2024
Neuronal-specific methylome and hydroxymethylome analysis reveal significant loci associated with alcohol use disorder
Andrade-Brito D, Núñez-Ríos D, Martínez-Magaña J, Nagamatsu S, Rompala G, Zillich L, Witt S, Clark S, Lattig M, Montalvo-Ortiz J, Alvarez V, Benedek D, Che A, Cruz D, Davis D, Girgenti M, Hoffman E, Holtzheimer P, Huber B, Kaye A, Keane T, Krystal J, Labadorf A, Logue M, Marx B, Mash D, McKee A, Miller M, Montalvo-Ortiz J, Noller C, Schnurr P, Scott W, Stein T, Ursano R, Williamson D, Wolf E, Young K. Neuronal-specific methylome and hydroxymethylome analysis reveal significant loci associated with alcohol use disorder. Frontiers In Genetics 2024, 15: 1345410. PMID: 38633406, PMCID: PMC11021708, DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2024.1345410.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAssociated with alcohol use disorderAlcohol use disorderOrbitofrontal cortexEpigenome-wide association studiesUse disorderStudy of alcohol use disorderHuman orbitofrontal cortexAlcohol-related traitsHuman brainPostmortem brain samplesHuman postmortem brain samplesEnrichment analysisDifferential CpG sitesPostmortem brain tissueGenome-wide levelOxidative bisulfite sequencingAssessed 5Functional enrichment analysisBrain tissueFalse discovery rateBisulfite sequencingAssociation studiesDifferential methylationIdentified genesDNA methylation
2023
Profiling neuronal methylome and hydroxymethylome of opioid use disorder in the human orbitofrontal cortex
Rompala G, Nagamatsu S, Martínez-Magaña J, Nuñez-Ríos D, Wang J, Girgenti M, Krystal J, Gelernter J, Hurd Y, Montalvo-Ortiz J. Profiling neuronal methylome and hydroxymethylome of opioid use disorder in the human orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Communications 2023, 14: 4544. PMID: 37507366, PMCID: PMC10382503, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40285-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOpioid use disorderMulti-omics findingsGene expression patternsCo-methylation analysisGene expression profilesMulti-omics profilingGene networksDNA methylationNeuronal methylomesDNA hydroxymethylationMethylomic analysisExpression patternsExpression profilesEpigenetic disturbancesUse disordersPsychiatric traitsOrbitofrontal cortexOpioid-related drugsPostmortem orbitofrontal cortexEnvironmental factorsDrug interaction analysisOUD treatmentHuman orbitofrontal cortexOpioid signalingInteraction analysisCpH methylome analysis in human cortical neurons identifies novel gene pathways and drug targets for opioid use disorder
Nagamatsu S, Rompala G, Hurd Y, Núñez-Rios D, Montalvo-Ortiz J, Group T, Alvarez V, Benedek D, Che A, Cruz D, Davis D, Girgenti M, Hoffman E, Holtzheimer P, Huber B, Kaye A, Krystal J, Labadorf A, Keane T, Logue M, McKee A, Marx B, Mash D, Miller M, Noller C, JM-O, Scott W, Schnurr P, Stein T, Ursano R, Williamson D, Wolf E, Young K. CpH methylome analysis in human cortical neurons identifies novel gene pathways and drug targets for opioid use disorder. Frontiers In Psychiatry 2023, 13: 1078894. PMID: 36745154, PMCID: PMC9892724, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1078894.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOpioid use disorderOrbital frontal cortexDNA methylationKEGG enrichment analysisUse disordersMCPH lociTreatment of OUDGene OntologyEnrichment analysisOpioid-related drugsCpG sitesDrug targetsOxidative bisulfite sequencingImportant biological pathwaysDrug interaction analysisDrug-gene interaction databaseNervous system developmentSmoking statusBrain BankCortical neuronsFrontal cortexNeuronal nucleiHuman studiesGene regulationMethylome analysis
2021
DNA methylation changes in African American women with a history of preterm birth from the InterGEN study
Barcelona V, Montalvo-Ortiz JL, Wright ML, Nagamatsu ST, Dreisbach C, Crusto CA, Sun YV, Taylor JY. DNA methylation changes in African American women with a history of preterm birth from the InterGEN study. BMC Genomic Data 2021, 22: 30. PMID: 34482817, PMCID: PMC8418749, DOI: 10.1186/s12863-021-00988-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPreterm birthHealth disordersFull-term birthCentral nervous systemEpigenome-wide association studiesAfrican American womenInterGEN StudyBackgroundPreterm birthMaternal moodWomen 3Cardiovascular diseaseIndependent cohortPhysiologic mechanismsNervous systemAfrican American mothersSignificant CpG sitesEWAS approachWomenBirthSensory processingDNA methylationLong-term epigenetic effectsAmerican womenCommon outcomeFurther studies
2019
Identification of bovine CpG SNPs as potential targets for epigenetic regulation via DNA methylation
Maldonado MBC, de Rezende Neto NB, Nagamatsu ST, Carazzolle MF, Hoff JL, Whitacre LK, Schnabel RD, Behura SK, McKay SD, Taylor JF, Lopes FL. Identification of bovine CpG SNPs as potential targets for epigenetic regulation via DNA methylation. PLOS ONE 2019, 14: e0222329. PMID: 31513639, PMCID: PMC6742455, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222329.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle nucleotide polymorphismsCpG islandsDNA methylationReference genome sequence assemblyDatabase of SNPsCpG sitesBull Genomes ProjectGenome sequence assemblyDivergent feed efficiencyBovine phenotypesEpigenetic polymorphismEpigenetic controlEpigenetic regulationIntergenic regionNearby genesMethylation targetsGenomic sequencesMethylation patternsSequence assemblyGenome ProjectMethylation profilesMethylation sitesSNP databaseDifferential expressionVariant annotation