Epigenetics and the burden of noncommunicable disease: a paucity of research in Africa

Abstract 388: Epigenome-wide profiling identified significant differences in DNA methylation between African-American and European-American men with prostate cancer

(2015) Bernard Kwabi-Addo et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

GeMes, Clusters of DNA Methylation under Genetic Control, Can Inform Genetic and Epigenetic Analysis of Disease

(2014) Yun Liu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) are consistently detected across ancestry, developmental stage, and tissue type

(2014) Alicia K Smith et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The effect of smoking on DNA methylation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from African American women

(2014) Meeshanthini V Dogan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

DNA methylome profiling identifies novel methylated genes in African American patients with colorectal neoplasia

(2014) Hassan Ashktorab et al.   Epigenetics

Accounting for Population Stratification in DNA Methylation Studies

(2014) Richard T. Barfield et al.   GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

The effect of genotype and in utero environment on interindividual variation in neonate DNA methylomes

(2014) A. L. Teh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Epigenome-wide association studies without the need for cell-type composition

(2014) James Zou et al.   NATURE METHODS

Statistical power and significance testing in large-scale genetic studies

(2014) Pak C. Sham et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Epigenetics and life-long consequences of an adverse nutritional and diabetic intrauterine environment

(2014) Nady El Hajj et al.   REPRODUCTION

Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

(2014) et al.   SCIENCE

Advances in epigenome-wide association studies for common diseases

(2014) Dirk S. Paul et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Correcting for cell-type composition bias in epigenome-wide association studies

(2014) Robert Lowe et al.   Genome Medicine

Contribution of genetic variation to transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation

(2014) Allan F McRae et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The relationship between DNA methylation, genetic and expression inter-individual variation in untransformed human fibroblasts

(2014) James R Wagner et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Accounting for cellular heterogeneity is critical in epigenome-wide association studies

(2014) Andrew E Jaffe et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Epigenetics and Fetal Metabolic Programming: A Call for Integrated Research on Larger Cohorts

(2013) L. Bouchard   DIABETES

Gestational diabetes mellitus epigenetically affects genes predominantly involved in metabolic diseases

(2013) Stephanie-May Ruchat et al.   Epigenetics

DNA methylation contributes to natural human variation

(2013) H. Heyn et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Epigenetics and Early Life Origins of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases

(2013) Guoying Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Epigenetics of gestational diabetes mellitus and offspring health: the time for action is in early stages of life

(2013) H. Lehnen et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Epigenetics and Bacterial Infections

(2013) H. Bierne et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Distinct Genetic and Epigenetic Signatures of Colorectal Cancers According to Ethnic Origin

(2012) T. T. Nieminen et al.   CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS) in Cancer

(2012) Mukesh Verma   CURRENT GENOMICS

Metabolic Programming of MEST DNA Methylation by Intrauterine Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

(2012) N. El Hajj et al.   DIABETES

Placental Adiponectin Gene DNA Methylation Levels Are Associated With Mothers’ Blood Glucose Concentration

(2012) Luigi Bouchard et al.   DIABETES

Developmental origins of non-communicable disease: Implications for research and public health

(2012) Robert Barouki et al.   Environmental Health

Africa: Continent of genome contrasts with implications for biomedical research and health

(2012) Michèle Ramsay   FEBS LETTERS

Periconceptional maternal micronutrient supplementation is associated with widespread gender related changes in the epigenome: a study of a unique resource in the Gambia

(2012) Batbayar Khulan et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Commentary: The seven plagues of epigenetic epidemiology

(2012) Bastiaan T Heijmans et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Socio-economic status is associated with epigenetic differences in the pSoBid cohort

(2012) Dagmara McGuinness et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Genomic sovereignty and the African promise: mining the African genome for the benefit of Africa

(2012) Jantina de Vries et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

DNA Methylation Patterns in Cord Blood DNA and Body Size in Childhood

(2012) Caroline L. Relton et al.   PLoS One

Relationship between Tumor DNA Methylation Status and Patient Characteristics in African-American and European-American Women with Breast Cancer

(2012) Songping Wang et al.   PLoS One

Population-specificity of human DNA methylation

(2012) Hunter B Fraser et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

How can the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis contribute to improving health in developing countries?

(2011) Ricardo Uauy et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Fetal Programming and Metabolic Syndrome

(2011) Paolo Rinaudo et al.   Annual Review of Physiology

Racial differences in gene-specific DNA methylation levels are present at birth

(2011) Ronald M. Adkins et al.   BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART A-CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR TERATOLOGY

Associations with early-life socio-economic position in adult DNA methylation

(2011) Nada Borghol et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Epigenome-wide association studies for common human diseases

(2011) Vardhman K. Rakyan et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines

(2011) Jordana T Bell et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Leptin Gene Epigenetic Adaptation to Impaired Glucose Metabolism During Pregnancy

(2010) L. Bouchard et al.   DIABETES CARE

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: More questions than answers

(2010) L. Daxinger et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Environmental epigenetics

(2010) V Bollati et al.   HEREDITY

Epigenetics as a unifying principle in the aetiology of complex traits and diseases

(2010) Arturas Petronis   NATURE

Hypertension, Diabetes and Overweight: Looming Legacies of the Biafran Famine

(2010) Martin Hult et al.   PLoS One

Feeding a protein-restricted diet during pregnancy induces altered epigenetic regulation of peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor-α in the heart of the offspring

(2010) J. L. Slater-Jefferies et al.   Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Season of Conception in Rural Gambia Affects DNA Methylation at Putative Human Metastable Epialleles

(2010) Robert A. Waterland et al.   PLoS Genetics

Abundant Quantitative Trait Loci Exist for DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Human Brain

(2010) J. Raphael Gibbs et al.   PLoS Genetics

Non-Communicable Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case for Cohort Studies

(2010) Michelle D. Holmes et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

DNA methylation differences after exposure to prenatal famine are common and timing- and sex-specific

(2009) Elmar W. Tobi et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin promoter methylation becomes altered by early overfeeding: an epigenetic model of obesity and the metabolic syndrome

(2009) Andreas Plagemann et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans

(2009) S. A. Tishkoff et al.   SCIENCE

African Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Demographic History, Modern Human Origins, and Complex Disease Mapping

(2008) Michael C. Campbell et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

The agouti mouse model: an epigenetic biosensor for nutritional and environmental alterations on the fetal epigenome

(2008) Dana C Dolinoy   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans

(2008) B. T. Heijmans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA