1  3458 205 HYPOMETHYLATION OF LINE-1 REPEAT ELEMENTS AND GLOBAL LOSS OF DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION IN VAPERS AND SMOKERS. THE OUTBREAK OF VAPING-RELATED SEVERE LUNG INJURIES AND DEATHS AND THE EPIDEMIC OF TEEN VAPING IN THE U.S. UNDERSCORE THE URGENT NEED FOR DETERMINING THE BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE (E-CIG) USE. WE HAVE INVESTIGATED THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VAPING AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES BY QUANTIFYING DNA METHYLATION LEVELS IN LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENT 1 (LINE-1) AND GLOBAL DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION (5-HMC) LEVELS AND MEASURING THE EXPRESSION LEVEL OF ENZYMES CATALYSING THE RESPECTIVE PROCESSES IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD OF EXCLUSIVE VAPERS, SMOKERS, AND CONTROLS, MATCHED FOR AGE, GENDER, AND RACE (N = 45). BOTH VAPERS AND SMOKERS SHOWED SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF METHYLATION IN LINE-1 REPEAT ELEMENTS IN COMPARISON TO CONTROLS (P = 0.00854 AND P = 0.03078, RESPECTIVELY). SIMILARLY, VAPERS AND SMOKERS HAD SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN 5-HMC LEVELS RELATIVE TO CONTROLS (P = 0.04884 AND P = 0.0035, RESPECTIVELY). NEITHER THE LINE-1 METHYLATION LEVELS NOR THE GLOBAL 5-HMC LEVELS WERE DIFFERENT BETWEEN VAPERS AND SMOKERS. THERE WAS A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN METHYLATION LEVELS IN THE LINE-1 ELEMENTS AND GLOBAL 5-HMC LEVELS IN THE STUDY SUBJECTS (R = 0.31696, P = 0.03389). INVERSE AND STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CORRELATIONS WERE FOUND BETWEEN BOTH THE LINE-1 METHYLATION LEVELS AND THE GLOBAL 5-HMC LEVELS AND VARIOUS VAPING/SMOKING METRICS IN THE STUDY SUBJECTS. THERE WERE MODEST BUT NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN TRANSCRIPTION OF DNA METHYLTRANSFERASES AND TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION ENZYMES IN BOTH VAPERS AND SMOKERS RELATIVE TO CONTROLS. OUR FINDINGS SUPPORT FOLLOW-UP GENOME-WIDE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE EPIGENETIC EFFECTS OF VAPING, WHICH MAY FURTHER CLARIFY THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF E-CIG USE. ABBREVIATIONS: 5-MC: 5-METHYLCYTOSINE; 5-HMC: 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 8-OHDG: 8-HYDROXY-2'-DEOXYGUANOSINE; ACTIN: ACTIN BETA; ANOVA: ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BER: BASE EXCISION REPAIR; BMI: BODY MASS INDEX; CO: CARBON MONOXIDE; COHB: CARBOXYHAEMOGLOBIN; COBRA: COMBINED BISULPHITE RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; COPD: CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; DNMT1: DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNMT3A: DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNMT3B: DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; E-CIGS: ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; ELISA: ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENDS: ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FDA: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GAPDH; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HPLC: HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LINE-1: LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENT 1; PBS: PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINE; RFU: RELATIVE FLUORESCENCE UNITS; RT-QPCR: QUANTITATIVE REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROS: REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SAM, S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SE: STANDARD ERROR; TET1: TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION 1; TET2: TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION 2; TET3: TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION 3.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
2  1849  30 EIGHT WEEKS OF PHYSICAL TRAINING DECREASES 2 YEARS OF DNA METHYLATION AGE OF SEDENTARY WOMEN. PURPOSE: THE ACCELERATION OF EPIGENETIC AGE IS A PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE INCREASE IN CHRONIC DISEASES. ADHERENCE TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE IS A STRATEGY TO REDUCE EPIGENETIC AGE. THE PRESENT STUDY AIMED TO DETERMINE WHETHER EIGHT WEEKS OF COMBINED (AEROBIC AND STRENGTH) TRAINING (CT) CAN INFLUENCE THE EPIGENETIC AGE OF WOMEN BETWEEN 50 AND 70 YEARS OLD AND THE DIFFERENCES IN SITES AND METHYLATED REGIONS. METHODS: EIGHTEEN WOMEN (AAR(LOW): LOWER AGE ACCELERATION RESIDUAL, N = 10; AAR(HIGH): HIGHER AGE ACCELERATION RESIDUAL, N = 8) PARTICIPATED IN A COMBINED EXERCISE TRAINING PROGRAM (60 MINUTES, 3X A WEEK) FOR EIGHT WEEKS. DNA WAS EXTRACTED FROM WHOLE BLOOD USING THE SALTING OUT TECHNIQUE. DNA METHYLATION WAS PERFORMED USING THE ARRAY TECHNIQUE (ILLUMINA'S INFINIUM METHYLATION BEADCHIP 850K). WE USED THE DNA METHYLATION AGE CALCULATOR PLATFORM TO CALCULATE THE BIOLOGICAL EPIGENETIC AGE. TWO-WAY ANOVA FOLLOWED BY FISHER LSD POSTHOC WAS APPLIED, ADOPTING P < .05. RESULTS: AFTER EIGHT WEEKS OF CT, THERE WERE NO CHANGES TO THE EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION FOR THE AAR(LOW) GROUP (PRE: -2.3 +/- 3.2 TO POST: -2.3 +/- 3.6). HOWEVER, THE AAR(HIGH) GROUP SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED THE AGE ACCELERATION (PRE: 3.6 +/- 2.6 TO POST: 2.2 +/- 2.7) (GROUP EFFECT, P = .01; TIME EFFECT, P = .31; GROUP VS. TIME EFFECT, P = .005). CONCLUSION: CT FOR EIGHT WEEKS BENEFITS THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK OF WOMEN WITH THE MOST ACCELERATED AGE.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
3   524  29 ASSOCIATIONS OF BDNF GENOTYPE AND PROMOTER METHYLATION WITH ACUTE AND LONG-TERM STROKE OUTCOMES IN AN EAST ASIAN COHORT. BACKGROUND: BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) HAS BEEN SHOWN TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN POSTSTROKE RECOVERY. BDNF SECRETION IS INFLUENCED BY GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC PROFILES. THIS STUDY AIMED TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER BDNF VAL66MET POLYMORPHISM AND PROMOTER METHYLATION STATUS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH OUTCOMES AT TWO WEEKS AND ONE YEAR AFTER STROKE. METHODS AND FINDINGS: A TOTAL OF 286 PATIENTS WERE EVALUATED AT THE TIME OF ADMISSION AND TWO WEEKS AFTER STROKE, AND 222 (78%) WERE FOLLOWED ONE YEAR LATER IN ORDER TO EVALUATE CONSEQUENCES OF STROKE AT BOTH ACUTE AND CHRONIC STAGES. STROKE OUTCOMES WERE DICHOTOMISED INTO GOOD AND POOR BY THE MODIFIED RANKIN SCALE. STROKE SEVERITY (NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE), PHYSICAL DISABILITY (BARTHEL INDEX), AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION (MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION) WERE MEASURED. ASSOCIATIONS OF BDNF GENOTYPE AND METHYLATION STATUS ON STROKE OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT SCALE SCORES WERE INVESTIGATED USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION, REPEATED MEASURES ANOVA AND PARTIAL CORRELATION TESTS. BDNF VAL66MET POLYMORPHISM WAS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH POOR OUTCOME AT 2 WEEKS AND AT 1 YEAR, AND WITH WORSENING PHYSICAL DISABILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION OVER THAT PERIOD. HIGHER BDNF PROMOTER METHYLATION STATUS WAS INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH WORSE OUTCOMES AT 1 YEAR, AND WITH THE WORSENING OF PHYSICAL DISABILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION. NO SIGNIFICANT GENOTYPE-METHYLATION INTERACTIONS WERE FOUND. CONCLUSIONS: A ROLE FOR BDNF IN POSTSTROKE RECOVERY WAS SUPPORTED, AND CLINICAL UTILITY OF BDNF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC PROFILE AS PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS AND A TARGET FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT WAS SUGGESTED.	2012	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
4  3841  38 IRON SUPPLEMENTATION REVERSES THE REDUCTION OF HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE IN HEPATIC DNA ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN RATS. BACKGROUND: ALCOHOL IS KNOWN TO AFFECT TWO EPIGENETIC PHENOMENA, DNA METHYLATION AND DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION, AND IRON IS A COFACTOR OF TEN-ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION (TET) ENZYMES THAT CATALYZE THE CONVERSION FROM METHYLCYTOSINE TO HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE. IN THE PRESENT STUDY WE AIMED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION AND FURTHER EFFECTS OF IRON ON ALCOHOL ASSOCIATED EPIGENETIC CHANGES. METHODS: TWENTY-FOUR MALE SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS WERE FED EITHER LIEBER-DECARLI ALCOHOL DIET (36% CALORIES FROM ETHANOL) OR LIEBER-DECARLI CONTROL DIET ALONG WITH OR WITHOUT IRON SUPPLEMENTATION (0.6% CARBONYL IRON) FOR 8 WEEKS. HEPATIC NON-HEME IRON CONCENTRATIONS WERE MEASURED BY COLORIMETRIC ASSAYS. PROTEIN LEVELS OF HEPATIC FERRITIN AND TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR WERE DETERMINED BY WESTERN BLOTTING. METHYLCYTOSINE, HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE AND UNMODIFIED CYTOSINE IN DNA WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY MEASURED BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD. RESULTS: IRON SUPPLEMENTATION SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED HEPATIC NON-HEME IRON CONTENTS (P < 0.05) BUT ALCOHOL ALONE DID NOT. HOWEVER, BOTH ALCOHOL AND IRON SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED HEPATIC FERRITIN LEVELS AND DECREASED HEPATIC TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR LEVELS (P < 0.05). ALCOHOL REDUCED HEPATIC DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION (0.21% +/- 0.04% VS. 0.33% +/- 0.04%, P = 0.01) COMPARED TO CONTROL, WHILE IRON SUPPLEMENTATION TO ALCOHOL DIET DID NOT CHANGE DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION. THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN METHYLCYTOSINE LEVELS, WHILE UNMODIFIED CYTOSINE LEVELS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED IN ALCOHOL-FED GROUPS COMPARED TO CONTROL (95.61% +/- 0.08% VS. 95.26% +/- 0.12%, P = 0.03), SUGGESTING THAT ALCOHOL FURTHER INCREASES THE CONVERSION FROM HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE TO UNMODIFIED CYTOSINE. CONCLUSIONS: CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ALTERS GLOBAL DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION IN THE LIVER BUT IRON SUPPLEMENTATION REVERSES THE EPIGENETIC EFFECT OF ALCOHOL.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
5  1189  35 CORRELATION BETWEEN GLOBAL METHYLATION LEVEL OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD LEUKOCYTES AND SERUM C REACTIVE PROTEIN LEVEL MODIFIED BY MTHFR POLYMORPHISM: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. BACKGROUND: CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER TUMOR INCIDENCE THROUGH EPIGENETIC AND GENETIC ALTERATIONS. HERE, WE FOCUSED ON AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AN INFLAMMATION MARKER, C-REACTIVE-PROTEIN (CRP), AND GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION LEVELS OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD LEUKOCYTES. METHODS: THE SUBJECTS WERE 384 HEALTHY JAPANESE WOMEN ENROLLED AS THE CONTROL GROUP OF A CASE-CONTROL STUDY FOR BREAST CANCER CONDUCTED FROM 2001 TO 2005. GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION WAS QUANTIFIED BY LUMINOMETRIC METHYLATION ASSAY (LUMA). RESULTS: WITH ADJUSTMENT FOR LIFESTYLE-RELATED FACTORS, INCLUDING FOLATE INTAKE, THE GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION LEVEL OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD LEUKOCYTES WAS SIGNIFICANTLY BUT WEAKLY INCREASED BY 0.43% PER QUARTILE CATEGORY FOR CRP (P FOR TREND = 0.010). ESTIMATED METHYLATION LEVELS STRATIFIED BY CRP QUARTILE WERE 70.0%, 70.8%, 71.4%, AND 71.3%, RESPECTIVELY. IN ADDITION, INTERACTION BETWEEN POLYMORPHISM OF MTHFR (RS1801133, KNOWN AS C677T) AND CRP WAS SIGNIFICANT (P FOR INTERACTION = 0.046); THE GLOBAL METHYLATION LEVEL WAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED BY 0.61% PER QUARTILE CATEGORY FOR CRP IN THE CT/TT GROUP (THOSE WITH THE MINOR ALLELE T, P FOR TREND = 0.001), WHEREAS NO ASSOCIATION WAS OBSERVED IN THE CC GROUP (WILD TYPE). CONCLUSIONS: OUR STUDY SUGGESTS THAT CRP CONCENTRATION IS WEAKLY ASSOCIATED WITH GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION LEVEL. HOWEVER, THIS ASSOCIATION WAS OBSERVED MORE CLEARLY IN INDIVIDUALS WITH THE MINOR ALLELE OF THE MTHFR MISSENSE SNP RS1801133. BY ELUCIDATING THE COMPLEX MECHANISM OF THE REGULATION OF DNA METHYLATION BY BOTH ACQUIRED AND GENETIC FACTORS, OUR RESULTS MAY BE IMPORTANT FOR CANCER PREVENTION.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
6  4249  31 METHYLATION-BASED BIOLOGICAL AGE AND BREAST CANCER RISK. BACKGROUND: AGE IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST PREDICTORS OF CANCER, CHRONIC DISEASE, AND MORTALITY, BUT BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO AGING DIFFER AMONG PEOPLE. EPIGENETIC DNA MODIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN USED TO ESTIMATE "BIOLOGICAL AGE," WHICH MAY BE A USEFUL PREDICTOR OF DISEASE RISK. WE TESTED THIS HYPOTHESIS FOR BREAST CANCER. METHODS: USING A CASE-COHORT APPROACH, WE MEASURED BASELINE BLOOD DNA METHYLATION OF 2764 WOMEN ENROLLED IN THE SISTER STUDY, 1566 OF WHOM SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED BREAST CANCER AFTER AN AVERAGE OF 6 YEARS. USING THREE PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED METHYLATION-BASED "CLOCKS" (HANNUM, HORVATH, AND LEVINE), WE DEFINED BIOLOGICAL AGE ACCELERATION FOR EACH WOMAN BY COMPARING HER ESTIMATED BIOLOGICAL AGE WITH HER CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. HAZARD RATIOS AND 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR BREAST CANCER RISK WERE ESTIMATED USING COX REGRESSION MODELS. ALL STATISTICAL TESTS WERE TWO-SIDED. RESULTS: EACH OF THE THREE CLOCKS SHOWED THAT BIOLOGICAL AGE ACCELERATION WAS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER (5-YEAR AGE ACCELERATION, HANNUM'S CLOCK: HAZARD RATIO [HR] = 1.10, 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL [CI] = 1.00 TO 1.21, P = .04; HORVATH'S CLOCK: HR = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.00 TO 1.17, P = .04; LEVINE'S CLOCK: HR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.07 TO 1.23, P < .001). FOR LEVINE'S CLOCK, EACH 5-YEAR ACCELERATION IN BIOLOGICAL AGE CORRESPONDED WITH A 15% INCREASE IN BREAST CANCER RISK. ALTHOUGH BIOLOGICAL AGE MAY ACCELERATE WITH MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION, AGE ACCELERATION IN PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN INDEPENDENTLY PREDICTED BREAST CANCER. CASE-ONLY ANALYSIS SUGGESTED THAT, AMONG WOMEN WHO DEVELOP BREAST CANCER, INCREASED AGE ACCELERATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INVASIVE CANCER (ODDS RATIO FOR INVASIVE = 1.09, 95% CI = 0.98 TO 1.22, P = .10). CONCLUSIONS: DNA METHYLATION-BASED MEASURES OF BIOLOGICAL AGE MAY BE IMPORTANT PREDICTORS OF BREAST CANCER RISK.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
7   401  41 ANALYSIS OF ABERRANT METHYLATION ON PROMOTER SEQUENCES OF TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES AND TOTAL DNA IN SPUTUM SAMPLES: A PROMISING TOOL FOR EARLY DETECTION OF COPD AND LUNG CANCER IN SMOKERS. BACKGROUND: CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) IS A DISORDER ASSOCIATED TO CIGARETTE SMOKE AND LUNG CANCER (LC). SINCE EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN ONCOGENES AND TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES (TSGS) ARE CLEARLY IMPORTANT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LC. IN THIS STUDY, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT TOBACCO SMOKERS ARE SUSCEPTIBLE FOR METHYLATION IN THE PROMOTER REGION OF TSGS IN AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS WHEN COMPARED WITH NON-SMOKER SUBJECTS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE USEFULNESS OF DETECTION OF GENES PROMOTER METHYLATION IN SPUTUM SPECIMENS, AS A COMPLEMENTARY TOOL TO IDENTIFY LC BIOMARKERS AMONG SMOKERS WITH EARLY COPD. METHODS: WE DETERMINED THE AMOUNT OF DNA IN INDUCED SPUTUM FROM PATIENTS WITH COPD (N = 23), LC (N = 26), AS WELL AS IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS (CTR) (N = 33), USING A COMMERCIAL KIT FOR DNA PURIFICATION, FOLLOWED BY ABSORBANCE MEASUREMENT AT 260 NM. THE FREQUENCY OF CDKN2A, CDH1 AND MGMT PROMOTER METHYLATION IN THE SAME GROUPS WAS DETERMINED BY METHYLATION-SPECIFIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (MSP). THE FISHER'S EXACT TEST WAS EMPLOYED TO COMPARE FREQUENCY OF RESULTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT GROUPS. RESULTS: DNA CONCENTRATION WAS 7.4 AND 5.8 TIMES HIGHER IN LC AND COPD COMPARED TO THE (CTR) (P < 0.0001), RESPECTIVELY. METHYLATION STATUS OF CDKN2A AND MGMT WAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN COPD AND LC PATIENTS COMPARED WITH CTR GROUP (P < 0.0001). FREQUENCY OF CDH1 METHYLATION ONLY SHOWED A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LC PATIENTS AND CTR GROUP (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: WE PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT ABERRANT METHYLATION OF TSGS IN SAMPLES OF INDUCED SPUTUM IS A USEFUL TOOL FOR EARLY DIAGNOSTIC OF LUNG DISEASES (LC AND COPD) IN SMOKER SUBJECTS. VIRTUAL SLIDES: THE ABSTRACT MUST FINISH WITH THE FOLLOWING TEXT: VIRTUAL SLIDES THE VIRTUAL SLIDE(S) FOR THIS ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE: HTTP://WWW.DIAGNOSTICPATHOLOGY.DIAGNOMX.EU/VS/1127865005664160.	2012	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
