Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of peripheral blood reveals an epigenetic signature associated with severe COVID-19

MJ Corley, APS Pang, K Dody, PA Mudd… - Journal of leukocyte …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) is a highly pathogenic RNA virus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

A meta-analysis of immune-cell fractions at high resolution reveals novel associations with common phenotypes and health outcomes

Q Luo, VB Dwaraka, Q Chen, H Tong, T Zhu, K Seale… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Changes in cell-type composition of tissues are associated with a wide range of
diseases and environmental risk factors and may be causally implicated in disease …

Fathers' preconception smoking and offspring DNA methylation

NT Kitaba, GTM Knudsen, A Johannessen… - Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Experimental studies suggest that exposures may impact respiratory health
across generations via epigenetic changes transmitted specifically through male germ cells …

Analysis of blood methylation quantitative trait loci in East Asians reveals ancestry-specific impacts on complex traits

Q Peng, X Liu, W Li, H **g, J Li, X Gao, Q Luo… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Methylation quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) are essential for understanding the role of DNA
methylation changes in genetic predisposition, yet they have not been fully characterized in …

Cell-type heterogeneity: Why we should adjust for it in epigenome and biomarker studies

L Qi, AE Teschendorff - Clinical Epigenetics, 2022 - Springer
Most studies aiming to identify epigenetic biomarkers do so from complex tissues that are
composed of many different cell-types. By definition, these cell-types vary substantially in …

EPISCORE: cell type deconvolution of bulk tissue DNA methylomes from single-cell RNA-Seq data

AE Teschendorff, T Zhu, CE Breeze, S Beck - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Cell type heterogeneity presents a challenge to the interpretation of epigenome data,
compounded by the difficulty in generating reliable single-cell DNA methylomes for large …

Telehealth parenting program and salivary epigenetic biomarkers in preschool children with developmental delay: NIMHD social epigenomics program

SM Merrill, C Hogan, AK Bozack, A Cardenas… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Children with developmental delays are at a heightened risk of experiencing
mental health challenges, and this risk is exacerbated among racially minoritized children …

[PDF][PDF] A phase II trial of guadecitabine plus atezolizumab in metastatic urothelial carcinoma progressing after initial immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy

HJ Jang, G Hostetter, AW Macfarlane, Z Madaj… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: On the basis of preclinical evidence of epigenetic contribution to sensitivity and
resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), we hypothesized that guadecitabine …

Whole blood DNA methylation analysis reveals respiratory environmental traits involved in COVID-19 severity following SARS-CoV-2 infection

G Barturen, E Carnero-Montoro… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause an inflammatory syndrome (COVID-19) leading, in many
cases, to bilateral pneumonia, severe dyspnea, and in~ 5% of these, death. DNA …

Self-control is associated with health-relevant disparities in buccal DNA-methylation measures of biological aging in older adults

YE Willems, A deSteiguer, PT Tanksley, L Vinnik… - Clinical …, 2024 - Springer
Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a
longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and …