Epigenetic modifications in stress response genes associated with childhood trauma

S Jiang, L Postovit, A Cattaneo, EB Binder… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may be referred to by other terms (eg, early life
adversity or stress and childhood trauma) and have a lifelong impact on mental and physical …

Biological embedding of experience: a primer on epigenetics

MJ Aristizabal, I Anreiter, T Halldorsdottir… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Biological embedding occurs when life experience alters biological processes to affect later
life health and well-being. Although extensive correlative data exist supporting the notion …

Exaggerated false positives by popular differential expression methods when analyzing human population samples

Y Li, X Ge, F Peng, W Li, JJ Li - Genome biology, 2022‏ - Springer
When identifying differentially expressed genes between two conditions using human
population RNA-seq samples, we found a phenomenon by permutation analysis: two …

Transcriptome-scale spatial gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

KR Maynard, L Collado-Torres, LM Weber… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
We used the 10x Genomics Visium platform to define the spatial topography of gene
expression in the six-layered human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. We identified extensive …

Single-nucleus transcriptome analysis reveals cell-type-specific molecular signatures across reward circuitry in the human brain

MN Tran, KR Maynard, A Spangler, LA Huuki… - Neuron, 2021‏ - cell.com
Single-cell gene expression technologies are powerful tools to study cell types in the human
brain, but efforts have largely focused on cortical brain regions. We therefore created a …

DNA methylation analysis on purified neurons and glia dissects age and Alzheimer's disease-specific changes in the human cortex

G Gasparoni, S Bultmann, P Lutsik, TFJ Kraus… - Epigenetics & …, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) based on human brain samples
allow a deep and direct understanding of epigenetic dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease …

Potential role of DNA methylation as a driver of plastic responses to the environment across cells, organisms, and populations

SN Bogan, SV Yi - Genome biology and evolution, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
There is great interest in exploring epigenetic modifications as drivers of adaptive
organismal responses to environmental change. Extending this hypothesis to populations …