Alicia K. Smith

This study examines how prenatal air pollution exposure affects DNA methylation in cord blood and its link to childhood wheeze, finding some epigenetic changes are partially buffered by maternal diet.

The paper investigates DNA methylation mediation between PTSD severity and cardiovascular disease risk, identifying six CpGs as potential epigenetic biomarkers.

This study conducts an epigenome-wide association study of PTSD in a South African population, identifying epigenetic changes and accelerated DNA methylation age associated with PTSD severity and comorbid metabolic syndrome.

This study identifies CpG sites associated with BMI and shows that epigenetic BMI prediction correlates with metabolic health markers.

The paper identifies a Neandertal introgressed haplotype in the OAS1 gene associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19 and shows it impairs SARS-CoV-2 clearance through genetic regulation of OAS1 expression.

The paper identifies methylation quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) in blood and ileum samples from Crohn's disease patients and finds they are largely consistent across disease states and tissues.

This study identifies 137 genome-wide significant loci associated with DNA methylation biomarkers of ageing using DNAm and SNP data from over 41,000 individuals.

The paper performs a meta-analysis of DNA methylation data from military cohorts to identify CpG sites and regions associated with PTSD development.

The paper identifies sex-specific changes in monocyte proportions in males with PTSD using methylomic data, showing no such changes in females.

This study identifies ten novel methylation loci associated with PTSD through a meta-analysis of 1,896 cases and controls across ten cohorts, highlighting the AHRR locus and its link to kynurenine levels.

The paper identifies FKBP5 epigenetic derepression by aging and stress as a driver of NF-kB-driven inflammation and cardiovascular risk through in vitro and cohort studies.

This study identifies 439 genes whose expression changes during healthy term pregnancies, associated with oxygen transport, immune function, and bacterial response.