1   934 111 CHRONIC LOW DOSE IRRADIATION ALTERS HEPATIC TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILES, BUT NOT GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION IN MEDAKA (ORYZIAS LATIPES). IONIZING RADIATION (IR) RESULTING FROM BOTH NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES IS UBIQUITOUS THROUGHOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. HISTORICALLY, STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF RADIATION PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON RESPONSES TO ACUTE DOSES OF RADIATION, WITH LITTLE ADVANCEMENT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT EXPOSURES. EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS ARE CAPABLE OF MEDIATING ORGANISMAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS AND DNA METHYLATION PLAYS IMPORTANT ROLES IN GENE REGULATION AND PROMOTING CHROMOSOMAL STABILITY. HERE, WE ASSESS BROAD-SCALE TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC VARIATION RESULTING FROM CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO LOW DOSES OF IONIZING RADIATION (LDIR; 5.78, 53.76, OR 520.23 MGY/DAY) USING JAPANESE MEDAKA FISH (ORYZIAS LATIPES) IN A REPLICATED MESOCOSM DESIGN. WE OBSERVED SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE HEPATIC TRANSCRIPTOME INDUCED BY A 3-MONTH CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO IR, WHEREAS GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION APPEARED LARGELY UNAFFECTED. OUR FINDINGS REVEAL A SET OF GENES, INCLUDING THOSE INVOLVED IN IMMUNE FUNCTION, RESPONDING TO ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT IR EXPOSURES, WHICH DO NOT APPEAR TO BE MEDIATED BY A SYSTEMIC GLOBAL SHIFT IN DNA METHYLATION.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
2  2741  35 EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION DISRUPTS NORMAL EPIGENETIC AGING IN JAPANESE MEDAKA. ALTERATIONS TO THE EPIGENOME ARE A HALLMARK OF BIOLOGICAL AGING AND AGE-DEPENDENT PATTERNING OF THE DNA METHYLOME ("EPIGENETIC AGING") CAN BE MODELED TO PRODUCE EPIGENETIC AGE PREDICTORS. RATES OF EPIGENETIC AGING VARY AMONGST INDIVIDUALS AND CORRELATE TO THE ONSET OF AGE-RELATED DISEASE AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. YET, THE ORIGINS OF EPIGENETIC-TO-CHRONOLOGICAL AGE DISCORDANCE ARE NOT EMPIRICALLY RESOLVED. HERE, WE INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGING, DNA METHYLATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES IN JAPANESE MEDAKA (ORYZIAS LATIPES). WE FIND AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION PATTERNING ENRICHED IN GENOMIC REGIONS OF LOW CPG DENSITY AND THAT, SIMILAR TO MAMMALS, MOST AGE-RELATED CHANGES OCCUR DURING EARLY LIFE. WE CONSTRUCT AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK CAPABLE OF PREDICTING CHRONOLOGICAL AGE WITH A MEAN ERROR OF 61.1 DAYS (~8.4% OF AVERAGE LIFESPAN). TO TEST THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN DRIVING EPIGENETIC AGE VARIATION, WE EXPOSED MEDAKA TO CHRONIC, ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT DOSES OF IONIZING RADIATION. BECAUSE MOST ORGANISMS SHARE AN EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY WITH IONIZING RADIATION, WE HYPOTHESIZED THAT EXPOSURE WOULD REVEAL FUNDAMENTAL INSIGHTS INTO ENVIRONMENT-BY-EPIGENETIC AGING INTERACTIONS. RADIATION EXPOSURE DISRUPTED EPIGENETIC AGING BY ACCELERATING AND DECELERATING NORMAL AGE-ASSOCIATED PATTERNING AND WAS MOST PRONOUNCED IN CYTOSINES THAT WERE MODERATELY ASSOCIATED WITH AGE. THESE FINDINGS EMPIRICALLY DEMONSTRATE THE ROLE OF DNA METHYLATION IN INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INTO AGING TRAJECTORIES.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
3  4923  27 PARENTAL DIURON EXPOSURE CAUSES LOWER HATCHABILITY AND ABNORMAL OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN OFFSPRING OF MEDAKA (ORYZIAS MELASTIGMA). DIURON IS ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY USED HERBICIDES WORLDWIDE. IT HAS BEEN WIDELY DETECTED IN VARIOUS AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS, ESPECIALLY IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS. ALTHOUGH DIRECT EFFECTS OF DIURON EXPOSURE ON VARIOUS ORGANISMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT ITS EFFECTS ON MARINE FISHES INCLUDING MULTIGENERATIONAL EFFECTS. HEREIN, THE FILIAL GENERATION (F1) OF DIURON-EXPOSED MARINE MEDAKA (ORYZIAS MELASTIGMA) (F0) WAS RAISED IN CLEAN SEAWATER FROM FERTILIZED EGGS TO ADULTHOOD AND USED AS A MARINE FISH MODEL TO STUDY THE POTENTIAL MULTIGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF DIURON. WE FOUND THAT THE SUCCESSFUL HATCHING OF F1 LARVAE WAS SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED AND THAT OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN F1 FEMALES WAS RETARDED. A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF PREVITELLOGENIC OOCYTES, ALONG WITH A VISUAL DECREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF VITELLOGENIC AND MATURE OOCYTES IN THE F1 OVARY, WERE OBSERVED. THE HORMONE LEVELS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY-GONAD-LIVER AXIS AND VITELLOGENIN-RELATED TRANSCRIPTION WERE DOWNREGULATED. IN ADDITION, THE MRNA LEVELS OF DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE IN THE BRAIN, OVARY AND LIVER OF F1 ADULT FISH EXHIBITED SIGNIFICANT UPREGULATION, SUGGESTING THAT THE PROBABLE UNDERLYING MULTIGENERATIONAL MECHANISM MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. TAKEN TOGETHER, THESE RESULTS DEMONSTRATED THAT CHRONIC ENVIRONMENTAL DIURON EXPOSURE IN F0 MARINE MEDAKA CAN INHIBIT F1 OVARY DEVELOPMENT AND SUGGESTED THAT DIURON MAY AFFECT MARINE FISH THRIVING IN THE OCEAN.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
4  5184  27 PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION ASSAY TO STUDY INFLUENCE OF HIGH-LEVEL NATURAL RADIATION ON THE INITIAL DNA DOUBLE STRAND BREAK REPAIR IN HUMAN G(0) LYMPHOCYTES. THE INHERENT CAPACITY OF INDIVIDUALS TO EFFICIENTLY REPAIR IONIZING RADIATION INDUCED DNA DOUBLE STRAND BREAKS (DSBS) MAY BE INHERITED, HOWEVER, IT IS INFLUENCED BY SEVERAL EPIGENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS. A PILOT STUDY TESTED WHETHER CHRONIC LOW DOSE NATURAL RADIATION EXPOSURE INFLUENCES THE REJOINING OF INITIAL DNA DSBS INDUCED BY A 2 GY GAMMA-IRRADIATION IN 22 INDIVIDUALS FROM HIGH (>1.5 MGY/YEAR) AND NORMAL (</=1.5 MGY/YEAR) LEVEL NATURAL RADIATION AREAS (H&NLNRA) OF KERALA. REJOINING OF DSBS (DURING 1 H AT 37 DEGREES C, IMMEDIATELY AFTER IRRADIATION) WAS EVALUATED AT THE CHROMOSOME LEVEL IN THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF WORTMANNIN (A POTENT INHIBITOR OF DSB REPAIR IN NORMAL HUMAN CELLS) USING A CELL FUSION-INDUCED PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION (PCC) ASSAY. THE PCC ASSAY QUANTITATES DSBS IN THE FORM OF EXCESS CHROMOSOME FRAGMENTS IN HUMAN G(0) LYMPHOCYTES WITHOUT THE REQUIREMENT FOR CELL DIVISION. A QUANTITATIVE DIFFERENCE WAS OBSERVED IN THE EARLY REJOINING OF DNA DSBS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS FROM HLNRA AND NLNRA, WITH HLNRA INDIVIDUALS SHOWING A HIGHER (P = 0.05) MEAN INITIAL REPAIR RATIO. THE RESULTS INDICATE AN INFLUENCE OF CHRONIC LOW DOSE NATURAL RADIATION ON INITIAL DNA DSB REPAIR IN INHABITANTS OF HLNRA OF THE KERALA COAST.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
5  4019  28 LOW-DOSE OR LOW-DOSE-RATE IONIZING RADIATION-INDUCED BIOEFFECTS IN ANIMAL MODELS. ANIMAL EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES INDICATE THAT ACUTE OR CHRONIC LOW-DOSE IONIZING RADIATION (LDIR) (</=100 MSV) OR LOW-DOSE-RATE IONIZING RADIATION (LDRIR) (<6 MSV/H) EXPOSURES MAY BE HARMFUL. IT INDUCES GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH A RANGE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES THAT INCLUDES ALTERED IMMUNE SYSTEM, ABNORMAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT WITH RESULTANT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, CATARACTOGENESIS, ABNORMAL EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT, CIRCULATORY DISEASES, WEIGHT GAIN, PREMATURE MENOPAUSE IN FEMALE ANIMALS, TUMORIGENESIS AND SHORTENED LIFESPAN. PATERNAL OR PRENATAL LDIR/LDRIR EXPOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED FERTILITY AND NUMBER OF LIVE FETUSES, AND TRANSGENERATIONAL GENOMIC ABERRATIONS. ON THE OTHER HAND, IN SOME EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES, LDIR/LDRIR EXPOSURE HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED TO BRING ABOUT BENEFICIAL EFFECTS SUCH AS REDUCTION IN TUMORIGENESIS, PROLONGED LIFESPAN AND ENHANCED FERTILITY. THE DIFFERENCES IN REPORTED EFFECTS OF LDIR/LDRIR EXPOSURE ARE DEPENDENT ON ANIMAL GENETIC BACKGROUND (SUSCEPTIBILITY), AGE (PRENATAL OR POSTNATAL DAYS), SEX, NATURE OF RADIATION EXPOSURE (I.E. ACUTE, FRACTIONATED OR CHRONIC RADIATION EXPOSURE), TYPE OF RADIATION, COMBINATION OF RADIATION WITH OTHER TOXIC AGENTS (SUCH AS SMOKING, PESTICIDES OR OTHER CHEMICAL TOXINS) OR ANIMAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS. IN THIS REVIEW PAPER, WE AIMED TO UPDATE RADIATION RESEARCHERS AND RADIOLOGISTS ON THE CURRENT PROGRESS ACHIEVED IN UNDERSTANDING THE LDIR/LDRIR-INDUCED BIONEGATIVE AND BIOPOSITIVE EFFECTS REPORTED IN THE VARIOUS ANIMAL MODELS. THE ROLES PLAYED BY A VARIETY OF MOLECULES THAT ARE IMPLICATED IN LDIR/LDRIR-INDUCED HEALTH EFFECTS WILL BE ELABORATED. THE REVIEW WILL HELP IN FUTURE INVESTIGATIONS OF LDIR/LDRIR-INDUCED HEALTH EFFECTS BY PROVIDING CLUES FOR DESIGNING IMPROVED ANIMAL RESEARCH MODELS IN ORDER TO CLARIFY THE CURRENT CONTROVERSIAL/CONTRADICTORY FINDINGS FROM EXISTING STUDIES.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
6  5032  43 PERTURBED TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILES AFTER CHRONIC LOW DOSE RATE RADIATION IN MICE. ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES OF IONIZING RADIATION GIVEN CHRONICALLY AT LOW DOSE RATES ARE HIGHLY DEBATED, A CONTROVERSY ALSO RELEVANT FOR OTHER STRESSORS. INCREASED KNOWLEDGE IS NEEDED FOR A MORE COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE DAMAGING POTENTIAL OF IONIZING RADIATION FROM ALL DOSE RATES AND DOSES. THERE IS A LACK OF RELEVANT LOW DOSE RATE DATA THAT IS PARTLY ASCRIBED TO THE RARITY OF EXPOSURE FACILITIES ALLOWING CHRONIC LOW DOSE RATE EXPOSURES. USING THE FIGARO FACILITY, WE ASSESSED EARLY (ONE DAY POST-RADIATION) AND LATE (RECOVERY TIME OF 100-200 DAYS) HEPATIC GENOME-WIDE TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILES IN MALE MICE OF TWO STRAINS (CBA/CAOLAHSD AND C57BL/6NHSD) EXPOSED CHRONICALLY TO A LOW DOSE RATE (2.5 MGY/H; 1200H, LDR), A MID-DOSE RATE (10 MGY/H; 300H, MDR) AND ACUTELY TO A HIGH DOSE RATE (100 MGY/H; 30H, HDR) OF GAMMA IRRADIATION, GIVEN TO AN EQUIVALENT TOTAL DOSE OF 3 GY. DOSE-RATE AND STRAIN-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES WERE IDENTIFIED. DIFFERENTLY MODULATED TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES ACROSS ALL DOSE RATE EXPOSURE GROUPS WERE EVIDENT BY THE REPRESENTATION OF FUNCTIONAL BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS. EVIDENCE OF CHANGED EPIGENETIC REGULATION (GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION) WAS NOT DETECTED. A PERIOD OF RECOVERY MARKEDLY REDUCED THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES. USING ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY THE FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MODULATED GENES, PERTURBED SIGNALING PATHWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH BOTH CANCER AND NON-CANCER EFFECTS WERE OBSERVED, SUCH AS LIPID METABOLISM AND INFLAMMATION. THESE PATHWAYS WERE SEEN AFTER CHRONIC LOW DOSE RATE AND WERE NOT RESTRICTED TO THE ACUTE HIGH DOSE RATE EXPOSURE. THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE INDUCED BY CHRONIC LOW DOSE RATE IONIZING RADIATION SUGGESTS CONTRIBUTION TO CONDITIONS SUCH AS CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. WE CONTRIBUTE WITH NOVEL GENOME WIDE TRANSCRIPTIONAL DATA HIGHLIGHTING DOSE-RATE-SPECIFIC RADIATION RESPONSES AND EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSIDERING BOTH DOSE RATE, DURATION OF EXPOSURE, AND VARIABILITY IN SUSCEPTIBILITY WHEN ASSESSING RISKS FROM IONIZING RADIATION.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
7  5336  17 QUANTIFICATION OF THE PACE OF BIOLOGICAL AGING IN HUMANS THROUGH A BLOOD TEST, THE DUNEDINPOAM DNA METHYLATION ALGORITHM. BIOLOGICAL AGING IS THE GRADUAL, PROGRESSIVE DECLINE IN SYSTEM INTEGRITY THAT OCCURS WITH ADVANCING CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, CAUSING MORBIDITY AND DISABILITY. MEASUREMENTS OF THE PACE OF AGING ARE NEEDED AS SURROGATE ENDPOINTS IN TRIALS OF THERAPIES DESIGNED TO PREVENT DISEASE BY SLOWING BIOLOGICAL AGING. WE REPORT A BLOOD-DNA-METHYLATION MEASURE THAT IS SENSITIVE TO VARIATION IN PACE OF BIOLOGICAL AGING AMONG INDIVIDUALS BORN THE SAME YEAR. WE FIRST MODELED CHANGE-OVER-TIME IN 18 BIOMARKERS TRACKING ORGAN-SYSTEM INTEGRITY ACROSS 12 YEARS OF FOLLOW-UP IN N = 954 MEMBERS OF THE DUNEDIN STUDY BORN IN 1972-1973. RATES OF CHANGE IN EACH BIOMARKER OVER AGES 26-38 YEARS WERE COMPOSITED TO FORM A MEASURE OF AGING-RELATED DECLINE, TERMED PACE-OF-AGING. ELASTIC-NET REGRESSION WAS USED TO DEVELOP A DNA-METHYLATION PREDICTOR OF PACE-OF-AGING, CALLED DUNEDINPOAM FOR DUNEDIN(P)ACE(O)F(A)GING(M)ETHYLATION. VALIDATION ANALYSIS IN COHORT STUDIES AND THE CALERIE TRIAL PROVIDE PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE FOR DUNEDINPOAM AS A SINGLE-TIME-POINT MEASURE OF A PERSON'S PACE OF BIOLOGICAL AGING.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
8   648  27 BIRTH WEIGHT AND MATERNAL ENERGY STATUS DURING PREGNANCY AS PREDICTORS OF EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION IN YOUNG ADULTS FROM METROPOLITAN CEBU, PHILIPPINES. EPIGENETIC CLOCKS QUANTIFY REGULAR CHANGES IN DNA METHYLATION THAT OCCUR WITH AGE, OR IN RELATION TO BIOMARKERS OF AGEING, AND ARE STRONG PREDICTORS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY. HERE, WE ASSESS WHETHER MEASURES OF FETAL NUTRITION AND GROWTH THAT PREDICT ADULT CHRONIC DISEASE ALSO PREDICT ACCELERATED BIOLOGICAL AGEING IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD USING A SUITE OF COMMONLY USED EPIGENETIC CLOCKS. DATA COME FROM THE CEBU LONGITUDINAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION SURVEY (CLHNS), A LONG-RUNNING COHORT FOLLOWED SINCE BIRTH IN METROPOLITAN CEBU, PHILIPPINES. PAST WORK HAS SHOWN THAT BIRTH WEIGHT (BW) AND THE MOTHER'S ARM FAT DURING PREGNANCY (A MEASURE OF PREGNANCY ENERGY STATUS) RELATE INVERSELY TO HEALTH OUTCOMES IN THE CLHNS BUT PRIMARILY IN MALES. GENOME-WIDE DNA METHYLATION WAS ASSESSED IN WHOLE BLOOD USING THE INFINIUM EPIC ARRAY. PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED MALES (N=895) AND FEMALES (N=803) MEASURED IN 2005 (20.8-22.5 YEARS). CLOCKS INCLUDED THE HANNUM AND HORVATH CLOCKS TRAINED ON CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, THE DNAMPHENOAGE AND DNAMGRIMAGE CLOCKS TRAINED ON CLINICAL BIOMARKERS, THE DUNEDIN PACE OF AGEING (DUNEDINPACE) CLOCK TRAINED ON LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN AGEING BIOMARKERS, AND THE DNAMTL CLOCK TRAINED ON LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH. IN MALES, LOWER BW PREDICTED ADVANCED BIOLOGICAL AGEING USING THE HANNUM, DNAMPHENOAGE, DUNEDINPOAM, AND DNAMTL CLOCKS. IN CONTRAST, BW DID NOT PREDICT ANY CLOCK IN FEMALE PARTICIPANTS. PARTICIPANTS' MOTHERS' PREGNANCY ARM FAT ONLY PREDICTED DNAMTL IN MALES. THESE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT EPIGENETIC CLOCKS ARE A USEFUL TOOL FOR GAUGING LONG-TERM OUTCOMES PREDICTED BY FETAL GROWTH, AND ADD TO EXISTING EVIDENCE IN THE CLHNS FOR SEX DIFFERENCES IN THESE RELATIONSHIPS.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
