Epigenetics in natural animal populations

J Hu, RDH Barrett - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity is an important mechanism for populations to buffer themselves from
environmental change. While it has long been appreciated that natural populations possess …

Ten years of EWAS

S Wei, J Tao, J Xu, X Chen, Z Wang, N Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Consistent inverse correlation between DNA methylation of the first intron and gene expression across tissues and species

D Anastasiadi, A Esteve-Codina, F Piferrer - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2018 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is one of the main epigenetic mechanisms for the regulation of
gene expression in eukaryotes. In the standard model, methylation in gene promoters has …

The DNA methylation landscape of glioblastoma disease progression shows extensive heterogeneity in time and space

J Klughammer, B Kiesel, T Roetzer, N Fortelny… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is characterized by widespread genetic and transcriptional heterogeneity, yet
little is known about the role of the epigenome in glioblastoma disease progression. Here …

DNA methylation heterogeneity defines a disease spectrum in Ewing sarcoma

NC Sheffield, G Pierron, J Klughammer, P Datlinger… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Developmental tumors in children and young adults carry few genetic alterations, yet they
have diverse clinical presentation. Focusing on Ewing sarcoma, we sought to establish the …

Comparative analysis of genome-scale, base-resolution DNA methylation profiles across 580 animal species

J Klughammer, D Romanovskaia, A Nemc… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Methylation of cytosines is a prototypic epigenetic modification of the DNA. It has been
implicated in various regulatory mechanisms across the animal kingdom and particularly in …

An ecologist's guide for studying DNA methylation variation in wild vertebrates

VN Laine, B Sepers, M Lindner… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of molecular biology is advancing fast with new powerful technologies, sequencing
methods and analysis software being developed constantly. Commonly used tools originally …

Integrated multiomic profiling identifies the epigenetic regulator PRC2 as a therapeutic target to counteract leukemia immune escape and relapse

V Gambacorta, S Beretta, M Ciccimarra, L Zito… - Cancer Discovery, 2022 - AACR
Immune escape represents a major driver of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) reemergence
after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT), with up to 40% of relapses …

The genetics and epigenetics of animal migration and orientation: birds, butterflies and beyond

C Merlin, M Liedvogel - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Migration is a complex behavioural adaptation for survival that has evolved across the
animal kingdom from invertebrates to mammals. In some taxa, closely related migratory …

Guadecitabine plus ipilimumab in unresectable melanoma: the NIBIT-M4 clinical trial

AM Di Giacomo, A Covre, F Finotello, D Rieder… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: The immunomodulatory activity of DNA hypomethylating agents (DHAs) suggests
they may improve the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies. The phase Ib NIBIT-M4 trial …