DNA Methylation in Human Diseases
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules: Nucleic Acids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 3851
Special Issue Editors
Interests: DNA methylation alterations; bioinformatic analysis of genomic and epigenomic data; epigenome editing; 2D and 3D cellular models; epigenomics
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Interests: DNA methylation alterations; somatic mutations and epimutations in solid and blood cancers; genomics; epigenomics; genetics of complex traits; trace elements and multifactorial diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
DNA methylation plays a crucial role in many biological processes, contributing to gene expression regulation. A growing body of evidence underlines that DNA methylation alterations are associated with several human diseases, including cancer, imprinting disorders, metabolic disorders, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders and others. Defects in the machinery that regulates the establishment and the maintenance of DNA methylation pattern can give rise to gene expression changes, leading to the onset of human diseases and influence their clinical course. Therefore, DNA methylation changes can be used as biomarkers at all stages of clinical disease management, from risk assessment, early diagnosis, prognosis, treatment choice and relapse monitoring. Furthermore, given the reversible nature of epigenetic modifications, there is an increasing interest in developing methods to reverse DNA methylation aberrations.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions focused on the role of DNA methylation in human diseases, including, but not limited to, studies aimed at elucidating the mechanisms leading to DNA methylation aberrations, understanding the functional impact of DNA methylation changes, the discovery of potential DNA methylation biomarkers and the development of new therapies based on DNA methylation reprogramming.
Dr. Eleonora Loi
Dr. Patrizia Zavattari
Dr. Ana Florencia Vega Benedetti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- DNA methylation alterations
- DNA methylation profiling
- DNMT aberrations
- TET aberrations
- DNA methylation machinery
- DNA methylation biomarkers
- DNA methylation reprogramming