1  3934 260 LIVER TUMOR INDUCTION. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NODULAR LIVER LESIONS IN RODENTS FOLLOWING THE ADMINISTRATION OF TEST AGENTS RAISES SEVERAL QUESTIONS WHICH COULD BE PLACED IN ONE OF TWO GENERAL CATEGORIES: DIAGNOSTIC AND INTERPRETATIONAL. FROM A DIAGNOSTIC POINT OF VIEW, THE PROPER CLASSIFICATION OF LIVER TUMORS INTO A BENIGN AND MALIGNANT CATEGORY HAS TO BE BASED ON THE DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE MORPHOLOGY AND THE BIOLOGIC BEHAVIOR OF THE LESIONS. THEREFORE, EXTREME CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO SEPARATE THE MALIGNANT TUMORS FROM THE BENIGN AND THE BENIGN NEOPLASIA FROM THE HYPERPLASIA. THE SUBSTITUTION OF THE TERM "NEOPLASTIC NODULE" FOR HYPERPLASTIC NODULE IN RATS IS MISLEADING. MOST OF THESE NODULES, WHEN INDUCED UNDER SPECIAL EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS, MAY REGRESS OR REMODEL AND THUS THEY ARE NOT NEOPLASTIC IN NATURE. CHRONIC CARCINOGENICITY BIOASSAYS SHOULD INCLUDE "STOP" TYPE OF TREATMENT LEAVING ENOUGH OF THE OBSERVATIONAL TIME TO ESTABLISH THE FATE OF INDUCED NODULAR LESIONS. THE INDUCTION OF HISTOCHEMICALLY CHANGED FOCI CAN SERVE ONLY AS AN INDICATION OF POTENTIAL HEPATOCARCINOGENICITY AND SHOULD NOT BE EQUATED WITH THE INDUCTION OF BONA FIDE CANCER. THE BIOLOGIC INTERPRETATION OF NODULAR LIVER LESIONS, ESPECIALLY IN MICE, NEEDS FURTHER SCRUTINY BECAUSE THESE LESIONS HAVE A TENDENCY TO DEVELOP SPONTANEOUSLY WITH HIGH INCIDENCE IN SOME STRAINS. THIS CHARACTERISTIC THEN RAISES THE QUESTION AS TO THE MECHANISM BY WHICH VARIOUS AGENTS AUGMENT AND/OR ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH TUMORS. IS THIS ACTION PRIMARILY PROMOTING OR INITIATING IN NATURE OR DOES IT REPRESENT THE INDUCTION OF TUMORS DE NOVO? THE ANSWER TO THIS DILEMMA MAY HAVE A DECISIVE BEARING ON CARCINOGENIC RISK ASSESSMENT AND THE TYPE OF REGULATORY ACTION, SINCE THE PROMOTING AGENTS POSSESS A THRESHOLD EFFECT AND THE PROMOTED CHANGES MAY REGRESS FOLLOWING WITHDRAWAL OF TREATMENT. THE INTERPRETATION OF HEPATOCARCINOGENESIS IS FURTHER COMPLICATED BY THE FACT THAT SEVERAL FACTORS, SUCH AS SEX HORMONAL ENVIRONMENT, INCREASED MITOTIC ACTIVITY FOLLOWING AN EXCESSIVE LOSS OF PARENCHYMAL CELLS, DEGREE OF CALORIC INTAKE, ENZYMATIC COMPLEMENT, AND ANIMALS' AGE AT THE TIME OF THE EXPOSURE TO A TEST AGENT, MAY INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF LIVER TUMOR DEVELOPMENT BY MODULATING "INITIATION" AND/OR "PROMOTION" OF CARCINOGENESIS. BROAD FLUCTUATION IN THE HISTORIC INCIDENCE OF LIVER TUMORS FURTHER COMPOUNDS THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROPER BIOASSAY INTERPRETATION. THE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS MAY HAVE THE OBJECTIVE TO EXPLORE PREDOMINANTLY THE INITIATING OR PROMOTING EFFECTS OF THE AGENT. SUCH PROTOCOLS SHOULD BE USED WHENEVER NECESSARY TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THESE TWO MECHANISMS OF ACTION. IN THE CAUCASIANS, THE "SPONTANEOUS" DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRIMARY HEPATOCELLULAR TUMORS IS RARE. THE MAJORITY OF THESE TUMORS ARE MALIGNANT AND RAPIDLY FATAL. ACCORDING TO SOME HUMAN PATHOLOGISTS, THE BENIGN VARIETY OF LIVER TUMORS IS RARE AND IT DOES NOT REPRESENT NECESSARILY A PREMALIGNANT STAGE IN TUMOR DEVELOPMENT. CARCINOMA OF THE LIVER MAY OCCUR IN INFANCY, ESPECIALLY IN MALES BEFORE THE AGE OF 2 YEARS. THIS SUGGESTS A GENETIC CAUSATION OR CARCINOGENIC EXPOSURE IN UTERO. ONE OF THE GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS WHICH SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCES THE INCIDENCE OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN HUMANS IS EXPOSURE TO AFLATOXIN B(1) WHICH IS APPARENTLY POTENTIATED BY CONCURRENT LIVER CIRRHOSIS. BECAUSE MANY MORE AGENTS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE HEPATOCARCINOGENIC IN MICE AND RATS THAN IN MEN, A QUESTION ARISES AS TO THE DIRECT RELEVANCE OF RODENT STUDIES TO HUMANS. A BALANCED ASSESSMENT OF THE CARCINOGENICITY OF THE AGENT COULD ONLY BE REACHED IN CONSIDERING BOTH THE PHARMACOKINETICS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MALIGNANT NEOPLASIA IN OTHER ORGANS. IN THE CASE OF POSITIVE CARCINOGENICITY ASSESSMENT, THE OUTCOME OF THE MUTAGENICITY BIOASSAYS CAN SUGGEST GENIC (GENOTOXIC) OR PARAGENIC (EPIGENETIC) MODE OF ACTION IN MAMMALIAN SYSTEMS.	1982	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
2    15  30 450K-ARRAY ANALYSIS OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA CELLS REVEALS GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION TO BE RELATIVELY STABLE OVER TIME AND SIMILAR IN RESTING AND PROLIFERATIVE COMPARTMENTS. IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL), THE MICROENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS; HOWEVER, KNOWLEDGE IS LIMITED REGARDING THE EXTENT TO WHICH METHYLATION CHANGES WITH TIME AND EXPOSURE TO SPECIFIC MICROENVIRONMENTS. USING HIGH-RESOLUTION 450K ARRAYS, WE PROVIDE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE DNA METHYLATION STUDY OF CLL TO DATE, ANALYZING PAIRED DIAGNOSTIC/FOLLOW-UP SAMPLES FROM IGHV-MUTATED/UNTREATED AND IGHV-UNMUTATED/TREATED PATIENTS (N=36) AND PATIENT-MATCHED PERIPHERAL BLOOD AND LYMPH NODE SAMPLES (N=20). ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE, WE REVEALED 2239 DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED CPG SITES BETWEEN IGHV-MUTATED AND UNMUTATED PATIENTS, WITH THE MAJORITY OF SITES POSITIONED OUTSIDE ANNOTATED CPG ISLANDS. INTRIGUINGLY, CLL PROGNOSTIC GENES (FOR EXAMPLE, CLLU1, LPL, ZAP70 AND NOTCH1), EPIGENETIC REGULATOR (FOR EXAMPLE, HDAC9, HDAC4 AND DNMT3B), B-CELL SIGNALING (FOR EXAMPLE, IBTK) AND NUMEROUS TGF-BETA AND NF-KAPPAB/TNF PATHWAY GENES WERE ALTERNATIVELY METHYLATED BETWEEN SUBGROUPS. CONTRARY, DNA METHYLATION OVER TIME WAS DEEMED RATHER STABLE WITH FEW RECURRENT CHANGES NOTED WITHIN SUBGROUPS. ALTHOUGH A LARGER NUMBER OF NON-RECURRENT CHANGES WERE IDENTIFIED AMONG IGHV-UNMUTATED RELATIVE TO MUTATED CASES OVER TIME, THESE EQUATED TO A LOW GLOBAL CHANGE. SIMILARLY, FEW CHANGES WERE IDENTIFIED BETWEEN COMPARTMENT CASES. ALTOGETHER, WE REVEAL CLL SUBGROUPS TO DISPLAY UNIQUE METHYLATION PROFILES AND UNVEIL METHYLATION AS RELATIVELY STABLE OVER TIME AND SIMILAR WITHIN DIFFERENT CLL COMPARTMENTS, IMPLYING ABERRANT METHYLATION AS AN EARLY LEUKEMOGENIC EVENT.	2013	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
3   835  56 CHEMICAL CARCINOGEN MECHANISMS OF ACTION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TESTING METHODOLOGY. CHEMICAL CARCINOGENS ARE OF TWO DISTINCT TYPES, DNA-REACTIVE AND EPIGENETIC. TESTING METHODOLOGY CAN BE DIRECTED TOWARD DETECTING EFFECTS OF BOTH TYPES OF CARCINOGEN. CARCINOGENS OF THE DNA-REACTIVE TYPE ARE DEFINED BY THE FORMATION OF COVALENTLY BOUND DNA ADDUCTS. THESE CHEMICALS HAVE STRUCTURES THAT YIELD ELECTROPHILIC REACTANTS EITHER DIRECTLY OR AFTER BIOACTIVATION. THESE AGENTS CAUSE GENOMIC ALTERATION IN THE STRUCTURE OR FUNCTION OF DNA IN THE TARGET CELL. IN ADDITION, THESE COMPOUNDS CAN EXERT OTHER CELLULAR AND TISSUE EPIGENETIC EFFECTS, SUCH AS CELL PROLIFERATION AND GROWTH PROMOTION. CARCINOGENS OF THE EPIGENETIC (PARAGENETIC) TYPE, IN CONTRAST, DO NOT REACT WITH DNA, BUT RATHER DISPLAY CELLULAR EFFECTS SUCH AS NEOPLASM GROWTH PROMOTION, CYTOTOXICITY, INHIBITION OF TISSUE GROWTH REGULATION, PEROXISOME PROLIFERATION, ENDOCRINE MODIFICATION, IMMUNOSUPPRESSION AND/OR SUSTAINED TISSUE ISCHEMIA THAT CAN BE THE BASIS FOR INCREASES IN NEOPLASIA. THEIR CHEMICAL STRUCTURE IS SUCH THAT THEY DO NOT GIVE RISE TO A REACTIVE ELECTROPHILE. THE TESTING METHODOLOGIES TO IDENTIFY EITHER TYPE FOLLOW A DECISION POINT APPROACH DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CARCINOGENICITY AND YIELD MECHANISTIC INFORMATION ON THE PRODUCTION OF EFFECTS THAT UNDERLIE CARCINOGENICITY. IT HAS 5 STAGES FOCUSING ON THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE, DNA-REACTIVITY, EPIGENETIC EFFECTS, LIMITED BIOASSAYS AND FINALLY THE APPLICATION OF THE ACCELERATED BIOASSAY (ABA). ABA REQUIRES 40 WEEKS AND APPLIES THE USE OF SENSITIVE MARKERS FOR INDUCTION OF NEOPLASIA IN COMPARISON TO POSITIVE CONTROL COMPOUNDS FOR IMPORTANT ORGANS IN HUMAN CARCINOGENESIS. IT ENABLES DATA ACQUISITION OF THE ENTIRE CARCINOGENIC PROCESS DIRECTED TOWARD DEVELOPING MECHANISTIC INFORMATION. THE ABA HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REPLACE THE CHRONIC BIOASSAY IN RODENTS IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES AND CAN SERVE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO A CHRONIC BIOASSAY IN A SECOND SPECIES.	1996	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
4  4015  52 LOW-DOSE EXPOSURE TO BISPHENOLS A, F AND S OF HUMAN PRIMARY ADIPOCYTE IMPACTS CODING AND NON-CODING RNA PROFILES. BISPHENOL A (BPA) EXPOSURE HAS BEEN SUSPECTED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH DELETERIOUS EFFECTS ON HEALTH INCLUDING OBESITY AND METABOLICALLY-LINKED DISEASES. ALTHOUGH BISPHENOLS F (BPF) AND S (BPS) ARE BPA STRUCTURAL ANALOGS COMMONLY USED IN MANY MARKETED PRODUCTS AS A REPLACEMENT FOR BPA, ONLY SPARSE TOXICOLOGICAL DATA ARE AVAILABLE YET. OUR OBJECTIVE WAS TO COMPREHENSIVELY CHARACTERIZE BISPHENOLS GENE TARGETS IN A HUMAN PRIMARY ADIPOCYTE MODEL, IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY MAY INDUCE CELLULAR DYSFUNCTION, USING CHRONIC EXPOSURE AT TWO CONCENTRATIONS: A "LOW-DOSE" SIMILAR TO THE DOSE USUALLY ENCOUNTERED IN HUMAN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS AND A HIGHER DOSE. THEREFORE, BPA, BPF AND BPS HAVE BEEN ADDED AT 10 NM OR 10 MUM DURING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN PRIMARY ADIPOCYTES FROM SUBCUTANEOUS FAT OF THREE NON-DIABETIC CAUCASIAN FEMALE PATIENTS. GENE EXPRESSION (MRNA/LNCRNA) ARRAYS AND MICRORNA ARRAYS, HAVE BEEN USED TO ASSESS CODING AND NON-CODING RNA CHANGES. WE DETECTED SIGNIFICANTLY DEREGULATED MRNA/LNCRNA AND MIRNA AT LOW AND HIGH DOSES. ENRICHMENT IN "CANCER" AND "ORGANISMAL INJURY AND ABNORMALITIES" RELATED PATHWAYS WAS FOUND IN RESPONSE TO THE THREE PRODUCTS. SOME LONG INTERGENIC NON-CODING RNAS AND SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNAS WERE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED SUGGESTING THAT BISPHENOLS MAY ALSO ACTIVATE MULTIPLE CELLULAR PROCESSES AND EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. THE ANALYSIS OF UPSTREAM REGULATORS OF DEREGULATED GENES HIGHLIGHTED HORMONES OR HORMONE-LIKE CHEMICALS SUGGESTING THAT BPS AND BPF CAN BE SUSPECTED TO INTERFERE, JUST LIKE BPA, WITH HORMONAL REGULATION AND HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED AS ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS. ALL THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT AS BPA, ITS SUBSTITUTES BPS AND BPF SHOULD BE USED WITH THE SAME RESTRICTIONS.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
5   837  81 CHEMICALLY INDUCED RENAL TUBULE TUMORS IN THE LABORATORY RAT AND MOUSE: REVIEW OF THE NCI/NTP DATABASE AND CATEGORIZATION OF RENAL CARCINOGENS BASED ON MECHANISTIC INFORMATION. THE INCIDENCE OF RENAL TUBULE CARCINOGENESIS IN MALE AND FEMALE RATS OR MICE WITH 69 CHEMICALS FROM THE 513 BIOASSAYS CONDUCTED TO DATE BY THE NCI/NTP HAS BEEN COLLATED, THE CHEMICALS CATEGORIZED, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CARCINOGENESIS AND RENAL TUBULE HYPERPLASIA AND EXACERBATION OF THE SPONTANEOUS, AGE-RELATED RODENT DISEASE CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE NEPHROPATHY (CPN) EXAMINED. WHERE INFORMATION ON MECHANISM OR MODE OF ACTION EXISTS, THE CHEMICALS HAVE BEEN CATEGORIZED BASED ON THEIR ABILITY TO DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY INTERACT WITH RENAL DNA, OR ON THEIR ACTIVITY VIA EPIGENETIC PATHWAYS INVOLVING EITHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT CYTOTOXICITY WITH REGENERATIVE HYPERPLASIA, OR EXACERBATION OF CPN. NINE CHEMICALS WERE IDENTIFIED AS DIRECTLY INTERACTING WITH DNA, WITH SIX OF THESE PRODUCING RENAL TUBULE TUMORS AT HIGH INCIDENCE IN RATS OF BOTH SEXES, AND IN SOME CASES ALSO IN MICE. OCHRATOXIN A WAS THE MOST POTENT COMPOUND IN THIS GROUP, PRODUCING A HIGH TUMOR INCIDENCE AT VERY LOW DOSES, OFTEN WITH METASTASIS. THREE CHEMICALS WERE DISCUSSED IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIRECT DNA DAMAGE MEDIATED BY AN OXIDATIVE FREE RADICAL MECHANISM, ONE OF THESE BEING FROM THE NTP DATABASE. A THIRD CATEGORY INCLUDED FOUR CHEMICALS THAT HAD THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE DNA DAMAGE FOLLOWING CONJUGATION WITH GLUTATHIONE AND SUBSEQUENT ENZYMATIC ACTIVATION TO A REACTIVE SPECIES, USUALLY A THIOL-CONTAINING ENTITY. TWO CHEMICALS WERE ALLOCATED INTO THE CATEGORY INVOLVING A DIRECT CYTOTOXIC ACTION ON THE RENAL TUBULE FOLLOWED BY SUSTAINED COMPENSATORY CELL PROLIFERATION, WHILE NINE WERE INCLUDED IN A GROUP WHERE THE CELL LOSS AND SUSTAINED INCREASE IN RENAL TUBULE CELL TURNOVER WERE DEPENDENT ON LYSOSOMAL ACCUMULATION OF THE MALE RAT-SPECIFIC PROTEIN, ALPHA2MU-GLOBULIN. IN A SIXTH CATEGORY, MORPHOLOGIC EVIDENCE ON TWO CHEMICALS INDICATED THAT THE RENAL TUMORS WERE A CONSEQUENCE OF EXACERBATED CPN. FOR THE REMAINING CHEMICALS, THERE WERE NO PERTINENT DATA ENABLING ASSIGNMENT TO A MECHANISTIC CATEGORY. ACCORDINGLY, THESE CHEMICALS, ACTING THROUGH AN AS YET UNKNOWN MECHANISM, WERE GROUPED AS EITHER BEING ASSOCIATED WITH AN ENHANCEMENT OF CPN (CATEGORY 7, 16 CHEMICALS), OR NOT ASSOCIATED WITH ENHANCED CPN (CATEGORY 8, 4 CHEMICALS). A NINTH CATEGORY DEALT WITH 11 CHEMICALS THAT WERE REGARDED AS PRODUCING INCREASES IN RENAL TUBULE TUMORS THAT DID NOT REACH STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE. A 10TH CATEGORY DISCUSSED 6 CHEMICALS THAT INDUCED RENAL TUMORS IN MICE BUT NOT IN RATS, PLUS 8 CHEMICALS THAT PRODUCED A LOW INCIDENCE OF RENAL TUBULE TUMORS IN MICE THAT DID NOT REACH STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE. AS MORE MECHANISTIC DATA ARE GENERATED, SOME CHEMICALS WILL INEVITABLY BE PLACED IN DIFFERENT GROUPS, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM CATEGORIES 7 AND 8. A LARGE NUMBER OF CHEMICALS IN THE SERIES EXACERBATED CPN, BUT THOSE IN CATEGORY 7 ESPECIALLY MAY BE CANDIDATES FOR INCLUSION IN CATEGORY 6 WHEN FURTHER INFORMATION IS GLEANED FROM THE RELEVANT NTP STUDIES. ALSO, NEW DATA ON SPECIFIC CHEMICALS WILL PROBABLY EXPAND CATEGORY 5 AS CYTOTOXICITY AND CELL REGENERATION ARE IDENTIFIED AS OBLIGATORY STEPS IN RENAL CARCINOGENESIS IN MORE CASES. ADDITIONAL CONFIRMATORY OUTCOMES ARISING FROM THIS REVIEW ARE THAT METASTASES FROM RENAL TUBULE TUMORS, WHILE ENCOUNTERED WITH CHEMICALS CAUSING DNA DAMAGE, ARE RARE WITH THOSE ACTING THROUGH AN EPIGENETIC PATHWAY, WITH THE EXCEPTION BEING FUMONISIN B1; THAT MALE RATS AND MICE ARE GENERALLY MORE SUSCEPTIBLE THAN FEMALE RATS AND MICE TO CHEMICAL INDUCTION OF RENAL TUBULE TUMORS; AND THAT A BACKGROUND OF ATYPICAL TUBULE HYPERPLASIA IS A USEFUL INDICATOR REFLECTING A CHEMICALLY ASSOCIATED RENAL TUBULE TUMOR RESPONSE. WITH RESPECT TO RENAL TUBULE TUMORS AND HUMAN RISK ASSESSMENT, CHEMICALS IN CATEGORIES 1 AND 2, AND POSSIBLY 3, WOULD CURRENTLY BE JUDGED BY LINEAR DEFAULT METHODS; CHEMICALS IN CATEGORY 4 (AND PROBABLY SOME IN CATEGORY 3) AS EXHIBITING A THRESHOLD OF ACTIVITY WARRANTING THE BENCHMARK APPROACH; AND THOSE IN CATEGORIES 5 AND 6 AS REPRESENTING MECHANISMS THAT HAVE NO RELEVANCE FOR EXTRAPOLATION TO HUMANS.	2004	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
6  5057  47 PHENOBARBITAL MECHANISTIC DATA AND RISK ASSESSMENT: ENZYME INDUCTION, ENHANCED CELL PROLIFERATION, AND TUMOR PROMOTION. CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO HIGH DOSES OF PHENOBARBITAL (PB) CAUSES HEPATOCELLULAR ADENOMAS IN BOTH MICE AND RATS AND HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAS IN SOME STRAINS OF MICE. LONG-TERM PB THERAPY HAS NOT BEEN FOUND TO CAUSE HUMAN TUMORS. PB IS NOT DNA REACTIVE, AND MOST GENOTOXICITY TESTS HAVE YIELDED NEGATIVE RESULTS. PB HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY STUDIED AS AN EPIGENETIC, RODENT LIVER TUMOR PROMOTER. AT EXPOSURES CAUSING RODENT LIVER TUMORS, PB HAS MEASURABLE EFFECTS ON HEPATOCYTES: PB INHIBITS CELL-TO-CELL COMMUNICATION; PB INDUCES ENZYMES, INCLUDING P450 CYTOCHROMES; PB STIMULATES PROLIFERATION AND INHIBITS APOPTOSIS OF HEPATOCYTES IN NEOPLASTIC FOCI. THRESHOLD EXPOSURES FOR SOME OF THESE ENDPOINTS COINCIDE WITH THE THRESHOLD EXPOSURE FOR TUMORIGENESIS.	1996	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
7  2940  46 GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS IN NORMAL AND SENSITIVE COPD-DISEASED HUMAN BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS REPEATEDLY EXPOSED TO AIR POLLUTION-DERIVED PM(2.5). EVEN THOUGH CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES HAVE PROGRESSIVELY PROVIDED A BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS BY WHICH AIR POLLUTION-DERIVED PARTICULATE MATTER (PM) EXERTS ITS HARMFUL HEALTH EFFECTS, FURTHER IN VITRO STUDIES ON RELEVANT CELL SYSTEMS ARE STILL NEEDED. HENCE, AIMING OF GETTING CLOSER TO THE HUMAN IN VIVO CONDITIONS, PRIMARY HUMAN BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS DERIVED FROM NORMAL SUBJECTS (NHBE) OR SENSITIVE CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)-DISEASED PATIENTS (DHBE) WERE DIFFERENTIATED AT THE AIR-LIQUID INTERFACE. THEREAFTER, THEY WERE REPEATEDLY EXPOSED TO AIR POLLUTION-DERIVED PM(2.5) TO STUDY THE OCCURRENCE OF SOME RELEVANT GENETIC AND/OR EPIGENETIC ENDPOINTS. CONCENTRATION-, EXPOSURE- AND SEASON-DEPENDENT INCREASES OF OH-B[A]P METABOLITES IN NHBE, AND TO A LESSER EXTENT, COPD-DHBE CELLS WERE REPORTED; HOWEVER, THERE WERE MORE TETRA-OH-B[A]P AND 8-OHDG DNA ADDUCTS IN COPD-DHBE CELLS. NO INCREASE IN PRIMARY DNA STRAND BREAK NOR CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATION WAS OBSERVED IN REPEATEDLY EXPOSED CELLS. TELOMERE LENGTH AND TELOMERASE ACTIVITY WERE MODIFIED IN A CONCENTRATION- AND EXPOSURE-DEPENDENT MANNER IN NHBE AND PARTICULARLY COPD-DHBE CELLS. THERE WERE A GLOBAL DNA HYPOMETHYLATION, A P16 GENE PROMOTER HYPERMETHYLATION, AND A DECREASING DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY IN NHBE AND NOTABLY COPD-DHBE CELLS REPEATEDLY EXPOSED. CHANGES IN SITE-SPECIFIC METHYLATION, ACETYLATION, AND PHOSPHORYLATION OF HISTONE H3 (I.E., H3K4ME3, H3K9AC, H3K27AC, AND H3S10PH) AND RELATED ENZYME ACTIVITIES OCCURRED IN A CONCENTRATION- AND EXPOSURE-DEPENDENT MANNER IN ALL THE REPEATEDLY EXPOSED CELLS. COLLECTIVELY, THESE RESULTS HIGHLIGHTED THE KEY ROLE PLAYED BY GENETIC AND EVEN EPIGENETIC EVENTS IN NHBE AND PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE COPD-DHBE CELLS REPEATEDLY EXPOSED TO AIR POLLUTION-DERIVED PM(2.5) AND THEIR DIFFERENT RESPONSIVENESS. WHILE THESE SPECIFIC EPIGENETIC CHANGES HAVE BEEN ALREADY DESCRIBED IN COPD AND EVEN LUNG CANCER PHENOTYPES, OUR FINDINGS SUPPORTED THAT, TOGETHER WITH GENETIC EVENTS, THESE EPIGENETIC EVENTS COULD DRAMATICALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE SHIFT FROM HEALTHY TO DISEASED PHENOTYPES FOLLOWING REPEATED EXPOSURE TO RELATIVELY LOW DOSES OF AIR POLLUTION-DERIVED PM(2.5).	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
8  5243  27 PROGNOSTIC IMPACT OF EPIGENETIC CLASSIFICATION IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA: THE CASE OF SUBSET #2. BASED ON THE METHYLATION STATUS OF 5 SINGLE CPG SITES, A NOVEL EPIGENETIC CLASSIFICATION OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) WAS RECENTLY PROPOSED, CLASSIFYING CLL PATIENTS INTO 3 CLINICO-BIOLOGICAL SUBGROUPS WITH DIFFERENT OUTCOME, TERMED MEMORY LIKE CLL (M-CLL), NAIVE LIKE CLL (N-CLL), AND A THIRD INTERMEDIATE CLL SUBGROUP (I-CLL). WHILE M-CLL AND N-CLL PATIENTS AT LARGE CORRESPONDED TO PATIENTS CARRYING MUTATED AND UNMUTATED IGHV GENES, RESPECTIVELY, LIMITED INFORMATION EXISTS REGARDING THE LESS DEFINED I-CLL GROUP. USING PYROSEQUENCING, WE INVESTIGATED THE PROGNOSTIC IMPACT OF THE PROPOSED 5 CPG SIGNATURE IN A WELL-CHARACTERIZED CLL COHORT (135 CASES), INCLUDING IGHV-MUTATED AND UNMUTATED PATIENTS AS WELL AS CLINICALLY AGGRESSIVE STEREOTYPED SUBSET #2 PATIENTS. OVERALL, WE CONFIRMED THE SIGNATURE'S ASSOCIATION WITH ESTABLISHED PROGNOSTIC MARKERS. MOREOVER, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE IGHV MUTATIONAL STATUS, THE EPIGENETIC SIGNATURE REMAINED INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH BOTH TIME-TO-FIRST-TREATMENT AND OVERALL SURVIVAL IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES. AS A PRIME FINDING, WE OBSERVED THAT SUBSET #2 PATIENTS WERE PREDOMINANTLY CLASSIFIED AS I-CLL, PROBABLY REFLECTING THEIR BORDERLINE IGHV MUTATIONAL STATUS (97-99% GERMLINE IDENTITY), THOUGH HAVING A SIMILARLY POOR PROGNOSIS AS N-CLL PATIENTS. IN SUMMARY, WE VALIDATED THE EPIGENETIC CLASSIFIER AS AN INDEPENDENT FACTOR IN CLL PROGNOSTICATION AND PROVIDE FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT SUBSET #2 IS A MEMBER OF THE I-CLL GROUP, HENCE SUPPORTING THE EXISTENCE OF A THIRD, INTERMEDIATE EPIGENETIC SUBGROUP.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
9  4491  44 MONOSOMY 7 MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE IN CHILDREN WITH NEUROFIBROMATOSIS, TYPE 1: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR ANALYSIS. LOSS OF CONSTITUTIONAL HETEROZYGOSITY IS A COMMON MOLECULAR FEATURE OF CANCERS IN WHICH INACTIVATION OF ONE OR MORE TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES IS THOUGHT TO CONTRIBUTE TO TUMORIGENESIS. RECENT EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE GENE RESPONSIBLE FOR NEUROFIBROMATOSIS, TYPE 1 (NF-1), BELONGS TO THIS CLASS OF HERITABLE CANCER GENES. CHILDREN WITH NF-1 SHOW AN INCREASED INCIDENCE OF MYELOID LEUKEMIA, INCLUDING JUVENILE CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA (JCML) AND, PERHAPS, THE MYELOPROLIFERATIVE SYNDROME (MPS) ASSOCIATED WITH BONE MARROW MONOSOMY 7 (MO 7). WE HAVE INVESTIGATED FIVE CHILDREN WITH MO 7: THREE WITH NF-1 AND TWO OTHERS WITH SUGGESTIVE EVIDENCE OF NF-1. SOUTHERN BLOTTING EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED IN FOUR PATIENTS SHOWED NO LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY IN BONE MARROW SPECIMENS USING PROBES LINKED TO THE NF-1 LOCUS ON THE LONG ARM OF CHROMOSOME 17. BOTH OF OUR PATIENTS WITH FAMILIAL NF-1 INHERITED THE DISEASE FROM THEIR MOTHERS, AS DID 14 OF 19 OTHER CASES OF MYELOID LEUKEMIA IN CHILDREN WITH FAMILIAL NF-1. SEVENTEEN OF THESE 21 CHILDREN WERE BOYS. MYELOID LEUKEMIA DEVELOPED IN 12 BOYS AND FOUR GIRLS WHO INHERITED NF-1 FROM THEIR MOTHERS, AND IN FIVE BOYS WHO INHERITED THE DISEASE FROM THEIR FATHERS. FATHER-TO-DAUGHTER TRANSMISSION WAS NOT OBSERVED. TAKEN TOGETHER, THE PRESENCE OF CHROMOSOME 7 DELETIONS IN THE LEUKEMIAS OF CHILDREN WITH NF-1, A PATTERN OF INHERITANCE FAVORING MATERNAL TRANSMISSION OF NF-1, AND THE MARKED PREDILECTION FOR BOYS TO DEVELOP JCML AND MO 7 SUGGEST A MULTISTEP MECHANISM OF ONCOGENESIS IN WHICH EPIGENETIC FACTORS MIGHT PLAY A ROLE. FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS REQUIRED TO DETERMINE IF THE NF-1 GENES IN THE LEUKEMIC BONE MARROWS OF THESE PATIENTS HAVE ACQUIRED POINT MUTATIONS OR SMALL DELETIONS.	1992	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
10   745  68 CANNABIS ALTERS EPIGENETIC INTEGRITY AND ENDOCANNABINOID SIGNALLING IN THE HUMAN FOLLICULAR NICHE. STUDY QUESTION: DO PHYTOCANNABINOIDS (PCS) AFFECT FOLLICULAR ENDOCANNABINOID SIGNALLING AND THE EPIGENOME IN THE SURROUNDING GRANULOSA CELLS (GCS)? SUMMARY ANSWER: EXPOSURE TO PCS INCREASES THE EXPRESSION OF ENDOCANNABINOID RECEPTORS AND REDUCES DNA METHYLATION ENZYME EXPRESSION AND GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION IN NAIVE GCS. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: CANNABIS PLANT DERIVATIVES, KNOWN AS PCS, ARE USED FOR MEDICINAL AND RECREATIONAL PURPOSES. THE MAIN PC, TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL (THC), IS THE THIRD MOST COMMONLY USED SUBSTANCE BY WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE, HENCE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EFFECT IT HAS ON REPRODUCTION IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE. THC EXERTS ITS EFFECTS VIA RECEPTORS OF THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM (ECS) AND CAN INTERFERE WITH FOLLICULOGENESIS, OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT AND OVULATION. ENDOCANNABINOIDS HAVE BEEN MEASURED IN FOLLICULAR FLUID (FF) OBTAINED DURING OOCYTE RETRIEVAL AND ARE IMPLICATED IN CONTROLLING FOLLICULOGENESIS. IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT IN THE PLACENTA, PCS DISRUPT ENDOCANNABINOID HOMEOSTASIS VIA IMPAIRMENT OF THE SYNTHETIC AND DEGRADING ENZYMES, LEADING TO A NET INCREASE OF ENDOCANNABINOID LEVELS. FINALLY, PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THC ALTERS METHYLATION AND HISTONE MODIFICATIONS IN SPERM, BRAIN AND BLOOD CELLS. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION: THIS STUDY INCLUDED AN IN VIVO COHORT ASSESSMENT OF CANNABIS EXPOSURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE FOLLICLE AND IN VITRO ASSAYS CONDUCTED TO VALIDATE THE IN VIVO FINDINGS AND TO EXPLORE POSSIBLE MECHANISMS OF ACTION. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS: A TOTAL OF 318 FF SAMPLES, FROM 261 PATIENTS UNDERGOING IVF TREATMENT AT A PRIVATE FERTILITY CLINIC WHO CONSENTED FOR BIOBANKING BIOLOGICAL WASTE MATERIAL BETWEEN JANUARY 2018 AND JULY 2019, WERE INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY. CONCENTRATIONS OF PCS AND ENDOCANNABINOIDS WERE ASSESSED IN FF BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY (LC-MS/MS). EXPOSURE TO PCS WAS DETERMINED BASED ON THESE MEASURED LEVELS. LEVELS OF BOTH ENDOCANNABINOID RECEPTORS (CB1R, CB2R) AND THE DE NOVO DNA METHYLATING ENZYME, DNMT3B, IN GCS WERE ASSESSED BY FLOW CYTOMETRY BOTH IN VITRO AND IN VIVO AND GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION WAS ASSESSED IN VITRO BY ELISA. IN VIVO EFFECTS WERE ASSESSED BY COMPARING SAMPLES POSITIVE FOR AT LEAST ONE PC, WITH SAMPLES NEGATIVE FOR ALL MEASURED PCS. IN VITRO EFFECTS WERE DETERMINED IN NAIVE GCS, OBTAINED CONCURRENTLY WITH FF SAMPLES THAT HAD TESTED NEGATIVE FOR ALL PCS. THESE GCS WERE TREATED WITH DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF THE MAIN THREE PCS. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE: OVERALL, 17 PATIENTS (6.4%) WERE POSITIVE FOR CANNABIS CONSUMPTION. FURTHERMORE, THE PREVALENCE OF CANNABIS POSITIVITY IN THE FF INCREASED FROM 4% OF THE TESTED SAMPLES THAT WERE COLLECTED PRIOR TO NATIONAL LEGALISATION IN OCTOBER 2018 TO 12% OF THOSE COLLECTED FOLLOWING LEGALISATION. OF NOTE, 59% OF PATIENTS WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR PCS (10 OF 17) REPORTED PREVIOUS OR ONGOING EXPOSURE TO CANNABIS UPON THEIR INITIAL INTAKE. ENDOCANNABINOID LEVELS WERE NOT AFFECTED BY THE PRESENCE OF PCS. CB2R WAS MORE PREVALENT THAN CB1R IN GCS AND ITS EXPRESSION INCREASED FOLLOWING ACUTE AND CHRONIC IN VITRO EXPOSURE TO PCS. THE EXPRESSION OF DNMT3B AND GLOBAL METHYLATION DECREASED FOLLOWING EXPOSURE, SUGGESTING THAT CANNABIS MAY AFFECT THE EPIGENOME IN THE FOLLICULAR NICHE. THE ACUTE CHANGES WERE SUSTAINED THROUGHOUT CHRONIC TREATMENT. LARGE SCALE DATA: N/A. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION: OUR STUDY IS LIMITED BY LACK OF DETAILS REGARDING MODE, FREQUENCY AND TIMING OF PC CONSUMPTION. MOREOVER, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO ADEQUATELY ASSESS THE EFFECT OF PCS ON IMMEDIATE OR LONG-TERM CLINICAL OUTCOMES, DUE TO THE SMALL SAMPLE SIZE AND THE LACK OF FOLLOW UP. FUTURE, LARGE-SCALE STUDIES SHOULD FOCUS ON ASSESS THE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CANNABIS EXPOSURE, VALIDATE OUR FINDINGS, AND DETERMINE TO WHAT EXTENT CANNABIS AFFECTS THE EPIGENOME OVARIAN FOLLICLE AND THE DEVELOPING OOCYTE. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS: TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, THIS IS THE FIRST STUDY MEASURING PCS IN FF BY LC-MS/MS. WE SHOW THAT CONSUMING CANNABIS ALTERS THE ECS IN THE DEVELOPING FOLLICLE, AND DIRECTLY AFFECTS DNMT EXPRESSION AND GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION LEVELS. CANNABIS LEGALISATION AND USE IS INCREASING WORLDWIDE, THEREFORE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING ITS ROLE IN FEMALE FERTILITY AND FOLLICULOGENESIS IS CRITICAL. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S): ALL FUNDING WAS PROVIDED BY CREATE FERTILITY CENTRE THROUGH THE REINVESTMENT OF CLINICAL EARNINGS. THE AUTHORS DECLARE NO COMPETING INTERESTS.	2021	

11  3803  60 INTESTINAL METAPLASIA OF THE STOMACH. A STATUS REPORT. INTESTINAL METAPLASIA IN THE STOMACH INCREASES THE RISK OF GASTRIC CANCER, AND THE INCREASED RISK IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE EXTENT OF THE METAPLASIA. THIS RISK COULD BE GENERATED BY ONE OR MORE MECHANISMS: (1) THE METAPLASTIC TISSUE IS AN EARLY STEP IN A MULTISTEP INDUCTION PROCESS; (2) THE METAPLASTIC TISSUE IS AN EPIGENETIC CHANGE THAT RAISES THE PH OF GASTRIC JUICE BY REPLACING OXYNTIC MUCOSA, FAVORING THE GROWTH OF A BACTERIA CAPABLE OF GENERATING ENDOGENOUS MUTAGENS; AND/OR (3) THE METAPLASIA IS ONLY A MARKER FOR CHRONIC GASTRITIS DUE TO H. PYLORI INFECTION OR PERNICIOUS ANEMIA. WITH THE LAST MECHANISM, THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE FAVORS INTRAMURAL MUTAGENESIS THAT MIGHT RESULT IN METAPLASIA OR NEOPLASIA AS INDEPENDENT EVENTS. FINDING GENE REARRANGEMENTS COMMON TO BOTH METAPLASTIC AND NEOPLASTIC TISSUE MAY ESTABLISH A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN THEM, BUT TOO FEW HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE LARGE NUMBER OF STOMACH CANCERS THAT DEVELOP IN HIGH RISK POPULATIONS. HISTOCHEMICAL AND IMMUNOCHEMICAL STAINS THAT IDENTIFY ENZYMES OR MUCOSUBSTANCES MAY SUGGEST THAT METAPLASTIC EPITHELIAL CELLS RESEMBLE SMALL OR LARGE INTESTINAL CELLS, BUT THEY ARE DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT FROM BOTH. MOREOVER, THESE STAINS DO NOT INDICATE WHETHER A GIVEN CYTOLOGIC CHANGE IS GENETIC OR EPIGENETIC; THEREFORE, THEY CANNOT BE USED TO DEFINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METAPLASIA AND NEOPLASIA. IT IS UNNECESSARY FOR PRACTICING PHYSICIANS TO AWAIT RESOLUTION OF THIS QUESTION. IT CAN BE ASSUMED THAT ANY PERSON WITH EXTENSIVE METAPLASIA IS AT HIGH RISK FOR GASTRIC CANCER AND SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO PERIODIC SCREENING. THE EXTENT OF THE METAPLASTIC PROCESS IS PROBABLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE METAPLASTIC SUBTYPE.	1994	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
12  4010  33 LOW MATERNAL ADHERENCE TO A MEDITERRANEAN DIET IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASE IN METHYLATION AT THE MEG3-IG DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGION IN FEMALE INFANTS. DIET IS DICTATED BY THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT, AS FOOD ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY MAY CHANGE DEPENDING ON WHERE ONE LIVES. MATERNAL DIET DURING PREGNANCY IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE IN UTERO ENVIRONMENT, AND MAY AFFECT THE EPIGENOME. STUDIES LOOKING AT OVERALL DIET PATTERN IN RELATION TO DNA METHYLATION HAVE BEEN LACKING. THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET IS KNOWN FOR ITS HEALTH BENEFITS, INCLUDING DECREASED INFLAMMATION, WEIGHT LOSS, AND MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES. THIS STUDY ASSESSES THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MATERNAL ADHERENCE TO A MEDITERRANEAN DIET PATTERN DURING PREGNANCY AND INFANT DNA METHYLATION AT BIRTH. MEDITERRANEAN DIET ADHERENCE IN EARLY PREGNANCY WAS MEASURED IN 390 WOMEN ENROLLED IN THE NEWBORN EPIGENETIC STUDY, AND DNA METHYLATION WAS ASSESSED IN THEIR INFANTS AT BIRTH. MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION WAS USED TO ASSESS THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ADHERENCE TO A MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND INFANT METHYLATION AT THE MEG3, MEG3-IG, PLEIOMORPHIC ADENOMA GENE-LIKE 1, INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 2 GENE, H19, MESODERM-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT, NEURONATIN, PATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 3, SARCOGLYCAN AND PATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 10 REGIONS, MEASURED BY PYROSEQUENCING. INFANTS OF MOTHERS WITH A LOW ADHERENCE TO A MEDITERRANEAN DIET HAD A GREATER ODDS OF HYPO-METHYLATION AT THE MEG3-IG DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGION (DMR). SEX-STRATIFIED MODELS SHOWED THAT THIS ASSOCIATION WAS PRESENT IN GIRLS ONLY. THIS STUDY PROVIDES EARLY EVIDENCE ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OVERALL DIET PATTERN AND METHYLATION AT THE 9 DMRS INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY, AND SUGGESTS THAT MATERNAL DIET CAN HAVE A SEX-SPECIFIC IMPACT ON INFANT DNA METHYLATION AT SPECIFIC IMPRINTED DMRS.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
13  6742  57 WHITHER THE ETIOPATHOGENESIS (AND SCOLIOGENY) OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS? ALTHOUGH CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE IN THE PAST TWO DECADES IN UNDERSTANDING THE ETIOPATHOGENESIS OF ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS (AIS), IT STILL LACKS AN AGREED THEORY OF ETIOPATHOGENESIS. ONE PROBLEM MAY BE THAT AIS RESULTS NOT FROM ONE CAUSE, BUT SEVERAL THAT INTERACT WITH VARIOUS GENETIC PREDISPOSING FACTORS. THERE IS A VIEW THERE ARE TWO OTHER PATHOGENIC PROCESSES FOR IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS NAMELY, INITIATING (OR INDUCING), AND THOSE THAT CAUSE CURVE PROGRESSION. TWIN STUDIES AND OBSERVATIONS OF FAMILY AGGREGATION HAVE REVEALED SIGNIFICANT GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS, THAT PLACE AIS AMONG OTHER COMMON DISEASE OR COMPLEX TRAITS WITH A HIGH HERITABILITY INTERPRETED BY THE GENETIC VARIANT HYPOTHESIS OF DISEASE. WE SUMMARIZE ETIOPATHOGENETIC KNOWLEDGE OF AIS AS THEORIES OF PATHOGENESIS INCLUDING RECENT MULTIPLE CONCEPTS, AND BLOOD TESTS FOR AIS BASED ON PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS AND GENETIC VARIANTS THAT SIGNIFY DISEASE RISK. THERE IS INCREASING EVIDENCE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF AN UNDERLYING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER FOR AIS, RESEARCH WHICH HOLDS PROMISE. LIKE BRAIN RESEARCH, MOST AIS WORKERS FOCUS ON THEIR OWN CORNER AND THERE IS A NEED FOR GREATER INTEGRATION OF RESEARCH EFFORT. EPIGENETICS, A RELATIVELY RECENT FIELD, EVALUATES FACTORS CONCERNED WITH GENE EXPRESSION IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENT, DISEASE, NORMAL DEVELOPMENT AND AGING, WITH A COMPLEX REGULATION ACROSS THE GENOME DURING THE FIRST DECADE OF LIFE. RESEARCH ON THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, EPIGENETICS AND CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDS) INCLUDING ADIPOSITY, AFTER A SLOW START, HAS EXPLODED IN THE LAST DECADE. NOT SO FOR AIS RESEARCH AND THE ENVIRONMENT WHERE, EXCEPT FOR MONOZYGOTIC TWIN STUDIES, THERE ARE ONLY SPORADIC REPORTS TO SUGGEST THAT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ARE AT WORK IN ETIOLOGY. HERE, WE EXAMINE EPIGENETIC CONCEPTS AS THEY MAY RELATE TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, NORMAL LIFE HISTORY PHASES AND AIS PATHOGENESIS. ALTHOUGH AIS IS NOT REGARDED AS AN NCD, LIKE THEM, IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH WHOLE ORGANISM METABOLIC PHENOMENA, INCLUDING LOWER BODY MASS INDEX, LOWER CIRCULATING LEPTIN LEVELS AND OTHER SYSTEMIC DISORDERS. SOME EPIGENETIC RESEARCH APPLIED TO SILVER-RUSSELL SYNDROME AND ADIPOSITY IS EXAMINED, FROM WHICH SUGGESTIONS ARE MADE FOR CONSIDERATION OF AIS EPIGENETIC RESEARCH, CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL. THE WORD SCOLIOGENY IS SUGGESTED TO INCLUDE ETIOLOGY, PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOMECHANISM.	2012	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
14  5010  51 PEROXIDATION OF LINOLEIC, ARACHIDONIC AND OLEIC ACID IN RELATION TO THE INDUCTION OF OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE AND CYTOGENETIC EFFECTS. IN THE PRESENT STUDY, THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF THE POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS LINOLEIC AND ARACHIDONIC ACID IN THE CHEMICAL INDUCTION OF CARCINOGENESIS HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED. ANALYSIS OF 7,8-DIHYDRO-8-OXO-2'-DEOXYGUANOSINE (8-OXODG) LEVELS IN 2'-DEOXYGUANOSINE (DG) AND ISOLATED DNA HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT LINOLEIC AND ARACHIDONIC ACID ARE CAPABLE OF INDUCING THIS SPECIFIC GENOTOXIC DAMAGE. THIS EFFECT APPEARS TO BE RELATED TO THE DEGREE OF FATTY ACID UNSATURATION, SINCE IT WAS NOT INDUCED BY MONOUNSATURATED OLEIC ACID. ENZYMATIC PEROXIDATION OF LINOLEIC AND ARACHIDONIC ACID RESULTED IN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE. STUDIES ON THE INTERFERENCE OF RADICAL SCAVENGERS WITH THE INDUCTION OF 8-OXODG IN COMBINATION WITH ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY DEMONSTRATED THAT THE SUPEROXIDE ANION WAS GENERATED DURING PEROXIDATION OF THESE FATTY ACIDS AND THAT SINGLET OXYGEN IS MOST LIKELY INVOLVED IN THE FORMATION OF OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE. THE LEVEL OF OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN DG AND SINGLE-STRANDED DNA WAS HIGHER AS COMPARED TO THAT IN NATIVE DNA AFTER EQUIMOLAR TREATMENT. EXPOSURE OF HUMAN LYMPHOCYTES TO LINOLEIC OR ARACHIDONIC ACID DID NOT RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN LEVELS OF 8-OXODG. THIS MAY INDICATE THAT THE RATE OF INTRACELLULAR PEROXIDATION IS RELATIVELY LOW AND/OR THAT NUCLEAR DNA IN INTACT CELLS IS EFFECTIVELY PROTECTED AGAINST GENETIC DAMAGE INDUCED BY REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES. IT IS THEREFORE CONCLUDED THAT RELATIVELY SHORT PERIODS OF LINOLEIC OR ARACHIDONIC ACID ADMINISTRATION ARE NOT LIKELY TO IMPOSE A DIRECT GENOTOXIC RISK. IT CAN, HOWEVER, NOT BE EXCLUDED THAT CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS INDUCES OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE OR IS RELATED TO CANCER RISK BY EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, AS IS ALSO INDICATED BY THE OBSERVED CYTOTOXIC EFFECTS OF LINOLEIC AND ARACHIDONIC ACID.	1994	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
15  4062  51 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES AND AN INTEGRATED, LIFE-CYCLE APPROACH TO THE PREVENTION OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. DESCRIBED AS THE 'INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC', NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NCDS) ARE THE WORLD'S LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH. MOST ARE CAUSED BY PREVENTABLE FACTORS, INCLUDING POOR DIET, TOBACCO USE, HARMFUL USE OF ALCOHOL AND PHYSICAL INACTIVITY. DIABETES, CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR AND CHRONIC LUNG DISEASES WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR 38 MILLION (68%) OF GLOBAL DEATHS IN 2012. SINCE 1990, PROPORTIONATE NCD MORTALITY HAS INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY AS POPULATIONS HAVE AGED AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DECLINE. THE MAJORITY OF NCD DEATHS, ESPECIALLY PREMATURE NCD DEATHS (<70 YEARS, 82%), OCCUR IN LOW-INCOME AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES, AND AMONG POOR COMMUNITIES WITHIN THEM. ADDRESSING NCDS IS RECOGNISED AS CENTRAL TO THE POST-2015 AGENDA; ACCORDINGLY, NCDS HAVE A SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE AND TARGET IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS. WHILE DEATHS FROM NCDS OCCUR MAINLY IN ADULTHOOD, MANY HAVE THEIR ORIGINS IN EARLY LIFE, INCLUDING THROUGH EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS OPERATING BEFORE CONCEPTION. GOOD NUTRITION BEFORE CONCEPTION AND INTERVENTIONS AIMED AT PREVENTING NCDS DURING THE FIRST 1000 DAYS (FROM CONCEPTION TO AGE 2 YEARS), CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE MAY BE MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN MANAGING ESTABLISHED NCDS IN LATER LIFE WITH COSTLY TESTS AND DRUGS. FOLLOWING A LIFE-COURSE APPROACH, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, BEFORE DELIVERY AND DURING CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE, CAN PREVENT NCDS AND SHOULD INFLUENCE GLOBAL HEALTH AND SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THIS PAPER DESCRIBES HOW SUCH AN APPROACH MAY BE PURSUED, INCLUDING THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF NON-HEALTH SECTORS. IT ALSO EMPHASISES EVALUATING AND DOCUMENTING RELATED INITIATIVES TO UNDERWRITE SYSTEMATIC AND EVIDENCE-BASED CROSS-SECTORAL ENGAGEMENT ON NCD PREVENTION IN THE FUTURE.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
16  6307  33 THE REFERENCE EPIGENOME AND REGULATORY CHROMATIN LANDSCAPE OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA. CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) IS A FREQUENT HEMATOLOGICAL NEOPLASM IN WHICH UNDERLYING EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS ARE ONLY PARTIALLY UNDERSTOOD. HERE, WE ANALYZE THE REFERENCE EPIGENOME OF SEVEN PRIMARY CLLS AND THE REGULATORY CHROMATIN LANDSCAPE OF 107 PRIMARY CASES IN THE CONTEXT OF NORMAL B CELL DIFFERENTIATION. WE IDENTIFY THAT THE CLL CHROMATIN LANDSCAPE IS LARGELY INFLUENCED BY DISTINCT DYNAMICS DURING NORMAL B CELL MATURATION. BEYOND THIS, WE DEFINE EXTENSIVE CATALOGUES OF REGULATORY ELEMENTS DE NOVO REPROGRAMMED IN CLL AS A WHOLE AND IN ITS MAJOR CLINICO-BIOLOGICAL SUBTYPES CLASSIFIED BY IGHV SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION LEVELS. WE UNCOVER THAT IGHV-UNMUTATED CLLS HARBOR MORE ACTIVE AND OPEN CHROMATIN THAN IGHV-MUTATED CASES. FURTHERMORE, WE SHOW THAT DE NOVO ACTIVE REGIONS IN CLL ARE ENRICHED FOR NFAT, FOX AND TCF/LEF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FAMILY BINDING SITES. ALTHOUGH MOST GENETIC ALTERATIONS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH CONSISTENT EPIGENETIC PROFILES, CLLS WITH MYD88 MUTATIONS AND TRISOMY 12 SHOW DISTINCT CHROMATIN CONFIGURATIONS. FURTHERMORE, WE OBSERVE THAT NON-CODING MUTATIONS IN IGHV-MUTATED CLLS ARE ENRICHED IN H3K27AC-ASSOCIATED REGULATORY ELEMENTS OUTSIDE ACCESSIBLE CHROMATIN. OVERALL, THIS STUDY PROVIDES AN INTEGRATIVE PORTRAIT OF THE CLL EPIGENOME, IDENTIFIES EXTENSIVE NETWORKS OF ALTERED REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND SHEDS LIGHT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE DISEASE.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
17  3586  61 IMPACT OF THE POLYCARBONATE STRIPPERS USED IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNIQUES ON EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT. STUDY QUESTION: DO DAILY MANIPULATIONS OF PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS WITH POLYCARBONATE (PC)-MADE BISPHENOL A (BPA)-RELEASING STRIPPERS INFLUENCE EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT? SUMMARY ANSWER: COMPARED TO GLASS STRIPPERS, PC STRIPPERS ENHANCE THE BLASTOCYST DEVELOPMENT RATE BUT THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE BPA-RELATED. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: PC STRIPPERS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO RELEASE TINY AMOUNTS (AROUND 0.5 NG/ML BPA) OF BPA IN ROUTINE HUMAN IVF PROCEDURES. A CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO BPA EITHER IN VIVO OR IN VITRO DURING THE PREIMPLANTATION PERIOD CAN IMPACT POST-IMPLANTATION AND POST-NATAL DEVELOPMENT. BPA CAN ACT RAPIDLY BY BINDING TO MEMBRANE RECEPTORS AND INDUCING RAPID NON-GENOMIC EFFECTS. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION: THIS EXPERIMENTAL STUDY USING MOUSE EMBRYOS HAD A BALANCED DESIGN AND BLINDED EVALUATIONS OF THE ENDPOINTS. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS: IN VIVO FERTILIZED ZYGOTES WERE OBTAINED FROM OUTBRED SWISS CD1 MICE CROSSINGS AFTER AN OVARIAN STIMULATION. THE ZYGOTES WERE ALLOCATED TO THREE DAILY HANDLING CONDITIONS (HCS) AND CULTURED UNTIL DAY 4 IN A SINGLE HUMAN COMMERCIAL MEDIUM. EACH DAY, THE EMBRYOS WERE HANDLED FOR 20 S EITHER IN A PC STRIPPER (HC1) OR IN A GLASS STRIPPER (HC2). IN HC3, THE EMBRYOS WERE PRE-EXPOSED TO 0.5 NG/ML BPA BEFORE BEING HANDLED FOR 20 S IN A GLASS STRIPPER. HANDLING OPERATIONS WERE REPEATED ON DAYS 1, 2 AND 3. EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT WAS ASSESSED BLINDLY ON DAY 4. EXPANDED BLASTOCYSTS WERE SELECTED FOR A TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS USING AGILENT SUREPRINT G3 MOUSE GE V2 MICROARRAYS AND THE RETROTRANSPOSON LINE1-ORF2 EXPRESSION WAS ANALYSED USING QRT-PCR, AS A PROXY FOR A GLOBAL EVALUATION OF THE EPIGENETIC STATUS. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE: COMPARED TO THE EMBRYOS MANIPULATED IN HC2 (N = 243), THOSE IN HC1 (N = 228) DEVELOPED SIGNIFICANTLY MORE OFTEN TO THE BLASTOCYST STAGE (55 VS 46%; P < 0.05). IT APPEARS THE EFFECT OF THESE PC STRIPPERS WAS NOT BPA-RELATED BECAUSE EMBRYOS PRE-EXPOSED TO BPA (HC3, N = 230) SHOWED NO DIFFERENCE IN THE BLASTOCYST RATE WHEN COMPARED TO HC2 (43 VS 46%). WHEN ANALYSING SAME-STAGE BLASTOCYSTS, WE NOTICED NO DIFFERENCE IN THE EMBRYO GENE EXPRESSION BETWEEN THE THREE HC GROUPS. LARGE SCALE DATA: HTTPS://WWW.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV/GEO/QUERY/ACC.CGI?ACC=GSE148868. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION: OUR RESULTS USING A MOUSE MODEL DESIGNED TO MIMIC HUMAN CONDITIONS (OUTBRED STRAIN, HUMAN COMMERCIAL IVF DISHES AND A UNIQUE COMMERCIAL HUMAN EMBRYONIC CULTURE MEDIA) ARE REASSURING SINCE NO GENE WAS FOUND TO BE DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED, INCLUDING LINE-1 GENES, AS A PROXY FOR A GLOBAL EVALUATION OF THE EPIGENETIC STATUS. HOWEVER, NO GLOBAL EPIGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE GENOME HAS BEEN PERFORMED. FURTHERMORE, WE DID NOT EVALUATE POST-IMPLANTATION EVENTS, ALTHOUGH BPA EXPOSURE DURING PERI-CONCEPTION COULD AFFECT FOETO-PLACENTAL AND POST-NATAL DEVELOPMENT. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS: BASED ON THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE, SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BANNED THE USE OF BPA IN BABY BOTTLES AND FOOD PACKAGING SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE EUROPEAN AGENCIES TOOK AN OFFICIAL POSITION. THE QUESTION OF APPLYING THIS PRINCIPLE TO PLASTICS IN CLOSED CONTACT WITH HUMAN EMBRYOS IS RAISED. FURTHER STUDIES ARE NEEDED FOR A DECISION TO BE MADE. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S): THIS STUDY WAS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE AGENCE DE BIOMEDECINE (AOR 2016). THE AUTHORS DECLARE NO COMPETING INTEREST.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
18  1031  47 CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA DETECTION AND ITS APPLICATION STATUS IN GASTRIC CANCER: A NARRATIVE REVIEW. CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA (CTDNA) IS THE SMALL GENOMIC FRAGMENT RELEASED BY TUMOR CELLS INTO THE CIRCULATING SYSTEM, WHICH CARRIES THE GENE VARIATION FEATURES, SUCH AS MUTATION, INSERTION, DELETION, REARRANGEMENT, COPY NUMBER VARIATION (CNV) AND METHYLATION, RENDERING IT AN IMPORTANT BIOMARKER. IT CAN BE USED NOT ONLY TO DIAGNOSE CERTAIN TYPES OF SOLID TUMORS, BUT ALSO TO MONITOR THE THERAPEUTIC RESPONSE AND EXPLORE THE MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE (MRD) AND RESISTANT MUTATION OF TARGETED THERAPY. THEREFORE, CTDNA DETECTION MAY BECOME THE PREFERRED NON-INVASIVE TUMOR SCREENING METHOD. FOR PATIENTS WHO CANNOT RECEIVE FURTHER GENE DETECTION DUE TO INSUFFICIENT OR RESTRICTED SAMPLE COLLECTION WITH THE DEFINED PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS, CTDNA DETECTION CAN BE CARRIED OUT TO DETERMINE THE GENE MUTATION TYPE, WITH NO NEED FOR REPEATED SAMPLING. GASTRIC CANCER (GC) IS A MALIGNANCY WITH EXTREMELY HIGH MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY, AND ITS GENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF INTERACTIONS OF MULTIPLE FACTORS, INCLUDING ENVIRONMENT, DIET, HEREDITY, HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATION, AND PRECANCEROUS LESION. AS THE RESEARCH ON GC MOVES FORWARD, THE EXISTING RESEARCH MAINLY FOCUSES ON GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES, INCLUDING DNA METHYLATION, HISTONE MODIFICATION, NON-CODING RNA CHANGES, GENE MUTATION, GENE HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS AND MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY. THIS PAPER AIMED TO SUMMARIZE THE CONTENTS OF CTDNA DETECTION, ITS APPLICATION STATUS IN GC AND CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
19  6748  36 WHOLE GENOME METHYLATION ARRAY ANALYSIS REVEALS NEW ASPECTS IN BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY ETIOLOGY. BACKGROUND: BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY (BEN) REPRESENTS A CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS IN STRIKING CORRELATION WITH UROEPITHELIAL TUMOURS OF THE UPPER URINARY TRACT. THE DISEASE HAS ENDEMIC DISTRIBUTION IN THE DANUBE RIVER REGIONS IN SEVERAL BALKAN COUNTRIES.DNA METHYLATION IS A PRIMARY EPIGENETIC MODIFICATION THAT IS INVOLVED IN MAJOR PROCESSES SUCH AS CANCER, GENOMIC IMPRINTING, GENE SILENCING, ETC. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CPG ISLAND METHYLATION STATUS IN NORMAL DEVELOPMENT, CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND GENE EXPRESSION IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED, ALTHOUGH STILL STAYS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. METHODS: WE PERFORMED WHOLE GENOME DNA METHYLATION ARRAY ANALYSIS ON DNA POOL SAMPLES FROM PERIPHERAL BLOOD FROM 159 AFFECTED INDIVIDUALS AND 170 HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS. THIS TECHNIQUE ALLOWED US TO DETERMINE THE METHYLATION STATUS OF 27 627 CPG ISLANDS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GENOME IN HEALTHY CONTROLS AND BEN PATIENTS. THUS WE OBTAINED THE METHYLATION PROFILE OF BEN PATIENTS FROM BULGARIAN AND SERBIAN ENDEMIC REGIONS. RESULTS: USING SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED SOFTWARE WE COMPARED THE METHYLATION PROFILES OF BEN PATIENTS AND CORRESPONDING CONTROLS AND REVEALED THE DIFFERENTLY METHYLATED REGIONS. WE THEN COMPARED THE DMRS BETWEEN ALL PATIENT-CONTROL PAIRS TO DETERMINE COMMON CHANGES IN THE EPIGENETIC PROFILES.SEC61G, IL17RA, HDAC11 PROVED TO BE DIFFERENTLY METHYLATED THROUGHOUT ALL PATIENT-CONTROL PAIRS. THE CPG ISLANDS OF ALL 3 GENES WERE HYPOMETHYLATED COMPARED TO CONTROLS. THIS SUGGESTS THAT DYSREGULATION OF THESE GENES INVOLVED IN IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSE COULD BE A COMMON MECHANISM IN BEN PATHOGENESIS IN BOTH ENDEMIC REGIONS AND IN BOTH GENDERS. CONCLUSION: OUR DATA PROPOSE A NEW HYPOTHESIS THAT IMMUNOLOGIC DYSREGULATION HAS A PLACE IN BEN ETIOPATHOGENESIS.	2013	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
20  1102  35 COMBINED CHEMOSENSITIVITY AND CHROMATIN PROFILING PRIORITIZES DRUG COMBINATIONS IN CLL. THE BRUTON TYROSINE KINASE (BTK) INHIBITOR IBRUTINIB HAS SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL). ALTHOUGH IBRUTINIB IS NOT CURATIVE, IT HAS A PROFOUND EFFECT ON CLL CELLS AND MAY CREATE NEW PHARMACOLOGICALLY EXPLOITABLE VULNERABILITIES. TO IDENTIFY SUCH VULNERABILITIES, WE DEVELOPED A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH THAT COMBINES EPIGENOME PROFILING (CHARTING THE GENE-REGULATORY BASIS OF CELL STATE) WITH SINGLE-CELL CHEMOSENSITIVITY PROFILING (QUANTIFYING CELL-TYPE-SPECIFIC DRUG RESPONSE) AND BIOINFORMATIC DATA INTEGRATION. BY APPLYING OUR METHOD TO A COHORT OF MATCHED PATIENT SAMPLES COLLECTED BEFORE AND DURING IBRUTINIB THERAPY, WE IDENTIFIED CHARACTERISTIC IBRUTINIB-INDUCED CHANGES THAT PROVIDE A STARTING POINT FOR THE RATIONAL DESIGN OF IBRUTINIB COMBINATION THERAPIES. SPECIFICALLY, WE OBSERVED AND VALIDATED PREFERENTIAL SENSITIVITY TO PROTEASOME, PLK1, AND MTOR INHIBITORS DURING IBRUTINIB TREATMENT. MORE GENERALLY, OUR STUDY ESTABLISHES A BROADLY APPLICABLE METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING TREATMENT-SPECIFIC VULNERABILITIES BY INTEGRATING THE COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVES OF EPIGENETIC CELL STATES AND PHENOTYPIC DRUG RESPONSES IN PRIMARY PATIENT SAMPLES.	2019