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ArticleEnvironmental epigenetics2025

Redundancy, noise, and plasticity: repetitive DNA as an epigenetic intelligence backbone of inflammatory regulation.

Valentina Bollati, Elia Biganzoli

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Article in Environmental epigenetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Valentina BollatiEPIGET Lab -Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health (DISCCO), "Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2023-2027", Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milan, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-9598
Elia BiganzoliINES (Institute of Epigenetics for Smiles), Università degli Studi di Milano, 20157 Milan, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1202-5873

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRepetitive DNA elements such as LINE1 have been proposed to support a redundant distributed, adaptive layer of gene regulation, contributing to "Epigenetic Intelligence" (EI). However, empirical evidence for their role in modulating inflammatory responses to environmental exposures remains limited.

objectivesWe investigated whether the association of PM with an aerodynamic diameter ≤10 µm (PM

methodsWe analyzed data from the SPHERE cohort (

resultsThe interaction between PM₁₀ exposure and LINE1 methylation was statistically supported (EDF ≈ 4.45,

conclusionsOur findings were coherent with the concept of EI. LINE1 methylation modulates the inflammatory response to environmental stressors, possibly acting as an adaptive epigenetic filter that buffers weak or transient signals. This distributed regulatory capacity may be critical for immune homeostasis under the dynamic environmental challenge.

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epigenetic intelligenceLINE1noiseplasticityredundancyrepetitive DNA

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PMID41199822
PMCPMC12587764

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