8  3413  30 HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION AS POTENTIAL BIOMARKER OF GASTRIC CARCINOGENESIS. AIM: TO INVESTIGATE THE EXPRESSION PROFILES OF HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B IN GASTRIC MUCOSAL SAMPLES AND THEIR VALUES AS GASTRIC CARCINOGENESIS BIOMARKERS. METHODS: THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B IN NORMAL GASTRIC MUCOSA, NON-ATROPHIC CHRONIC GASTRITIS, INTESTINAL METAPLASIA AND INTESTINAL-TYPE GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA WERE ANALYSED USING QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B EXPRESSION PROFILES IN THE GROUPED SAMPLES WAS EVALUATED BY ANOVA AND STUDENT'S T-TEST TESTS. THE RESULTS WERE ADJUSTED FOR MULTIPLE TESTING BY USING BONFERRONI'S CORRECTION. P VALUES </= 0.05 WERE CONSIDERED STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT. TO EVALUATE HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B EXPRESSIONS AS POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS OF GASTRIC CARCINOGENESIS, WE PERFORMED A RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS AND THE DERIVED AREA UNDER THE CURVE, AND A CATEGORICAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS. IN SILICO IDENTIFICATION OF THE GENETIC TARGETS OF HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B WAS PERFORMED USING DIFFERENT PREDICTION TOOLS, IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY POSSIBLE GENES INVOLVED IN GASTRIC CARCINOGENESIS. RESULTS: THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF HSA-MIR-29C WERE HIGHER IN NORMAL GASTRIC MUCOSAL SAMPLES, AND DECREASED PROGRESSIVELY IN NON-ATROPHIC CHRONIC GASTRITIS SAMPLES, INTESTINAL METAPLASIA SAMPLES AND INTESTINAL-TYPE GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA SAMPLES. THE EXPRESSION OF HSA-MIR-29C IN THE GASTRIC LESIONS SHOWED THAT NON-ATROPHIC GASTRITIS HAVE AN INTERMEDIATE PROFILE TO GASTRIC NORMAL MUCOSA AND INTESTINAL-TYPE GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA, AND THAT INTESTINAL METAPLASIA SAMPLES PRESENTED AN EXPRESSION PATTERN SIMILAR TO THAT IN INTESTINAL-TYPE GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA. THIS MICRORNA (MIRNA) HAS A GOOD DISCRIMINATORY ACCURACY BETWEEN NORMAL GASTRIC SAMPLES AND (1) INTESTINAL-TYPE GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA; AND (2) INTESTINAL METAPLASIA, AND REGULATES THE DMNT3A ONCOGENE. HSA-MIR-135B IS UP-REGULATED IN NON-ATROPHIC CHRONIC GASTRITIS AND INTESTINAL METAPLASIA SAMPLES AND DOWN-REGULATED IN NORMAL GASTRIC MUCOSA AND INTESTINAL-TYPE GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA SAMPLES. NON-ATROPHIC CHRONIC GASTRITIS AND INTESTINAL METAPLASIA ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT FROM NORMAL GASTRIC MUCOSA SAMPLES. HSA-MIR-135B EXPRESSION PRESENTED A GREATER DISCRIMINATORY ACCURACY BETWEEN NORMAL SAMPLES AND GASTRIC LESIONS. THIS MIRNA WAS ASSOCIATED WITH HELICOBACTER PYLORI PRESENCE IN NON-ATROPHIC CHRONIC GASTRITIS SAMPLES AND REGULATES THE APC AND KLF4 TUMOUR SUPPRESSOR GENES. CONCLUSION: OUR RESULTS PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS IN NON-ATROPHIC CHRONIC GASTRITIS AND INTESTINAL METAPLASIA AND SUGGEST THAT HSA-MIR-29C AND HSA-MIR-135B ARE PROMISING BIOMARKERS OF GASTRIC CARCINOGENESIS.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
9  2759  35 EXPRESSION OF IL-17 AND ITS GENE PROMOTER METHYLATION STATUS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION. TO EXPLORE INTERLEUKIN-17 (IL-17) AND ITS EPIGENETIC REGULATION DURING THE PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) INFECTION.A TOTAL OF 162 PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HBV INFECTION, INCLUDING 75 WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS B (CHB), 54 WITH HEPATITIS B-ASSOCIATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS AND 33 WITH HEPATITIS B-ASSOCIATED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA (HBV-HCC), WERE ENROLLED IN THIS STUDY. THIRTY HEALTHY ADULTS OF THE SAME ETHNICITY WERE ENROLLED IN THE CONTROL GROUP. WHOLE VENOUS BLOOD WAS OBTAINED FROM THE PATIENTS AND NORMAL CONTROLS (N = 30). CLINICAL AND LABORATORY PARAMETERS WERE ASSESSED, AND WE PERFORMED ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY AND QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR TO MEASURE THE SERUM LEVELS AND RELATIVE MRNA EXPRESSION OF IL-17, RESPECTIVELY. IL-17 PROMOTER METHYLATION IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS WAS ASSESSED BY METHYLATION-SPECIFIC PCR. WE ANALYZED THE SERUM AND MRNA LEVELS OF IL-17 AND IL-17 PROMOTER METHYLATION IN THE 4 GROUPS AS WELL AS THE EFFECT OF METHYLATION ON SERUM IL-17 LEVELS. CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE IL-17 PROMOTER METHYLATION STATUS AND CLINICAL PARAMETERS WERE ANALYZED BY SPEARMAN CORRELATION ANALYSIS.COMPARED TO THE NORMAL CONTROL GROUP, THE PATIENT GROUPS EXHIBITED SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER SERUM AND RELATIVE MRNA LEVELS OF IL-17. THE METHYLATION DISTRIBUTION AMONG THE PATIENTS WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN THAT AMONG THE NORMAL CONTROLS (P < .05), WITH THE HBV-HCC GROUP SHOWING THE LOWEST IL-17 GENE METHYLATION FREQUENCY. THE AVERAGE IL-17 PROMOTER CG METHYLATION LEVEL WAS NEGATIVELY CORRELATED WITH IL-17 MRNA EXPRESSION (R = -0.39, P = .03), AND NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN IL-17 PROMOTER METHYLATION AND PROTHROMBIN TIME ACTIVITY (R = -0.585, P = .035), ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE (R = -0.522, P < .01), ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE (R = -0.315, P < .05), AND THE MODEL FOR END-STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE (R = -0.461, P < .05) WERE OBSERVED. IL-17 SERUM LEVELS IN THE METHYLATED-PROMOTER GROUPS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN THOSE IN THE UNMETHYLATED-PROMOTER GROUPS.IL-17 EXPRESSION AND PROMOTER METHYLATION WERE ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC HBV INFECTION PROGRESSION, ESPECIALLY IN THE HBV-HCC GROUP. THE IL-17 PROMOTER STATUS MAY HELP CLINICIANS INITIATE THE CORRECT TREATMENT STRATEGY AT THE CHB STAGE.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
10  2750  30 EXPRESSION LEVELS OF THE TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE GENE AND HISTONE MODIFICATIONS AROUND ITS PROMOTER IN THE LOCUS COERULEUS AND VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA OF RATS DURING FORCED ABSTINENCE FROM MORPHINE. BACKGROUND: EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS SUCH AS HISTONE MODIFICATIONS MAY BE INVOLVED IN THE STRUCTURAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH ADDICTION. WE STUDIED WHETHER MORPHINE-INDUCED CHANGES IN MRNA LEVELS OF THE CATECHOLAMINE BIOSYNTHESIS ENZYME, TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE (TH), ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HISTONE MODIFICATIONS AROUND THE PROMOTER OF THIS GENE IN THE LOCUS COERULEUS (LC) AND VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA (VTA) OF RATS. METHODS: DEPENDENCE WAS INDUCED IN RATS BY INTRAPERITONEAL INJECTIONS OF MORPHINE FOR 11 DAYS. THE ANIMALS WERE KILLED 2 H (CHRONIC MORPHINE), 24 H AND 7 DAYS (SPONTANEOUS WITHDRAWAL) AFTER THE LAST INJECTION OF MORPHINE. RESULTS: ANALYSIS OF OUR REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION PCR RESULTS BY 1-WAY ANOVA SHOWED SIGNIFICANT UPREGULATION (5.13 +/- 0.39 FOLDS) OF LC LEVELS OF THE TH TRANSCRIPT 24 H AFTER THE LAST INJECTION OF MORPHINE TO RATS, WHEN COMPARED WITH 2 H AND 7 DAYS TIME POINTS. CHRONIC MORPHINE AND MORPHINE ABSTINENCE FAILED TO CAUSE ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN THE LEVELS OF TH MRNA IN THE VTA AFTER CESSATION OF MORPHINE. CONSISTENTLY, CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR ASSAYS REVEALED THAT 24 H AFTER THE LAST INJECTION OF MORPHINE, LEVELS OF H3 ACETYLATION WERE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED (4.12 +/- 0.38 FOLDS) AT THE PROMOTER OF THE TH GENE IN THE LC BUT NOT IN THE VTA. OUR DATA ALSO SHOWED THAT HISTONE H3 TRIMETHYLATION FAILED TO CHANGE AROUND THE TH GENE PROMOTER EITHER IN THE VTA OR IN THE LC AFTER MORPHINE ABSTINENCE. CONCLUSIONS: RESULTS OF THE PRESENT STUDY, FOR THE FIRST TIME, DEMONSTRATE THE INVOLVEMENT OF HISTONE H3 ACETYLATION IN THE REGULATION OF TH GENE EXPRESSION IN THE LC OF RATS DURING FORCED ABSTINENCE FROM MORPHINE.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
11   286  39 AGING AND ALCOHOL INTERACT TO ALTER HEPATIC DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION. BACKGROUND: AGING AND CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ARE BOTH MODIFIERS OF DNA METHYLATION, BUT IT IS NOT YET KNOWN WHETHER CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ALSO ALTERS DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION, A NEWLY DISCOVERED EPIGENETIC MARK PRODUCED BY OXIDATION OF METHYLCYTOSINE. FURTHERMORE, IT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED WHETHER AGING AND ALCOHOL INTERACT TO MODIFY THIS EPIGENETIC PHENOMENON, THEREBY HAVING AN INDEPENDENT EFFECT ON GENE EXPRESSION. METHODS: OLD (18 MONTHS) AND YOUNG (4 MONTHS) MALE C57BL/6 MICE WERE PAIR-FED EITHER A LIEBER-DECARLI LIQUID DIET WITH ALCOHOL (18% OF ENERGY) OR AN ISOCALORIC LIEBER-DECARLI CONTROL DIET FOR 5 WEEKS. GLOBAL DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION AND DNA METHYLATION WERE ANALYZED FROM HEPATIC DNA USING A NEW LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD. HEPATIC MRNA EXPRESSION OF THE TET ENZYMES WERE MEASURED VIA QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION. RESULTS: IN YOUNG MICE, MILD CHRONIC ALCOHOL EXPOSURE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED GLOBAL DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION COMPARED WITH CONTROL MICE (0.22 +/- 0.01 VS. 0.29 +/- 0.06%, P = 0.004). ALCOHOL DID NOT SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE LEVELS IN OLD MICE. OLD MICE FED THE CONTROL DIET SHOWED DECREASED GLOBAL DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION COMPARED WITH YOUNG MICE FED THE CONTROL DIET (0.24 +/- 0.02 VS. 0.29 +/- 0.06%, P = 0.04). THIS MODEL SUGGESTS AN INTERACTION BETWEEN AGING AND ALCOHOL IN DETERMINING DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION (PINTERACTION = 0.009). EXPRESSION OF TET2 AND TET3 WAS DECREASED IN THE OLD MICE RELATIVE TO THE YOUNG (P < 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: THE OBSERVATION THAT ALCOHOL ALTERS DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION INDICATES A NEW EPIGENETIC EFFECT OF ALCOHOL. THIS IS THE FIRST STUDY DEMONSTRATING THE INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND AGING ON DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
12   526  29 ASSOCIATIONS OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION AND CHRONIC ATROPHIC GASTRITIS WITH ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGEING IN OLDER ADULTS. BACKGROUND: HELICOBACTER PYLORI (HP) INFECTION AND CHRONIC ATROPHIC GASTRITIS (CAG) HAVE SHOWN STRONG ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF GASTRIC CANCER. THIS STUDY AIMED TO EXAMINE WHETHER BOTH RISK FACTORS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGEING, AS DETERMINED BY THE 'DNA METHYLATION AGE', IN A POPULATION-BASED STUDY OF OLDER ADULTS (N=1477). METHODS: SEROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS OF HP ANTIBODIES AND PEPSINOGEN I AND II FOR CAG DEFINITION WERE OBTAINED BY ELISA KITS. WHOLE BLOOD DNA METHYLATION PROFILES WERE MEASURED BY ILLUMINA HUMAN METHYLATION450K BEADCHIP. DNA METHYLATION AGES WERE CALCULATED BY TWO ALGORITHMS PROPOSED BY HORVATH AND HANNUM ET AL. RESULTS: AFTER ADJUSTING FOR POTENTIAL COVARIATES IN LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS, WE FOUND THAT HP INFECTION, INFECTION WITH VIRULENT HP STRAINS (CAGA+) AND SEVERE CAG WERE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASE IN DNA METHYLATION AGE BY APPROXIMATELY 0.4, 0.6 AND 1 YEAR (ALL P-VALUES <0.05), RESPECTIVELY. CONCLUSIONS: OUR STUDY INDICATES THAT BOTH CAGA+ HP INFECTION AND CAG GO ALONG WITH ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGEING.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
