Epigenome-wide association studies: current knowledge, strategies and recommendations

MP Campagna, A Xavier, J Lechner-Scott, V Maltby… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
The aetiology and pathophysiology of complex diseases are driven by the interaction
between genetic and environmental factors. The variability in risk and outcomes in these …

A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and DNA methylation: candidate gene and epigenome-wide approaches

SH Parade, L Huffhines, TE Daniels, LR Stroud… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for chronic and severe mental and physical
health problems across the lifespan. Increasing evidence supports the hypothesis that …

Race and genetic ancestry in medicine—a time for reckoning with racism

LN Borrell, JR Elhawary, E Fuentes-Afflick… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine US health inequities won't be eliminated by
abandoning the use of race and ethnicity in research and clinical practice, since these …

Enhanced cell deconvolution of peripheral blood using DNA methylation for high-resolution immune profiling

LA Salas, Z Zhang, DC Koestler, RA Butler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation microarrays can be employed to interrogate cell-type composition in
complex tissues. Here, we expand reference-based deconvolution of blood DNA …

Impact of ambient air pollution on colorectal cancer risk and survival: insights from a prospective cohort and epigenetic Mendelian randomization study

F Jiang, J Zhao, J Sun, W Chen, Y Zhao, S Zhou… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background This study investigates the associations between air pollution and colorectal
cancer (CRC) risk and survival from an epigenomic perspective. Methods Using a newly …

Novel diagnostic DNA methylation episignatures expand and refine the epigenetic landscapes of Mendelian disorders

MA Levy, H McConkey, J Kerkhof… - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
Overlap** clinical phenotypes and an expanding breadth and complexity of genomic
associations are a growing challenge in the diagnosis and clinical management of …

Structural and social determinants of health in asthma in developed economies: a sco** review of literature published between 2014 and 2019

K Sullivan, N Thakur - Current allergy and asthma reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Using the WHO Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social
Determinants of Health, this review provides a discussion of recent epidemiologic …

Human immunology through the lens of evolutionary genetics

L Quintana-Murci - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Pathogen-imposed selection pressures have been paramount during human evolution.
Detecting such selection signatures in ancient and modern human genomes can thus help …

Genetic control of DNA methylation is largely shared across European and East Asian populations

AA Hatton, FF Cheng, T Lin, RJ Shen, J Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an ideal trait to study the extent of the shared genetic control across
ancestries, effectively providing hundreds of thousands of model molecular traits with large …

Cultural evolution of genetic heritability

R Uchiyama, R Spicer… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …