Identification of as a Hypermethylated Gene in Colorectal Cancers by Jongbum Kim, Sangsoo Kim

“…Aberrant DNA methylation, as an epigenetic marker of cancer, influences tumor development and progression. …”
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Is There a Metabolic Program in the Skeletal Muscle of Obese Individuals? by Joseph A. Houmard, Walter J. Pories, G. Lynis Dohm

“…Together, these findings are indicative of a dysfunctional global metabolic program with severe obesity which is of an epigenetic or genetic origin. Weight loss via gastric bypass surgery can “turn off” and/or correct components of this metabolic program as insulin sensitivity is restored; however, the impairment in FAO in skeletal muscle remains evident. …”
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Advances in Gene Therapy for Neurologic Disorders: An Overview by Pallavi Chand, K. Trideva Sastri, Ashish Singh Chauhan, Souvik Chakraborty, Vikash Jakhmola

“…Neurologic disease-related events, such as genetic and epigenetic changes, cause inflammatory processes in the area which may enhance the disease cycle. …”
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Alternative Splicing in Self-Renewal of Embryonic Stem Cells by Clara Y. Cheong, Thomas Lufkin

“…In alignment with our present understanding on the genetic, protein, and epigenetic factors that may direct cell fate, we present a short overview of the often overlooked contribution of alternative splice variants to regulatory diversity. …”
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Enhanced Generation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Peripheral Blood and Using Their Mesoderm Differentiation Ability to Regenerate Infarcted Myocardium by Ju-Young Kim, Han-Mo Yang, Joo-Eun Lee, Mika Jeon, Sang-Bum Bang, Jihye You, Joonoh Kim, Jaewon Lee, Jin Hur, Hyo-Soo Kim

“…Our study showed a new method to isolate human heart-derived stem cells from human peripheral blood and to generate iPSCs efficiently. Due to epigenetic memory, these CiMS-iPSCs easily differentiated into cardiovascular lineage cells, resulting in improved efficiency in vivo. …”
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Structures and mechanisms of the RNA m⁶A writer by Deng Ting, Ma Jinbiao

“…N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) is the most prevalent epigenetic modification found in eukaryotic mRNAs and plays a crucial role in regulating gene expression by influencing numerous aspects of mRNA metabolism. …”
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Retrotransposons and the brain: Exploring a complex relationship between mobile elements, stress, and neurological health by Amelia Cuarenta

“…Early life stress (ELS) is linked to an increased risk for various psychiatric disorders including anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. Epigenetic mechanisms have increasingly been of interest to understand how environmental factors contribute to reprogramming the brain and alter risk and resilience to developing psychiatric disorders. …”
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Exploring oncogenic roles and clinical significance of EZH2: focus on non-canonical activities by Michal Wozniak, Malgorzata Czyz

“…The enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is a catalytic component of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) mediating the methylation of histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) and hence the epigenetic repression of target genes, known as canonical function. …”
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Advances in personalized gastroenterology and hepatology 2016 by E. Blum Hubert

“…Based on modern molecular, genetic, epigenetic microbiologic and biochemical analyses it is, on the one hand, possible to identify disease-related point mutations and single nucleotide polymorphisms in the context of genomewide association analyses (GWAS). …”
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Perspectives of Integrative Cancer Genomics in Next Generation Sequencing Era by So Mee Kwon, Hyunwoo Cho, Ji Hye Choi, Byul A Jee, Yuna Jo, Hyun Goo Woo

“…The explosive development of genomics technologies including microarrays and next generation sequencing (NGS) has provided comprehensive maps of cancer genomes, including the expression of mRNAs and microRNAs, DNA copy numbers, sequence variations, and epigenetic changes. These genome-wide profiles of the genetic aberrations could reveal the candidates for diagnostic and/or prognostic biomarkers as well as mechanistic insights into tumor development and progression. …”
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Valproate Treatment in an ALS Patient Carrying a c.194G>A Spastin Mutation and SMN2 Homozygous Deletion by Lucio Tremolizzo, Gessica Sala, Elisa Conti, Virginia Rodriguez-Menendez, Antonella Fogli, Angela Michelucci, Paolo Simi, Silvana Penco, Christian Lunetta, Massimo Corbo, Carlo Ferrarese

