Gut liver brain axis in diseases: the implications for therapeutic interventions

M Yan, S Man, B Sun, L Ma, L Guo, L Huang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Gut-liver-brain axis is a three-way highway of information interaction system among the
gastrointestinal tract, liver, and nervous systems. In the past few decades, breakthrough …

Epigenetics in Alzheimer's disease

X Gao, Q Chen, H Yao, J Tan, Z Liu, Y Zhou… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease with unknown pathogenesis and
complex pathological manifestations. At present, a large number of studies on targeted …

Developmental dynamics of RNA translation in the human brain

EE Duffy, B Finander, GH Choi, AC Carter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The precise regulation of gene expression is fundamental to neurodevelopment, plasticity
and cognitive function. Although several studies have profiled transcription in the developing …

Current advances in primate genomics: novel approaches for understanding evolution and disease

D Juan, G Santpere, JL Kelley, OE Cornejo… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Primate genomics holds the key to understanding fundamental aspects of human evolution
and disease. However, genetic diversity and functional genomics data sets are currently …

Molecular features driving cellular complexity of human brain evolution

E Caglayan, F Ayhan, Y Liu, RM Vollmer, E Oh… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Human-specific genomic changes contribute to the unique functionalities of the human
brain,,,–. The cellular heterogeneity of the human brain, and the complex regulation of gene …

The contribution of DNA methylation to the (dys) function of oligodendroglia in neurodegeneration

K Fodder, R de Silva, TT Warner… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Neurodegenerative diseases encompass a heterogeneous group of conditions
characterised by the progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central or …

Genome-wide detection of imprinted differentially methylated regions using nanopore sequencing

V Akbari, JM Garant, K O'Neill, P Pandoh, R Moore… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Imprinting is a critical part of normal embryonic development in mammals, controlled by
defined parent-of-origin (PofO) differentially methylated regions (DMRs) known as imprinting …

Epigenetics research in evolutionary biology: perspectives on timescales and mechanisms

SV Yi - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetics research in evolutionary biology encompasses a variety of research areas, from
regulation of gene expression to inheritance of environmentally mediated phenotypes. Such …

Evolution of genetic mechanisms regulating cortical neurogenesis

A Espinós, E Fernández‐Ortuño… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The size of the cerebral cortex increases dramatically across amniotes, from reptiles to great
apes. This is primarily due to different numbers of neurons and glial cells produced during …

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

DA Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci… - BioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present haplotype-resolved reference genomes and comparative analyses of six ape
species, namely: chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan …