Background Ageing is one of the principal risk factors for many chronic diseases. However,
there is considerable between-person variation in the rate of ageing and individual …

Simple Summary Aberrant DNA methylation is associated with multiple malignancies,
including lung cancer. Differences in methylation patterns have been observed across lung …

Recent studies demonstrating epigenetic and developmental sensitivity to early
environments, as exemplified by fields like the Developmental Origins of Health and …

Epigenome‐wide association study (EWAS) has been applied to analyze DNA methylation
variation in complex diseases for a decade, and epigenome as a research target has …

Cigarette smoking adversely affects many aspects of human health, and epigenetic
responses to smoking may reflect mechanisms that mediate or defend against these effects …

Background: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent chemicals that
firefighters encounter. Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, could serve as …

Prenatal maternal smoking is a risk factor for lower birth weight. We performed epigenome-
wide association analyses of placental DNA methylation (DNAm) at 720,077 cytosine …

Depression is a severe and debilitating mental disorder diagnosed by evaluation of
affective, cognitive and physical depression symptoms. Severity of these symptoms strongly …

Background The influence of genetics on variation in DNA methylation (DNAme) is well
documented. Yet confounding from population stratification is often unaccounted for in …

Forkhead box (FOX) transcription factors compose a large family of regulators of key
biological processes within a cell. FOXK2 is a member of FOX family, whose biological …