ArticleEpigenetics2022
Alterations in DNA methylation associate with fatty liver and metabolic abnormalities in a multi-ethnic cohort of pre-teenage children.
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- The epidemiology of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease among pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes: Systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Acetaminophen-induced acute liver injury abrogates the cytosine methylation pathway.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2026Article
- Putative Imprinting Control Regions with Aberrant Blood-Based DNA Methylation are Associated with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk.Journal of hepatocellular carcinoma · 2026Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in NAFLD: Harnessing Epigenetic and Gut Microbiota Pathways for Targeted Therapeutic Approaches.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- 5-Methylcytosine Methylation-Linked Hippo Pathway Molecular Interactions Regulate Lipid Metabolism.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- FGF1 ameliorates obesity-associated hepatic steatosis by reversing IGFBP2 hypermethylation.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2023Article
- The imprinted gene Zac1 regulates steatosis in developmental cadmium-induced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Non-Alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in children. Epigenetic alterations, such as through DNA methylation (DNAm), may link adverse childhood exposures and fatty liver and provide non-invasive methods for identifying children at high risk for NAFLD and associated metabolic dysfunction. We investigated the association between differential DNAm and liver fat content (LFC) and liver injury in pre-adolescent children. Leveraging data from the Newborn Epigenetics Study (NEST), we enrolled 90 mother-child dyads and used linear regression to identify CpG sites and differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in peripheral blood associated with LFC and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels in 7-12yo children. DNAm was measured using Infinium HumanMethylationEPIC BeadChips (Illumina). LFC and fibrosis were quantified by magnetic resonance imaging proton density fat fraction and elastography. Median LFC was 1.4% (range, 0.3-13.4%) and MRE was 2.5 kPa (range, 1.5-3.6kPa). Three children had LFC ≥ 5%, while six (7.6%) met our definition of NAFLD (LFC ≥ 3.7%). All children with NAFLD were obese and five were Black. LFC was associated with 88 DMRs and 106 CpGs (FDR<5%). The top two CpGs, cg25474373 and cg07264203, mapped to or near
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