ArticleEnvironmental epigenetics2016
DNA methylation: a mechanism linking environmental chemical exposures to risk of autism spectrum disorders?
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 163 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Is there a dysbiosis in individuals with a neurodevelopmental disorder compared to controls over the course of development? A systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- Exploring the Molecular Mechanisms of Autism Induced by Early Childhood Exposure to Bisphenol A Based on Network Toxicology and Molecular Docking.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Global and regional DNA methylation patterns in heart failure: a case-control analysis.EBioMedicine · 2026Article
- An Overview of How Epigenetics, MicroRNA-21, and Endocrine Disrupting Compounds Affect Oocyte Maturation and Pre-Implantation Embryo Development.Journal of developmental biology · 2026Review
- Intrathecal amylin reverses morphine tolerance through site-specific DNA methylation of Pdyn and Bdnf promoters in rats.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Discovering, Integrating, and Reinterpreting the Molecular Logic of Life: From Classical Theories of Heredity to an Extended Functional Perspective on the Central Dogma.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Investigation of psychosocial stress and DNA methylation in genes related to immune response, metabolism, and calcium signaling among African American and White middle-aged adults.Environmental epigenetics · 2026Article
- Pathway information on methylation analysis using deep neural network (PROMINENT): An interpretable deep learning method with pathway prior for phenotype prediction using gene-level DNA methylation.Artificial intelligence in medicine · 2025Article
- Child and adolescent internalizing and externalizing traits, and epigenetic summary scores: A scoping review.Biological psychology · 2025Article
- Single-cell DNA methylation analysis tool Amethyst resolves distinct non-CG methylation patterns in human astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Association between gestational environmental chemical mixtures and folate exposures with autistic behaviors in a Canadian birth cohort.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- The Association of Prenatal Dietary Factors with Child Autism Diagnosis and Autism-Related Traits Using a Mixtures Approach: Results from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
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- Maternal Hyperandrogenemia and the Long-Term Neuropsychological, Sex Developmental, and Metabolic Effects on Offspring.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Identification of 17 novel epigenetic biomarkers associated with anxiety disorders using differential methylation analysis followed by machine learning-based validation.Clinical epigenetics · 2025Article
- DNA methyltransferase 1 regulates epithelial cell functions in corneal and eyelid development.Molecular vision · 2025Article
- Environmental Factor Index (EFI): A Novel Approach to Measure the Strength of Environmental Influence on DNA Methylation in Identical Twins.Epigenomes · 2024Article
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Abstract
There is now compelling evidence that gene by environment interactions are important in the etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, the mechanisms by which environmental factors interact with genetic susceptibilities to confer individual risk for ASD remain a significant knowledge gap in the field. The epigenome, and in particular DNA methylation, is a critical gene expression regulatory mechanism in normal and pathogenic brain development. DNA methylation can be influenced by environmental factors such as diet, hormones, stress, drugs, or exposure to environmental chemicals, suggesting that environmental factors may contribute to adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes of relevance to ASD via effects on DNA methylation in the developing brain. In this review, we describe epidemiological and experimental evidence implicating altered DNA methylation as a potential mechanism by which environmental chemicals confer risk for ASD, using polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead, and bisphenol A (BPA) as examples. Understanding how environmental chemical exposures influence DNA methylation and how these epigenetic changes modulate the risk and/or severity of ASD will not only provide mechanistic insight regarding gene-environment interactions of relevance to ASD but may also suggest potential intervention strategies for these and potentially other neurodevelopmental disorders.
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