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Identifying genetic variants that are associated with methylation variation—an analysis
commonly referred to as methylation quantitative trait locus (mQTL) mapping—is important …

Breast cancer family history and allele-specific DNA methylation in the legacy girls study

HC Wu, C Do, IL Andrulis, EM John, MB Daly… - Epigenetics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Family history, a well-established risk factor for breast cancer, can have both genetic and
environmental contributions. Shared environment in families as well as epigenetic changes …

Testing two evolutionary theories of human aging with DNA methylation data

C Robins, AF McRae, JE Powell, HW Wiener… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The evolutionary theories of mutation accumulation (MA) and disposable soma (DS) provide
possible explanations for the existence of human aging. To better understand the relative …