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Starskaia I, Laajala E, Grönroos T, Härkönen T, Junttila S, Kattelus R, Kallionpää H, Laiho A, Suni V, Tillmann V, Lund R, Elo LL, Lähdesmäki H, Knip M, Kalim UU, Lahesmaa R. Early DNA methylation changes in children developing beta cell autoimmunity at a young age. Diabetologia 2022; 65:844-860. [PMID: 35142878 PMCID: PMC8960578 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-022-05657-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease of complex aetiology, including a potential role for epigenetic regulation. Previous epigenomic studies focused mainly on clinically diagnosed individuals. The aim of the study was to assess early DNA methylation changes associated with type 1 diabetes already before the diagnosis or even before the appearance of autoantibodies. METHODS Reduced representation bisulphite sequencing (RRBS) was applied to study DNA methylation in purified CD4+ T cell, CD8+ T cell and CD4-CD8- cell fractions of 226 peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples longitudinally collected from seven type 1 diabetes-specific autoantibody-positive individuals and control individuals matched for age, sex, HLA risk and place of birth. We also explored correlations between DNA methylation and gene expression using RNA sequencing data from the same samples. Technical validation of RRBS results was performed using pyrosequencing. RESULTS We identified 79, 56 and 45 differentially methylated regions in CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells and CD4-CD8- cell fractions, respectively, between type 1 diabetes-specific autoantibody-positive individuals and control participants. The analysis of pre-seroconversion samples identified DNA methylation signatures at the very early stage of disease, including differential methylation at the promoter of IRF5 in CD4+ T cells. Further, we validated RRBS results using pyrosequencing at the following CpG sites: chr19:18118304 in the promoter of ARRDC2; chr21:47307815 in the intron of PCBP3; and chr14:81128398 in the intergenic region near TRAF3 in CD4+ T cells. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION These preliminary results provide novel insights into cell type-specific differential epigenetic regulation of genes, which may contribute to type 1 diabetes pathogenesis at the very early stage of disease development. Should these findings be validated, they may serve as a potential signature useful for disease prediction and management.
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- Inna Starskaia
- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Turku Doctoral Programme of Molecular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Turku Doctoral Programme of Molecular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Pediatric Research Center, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Children's Clinic of Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Pediatric Research Center, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Tampere Center for Child Health Research, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
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- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
- InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
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Vanderlinden LA, Johnson RK, Carry PM, Dong F, DeMeo DL, Yang IV, Norris JM, Kechris K. An effective processing pipeline for harmonizing DNA methylation data from Illumina's 450K and EPIC platforms for epidemiological studies. BMC Res Notes 2021; 14:352. [PMID: 34496950 PMCID: PMC8424820 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-021-05741-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Illumina BeadChip arrays are commonly used to generate DNA methylation data for large epidemiological studies. Updates in technology over time create challenges for data harmonization within and between studies, many of which obtained data from the older 450K and newer EPIC platforms. The pre-processing pipeline for DNA methylation is not trivial, and influences the downstream analyses. Incorporating different platforms adds a new level of technical variability that has not yet been taken into account by recommended pipelines. Our study evaluated the performance of various tools on different versions of platform data harmonization at each step of pre-processing pipeline, including quality control (QC), normalization, batch effect adjustment, and genomic inflation. We illustrate our novel approach using 450K and EPIC data from the Diabetes Autoimmunity Study in the Young (DAISY) prospective cohort. RESULTS We found normalization and probe filtering had the biggest effect on data harmonization. Employing a meta-analysis was an effective and easily executable method for accounting for platform variability. Correcting for genomic inflation also helped with harmonization. We present guidelines for studies seeking to harmonize data from the 450K and EPIC platforms, which includes the use of technical replicates for evaluating numerous pre-processing steps, and employing a meta-analysis.
