2024
Reliable detection of stochastic epigenetic mutations and associations with cardiovascular aging
Markov Y, Levine M, Higgins-Chen A. Reliable detection of stochastic epigenetic mutations and associations with cardiovascular aging. GeroScience 2024, 46: 5745-5765. PMID: 38736015, PMCID: PMC11493905, DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01191-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStochastic epigenetic mutationsAge-related DNA methylation changesEpigenetic mutationsBlood cell type compositionDNA methylation changesCell type compositionUnmethylated probesPresence of SNPsGenomic locationsMethylation patternsMethylation changesDinucleotide sitesMethylation probesTechnical noiseBlood cell compositionTechnical replicate dataR packageAging phenotypesFramingham Heart StudyMutationsCell compositionAging biomarkersSNPsType compositionProbe
2023
More than bad luck: Cancer and aging are linked to replication-driven changes to the epigenome
Minteer C, Thrush K, Gonzalez J, Niimi P, Rozenblit M, Rozowsky J, Liu J, Frank M, McCabe T, Sehgal R, Higgins-Chen A, Hofstatter E, Pusztai L, Beckman K, Gerstein M, Levine M. More than bad luck: Cancer and aging are linked to replication-driven changes to the epigenome. Science Advances 2023, 9: eadf4163. PMID: 37467337, PMCID: PMC10355820, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf4163.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStem cell divisionImmortalized human cellsTissue-specific cancer riskTumorigenic stateCell divisionDNA methylationEpigenetic changesAge-related accumulationHuman cellsMultiple tissuesSomatic mutationsClinical tissuesTissue differencesEpigenomeCellsTissueNormal tissuesMethylationMutationsReplicationNormal breast tissueSignaturesVitroAccumulationDivision