Beate R. Ritz

This paper investigates the association between chlorpyrifos exposure and Parkinson's disease risk, finding increased odds of PD with long-term exposure and demonstrating causal mechanisms in animal models.

The paper investigates the association between sex steroid hormones and DNA methylation-based biomarkers of age and mortality risk in men and women, finding that higher testosterone and testosterone/estradiol ratio are linked to better epigenetic age and lower mortality risk in men.

This study develops pan-primate epigenetic clocks and sex predictors using DNA methylation data from 37 primate species, achieving high accuracy for age estimation across species.

The paper surveys rare epigenetic variation in 23,116 human genomes, identifies disease-relevant epivariations, and discovers novel CGG expansions linked to folate-sensitive fragile sites.