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- Lauren A Vanderlinden
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
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Bangarusamy DK, Lakshmanan AP, Al-Zaidan S, Alabduljabbar S, Terranegra A. Nutri-epigenetics: the effect of maternal diet and early nutrition on the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. Minerva Pediatr (Torino) 2021; 73:98-110. [PMID: 33880901 DOI: 10.23736/s2724-5276.20.06166-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Autoimmune diseases comprise a wide group of diseases involving a self-response of the immune system against the host. The etiopathogenesis is very complex involving disease-specific factors but also environmental factors, among which the diet. Maternal diet during pregnancy as well as early nutrition recently attracted the interest of the scientists as contributing to the immune programming. In this paper, we reviewed the most recent literature on the effect of maternal diet and early nutrition in modulating the immune system in a selected subset of autoimmune diseases: type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Particularly, we focused our narrative on the role of maternal and perinatal nutrition in the epigenetic mechanisms underlying the auto-immune response. Maternal diet during pregnancy as well as breastfeeding and early nutrition play a big role in many epigenetic mechanisms. Most of the nutrients consumed by the mother and the infant are known exerting epigenetic functions, such as folate, methionine, zinc, vitamins B12 and D, fibers, casein and gliadin, and they were linked to gene expression changes in the immune pathways. Despite the common role of maternal diet, breastfeeding and early nutrition in almost all the autoimmune diseases, each disease seems to have specific diet-driver epigenetic mechanisms that require further investigations. The research in this field is opening new routes to establishing a precision nutrition approach to the auto-immune diseases.
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- Dhinoth K Bangarusamy
- Unit of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Research, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Unit of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Research, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Unit of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Research, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Unit of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Research, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
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- Unit of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Research, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar -
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Johnson RK, Vanderlinden LA, Dong F, Carry PM, Seifert J, Waugh K, Shorrosh H, Fingerlin T, Frohnert BI, Yang IV, Kechris K, Rewers M, Norris JM. Longitudinal DNA methylation differences precede type 1 diabetes. Sci Rep 2020; 10:3721. [PMID: 32111940 PMCID: PMC7048736 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60758-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
DNA methylation may be involved in development of type 1 diabetes (T1D), but previous epigenome-wide association studies were conducted among cases with clinically diagnosed diabetes. Using multiple pre-disease peripheral blood samples on the Illumina 450 K and EPIC platforms, we investigated longitudinal methylation differences between 87 T1D cases and 87 controls from the prospective Diabetes Autoimmunity Study in the Young (DAISY) cohort. Change in methylation with age differed between cases and controls in 10 regions. Average longitudinal methylation differed between cases and controls at two genomic positions and 28 regions. Some methylation differences were detectable and consistent as early as birth, including before and after the onset of preclinical islet autoimmunity. Results map to transcription factors, other protein coding genes, and non-coding regions of the genome with regulatory potential. The identification of methylation differences that predate islet autoimmunity and clinical diagnosis may suggest a role for epigenetics in T1D pathogenesis; however, functional validation is warranted.
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- Randi K Johnson
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Colorado School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Aurora, CO, USA.
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Liu B, Xiang Y, Liu Z, Zhou Z. Past, present and future of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults. Diabetes Metab Res Rev 2020; 36:e3205. [PMID: 31318117 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.3205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is the most common form of autoimmune diabetes diagnosed in adults. Similar to type 1 diabetes, the prevalence of LADA is impacted by ethnicity and geography. LADA is characterized by β cell loss due to autoimmunity and insulin resistance and has highly heterogeneous clinical features, autoimmunity, and genetics in a glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody (GADA) titre-dependent manner, suggesting LADA is part of a continuum spectrum between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Although LADA is the most frequent form of autoimmune diabetes diagnosed in adults, clinical trials involving LADA are scarce. Here we review the recent advancements in LADA epidemiology, clinical features, pathogenesis, and interventions. We also highlight the environmental factors that are thought to play an important role in addition to genetics in the pathogenesis of LADA. In the future, high-throughput molecular profiles might shed light on the nature of LADA among the wide spectrum of diabetes and offer new opportunities to identify novel LADA-specific biomarkers.