9  1963  22 EPIGENETIC AGING MEDIATES THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PAIN IMPACT AND BRAIN AGING IN MIDDLE TO OLDER AGE INDIVIDUALS WITH KNEE PAIN. CHRONIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN IS A HEALTH BURDEN THAT MAY ACCELERATE THE AGING PROCESS. ACCELERATED BRAIN AGING AND EPIGENETIC AGING HAVE SEPARATELY BEEN OBSERVED IN THOSE WITH CHRONIC PAIN. HOWEVER, IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THESE BIOLOGICAL MARKERS OF AGING ARE ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OTHER IN THOSE WITH CHRONIC PAIN. WE AIMED TO EXPLORE THE ASSOCIATION OF EPIGENETIC AGING AND BRAIN AGING IN MIDDLE-TO-OLDER AGE INDIVIDUALS WITH VARYING DEGREES OF KNEE PAIN. PARTICIPANTS (57.91 +/- 8.04 Y) WITH LOW IMPACT KNEE PAIN (N = 95), HIGH IMPACT KNEE PAIN (N = 53), AND PAIN-FREE CONTROLS (N = 26) COMPLETED SELF-REPORTED PAIN, A BLOOD DRAW, AND AN MRI SCAN. WE USED AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK PREVIOUSLY ASSOCIATED WITH KNEE PAIN (DNAMGRIMAGE), THE SUBSEQUENT DIFFERENCE OF PREDICTED EPIGENETIC AND BRAIN AGE FROM CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFFERENCE AND BRAIN-PAD, RESPECTIVELY). THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT MAIN EFFECT FOR PAIN IMPACT GROUP (F (2,167) = 3.847, P = 0.023, ROTATIONAL ENERGY = 1 / 2IOMEGA2 = 0.038, ANCOVA) ON BRAIN-PAD AND DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFFERENCE (F (2,167) = 6.800, P = 0.001, I = MK2 = 0.075, ANCOVA) AFTER CONTROLLING FOR COVARIATES. DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFFERENCE AND BRAIN-PAD WERE MODESTLY CORRELATED (R =0.198; P =0.010). EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFFERENCE MEDIATED GCPS PAIN IMPACT, GCPS PAIN SEVERITY, AND PAIN-RELATED DISABILITY SCORES ON BRAIN-PAD. BASED UPON THE CURRENT STUDY FINDINGS, WE SUGGEST THAT PAIN COULD BE A DRIVER FOR ACCELERATED BRAIN AGING VIA EPIGENOME INTERACTIONS.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
10  5757  22 SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, KNEE PAIN, AND EPIGENETIC AGING IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING MIDDLE-TO-OLDER AGE ADULTS. CHRONIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN IS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES). SES CORRELATES WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS THAT COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISPROPORTIONATE BURDEN OF CHRONIC STRESS. CHRONIC STRESS CAN INDUCE CHANGES IN GLOBAL DNA METHYLATION AND GENE EXPRESSION, WHICH INCREASES RISK OF CHRONIC PAIN. WE AIMED TO EXPLORE THE ASSOCIATION OF EPIGENETIC AGING AND SES IN MIDDLE-TO-OLDER AGE INDIVIDUALS WITH VARYING DEGREES OF KNEE PAIN. PARTICIPANTS COMPLETED SELF-REPORTED PAIN, A BLOOD DRAW, AND ANSWERED DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO SES. WE USED AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK PREVIOUSLY ASSOCIATED WITH KNEE PAIN (DNAMGRIMAGE) AND THE SUBSEQUENT DIFFERENCE OF PREDICTED EPIGENETIC AGE (DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFF). OVERALL, THE MEAN DNAMGRIMAGE WAS 60.3 (+/-7.6), AND THE AVERAGE DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFF WAS 2.4 YEARS (+/-5.6 YEARS). THOSE EXPERIENCING HIGH-IMPACT PAIN EARNED LESS INCOME AND HAD LOWER EDUCATION LEVELS COMPARED TO BOTH LOW-IMPACT AND NO PAIN GROUPS. DIFFERENCES IN DNAMGRIMAGE-DIFF ACROSS PAIN GROUPS WERE FOUND, WHEREBY INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGH-IMPACT PAIN HAD ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING ( APPROXIMATELY 5 YEARS) COMPARED TO LOW-IMPACT PAIN AND NO PAIN CONTROL GROUPS (BOTH APPROXIMATELY 1 YEAR). OUR MAIN FINDING WAS THAT EPIGENETIC AGING MEDIATED THE ASSOCIATIONS OF INCOME AND EDUCATION WITH PAIN IMPACT, AS SUCH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SES AND PAIN OUTCOMES MAY OCCUR THROUGH POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS WITH THE EPIGENOME REFLECTIVE OF ACCELERATED CELLULAR AGING. PERSPECTIVE: SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE PAIN EXPERIENCE. THE PRESENT MANUSCRIPT AIMS TO PRESENT A POTENTIAL SOCIAL-BIOLOGICAL LINK BETWEEN SES AND PAIN VIA ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
11  3914  37 LIFETIME STRESS ACCELERATES EPIGENETIC AGING IN AN URBAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN COHORT: RELEVANCE OF GLUCOCORTICOID SIGNALING. BACKGROUND: CHRONIC PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH ACCELERATED AGING AND INCREASED RISK FOR AGING-RELATED DISEASES, BUT THE UNDERLYING MOLECULAR MECHANISMS ARE UNCLEAR. RESULTS: WE EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF LIFETIME STRESSORS ON A DNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTOR, EPIGENETIC CLOCK. AFTER CONTROLLING FOR BLOOD CELL-TYPE COMPOSITION AND LIFESTYLE PARAMETERS, CUMULATIVE LIFETIME STRESS, BUT NOT CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT OR CURRENT STRESS ALONE, PREDICTED ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING IN AN URBAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN COHORT (N = 392). THIS EFFECT WAS PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY PERSONAL LIFE STRESSORS, WAS MORE PRONOUNCED WITH ADVANCING AGE, AND WAS BLUNTED IN INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGHER CHILDHOOD ABUSE EXPOSURE. HYPOTHESIZING THAT THESE EPIGENETIC EFFECTS COULD BE MEDIATED BY GLUCOCORTICOID SIGNALING, WE FOUND THAT A HIGH NUMBER (N = 85) OF EPIGENETIC CLOCK CPG SITES WERE LOCATED WITHIN GLUCOCORTICOID RESPONSE ELEMENTS. WE FURTHER EXAMINED THE FUNCTIONAL EFFECTS OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS ON EPIGENETIC CLOCK CPGS IN AN INDEPENDENT SAMPLE WITH GENOME-WIDE DNA METHYLATION (N = 124) AND GENE EXPRESSION DATA (N = 297) BEFORE AND AFTER EXPOSURE TO THE GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR AGONIST DEXAMETHASONE. DEXAMETHASONE INDUCED DYNAMIC CHANGES IN METHYLATION IN 31.2 % (110/353) OF THESE CPGS AND TRANSCRIPTION IN 81.7 % (139/170) OF GENES NEIGHBORING EPIGENETIC CLOCK CPGS. DISEASE ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS OF THESE DEXAMETHASONE-REGULATED GENES SHOWED ENRICHED ASSOCIATION FOR AGING-RELATED DISEASES, INCLUDING CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, AND LEUKEMIAS. CONCLUSIONS: CUMULATIVE LIFETIME STRESS MAY ACCELERATE EPIGENETIC AGING, AN EFFECT THAT COULD BE DRIVEN BY GLUCOCORTICOID-INDUCED EPIGENETIC CHANGES. THESE FINDINGS CONTRIBUTE TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF MECHANISMS LINKING CHRONIC STRESS WITH ACCELERATED AGING AND HEIGHTENED DISEASE RISK.	2015	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
12  6777  14 [ASSOCIATION OF P-MOBILE ELEMENT ACTIVITY AND DNA METHYLATION PATTERN CHANGES IN THE CONDITIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER PROLONGED IRRADIATION]. ASSOCIATION OF THE RADIOSENSITIVITY AND EPIGENETIC PATTERN DNA CHANGES AT THE CONDITIONS OF PROLONGED IRRADIATION WAS INVESTIGATED. TWO LABORATORY DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER STRAINS (CANTON-S AND RI) IRRADIATED FOR 20 GENERATIONS TO LOW DOSES RATE (1.2 X 10(-1), 0.8 X 10(-8) AND 0.12 X 10(-8) GY/S) WERE USED AS EXPERIMENTAL OBJECTS. DNA FOR THE ANALYSIS WAS EXTRACTED SEPARATELY FOR THE FLIES OF MALES AND FEMALES. RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASES GLUL, GLAL WERE USED. RESTRICTION ANALYSIS HAS SHOWN THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT DNA METHYLATED PATTERNS FOR MALES AND FEMALES AS FOR CONTROL AND EXPOSED VARIANTS. AT THE CHRONIC IRRADIATION THERE WAS THE DECLINE OF METHYLATION LEVEL AT THE ENZYMES GLUL, GLAL SITES RECOGNITION.	2010	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
13  1645  26 DOES THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK GRIMAGE PREDICT MORTALITY INDEPENDENT OF GENETIC INFLUENCES: AN 18 YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY IN OLDER FEMALE TWIN PAIRS. BACKGROUND: EPIGENETIC CLOCKS ARE BASED ON DNA METHYLATION (DNAM). IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THESE CLOCKS ARE USEABLE MARKERS OF BIOLOGICAL AGING AND PREMATURE MORTALITY. BECAUSE GENETIC FACTORS EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN BOTH EPIGENETIC AGING AND MORTALITY, THIS ASSOCIATION COULD ALSO BE EXPLAINED BY SHARED GENETIC FACTORS. WE INVESTIGATED THE INFLUENCE OF GENETIC AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS (SMOKING, ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, CHRONIC DISEASES, BODY MASS INDEX) AND EDUCATION ON THE ASSOCIATION OF ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING WITH MORTALITY USING A LONGITUDINAL TWIN DESIGN. UTILIZING A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ONLINE TOOL, WE CALCULATED THE EPIGENETIC AGE USING TWO EPIGENETIC CLOCKS, HORVATH DNAMAGE AND DNAM GRIMAGE, IN 413 FINNISH TWIN SISTERS, AGED 63-76 YEARS, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 18-YEAR MORTALITY FOLLOW-UP. EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION WAS CALCULATED AS THE RESIDUALS FROM A LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL OF EPIGENETIC AGE ESTIMATED ON CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (AA(HORVATH), AA(GRIMAGE), RESPECTIVELY). COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS WERE CONDUCTED FOR INDIVIDUALS AND TWIN PAIRS. RESULTS: THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL-BASED ANALYSES SHOWED AN INCREASED MORTALITY HAZARD RATIO (HR) OF 1.31 (CI(95): 1.13-1.53) PER ONE STANDARD DEVIATION (SD) INCREASE IN AA(GRIMAGE). THE RESULTS INDICATED NO SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATIONS OF AA(HORVATH) WITH MORTALITY. PAIRWISE MORTALITY ANALYSES SHOWED AN HR OF 1.50 (CI(95): 1.02-2.20) PER 1 SD INCREASE IN AA(GRIMAGE). HOWEVER, AFTER ADJUSTING FOR SMOKING, THE HR ATTENUATED SUBSTANTIALLY AND WAS STATISTICALLY NON-SIGNIFICANT (1.29; CI(95): 0.84-1.99). SIMILARLY, IN MULTIVARIABLE ADJUSTED MODELS THE HR (1.42-1.49) WAS NON-SIGNIFICANT. IN AA(HORVATH), THE NON-SIGNIFICANT HRS WERE LOWER AMONG MONOZYGOTIC PAIRS IN COMPARISON TO DIZYGOTIC PAIRS, WHILE IN AA(GRIMAGE) THERE WERE NO SYSTEMATIC DIFFERENCES BY ZYGOSITY. FURTHER, THE PAIRWISE ANALYSIS IN QUARTILES SHOWED THAT THE INCREASED WITHIN PAIR DIFFERENCE IN AA(GRIMAGE) WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A HIGHER ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY RISK. CONCLUSIONS: IN CONCLUSION, THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT DNAM GRIMAGE IS A STRONG PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY INDEPENDENT OF GENETIC INFLUENCES. SMOKING, WHICH IS KNOWN TO ALTER DNAM LEVELS AND IS BUILT INTO THE DNAM GRIMAGE ALGORITHM, ATTENUATED THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EPIGENETIC AGING AND MORTALITY RISK.	2021	

