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ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2011

Commentary: will analyzing the epigenome yield cohesive principles of ethanol teratology?

Rajesh C Miranda

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Article in Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Epigenetics-beyond the genome in alcoholism.Alcohol research : current reviews · 2012
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Rajesh C MirandaDepartment of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics, Texas A&M Health Science Center (RCM), College of Medicine, College Station, TX, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary discusses the impact of the manuscript by Zhou et al., titled "Alcohol Alters DNA Methylation Patterns and Inhibits Neural Stem Cell Differentiation," published in the April 2011 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (volume 35, issue 4, pages 1-12). In this manuscript, the authors present intriguing evidence from a genome scale analysis of promoter DNA methylation patterns in a class of neural crest stem cells associated with dorsal root ganglia, showing that ethanol essentially prevents epigenetic programming associated with neural stem cell differentiation. This manuscript presents several interesting and novel pieces of data and raises important questions for future research. The implications of these data for our understanding of the etiology of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are discussed.

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Central Nervous System DepressantsDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticEthanolHumansNeural Stem CellsNeurogenesisCentral Nervous System DepressantsEthanol

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