13  3783  29 INTERFERON-GAMMA PROMOTER HYPOMETHYLATION AND INCREASED EXPRESSION IN CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS. AIM: THE GOAL OF THIS INVESTIGATION WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN THE IFNG PROMOTER ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASE OF IFNG TRANSCRIPTION IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF PERIODONTAL DISEASES. MATERIALS AND METHODS: DNA WAS EXTRACTED FROM GINGIVAL BIOPSY SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM 47 TOTAL SITES FROM 47 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS: 23 PERIODONTALLY HEALTHY SITES, 12 EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED GINGIVITIS SITES AND 12 CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS SITES. LEVELS OF DNA METHYLATION WITHIN THE IFNG PROMOTER CONTAINING SIX CPG DINUCLEOTIDES WERE DETERMINED USING PYROSEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY. INTERFERON GAMMA MRNA EXPRESSION WAS ANALYSED BY QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTIONS USING ISOLATED RNA FROM PART OF THE BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES MENTIONED ABOVE. RESULTS: THE METHYLATION LEVEL OF ALL SIX ANALYSED CPG SITES WITHIN THE IFNG PROMOTER REGION IN THE PERIODONTITIS BIOPSIES 52% [INTERQUARTILE RANGE, IQR (43.8%, 63%)] WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN PERIODONTALLY HEALTHY SAMPLES 62% [IQR (51.3%, 74%)], P=0.007 AND GINGIVITIS BIOPSIES 63% [IQR (55%, 74%)], P=0.02. THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVEL OF IFNG IN PERIODONTITIS BIOPSIES WAS 1.96-FOLD AND SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN TISSUES WITH PERIODONTAL HEALTH (P=0.04). ALTHOUGH THE MRNA LEVEL FROM EXPERIMENTAL GINGIVITIS SAMPLES EXHIBITED AN 8.5-FOLD INCREASE AS COMPARED WITH PERIODONTALLY HEALTHY SAMPLES, NO SIGNIFICANT METHYLATION DIFFERENCE WAS OBSERVED IN EXPERIMENTAL GINGIVITIS SAMPLE. CONCLUSIONS: A HYPOMETHYLATION PROFILE WITHIN IFNG PROMOTER REGION IS RELATED TO AN INCREASE OF IFNG TRANSCRIPTION PRESENT IN THE CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS BIOPSIES, WHILE SUCH AN INCREASE OF IFNG IN EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED GINGIVITIS SEEMS INDEPENDENT OF PROMOTER METHYLATION ALTERATION.	2010	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
14    67  31 A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE ASSOCIATIONS OF BDNF GENOTYPE AND METHYLATION WITH POSTSTROKE ANXIETY. BACKGROUND: ALTHOUGH THE PRECISE ETIOLOGY OF POSTSTROKE ANXIETY (PSA) HAS YET TO BE FULLY ELUCIDATED, IT IS KNOWN THAT BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) IS IMPORTANT FOR NEURAL PLASTICITY AND LONG-TERM POTENTIATION, ASSOCIATED WITH THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ANXIETY. THE EXPRESSION OF BDNF IS REGULATED BY EPIGENETIC AND GENETIC PROFILES. THUS, WE INVESTIGATED THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN BDNF METHYLATION STATUS AND PSA AT 2 WEEKS AND 1 YEAR AFTER STROKE WHILE ACCOUNTING FOR INTERACTIONS WITH THE BDNF VAL66MET POLYMORPHISM. METHODS: THE BASELINE SAMPLE COMPRISED 286 PATIENTS WHO WERE ASSESSED AT 2 WEEKS AFTER STROKE; OF THESE PATIENTS, 222 (78%) WERE FOLLOWED UP WITH AT 1 YEAR AFTER STROKE. THE PRESENCE OF PSA WAS DETERMINED USING THE ANXIETY SUBSCALE OF THE HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE (HADS), AND THE EFFECTS OF BDNF METHYLATION STATUS AND POLYMORPHISMS ON PSA STATUS WERE ASSESSED WITH MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS. RESULTS: THE PREVALENCE OF PSA WAS SLIGHTLY LOWER (27 [9.4%]) AT BASELINE, AND 35 (15.8%) PATIENTS WERE IDENTIFIED AS HAVING PSA AT THE 1-YEAR FOLLOW-UP. STROKE PATIENTS WITH A HIGHER AVERAGE METHYLATION STATUS WERE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE PSA AT 1 YEAR. THE BDNF VAL66MET POLYMORPHISM WAS NOT INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH PSA DURING EITHER THE ACUTE OR CHRONIC PHASE AFTER STROKE, BUT THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT INTERACTIVE EFFECT BETWEEN BDNF METHYLATION AND GENOTYPE ON PSA AT 2 WEEKS. CONCLUSIONS: IN THIS STUDY, BDNF METHYLATION IN COMBINATION WITH THE MET/MET BDNF POLYMORPHISM (VAL66MET POLYMORPHISM) WAS ASSOCIATED WITH PSA. THESE FINDINGS MAY HELP IDENTIFY PATIENTS AT HIGHER RISK FOR PSA.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
15  4349  37 MIR-155 AND MIR-122 EXPRESSION OF SPERMATOZOA IN OBESE SUBJECTS. OBESITY IS CHARACTERIZED BY MILD CHRONIC INFLAMMATION THAT IS LINKED WITH IMPAIRED IRON HOMEOSTASIS. STUDIES IN HUMAN AND MURINE SHOW THAT THERE IS A TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE VIA THE GAMETES IN OBESITY; HOWEVER, THERE IS LITTLE INFORMATION ON CHANGES IN THE EXPRESSION OF MICRORNAS RELATED TO INFLAMMATION AND IRON HOMEOSTASIS IN SPERMATOZOA FROM OBESE SUBJECTS. THE PRESENT STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EXPRESSION OF MICRORNAS RELATED TO INFLAMMATION (MIR-21 Y MIR-155) AND IRON NUTRITION (MIR-122 AND MIR-200B) IN PLASMA, PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS (PBMC) AND SPERMATOZOA FROM NORMOZOOSPERMIC CONTROLS (CN; N = 17; BMI: 24.6 +/- 2.0) AND OBESE (OB; N = 17; BMI: 32.6 +/- 4.4) MEN. TO DETERMINE THE INFLAMMATION LEVELS, WE MEASURED IL-6, TNF-ALPHA, AND MONOCYTE CHEMOATTRACTANT PROTEIN-1 (MCP1) BY MAGNETIC LUMINEX((R)) ASSAY. MRNA EXPRESSION OF IL6, TNF-ALPHA, AND HEPCIDIN (HAMP) IN PBMC WERE EVALUATED BY RT-QPCR. THE ANALYSIS OF MICRORNAS WAS PERFORMED USING THE TAQMAN((R)) ASSAYS. THE IRON CONTENT IN PBMC, SEMINAL PLASMA, AND SPERMATOZOA WAS DETERMINED BY INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS). HIGH SERUM IL6, TNF-ALPHA, AND MCP1 LEVELS WERE OBSERVED IN OB GROUP (P < 0.05). GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS SHOWED AN INCREASED ABUNDANCE RELATIVE OF TNF-ALPHA (P = 0.018), HAMP (P = 0.03), AND IL6 (P = 0.02) IN PBMC FROM OBESE SUBJECTS. ALSO, WE OBSERVED HIGH LEVELS OF SERUM FERRITIN (P = 0.03), IRON CONTENT IN SEMINAL PLASMA (P = 0.04), AND SPERMATOZOA (P = 0.002), BUT LOWER SERUM FE (P = 0.007) IN OBESE SUBJECTS. IN THE OB GROUP, A HIGH EXPRESSION OF MIR-155 (P = 0.02) AND MIR-21 (P = 0.03) WAS OBSERVED IN PBMC AND MIR-122 (P = 0.03) IN PLASMA. IN SPERM, BOTH MIR-155 (P = 0.004) AND MIR-122 (P = 0.028) WERE HIGH IN THE OB GROUP. OUR RESULTS SHOWED THAT OBESE SUBJECTS HAVE INCREASED EXPRESSIONS OF MIR-155 AND MIR-122, TWO MICRORNAS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY RELATED WITH INFLAMMATION AND IRON METABOLISM, RESPECTIVELY, AT BOTH THE SYSTEMIC AND SPERM LEVELS.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
