EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2023.2294516
Thu N A Doan, James M Cowley, Aaron L Phillips, Jessica F Briffa, Shalem Y Leemaqz, Rachel A Burton, Tania Romano, Mary E Wlodek, Tina Bianco-Miotto
{"title":"Imprinted gene alterations in the kidneys of growth restricted offspring may be mediated by a long non-coding RNA.","authors":"Thu N A Doan, James M Cowley, Aaron L Phillips, Jessica F Briffa, Shalem Y Leemaqz, Rachel A Burton, Tania Romano, Mary E Wlodek, Tina Bianco-Miotto","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2023.2294516","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2023.2294516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Altered epigenetic mechanisms have been previously reported in growth restricted offspring whose mothers experienced environmental insults during pregnancy in both human and rodent studies. We previously reported changes in the expression of the DNA methyltransferase <i>Dnmt3a</i> and the imprinted genes <i>Cdkn1c</i> (Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1C) and <i>Kcnq1</i> (Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily Q member 1) in the kidney tissue of growth restricted rats whose mothers had uteroplacental insufficiency induced on day 18 of gestation, at both embryonic day 20 (E20) and postnatal day 1 (PN1). To determine the mechanisms responsible for changes in the expression of these imprinted genes, we investigated DNA methylation of KvDMR1, an imprinting control region (ICR) that includes the promoter of the antisense long non-coding RNA <i>Kcnq1ot1</i> (<i>Kcnq1</i> opposite strand/antisense transcript 1). <i>Kcnq1ot1</i> expression decreased by 51% in growth restricted offspring compared to sham at PN1. Interestingly, there was a negative correlation between <i>Kcnq1ot1</i> and <i>Kcnq1</i> in the E20 growth restricted group (Spearman's <i>ρ =</i> 0.014). No correlation was observed between <i>Kcnq1ot1</i> and <i>Cdkn1c</i> expression in either group at any time point. Additionally, there was a 11.25% decrease in the methylation level at one CpG site within KvDMR1 ICR. This study, together with others in the literature, supports that long non-coding RNAs may mediate changes seen in tissues of growth restricted offspring.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2294516"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10761017/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138828839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-02-18DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2318519
Daniel M Sapozhnikov, Moshe Szyf
{"title":"Genetic confounds of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mice.","authors":"Daniel M Sapozhnikov, Moshe Szyf","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2318519","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2318519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mammals remains a controversial phenomenon. A recent study by Takahashi et al. provides evidence for this mode of inheritance in mice by using a CRISPR/Cas9-based epigenetic editing technique to modify DNA methylation levels at specific promoters and then demonstrating the inheritance of the gain in methylation in offspring. In this technical commentary, we argue that the method used in the original study inherently amplifies the likelihood of genetic changes that thereafter lead to the heritability of epigenetic changes. We provide evidence that genetic changes from multiple sources do indeed occur in these experiments and explore several avenues by which these changes could be causal to the apparent inheritance of epigenetic changes. We conclude a genetic basis of inheritance cannot be ruled out and thus transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has not been adequately established by the original study.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2318519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10878023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139899588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-02-25DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2318517
Takaya Saito, Marit Espe, Vibeke Vikeså, Christoph Bock, Tårn H Thomsen, Anne-Catrin Adam, Jorge M O Fernandes, Kaja H Skjaerven
{"title":"One-carbon metabolism nutrients impact the interplay between DNA methylation and gene expression in liver, enhancing protein synthesis in Atlantic salmon.","authors":"Takaya Saito, Marit Espe, Vibeke Vikeså, Christoph Bock, Tårn H Thomsen, Anne-Catrin Adam, Jorge M O Fernandes, Kaja H Skjaerven","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2318517","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2318517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Supplementation of one-carbon (1C) metabolism micronutrients, which include B-vitamins and methionine, is essential for the healthy growth and development of Atlantic salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i>). However, the recent shift towards non-fish meal diets in salmon aquaculture has led to the need for reassessments of recommended micronutrient levels. Despite the importance of 1C metabolism in growth performance and various cellular regulations, the molecular mechanisms affected by these dietary alterations are less understood. To investigate the molecular effect of 1C nutrients, we analysed gene expression and DNA methylation using two types of omics data: RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and reduced-representation bisulphite sequencing (RRBS). We collected liver samples at the end of a feeding trial that lasted 220 days through the smoltification stage, where fish were fed three different levels of four key 1C nutrients: methionine, vitamin B6, B9, and B12. Our results indicate that the dosage of 1C nutrients significantly impacts genetic and epigenetic regulations in the liver of Atlantic salmon, particularly in biological pathways related to protein synthesis. The interplay between DNA methylation and gene expression in these pathways may play an important role in the mechanisms underlying growth performance affected by 1C metabolism.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2318517"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10900267/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139971381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2326869
Michael Mortillo, Elizabeth G Kennedy, Karen M Hermetz, Amber A Burt, Carmen J Marsit
{"title":"Epigenetic landscape of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and associations with gene expression in placenta.","authors":"Michael Mortillo, Elizabeth G Kennedy, Karen M Hermetz, Amber A Burt, Carmen J Marsit","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2326869","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2326869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>5-hydroxymethylcystosine (5hmC), is an intermediate product in the DNA demethylation pathway, but may act as a functional epigenetic modification. We have conducted the largest study of site-specific 5hmC in placenta to date using parallel bisulphite and oxidative bisulphite modification with array-based assessment. Incorporating parallel RNA-sequencing data allowed us to assess associations between 5hmC and gene expression, using expression quantitative trait hydroxymethylation (eQTHM) analysis. We identified ~ 47,000 loci with consistently elevated (systematic) 5hmC proportions. Systematic 5hmC was significantly depleted (<i>p</i> < 0.0001) at CpG islands (CGI), and enriched (<i>p</i> < 0.0001) in 'open sea' regions (CpG >4 kb from CGI). 5hmC was most and least abundant at CpGs in enhancers and active transcription start sites (TSS), respectively (<i>p</i> < 0.05). We identified 499 significant (empirical-p <0.05) eQTHMs within 1 MB of the assayed gene. At most (75.4%) eQTHMs, the proportion of 5hmC was positively correlated with transcript abundance. eQTHMs were significantly enriched among enhancer CpGs and depleted among CpGs in active TSS (<i>p</i> < 0.05 for both). Finally, we identified 107 differentially hydroxymethylated regions (DHMRs, <i>p</i> < 0.05) across 100 genes. Our study provides insight into placental distribution of 5hmC, and sheds light on the functional capacity of this epigenetic modification in placenta.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2326869"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10956631/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140179426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2333665
Caiqing Zheng, Ling Ma, Fan Song, Li Tian, Wanzhi Cai, Hu Li, Yuange Duan
{"title":"Comparative genomic analyses reveal evidence for adaptive A-to-I RNA editing in insect <i>Adar</i> gene.","authors":"Caiqing Zheng, Ling Ma, Fan Song, Li Tian, Wanzhi Cai, Hu Li, Yuange Duan","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2333665","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2333665","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although A-to-I RNA editing leads to similar effects to A-to-G DNA mutation, nonsynonymous RNA editing (recoding) is believed to confer its adaptiveness by 'epigenetically' regulating proteomic diversity in a temporospatial manner, avoiding the pleiotropic effect of genomic mutations. Recent discoveries on the evolutionary trajectory of Ser>Gly auto-editing site in insect <i>Adar</i> gene demonstrated a selective advantage to having an editable codon compared to uneditable ones. However, apart from pure observations, quantitative approaches for justifying the adaptiveness of individual RNA editing sites are still lacking. We performed a comparative genomic analysis on 113 Diptera species, focusing on the <i>Adar</i> Ser>Gly auto-recoding site in <i>Drosophila</i>. We only found one species having a derived Gly at the corresponding site, and this occurrence was significantly lower than genome-wide random expectation. This suggests that the <i>Adar</i> Ser>Gly site is unlikely to be genomically replaced with G during evolution, and thus indicating the advantage of editable status over hardwired genomic alleles. Similar trends were observed for the conserved Ile>Met recoding in gene <i>Syt1</i>. In the light of evolution, we established a comparative genomic approach for quantitatively justifying the adaptiveness of individual editing sites. Priority should be given to such adaptive editing sites in future functional studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2333665"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10965108/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140206499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2392049
Aikaterini Katirtzoglou, Søren B Hansen, Harald Sveier, Michael D Martin, Jaelle C Brealey, Morten T Limborg
{"title":"Genomic context determines the effect of DNA methylation on gene expression in the gut epithelium of Atlantic salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i>).","authors":"Aikaterini Katirtzoglou, Søren B Hansen, Harald Sveier, Michael D Martin, Jaelle C Brealey, Morten T Limborg","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2392049","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2392049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The canonical view of DNA methylation, a pivotal epigenetic regulation mechanism in eukaryotes, dictates its role as a suppressor of gene activity, particularly within promoter regions. However, this view is being challenged as it is becoming increasingly evident that the connection between DNA methylation and gene expression varies depending on the genomic location and is therefore more complex than initially thought. We examined DNA methylation levels in the gut epithelium of Atlantic salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i>) using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing, which we correlated with gene expression data from RNA sequencing of the same gut tissue sample (RNA-seq). Assuming epigenetic signals might be pronounced between distinctive phenotypes, we compared large and small fish, finding 22 significant associations between 22 differentially methylated regions and 21 genes. We did not detect significant methylation differences between large and small fish. However, we observed a consistent signal of methylation levels around the transcription start sites (TSS), being negatively correlated with the expression levels of those genes. We found both negative and positive associations of methylation levels with gene expression further upstream or downstream of the TSS, revealing a more unpredictable pattern. The 21 genes showing significant methylation-expression correlations were involved in biological processes related to salmon health, such as growth and immune responses. Deciphering how DNA methylation affects the expression of such genes holds great potential for future applications. For instance, our results suggest the importance of genomic context in targeting epigenetic modifications to improve the welfare of aquaculture species like Atlantic salmon.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2392049"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11332636/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2392400
Huanwei Zhuang, Hua Ouyang, Yangfei Peng, Shuji Gong, Kun Xiang, Le Chen, Jinlan Chen
{"title":"Expression patterns and clinical value of key m6A RNA modification regulators in smoking patients with coronary artery disease.","authors":"Huanwei Zhuang, Hua Ouyang, Yangfei Peng, Shuji Gong, Kun Xiang, Le Chen, Jinlan Chen","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2392400","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2392400","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Even though N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modifications are increasingly being implicated in human disease, their mechanisms are not fully understood in smokers with coronary artery disease (CAD). Thirty m6A-related regulators' expression (MRRE) in CAD individuals (smokers and non-smokers) were analyzed from GEO. Support Vector Machine, random forest, and nomogram models were constructed to assess its clinical value. Consensus clustering, principal component analysis, and ssGSEA were used to construct a full picture of m6A-related regulators in smokers with CAD. Oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) and qRT-PCR were used to validate hypoxia's effect on MRRE. A comparison between smokers with CAD and controls revealed lower expression levels of RBM15B, YTHDC2, and ZC3H13. Based on three key MRREs, all models showed good clinical value, and smokers with CAD were divided into two distinct molecular subgroups. The correlations were found between key MRRE and the degree of immune infiltration. Three key MRREs in HUVECs and FMC84 mouse cardiomyocytes were reduced in the OGD group. Through hypoxia, smoking might reduce the expression levels of RBM15B, YTHDC2, and ZC3H13 in smokers with CAD. Our findings provide an important theoretical basis for the treatment of smokers with CAD.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2392400"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11340747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142016750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WGBS of embryonic gonads revealed that long non-coding RNAs in the MHM region might be involved in cell autonomous sex identity and female gonadal development in chickens.","authors":"Ligen Chen, Yu Cheng, Guixin Zhang, Yang Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Qianhong Chen, Yanping Feng","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2023.2283657","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2023.2283657","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>DNA methylation plays a key role in sex determination and differentiation in vertebrates. However, there are few studies on DNA methylation involved in chicken gonad development, and most focused on male hypermethylated regions (MHM). It is unclear whether there are specific differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in chicken embryonic gonads regulating sex determination and differentiation. Here, the DNA methylation maps showed that the difference of DNA methylation level between sexes was much higher at embryonic day 10 (E10) than that at embryonic day 6 (E6), and the significant differentially methylated regions at both stages were mainly distributed on the Z chromosome, including MHM1 and MHM2. The results of bisulphite sequencing PCR (BSP) and qRT-PCR showed hypomethylation of female MHM and upregulation of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) whose promoter in the MHM region was consistent with the sequencing results, and similar results were in brain and muscle. In female sex-reversed gonads, the methylation pattern of MHM remained unchanged, and the expression levels of the three candidate lncRNAs were significantly decreased compared with those in females, but were significantly increased compared to males. The fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) results also showed that these lncRNAs were highly expressed in female embryonic gonads. The results of methyltransferase inhibitor and dual-luciferase reporter assay suggest that lncRNA expression may be regulated by DNA methylation within their promoters. Therefore, we speculated that MHM may be involved in cell-autonomous sex identity in chickens, and that lncRNAs regulated by MHM may be involved in female sexual differentiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2283657"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10761181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138458648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2413815
Elizabeth W Diemer, Johanna Tuhkanen, Sara Sammallahti, Kati Heinonen, Alexander Neumann, Sonia L Robinson, Matthew Suderman, Jianping Jin, Christian M Page, Ruby Fore, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Emily Oken, Patrice Perron, Luigi Bouchard, Marie France Hivert, Katri Räikköne, Jari Lahti, Edwina H Yeung, Weihua Guan, Sunni L Mumford, Maria C Magnus, Siri Håberg, Wenche Nystad, Christine L Parr, Stephanie J London, Janine F Felix, Henning Tiemeier
{"title":"Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of prenatal vitamin D insufficiency and cord blood DNA methylation.","authors":"Elizabeth W Diemer, Johanna Tuhkanen, Sara Sammallahti, Kati Heinonen, Alexander Neumann, Sonia L Robinson, Matthew Suderman, Jianping Jin, Christian M Page, Ruby Fore, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Emily Oken, Patrice Perron, Luigi Bouchard, Marie France Hivert, Katri Räikköne, Jari Lahti, Edwina H Yeung, Weihua Guan, Sunni L Mumford, Maria C Magnus, Siri Håberg, Wenche Nystad, Christine L Parr, Stephanie J London, Janine F Felix, Henning Tiemeier","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2413815","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2413815","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Low maternal vitamin D concentrations during pregnancy have been associated with a range of offspring health outcomes. DNA methylation is one mechanism by which the maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy could impact offspring's health in later life. We aimed to evaluate whether maternal vitamin D insufficiency during pregnancy was conditionally associated with DNA methylation in the offspring cord blood. Maternal vitamin D insufficiency (plasma 25-hydroxy vitamin D <math><mo>≤</mo></math> 75 nmol/L) during pregnancy and offspring cord blood DNA methylation, assessed using Illumina Infinium 450k or Illumina EPIC Beadchip, was collected for 3738 mother-child pairs in 7 cohorts as part of the Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics (PACE) consortium. Associations between maternal vitamin D and offspring DNA methylation, adjusted for fetal sex, maternal smoking, maternal age, maternal pre-pregnancy or early pregnancy BMI, maternal education, gestational age at measurement of 25(OH)D, parity, and cell type composition, were estimated using robust linear regression in each cohort, and a fixed-effects meta-analysis was conducted. The prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency ranged from 44.3% to 78.5% across cohorts. Across 364,678 CpG sites, none were associated with maternal vitamin D insufficiency at an epigenome-wide significant level after correcting for multiple testing using Bonferroni correction or a less conservative Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate approach (FDR, <i>p</i> > 0.05). In this epigenome-wide association study, we did not find convincing evidence of a conditional association of vitamin D insufficiency with offspring DNA methylation at any measured CpG site.</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2413815"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11487971/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142460919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EpigeneticsPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2380929
Alexandra Korolenko, Michael K Skinner
{"title":"Generational stability of epigenetic transgenerational inheritance facilitates adaptation and evolution.","authors":"Alexandra Korolenko, Michael K Skinner","doi":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2380929","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15592294.2024.2380929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The epigenome and epigenetic inheritance were not included in the original modern synthesis theory or more recent extended evolutionary synthesis of evolution. In a broad range of species, the environment has been shown to play a significant role in natural selection, which more recently has been shown to occur through epigenetic alterations and epigenetic inheritance. However, even with this evidence, the field of epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance has been left out of modern evolutionary synthesis, as well as other current evolutionary models. Epigenetic mechanisms can direct the regulation of genetic processes (e.g. gene expression) and also can be directly changed by the environment. In contrast, DNA sequence cannot be directly altered by the environment. The goal of this review is to present the evidence of how epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance can alter phenotypic variation in numerous species. This can occur at a significantly higher frequency than genetic change, so correlates with the frequency of evolutionary change. In addition, the concept and importance of generational stability of transgenerational inheritance is incorporated into evolutionary theory. For there to be a better understanding of evolutionary biology, we must incorporate all aspects of molecular (e.g. genetics and epigenetics) and biological sciences (e.g. environment and adaptation).</p>","PeriodicalId":11767,"journal":{"name":"Epigenetics","volume":"19 1","pages":"2380929"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11305060/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}