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- Bingwen Liu
- Department of Metabolism & Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Diabetes Immunology, Ministry of Education, National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Metabolism & Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Diabetes Immunology, Ministry of Education, National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Metabolism & Endocrinology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Diabetes Immunology, Ministry of Education, National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Fujioka K, Nishida K, Ashina M, Abe S, Fukushima S, Ikuta T, Ohyama S, Morioka I, Iijima K. DNA methylation of the Rtl1 promoter in the placentas with fetal growth restriction. Pediatr Neonatol 2019; 60:512-516. [PMID: 30679037 DOI: 10.1016/j.pedneo.2019.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Small for gestational age (SGA) babies experience fetal growth restriction because of placental insufficiency, and aberrant fetal growth has been linked to DNA methylation in the placenta. An imprinted gene encoding retrotransposon-like protein 1 (RTL1) is regulated by DNA methylation in the promoter region and plays a key role in placental development. We therefore investigated the DNA methylation status of RTL1 in the placenta of infants with severe SGA. METHODS We extracted DNA from the placenta of appropriate for gestational age (AGA; gestational age 35 ± 6 weeks, birthweight 2292 ± 1006 g; n = 12), SGA (birthweight z-score ≤-2 SD, 33 ± 5 weeks, 1373 ± 580 g; n = 11), and severe SGA (birthweight z-score ≤-3 SD, 33 ± 4 weeks, 1145 g ± 423 g; n = 7) infants, and we determined the methylation rates of five CpG sites in the CG4 (82,275,427-82,275,737 in NT_026437 sequence, NCBI database) region of the RTL1 promoter by pyrosequencing. We defined hypermethylation (>75.5%) and hypomethylation (<45.6%) based on the average methylation rate exceeding ± two standard deviations (SD) in the AGA group, respectively, and compared these among groups. RESULTS There was no significant difference in the average methylation of CpG1-5 (control 59%, SGA 60%, severe SGA 63%), but abnormal methylation (hyper-/hypo-methylation) in CpG1 differed significantly among the groups (control 0%, SGA 36%, severe SGA 71%). CONCLUSION Infants with severe SGA have abnormal placental DNA methylation of CpG1 in the CG4 region of RTL1, suggesting the existence of disturbed epigenetic control in utero.
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- Kazumichi Fujioka
- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Yurikova OY, Aisina DE, Niyazova RE, Atambayeva SA, Labeit S, Ivashchenko AT. The Interaction of miRNA-5p and miRNA-3p with the mRNAs of Orthologous Genes. Mol Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893319040174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Bansal A, Pinney SE. DNA methylation and its role in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Pediatr Diabetes 2017; 18:167-177. [PMID: 28401680 PMCID: PMC5394941 DOI: 10.1111/pedi.12521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2016] [Revised: 02/08/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Although the factors responsible for the recent increase in the prevalence of diabetes worldwide are not entirely known, the morbidity associated with this disease results in substantial health and economic burden on society. Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation have been identified as one mechanism by which the environment interacts with the genome and there is evidence that alterations in DNA methylation may contribute to the increased prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This review provides a summary of DNA methylation and its role in gene regulation, and includes descriptions of various techniques to measure site-specific and genome-wide DNA methylation changes. In addition, we review current literature highlighting the complex relationship between DNA methylation, gene expression, and the development of diabetes and related complications. In studies where both DNA methylation and gene expression changes were reported, DNA methylation status had a strong inverse correlation with gene expression, suggesting that this interaction may be a potential future therapeutic target. We highlight the emerging use of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles as a biomarker to predict patients at risk of developing diabetes or specific complications of diabetes. The development of a predictive model that incorporates both genetic sequencing and DNA methylation data may be an effective diagnostic approach for all types of diabetes and could lead to additional innovative therapies.
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- Amita Bansal
- Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Research Building II/III, Philadelphia, PA,Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Biomedical Research Building II/III, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Division of Neonatology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Research Building II/III, Philadelphia, PA,Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Biomedical Research Building II/III, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
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