14  6526  33 TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES IN THE OVARIES OF PERCH FROM CHERNOBYL. FISH HAVE BEEN HIGHLY EXPOSED TO RADIATION IN FRESHWATER SYSTEMS AFTER THE CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (NPP) ACCIDENT IN 1986 AND IN FRESHWATER AND MARINE SYSTEMS AFTER THE MORE RECENT FUKUSHIMA NPP ACCIDENT IN 2011. IN THE YEARS AFTER THE ACCIDENT, THE RADIOACTIVITY LEVELS RAPIDLY DECLINED DUE TO RADIOACTIVE DECAY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES, BUT CHRONIC LOWER DOSE EXPOSURES PERSISTED. TO GAIN INSIGHTS INTO THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LOW DOSE RADIATION ON FISH OVARIES DEVELOPMENT, A HIGH-THROUGHPUT TRANSCRIPTOMIC APPROACH INCLUDING A DE NOVO ASSEMBLY WAS APPLIED TO DIFFERENT GONAD PHENOTYPES OF FEMALE PERCH: DEVELOPED GONADS FROM REFERENCE LAKES, DEVELOPED/IRRADIATED FROM MEDIUM CONTAMINATED LAKE, AND BOTH DEVELOPED/IRRADIATED AND UNDEVELOPED FROM MORE HIGHLY CONTAMINATED LAKES. THIS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS TO DATE OF THE GENE RESPONSES IN WILDLIFE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM TO RADIATION. SOME GENE RESPONSES THAT WERE MODULATED IN IRRADIATED GONADS WERE FOUND TO BE INVOLVED IN BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES INCLUDING CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND PROLIFERATION (GGNB2, MOD5, RERGL), CYTOSKELETON ORGANIZATION (K1C18, MTPN), GONAD DEVELOPMENT (NELL2, TCP4), LIPID METABOLISM (LDAH, AT11B, NLTP), REPRODUCTION (CYB5, CYP17A, OVOS), DNA DAMAGE REPAIR (WDHD1, RAD51, HUS1), AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS (DMAP1). IDENTIFICATION OF THESE GENES PROVIDES A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNDERLYING MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GONAD PHENOTYPES OF WILD PERCH AND HOW FISH MAY RESPOND TO CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO RADIATION IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THOUGH CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION OF GENE RESPONSES REMAINS UNCLEAR IN THE UNDEVELOPED GONADS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
15  5698  33 SIMULATED CLIMATE WARMING AND MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP MODULATE TESTICULAR SMALL NON-CODING RNA EXPRESSION IN THE NEOTROPICAL PSEUDOSCORPION, CORDYLOCHERNES SCORPIOIDES. RECENT THEORY SUGGESTS THAT TROPICAL TERRESTRIAL ARTHROPODS ARE AT SIGNIFICANT RISK FROM CLIMATE WARMING. METABOLIC RATE IN SUCH ECTOTHERMIC SPECIES INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE, AND A SMALL TEMPERATURE INCREASE IN A HOT ENVIRONMENT CAN THEREFORE HAVE A GREATER PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT THAN A LARGE TEMPERATURE INCREASE IN A COOL ENVIRONMENT. IN TWO RECENT STUDIES OF THE NEOTROPICAL PSEUDOSCORPION, CORDYLOCHERNES SCORPIOIDES, SIMULATED CLIMATE WARMING SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED SURVIVAL, BODY SIZE AND LEVEL OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. HOWEVER, THESE EFFECTS WERE MINOR COMPARED WITH CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES FOR MALE FERTILITY AND FEMALE FECUNDITY, IDENTIFYING REPRODUCTION AS THE LIFE STAGE MOST VULNERABLE TO CLIMATE WARMING. HERE, WE EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC HIGH-TEMPERATURE EXPOSURE ON EPIGENETIC REGULATION IN C. SCORPIOIDES IN THE CONTEXT OF NATURALLY OCCURRING VARIATION IN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA. EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, INCLUDING DNA METHYLATION, HISTONE MODIFICATIONS AND SMALL NON-CODING RNA (SNCRNA) EXPRESSION, ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS SUCH AS TEMPERATURE, WHICH CAN INDUCE CHANGES IN EPIGENETIC STATES AND PHENOTYPES THAT MAY BE HERITABLE ACROSS GENERATIONS. OUR RESULTS INDICATE THAT EXPOSURE OF MALE PSEUDOSCORPIONS TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERED THE EXPRESSION OF >60 SNCRNAS IN TESTICULAR TISSUE, SPECIFICALLY MICRORNAS AND PIWI-INTERACTING RNAS. MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP WAS ALSO A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR INFLUENCING BOTH SNCRNAS AND MITOCHONDRIAL GENE EXPRESSION. THESE FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE THAT CHRONIC HEAT STRESS CAUSES CHANGES IN EPIGENETIC PROFILES THAT MAY ACCOUNT FOR REPRODUCTIVE DYSFUNCTION IN C. SCORPIOIDES MALES. MOREOVER, THROUGH ITS EFFECTS ON EPIGENETIC REGULATION, MITOCHONDRIAL DNA POLYMORPHISM MAY PROVIDE THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE WARMING.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