16   308  29 ALCOHOL AND DNA METHYLATION: AN EPIGENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY IN BLOOD AND NORMAL BREAST TISSUE. THE BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS DRIVING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND CHRONIC DISEASES MIGHT INCLUDE EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION OF DNA METHYLATION. WE EXPLORED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH METHYLATION IN AN EPIGENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF BLOOD AND NORMAL BREAST TISSUE DNA. INFINIUM HUMANMETHYLATION450 BEADCHIP (ILLUMINA INC., SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA) ARRAY DATA ON BLOOD DNA METHYLATION WAS EXAMINED IN A DISCOVERY SET OF 2,878 NON-HISPANIC WHITE WOMEN FROM THE SISTER STUDY (UNITED STATES, 2004-2015) WHO PROVIDED DETAILED QUESTIONNAIRE INFORMATION ON LIFETIME ALCOHOL USE. ROBUST LINEAR REGRESSION MODELING WAS USED TO IDENTIFY SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATIONS (FALSE DISCOVERY RATE OF Q < 0.05) BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKS PER WEEK AND DNA METHYLATION AT 5,458 CYTOSINE-PHOSPHATE-GUANINE (CPG) SITES. ASSOCIATIONS WERE REPLICATED (P < 0.05) FOR 677 CPGS IN AN INDEPENDENT SET OF 187 BLOOD DNA SAMPLES FROM THE SISTER STUDY AND FOR 628 CPGS IN AN INDEPENDENT SET OF 171 NORMAL BREAST DNA SAMPLES; 1,207 CPGS WERE REPLICATED IN EITHER BLOOD OR NORMAL BREAST, WITH 98 CPGS REPLICATED IN BOTH TISSUES. INDIVIDUAL GENE EFFECTS WERE NOTABLE FOR PHOSPHOGLYCERATE DEHYDROGENASE (PGHDH), PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE (PPIF), SOLUTE CARRIER 15 (SLC15), SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 43 MEMBER 1 (SLC43A1), AND SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 7 MEMBER 11 (SLC7A11). WE ALSO FOUND THAT HIGH ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER GLOBAL METHYLATION AS MEASURED BY THE AVERAGE OF CPGS ON THE ENTIRE ARRAY.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
17  3460  35 HYPOMETHYLATION OF THE IL8 PROMOTER IN NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITH NASAL POLYPS. BACKGROUND: IL-8 IS AN IMPORTANT CHEMOKINE IMPLICATED IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS (CRS), BUT LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF IL8 IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CRS. OBJECTIVE: WE SOUGHT TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DNA METHYLATION LEVEL IN THE IL8 PROXIMAL PROMOTER AND CRS IN HAN CHINESE SUBJECTS. METHODS: PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITH NASAL POLYPS (CRSWNP; N = 187), PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITHOUT NASAL POLYPS (CRSSNP; N = 89), AND CONTROL SUBJECTS (N = 57) WERE ENROLLED IN 2 INDEPENDENT COHORTS. PURIFIED HUMAN NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS FROM EACH PARTICIPANT WERE ASSESSED FOR PERCENTAGE DNA METHYLATION OF CPG SITES IN THE IL8 PROXIMAL PROMOTER BY USING BISULFITE PYROSEQUENCING AND FOR FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF METHYLATION STATUS BY USING IN VITRO ASSAYS. RESULTS: DNA METHYLATION OF CPG SITES 1, 2, AND 3, RESPECTIVELY, IN THE IL8 PROXIMAL PROMOTER WAS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED IN HUMAN NASAL EPITHELIAL CELLS OF PATIENTS WITH CRSWNP COMPARED WITH THAT IN PATIENTS WITH CRSSNP (P < .001) AND CONTROL SUBJECTS (P < .001). PERCENTAGE OF DNA METHYLATION OF THE CPG3 SITE WAS CORRELATED NEGATIVELY WITH BOTH TISSUE EOSINOPHILIC CATIONIC PROTEIN (P < .01) AND MYELOPEROXIDASE (P < .05) LEVELS. IL-1BETA (P < .001) AND TNF-ALPHA (P < .01) SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED IL8 EXPRESSION ACCOMPANIED BY A REDUCTION IN METHYLATION AT THE CPG3 SITE (P < .001). ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAYS DEMONSTRATED THAT METHYLATION STATUS OF CPG3 CHANGED THE BINDING OF OCTAMER-BINDING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1 AND NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPAB. CONCLUSION: DECREASED DNA METHYLATION OF PARTICULARLY CPG SITES IN THE IL8 PROXIMAL PROMOTER MIGHT PLAY A ROLE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CRSWNP.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
18   403  37 ANALYSIS OF EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION AND HEALTHY LONGEVITY AMONG OLDER US WOMEN. IMPORTANCE: ACCELERATED BIOLOGICAL AGING IS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED PHYSICAL CAPABILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY. OBJECTIVE: WE INVESTIGATED ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION (EAA), A BIOMARKER ASSOCIATED WITH AGING, AND HEALTHY LONGEVITY AMONG OLDER WOMEN. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: THIS COHORT STUDY WAS A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE (WHI) WHO WERE ELIGIBLE TO SURVIVE TO AGE 90 YEARS BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2020. PARTICIPANTS WERE LOCATED IN MULTIPLE CENTERS. THIS STUDY WAS RESTRICTED TO WOMEN WITH GENOME-WIDE DNA METHYLATION DATA, GENERATED FROM BASELINE BLOOD SAMPLES WITHIN 3 WHI ANCILLARY STUDIES. MEDIAN (IQR) FOLLOW-UP TIMES FROM BASELINE WERE 21.6 (19.6-22.9) YEARS AND 21.4 (19.8-22.7) YEARS FOR WOMEN WHO SURVIVED TO AGE 90 YEARS WITH AND WITHOUT INTACT MOBILITY, RESPECTIVELY, AND 13.2 (8.8-16.7) FOR WOMEN WHO DID NOT SURVIVE TO AGE 90 YEARS. DATA WERE ANALYZED FROM DECEMBER 2020 TO JULY 2021. EXPOSURES: EAA WAS ESTIMATED USING 4 ESTABLISHED "CLOCKS": HORVATH PANTISSUE, HANNUM, PHENO, AND GRIM. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: USING MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION, ODDS RATIOS (ORS) AND 95% CIS WERE ESTIMATED FOR 3 HEALTHY LONGEVITY OUTCOMES FOR EACH CLOCK: SURVIVAL TO AGE 90 YEARS WITH INTACT MOBILITY, SURVIVAL TO AGE 90 YEARS WITHOUT INTACT MOBILITY, AND NO SURVIVAL TO AGE 90 YEARS. RESULTS: AMONG 1813 WOMEN, THERE WERE 464 WOMEN (MEAN [SD] AGE AT BASELINE, 71.6 [3.5] YEARS) WHO SURVIVED TO AGE 90 YEARS WITH INTACT MOBILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING, 420 WOMEN (MEAN [SD] AGE AT BASELINE, 71.3 [3.2] YEARS) WHO SURVIVED TO AGE 90 YEARS WITHOUT INTACT MOBILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING, AND 929 WOMEN (MEAN [SD] AGE AT BASELINE, 70.2 [3.4] YEARS) WHO DID NOT SURVIVE TO AGE 90 YEARS. WOMEN WHO SURVIVED TO AGE 90 YEARS WITH INTACT MOBILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION WERE HEALTHIER AT BASELINE COMPARED WITH WOMEN WHO SURVIVED WITHOUT THOSE OUTCOMES OR WHO DID NOT SURVIVE TO AGE 90 YEARS (EG, 143 WOMEN [30.8%] VS 101 WOMEN [24.0%] AND 202 WOMEN [21.7%] WITH 0 CHRONIC CONDITIONS). THE ODDS OF SURVIVING TO AGE 90 YEARS WITH INTACT MOBILITY WERE LOWER FOR EVERY 1 SD INCREASE IN EAA COMPARED WITH THOSE WHO DID NOT SURVIVE TO AGE 90 YEARS AS MEASURED BY AGEACCELHORVATH (OR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.69-0.96; P = .01), AGEACCELHANNUM (OR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.56-0.80; P < .001), AGEACCELPHENO (OR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.51-0.72; P < .001), AND AGEACCELGRIM (OR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.55-0.84; P < .001). ORS WERE SIMILAR FOR WOMEN WHO SURVIVED TO AGE 90 YEARS WITH INTACT MOBILITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION (EG, AGEACCELHORVATH: OR PER 1 SD INCREASE IN EAA, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.71-0.98; P = .03) COMPARED WITH WOMEN WHO DID NOT SURVIVE TO AGE 90 YEARS. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: THESE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT EAA MAY BE A VALID BIOMARKER ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTHY LONGEVITY AMONG OLDER WOMEN AND MAY BE USED FOR RISK STRATIFICATION AND RISK ESTIMATION OF FUTURE FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE AGING. OUTCOMES SUGGEST THAT FUTURE STUDIES MAY FOCUS ON THE POTENTIAL FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS TO COUNTERACT EAA AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH POOR HEALTH OUTCOMES TO LOWER DISEASE BURDEN WHILE INCREASING LONGEVITY.	2022	

19  3637  22 INCREASED EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION IN THE HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA SKIN. EPIGENETIC (OR DNA METHYLATION) AGE IS CALCULATED BASED ON METHYLATION OF CERTAIN CYTOSINE-GUANINE (CPG) REPEATS, AND IT CAN ACCURATELY ESTIMATE ONE'S CHRONOLOGIC AGE. IMPORTANTLY, EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION (EAA) IS HIGHLY PREDICTIVE OF AGE-ASSOCIATED MORBIDITY AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA (HS) IS A CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY SKIN DISEASE WITH SIGNIFICANT SYSTEMIC DISEASE BURDEN. HERE, WE PERFORMED A PILOT STUDY TO CALCULATE EAA FROM FORMALIN-FIXED PARAFFIN-EMBEDDED SKIN SAMPLES USING ILLUMINA INFINIUM METHYLATIONEPIC BEADCHIP ARRAYS. OUR RESULTS DEMONSTRATED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN INTRINSIC EAA AMONG HS COMPARED TO CONTROLS (- 1.00 YEARS, P-VALUE = 0.52), SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN BOTH EXTRINSIC EAA (13.72 YEARS, P-VALUE < 0.001) AND PHENOAGE ACCELERATION (7.72 YEARS, P-VALUE = 0.003), AND A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN GRIMAGE ACCELERATION (- 5.14 YEARS, P-VALUE < 0.001). OUR FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT THE ACCELERATION OF EPIGENETIC AGE IN THE HS SKIN MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH EXTRINSIC IMMUNE-RELATED CHANGES AND CAN POTENTIALLY SERVE AS A BIOMARKER OF THE PRESENT AND/OR FUTURE DISEASE BURDEN IN HS PATIENTS.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
20  3995  29 LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF DNA METHYLATION OF INFLAMMATORY GENES AND CANCER RISK. BACKGROUND: CHRONIC INFLAMMATION PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN CANCER ETIOLOGY. DNA METHYLATION MODIFICATION, ONE OF THE EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS REGULATING GENE EXPRESSION, IS CONSIDERED A HALLMARK OF CANCER. HUMAN AND ANIMAL MODELS HAVE IDENTIFIED NUMEROUS LINKS BETWEEN DNA METHYLATION AND INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS. OUR OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROSPECTIVELY AND LONGITUDINALLY EXAMINE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN METHYLATION OF FOUR INFLAMMATORY GENES AND CANCER RISK. METHODS: WE INCLUDED 795 NORMATIVE AGING STUDY PARTICIPANTS WITH BLOOD DRAWN ONE TO FOUR TIMES FROM 1999 TO 2012 (MEDIAN FOLLOW-UP, 10.6 YEARS). PROMOTER DNA METHYLATION OF IL6, ICAM-1, IFN, AND TLR2 IN BLOOD LEUKOCYTES WAS MEASURED USING PYROSEQUENCING AT MULTIPLE CPG SITES AND AVERAGED BY GENE FOR DATA ANALYSIS. WE USED COX REGRESSION MODELS TO EXAMINE PROSPECTIVE ASSOCIATIONS OF BASELINE AND TIME-DEPENDENT METHYLATION WITH CANCER RISK AND COMPARED MEAN METHYLATION DIFFERENCES OVER TIME BETWEEN CANCER CASES AND CANCER-FREE PARTICIPANTS. RESULTS: BASELINE IFN HYPERMETHYLATION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL-CANCER (HR, 1.49; P = 0.04) AND PROSTATE CANCER INCIDENCE (HR, 1.69; P = 0.02). BASELINE ICAM-1 AND IL6 HYPERMETHYLATION WERE ASSOCIATED WITH PROSTATE CANCER INCIDENCE (HR, 1.43; P = 0.02; HR, 0.70; P = 0.03, RESPECTIVELY). IN OUR TIME-DEPENDENT ANALYSES, IFN HYPERMETHYLATION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL-CANCER (HR, 1.79; P = 0.007) AND PROSTATE CANCER (HR, 1.57; P = 0.03) INCIDENCE; AND ICAM-1 AND IL6 HYPERMETHYLATION WERE ASSOCIATED WITH PROSTATE CANCER INCIDENCE (HR, 1.39; P = 0.02; HR, 0.69; P = 0.03, RESPECTIVELY). WE DETECTED SIGNIFICANT ICAM-1 HYPERMETHYLATION IN CANCER CASES (P = 0.0003) 10 TO 13 YEARS PREDIAGNOSIS. CONCLUSION: HYPERMETHYLATION OF IFN AND ICAM-1 MAY PLAY IMPORTANT ROLES IN EARLY CARCINOGENESIS, PARTICULARLY THAT OF PROSTATE CANCER. IMPACT: THESE METHYLATION CHANGES COULD INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY DETECTION BIOMARKERS AND POTENTIAL TREATMENTS OF INFLAMMATION-RELATED CARCINOGENESIS.	2015