At the frontier of epigenetics of brain sex differences

MM McCarthy, BM Nugent - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The notion that epigenetics may play an important role in the establishment and
maintenance of sex differences in the brain has garnered great enthusiasm but the reality in …

The metabolic-epigenetic nexus in type 2 diabetes mellitus

GW Davison, RE Irwin, CP Walsh - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) continues to rise globally. Yet the
aetiology and pathophysiology of this noncommunicable, polygenic disease, is poorly …

NSUN2‐mediated m5C RNA methylation dictates retinoblastoma progression through promoting PFAS mRNA stability and expression

S Zuo, L Li, X Wen, X Gu, A Zhuang, R Li… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The precise temporal and spatial regulation of N5‐methylcytosine (m5C) RNA
modification plays essential roles in RNA metabolism, and is necessary for the maintenance …

[HTML][HTML] Gene-specific DNA methylation in newborns in response to folic acid supplementation during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy: epigenetic …

A Caffrey, RE Irwin, H McNulty, JJ Strain… - The American journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Emerging evidence suggests that maternal folate status can impact cognitive
development in childhood. Folate-dependent DNA methylation may provide a biological …

Folic acid intervention during pregnancy alters DNA methylation, affecting neural target genes through two distinct mechanisms

M Ondičová, RE Irwin, SJ Thursby, L Hilman… - Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
Background We previously showed that continued folic acid (FA) supplementation beyond
the first trimester of pregnancy appears to have beneficial effects on neurocognitive …

TREM2 upregulation correlates with 5-hydroxymethycytosine enrichment in Alzheimer's disease hippocampus

N Celarain, J Sánchez-Ruiz de Gordoa, MV Zelaya… - Clinical …, 2016 - Springer
Background Recent genome-wide association studies revealed TREM2 rs75932628-T
variant to be associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative …

Dose-dependent alcohol-induced alterations in chromatin structure persist beyond the window of exposure and correlate with fetal alcohol syndrome birth defects

KJ Veazey, SE Parnell, RC Miranda… - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2015 - Springer
Background In recent years, we have come to recognize that a multitude of in utero
exposures have the capacity to induce the development of congenital and metabolic defects …

Transcriptome-wide association study of post-trauma symptom trajectories identified GRIN3B as a potential biomarker for PTSD development

A Lori, K Schultebraucks, I Galatzer-Levy… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomarkers that predict symptom trajectories after trauma can facilitate early detection or
intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and may also advance our …

Regulation of miR‐200c and miR‐141 by Methylation in Prostate Cancer

SM Lynch, KM O'Neill, MM McKenna, CP Walsh… - The …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND In prostate cancer (PCa), abnormal expression of several microRNAs
(miRNAs) has been previously reported. Increasing evidence shows that aberrant …

A randomized controlled trial of folic acid intervention in pregnancy highlights a putative methylation-regulated control element at ZFP57

RE Irwin, SJ Thursby, M Ondičová, K Pentieva… - Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Background Maternal blood folate concentrations during pregnancy have been previously
linked with DNA methylation patterns, but this has been done predominantly through …