16  1088  29 COCAINE DIRECTLY IMPAIRS MEMORY EXTINCTION AND ALTERS BRAIN DNA METHYLATION DYNAMICS IN HONEY BEES. DRUG ADDICTION IS A CHRONIC RELAPSING BEHAVIORAL DISORDER. THE HIGH RELAPSE RATE HAS OFTEN BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO THE PERSEVERANCE OF DRUG-ASSOCIATED MEMORIES DUE TO HIGH INCENTIVE SALIENCE OF STIMULI LEARNT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS. DRUG ADDICTION HAS ALSO BEEN INTERPRETED AS A MEMORY DISORDER SINCE DRUG ASSOCIATED MEMORIES ARE UNUSUALLY ENDURING AND SOME DRUGS, SUCH AS COCAINE, INTERFERE WITH NEUROEPIGENETIC MACHINERY KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN MEMORY PROCESSING. HERE WE USED THE HONEY BEE (AN ESTABLISHED INVERTEBRATE MODEL FOR EPIGENOMICS AND BEHAVIORAL STUDIES) TO EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT COCAINE AFFECTS MEMORY PROCESSING INDEPENDENTLY OF ITS EFFECT ON INCENTIVE SALIENCE. USING THE PROBOSCIS EXTENSION REFLEX TRAINING PARADIGM WE FOUND THAT COCAINE STRONGLY IMPAIRS CONSOLIDATION OF EXTINCTION MEMORY. BASED ON CORRELATION BETWEEN THE OBSERVED EFFECT OF COCAINE ON LEARNING AND EXPRESSION OF EPIGENETIC PROCESSES, WE PROPOSE THAT COCAINE INTERFERES WITH MEMORY PROCESSING INDEPENDENTLY OF INCENTIVE SALIENCE BY DIRECTLY ALTERING DNA METHYLATION DYNAMICS. OUR FINDINGS EMPHASIZE THE IMPACT OF COCAINE ON MEMORY SYSTEMS, WITH RELEVANCE FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW COCAINE CAN HAVE SUCH AN ENDURING IMPACT ON BEHAVIOR.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
17  6555  30 TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF GAMMA RADIATION DOSE AND DOSE RATE ON DROSOPHILA FLIES IRRADIATED AT AN EARLY EMBRYONAL STAGE. IONIZING RADIATION (IR) KILLS CELLS MAINLY THROUGH INDUCTION OF DNA DAMAGES AND THE SURVIVING CELLS MAY SUFFER FROM MUTATIONS. TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF IR ARE WELL DOCUMENTED, BUT THE EXACT MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THEM ARE LESS WELL UNDERSTOOD; THEY INCLUDE INDUCTION OF MUTATIONS IN GERM CELLS AND EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE. PREVIOUSLY, EFFECTS IN THE OFFSPRING OF MICE AND ZEBRAFISH EXPOSED TO IR HAVE BEEN REPORTED. A FEW STUDIES ALSO SHOWED INDICATIONS OF TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION IN HUMANS, PARTICULARLY IN NUCLEAR POWER WORKERS. IN THE PRESENT PROJECT, SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF LOW-DOSE-RATE (LDR; 50 AND 97 MGY/H) AND HIGH-DOSE-RATE (HDR; 23.4, 47.1 AND 495 GY/H) IR IN DROSOPHILA EMBRYOS WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EMBRYOS WERE IRRADIATED AT DIFFERENT DOSES AND DOSE RATES AND RADIOSENSITIVITY AT DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES WAS INVESTIGATED. ALSO, THE SURVIVAL OF LARVAE, PUPAE AND ADULTS DEVELOPED FROM EMBRYOS IRRADIATED AT AN EARLY STAGE (30 MIN AFTER EGG LAYING) WERE STUDIED. THE LARVAL CRAWLING AND PUPATION HEIGHT ASSAYS WERE APPLIED TO INVESTIGATE RADIATION EFFECTS ON LARVAL LOCOMOTION AND PUPATION BEHAVIOR, RESPECTIVELY. IN PARALLEL, THE OFFSPRING FROM 3 GY IRRADIATED EARLY-STAGE EMBRYOS WERE FOLLOWED UP TO 12 GENERATIONS AND ABNORMAL PHENOTYPES WERE STUDIED. ACUTE EXPOSURE OF EMBRYOS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT SHOWED THAT THE EARLY STAGE EMBRYO IS THE MOST SENSITIVE. THE EFFECTS ON LARVAL LOCOMOTION SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DOSE RATES BUT A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE OF LOCOMOTION ACTIVITY ABOVE 7 GY WAS OBSERVED. THE RESULTS INDICATE THAT EMBRYOS EXPOSED TO THE LOW DOSE RATES HAVE SHORTER ECLOSION TIMES. AT THE SAME CUMULATIVE DOSE (1 UP TO 7 GY), HDR IS MORE EMBRYOTOXIC THAN LDR. WE ALSO FOUND A RADIATION-INDUCED DEPIGMENTATION ON MALES (A5 SEGMENT OF THE DORSAL ABDOMEN, A5PIG(-)) THAT CAN BE TRANSMITTED UP TO 12 GENERATIONS. THE PHENOMENON DOES NOT FOLLOW THE CLASSICAL MENDELIAN LAWS OF SEGREGATION.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
18  1115  31 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EPIGENETIC VARIABILITY IN TWO PINE SPECIES EXPOSED TO CHRONIC RADIATION IN THE CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA AFFECTED ZONES. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EPIGENETIC VARIABILITY IN TWO PINE SPECIES AFFECTED AS A RESULT OF THE CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENTS IS PRESENTED. THE ABSORBED DOSE RATE WITHIN THE AFFECTED CHERNOBYL SITES VARIES OVER A WIDER RANGE (1.5-24.6 MUGY/H) THAN WITHIN THE FUKUSHIMA SITES (3.5-6.5 MUGY/H). IT WAS SHOWN THAT CHRONIC IRRADIATION CAN CHANGE THE LEVEL OF WHOLE GENOME METHYLATION IN PINE POPULATIONS, BUT IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THE GENOMES OF JAPANESE RED PINES ARE HYPOMETHYLATED, AND THE DEGREE OF METHYLATION AND HYDROXYMETHYLATION DECREASES WITH AN INCREASE IN THE LEVEL OF RADIATION EXPOSURE. IN CONTRAST, THE PERCENTAGES OF GENOME METHYLATION AND HYDROXYMETHYLATION IN SCOTS PINE POPULATIONS EXCEED THE REFERENCE LEVELS. THE OBSERVED DISCREPANCY IN THE PATTERNS OF GENOME-WIDE DNA METHYLATION CAN BE ATTRIBUTED PARTLY TO THE DESIGN OF THE STUDY (DIFFERENCES IN THE CLIMATE, RADIATION DOSE, AGE AND SPECIES OF THE PINES) WHICH COULD AFFECT THE RESULTS. IN THE FRAME OF IRAP ANALYSIS, A LARGER NUMBER OF DIFFERENT BANDS WAS OBSERVED IN THE CHERNOBYL POPULATIONS COMPARED TO THE JAPANESE POPULATIONS. BOTH THE JAPANESE AND CHERNOBYL POPULATIONS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY SIGNIFICANT GENETIC VARIABILITY. HOWEVER, THE MAIN PART OF THIS VARIABILITY IS OBSERVED WITHIN POPULATIONS. THE DENDROGRAMS, BASED ON PRESENCE/ABSENCE OF IRAP FRAGMENTS AND NEI'S GENETIC DISTANCES, REVEALED SUBDIVISIONS OF THE CHERNOBYL AND JAPANESE POPULATIONS ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION. ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS PRESENTED WILL IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE RESPONSES OF PINE TREES TO CHRONIC RADIATION EXPOSURE.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
19  1780  24 EDUCATION AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DNA METHYLATION CLOCKS IN OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS. DNA METHYLATION (DNAM) CLOCKS ARE IMPORTANT BIOMARKERS OF CELLULAR AGING AND ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A VARIETY OF AGE-RELATED CHRONIC DISEASES AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS FOR AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND MULTIPLE DNAM CLOCKS CAN INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW RISK FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO AGING AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL. THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EDUCATION OR LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS FOR AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND THE ACCELERATION OF FOUR DNAM CLOCKS, INCLUDING INTRINSIC (IEAA) AND EXTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION (EEAA), PHENOAGE ACCELERATION (PHENOAA), AND GRIMAGE ACCELERATION (GRIMAA) IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS OF THE GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK OF ARTERIOPATHY. WE PERFORMED BOTH CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL ANALYSES. IN CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSES, GENDER, EDUCATION, BMI, SMOKING, AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION WERE ALL INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH GRIMAA, WHEREAS ONLY SOME OF THEM WERE ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER CLOCKS. THE EFFECT OF SMOKING AND EDUCATION ON GRIMAA VARIED BY GENDER. LONGITUDINAL ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT AGE AND BMI CONTINUED TO INCREASE GRIMAA, AND THAT AGE AND CURRENT SMOKING CONTINUED TO INCREASE PHENOAA AFTER CONTROLLING DNAM CLOCKS AT BASELINE. IN CONCLUSION, EDUCATION AND COMMON LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE DNAM CLOCKS. HOWEVER, THE ASSOCIATION WITH EACH RISK FACTOR VARIED BY CLOCK, WHICH SUGGESTS THAT DIFFERENT CLOCKS MAY CAPTURE ADVERSE EFFECTS FROM DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
20  4502  22 MORTALITY ASSOCIATIONS WITH DNA METHYLATION-BASED BIOLOGICAL AGING AND PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING MEASURES ACROSS A 20-YEAR FOLLOW-UP PERIOD. BACKGROUND: MEASURES OF BIOLOGICAL AGING RANGE FROM DNA METHYLATION (DNAM)-BASED ESTIMATES TO MEASURES OF PHYSICAL ABILITIES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE DNAM- AND PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING-BASED MEASURES OF BIOLOGICAL AGING IN PREDICTING MORTALITY. METHODS: WE STUDIED 63- TO 76-YEAR-OLD WOMEN (N = 395) FROM THE FINNISH TWIN STUDY ON AGING (FITSA). PARTICIPANTS' BIOLOGICAL AGE (EPIGENETIC CLOCKS DNAM GRIMAGE AND DUNEDINPACE) WAS ESTIMATED USING BLOOD DNAM DATA. TESTS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING CONDUCTED UNDER STANDARDIZED LABORATORY CONDITIONS INCLUDED THE TIMED UP AND GO (TUG) TEST AND 10-M WALK TEST. MORTALITY HAZARD RATIOS WERE CALCULATED PER EVERY 1 STANDARD DEVIATION (SD) INCREASE IN THE PREDICTOR. COX REGRESSION MODELS WERE CONDUCTED FOR INDIVIDUALS AND TWIN PAIRS, THE LATTER CONTROLLING FOR UNDERLYING GENETIC EFFECTS. THE MODELS WERE ADJUSTED FOR KNOWN LIFESTYLE PREDICTORS OF MORTALITY. RESULTS: DURING THE FOLLOW-UP PERIOD (MEAN 17.0 YEARS, RANGE 0.2-20.3), 187 PARTICIPANTS DIED. IN BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL-BASED AND PAIRWISE ANALYSES, GRIMAGE AND BOTH FUNCTIONAL BIOMARKERS OF AGING WERE ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY INDEPENDENT OF FAMILY RELATEDNESS, CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, BODY MASS INDEX, SMOKING, EDUCATION, OR CHRONIC DISEASES. IN A MODEL INCLUDING BOTH THE DNAM-BASED MEASURES AND FUNCTIONAL BIOMARKERS OF AGING, GRIMAGE AND TUG REMAINED PREDICTIVE. CONCLUSIONS: THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT DNAM GRIMAGE AND THE TUG TEST ARE STRONG PREDICTORS OF MORTALITY INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHERS AND GENETIC INFLUENCES. DNAM-BASED MEASURES AND FUNCTIONAL TESTS CAPTURE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE AGING PROCESS AND THUS COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER AS MEASURES OF BIOLOGICAL AGING IN PREDICTING MORTALITY.	2023