The epigenetics of aging and neurodegeneration

R Lardenoije, A Iatrou, G Kenis, K Kompotis… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Epigenetics is a quickly growing field encompassing mechanisms regulating gene
expression that do not involve changes in the genotype. Epigenetics is of increasing …

The dynamics of DNA methylation in schizophrenia and related psychiatric disorders

DR Grayson, A Guidotti - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2013 - nature.com
Major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BP) with
psychosis (BP+) express a complex symptomatology characterized by positive symptoms …

Genome-wide DNA methylation comparison between live human brain and peripheral tissues within individuals

PR Braun, S Han, B Hing, Y Nagahama… - Translational …, 2019 - nature.com
Differential DNA methylation in the brain is associated with many psychiatric diseases, but
access to brain tissues is essentially limited to postmortem samples. The use of surrogate …

Correspondence of DNA methylation between blood and brain tissue and its application to schizophrenia research

E Walton, J Hass, J Liu, JL Roffman… - Schizophrenia …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Given the difficulty of procuring human brain tissue, a key question in molecular psychiatry
concerns the extent to which epigenetic signatures measured in more accessible tissues …

Disease-associated epigenetic changes in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

EL Dempster, R Pidsley, LC Schalkwyk… - Human molecular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Studies of the major psychoses, schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), have
traditionally focused on genetic and environmental risk factors, although more recent work …

Dynamic changes in DNA methylation of stress-associated genes (OXTR, BDNF) after acute psychosocial stress

E Unternaehrer, P Luers, J Mill, E Dempster… - Translational …, 2012 - nature.com
Environmentally induced epigenetic alterations are related to mental health. We investigated
quantitative DNA methylation status before and after an acute psychosocial stressor in two …

Epigenetic mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease

D Mastroeni, A Grover, E Delvaux, C Whiteside… - Neurobiology of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Epigenetic modifications help orchestrate sweeping developmental, aging, and disease-
causing changes in phenotype by altering transcriptional activity in multiple genes spanning …

DNA methylation and schizophrenia: current literature and future perspective

T Magwai, KB Shangase, FO Oginga, B Chiliza… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by dissociation of thoughts, idea,
identity, and emotions. It has no central pathophysiological mechanism and precise …

Epigenetic aberrations in leukocytes of patients with schizophrenia: association of global DNA methylation with antipsychotic drug treatment and disease onset

PA Melas, M Rogdaki, U Ösby, M Schalling… - The FASEB …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Even though schizophrenia has a strong hereditary component, departures from simple
genetic transmission are prominent. DNA methylation has emerged as an epigenetic …

Epigenetic research in neuropsychiatric disorders: the “tissue issue”

KM Bakulski, A Halladay, VW Hu, J Mill… - Current behavioral …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Evidence has linked neuropsychiatric disorders with epigenetic
marks as either a biomarker of disease, biomarker of exposure, or mechanism of disease …