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ReviewHandbook of clinical neurology2018

Epigenetic mechanisms underlying nervous system diseases.

Irfan A Qureshi, Mark F Mehler

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Review in Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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43citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Chromatin modifiers in neurodevelopment.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2025
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  14. Epigenetics in Alzheimer's Disease: A Critical Overview.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  19. Epigenetics in rare neurological diseases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Irfan A QureshiRoslyn and Leslie Goldstein Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine; Institute for Brain Disorders and Neural Regeneration; Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States.
Mark F MehlerRoslyn and Leslie Goldstein Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine; Institute for Brain Disorders and Neural Regeneration; Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Einstein Cancer Center; Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Stem Cell Institute; and Center for Epigenomics and Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States. Electronic address: mark.mehler@einstein.yu.edu.

Funding

Translational Neuroimaging CoreP30HD071593 · NICHD · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI WALKLEY, STEVEN UPSHAW · 2011 to 2015
$5.6M
Huntington's disease: a novel developmental oligodendrogliopathyR01NS096144 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI MEHLER, MARK F · 2016 to 2020
$1.8M
Mechanisms Regulating Astroglial Lineage DevelopmentR01MH066290 · NIMH · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI MEHLER, MARK F · 2002 to 2006
$1.8M
Neurodegenerative Diseases: A New Class of Primary Developmental Disorders?R01NS071571 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI MEHLER, MARK F · 2010 to 2013
$1.3M
NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD071593NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH066290NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS071571NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS096144
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic mechanisms act as control systems for modulating genomic structure and activity in response to evolving profiles of cell-extrinsic, cell-cell, and cell-intrinsic signals. These dynamic processes are responsible for mediating cell- and tissue-specific gene expression and function and gene-gene and gene-environmental interactions. The major epigenetic mechanisms include DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation; histone protein posttranslational modifications, nucleosome remodeling/repositioning, and higher-order chromatin reorganization; noncoding RNA regulation; and RNA editing. These mechanisms are intimately involved in executing fundamental genomic programs, including gene transcription, posttranscriptional RNA processing and transport, translation, X-chromosome inactivation, genomic imprinting, retrotransposon regulation, DNA replication, and DNA repair and the maintenance of genomic stability. For the nervous system, epigenetics offers a novel and robust framework for explaining how brain development and aging occur, neural cellular diversity is generated, synaptic and neural network connectivity and plasticity are mediated, and complex cognitive and behavioral phenotypes are inherited transgenerationally. Epigenetic factors and processes are, not surprisingly, implicated in nervous system disease pathophysiology through several emerging paradigms - mutations and genetic variation in genes encoding epigenetic factors; impairments in epigenetic factor expression, localization, and function; epigenetic mechanisms modulating disease-associated factors and pathways; and the presence of deregulated epigenetic profiles in central and peripheral tissues.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticHumansNervous System DiseaseschromatinDNA methylationepigenetichistone modificationnoncoding RNARNA editingtransgenerational inheritance

Identifiers

PMID29325627
PMCPMC6822391

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