“…The patient was started on valproic acid (VPA, 600 mg/die per os) considering the capacity of this drug of increasing survival motor neuron through an epigenetic mechanism. Patient clinical course and molecular effects of VPA on skin fibroblasts obtained from the proband are described. …”
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Preclinical Studies of Chemotherapy Using Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors in Endometrial Cancer by Noriyuki Takai, Hisashi Narahara

“…Because epigenetic alterations are believed to be involved in the repression of tumor suppressor genes and promotion of tumorigenesis in endometrial cancers, novel compounds endowed with a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory activity are an attractive therapeutic approach. …”
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Role of Epstein-Barr Virus and Human Papilloma Virus in the Development of Oropharyngeal Cancer: A Literature Review by Michela Migliaro, Daniela Massuh, María Fernanda Infante, Ana María Brahm, María Trinidad San Martín, Duniel Ortuño

“…As to EBV, it was noted that its “hit and run” phenomenon manipulates the host epigenetic mechanism, triggering the tumor process without the virus being currently present; a “cellular reprogramming” is essentially generated, causing heritable changes in gene expression without DNA mutation. …”
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Pulmonary Complications of Monogenic Patients with Common Variable Immunodeficiency: COVID-19 Perspectives by Samaneh Delavari, Marzie Esmaeili, Fereshte Salami, Seyed Erfan Rasouli, Saba Fekrvand, Mahsa Yousefpour Marzbali, Nazanin Fathi, Hassan Abolhassani

“…We provide an overview of recent advancements in the monogenic form of CVID which lead to dysregulation of B-cells at different levels of cytokine stimulations, intracellular signaling, transcription-factor activation, gene transcription and epigenetic controls and predispose patients to different pulmonary complications. …”
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Methylated RNA Immunoprecipitation Sequencing Reveals the m6A Landscape in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Xi Wang, Jie Wu, Leyu Zhang, Wei Zhao, Jiayin Deng

“…N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most common epigenetic modification existing in eukaryocyte transcripts. …”
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Post infectious fatigue and circadian rhythm disruption in long-COVID and other infections: a need for further research by Achilleas Livieratos, Steven W. Lockley, Sotirios Tsiodras

“…., interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha). Epigenetic changes, including DNA methylation at clock-related loci, particularly in peripheral tissues, further contribute to systemic circadian dysregulation. …”
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Curcumin as a Supportive Therapy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Anand Seth, Sravya Iyyuni, Saurabh Sharma, Ritu Sethi, Suresh Nath, Michael Imeokparia

“…Mechanisms for increasing the bioavailability of the supplement is discussed. Also, epigenetic regulation of type 2 diabetes is discussed, especially the role of DNA methylation.…”
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Functions and applications of RNA interference and small regulatory RNAs by Feng Xuezhu, Guang Shouhong

“…This process involves Argonaute/small RNA (AGO/sRNA) complexes that target transcripts via sequence complementarity and modulate gene expression and epigenetic modifications. RNAi is a highly conserved gene regulatory phenomenon that recognizes self- and non-self nucleic acids, thereby defending against invasive sequences. …”
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Characterization of the genomic landscape of canine diffuse large B-cell lymphoma reveals recurrent H3K27M mutations linked to progression-free survival by Anna Darlene van der Heiden, Raphaela Pensch, Sophie Agger, Heather L. Gardner, William Hendricks, Victoria Zismann, Shukmei Wong, Natalia Briones, Bryce Turner, Karin Forsberg-Nilsson, Cheryl London, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Maja Louise Arendt

“…These findings underscore the critical role of epigenetic dysregulation in cDLBCL and affirm the dog as a relevant large animal model for interrogating the biological activity of novel histone-modifying treatment strategies.…”
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Impact of Diabetes on Cardiovascular Disease: An Update by Alessandra Saldanha de Mattos Matheus, Lucianne Righeti Monteiro Tannus, Roberta Arnoldi Cobas, Catia C. Sousa Palma, Carlos Antonio Negrato, Marilia de Brito Gomes

“…It has been suggested that an association between hyperglycemia and intracellular metabolic changes can result in oxidative stress, low-grade inflammation, and endothelial dysfunction. Recently, epigenetic factors by different types of reactions are known to be responsible for the interaction between genes and environment and for this reason can also account for the association between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. …”
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