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ReviewTranslational psychiatry2020

Epigenetic mechanism of SETDB1 in brain: implications for neuropsychiatric disorders.

Yueyan Zhu, Daijing Sun, Mira Jakovcevski, Yan Jiang

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Review in Translational psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Aberrant Expression of Human Endogenous Retroviruses andInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. SETDB1 ensures the continuity of embryonic to adult neural stem cells through metabolic alterations in the dentate gyrus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  20. The Epigenome in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yueyan ZhuInstitutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontier Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, 200032, Shanghai, China.
Daijing SunInstitutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontier Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, 200032, Shanghai, China.
Mira JakovcevskiDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2262-823X
Yan JiangInstitutes of Brain Science, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontier Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, 200032, Shanghai, China. yan.jiang@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5002-4284
Fudan University · CNMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry · DE

Funding

State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology (State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Fudan University) JIH2640009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuropsychiatric disorders are a collective of cerebral conditions with a multifactorial and polygenetic etiology. Dysregulation of epigenetic profiles in the brain is considered to play a critical role in the development of neuropsychiatric disorders. SET domain, bifurcate 1 (SETDB1), functioning as a histone H3K9 specific methyltransferase, is not only critically involved in transcriptional silencing and local heterochromatin formation, but also affects genome-wide neuronal epigenetic profiles and is essential for 3D genome integrity. Here, we provide a review of recent advances towards understanding the role of SETDB1 in the central nervous system during early neurodevelopment as well as in the adult brain, with a particular focus on studies that link its functions to neuropsychiatric disorders and related behavioral changes, and the exploration of novel therapeutic strategies targeting SETDB1.

Indexed as

Histone-Lysine N-MethyltransferasePR-SET DomainsBrainEpigenesis, GeneticHistonesHistone-Lysine N-MethyltransferaseHistones

Identifiers

PMID32321908
PMCPMC7176658
OpenAlexW3020543348

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