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    A meta-analysis of pre-pregnancy maternal body mass index and placental DNA methylation identifies 27 CpG sites with implications for mother-child health

    Higher maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (ppBMI) is associated with increased neonatal morbidity, as well as with pregnancy complications and metabolic outcomes in offspring later in life. The placenta is...

    Nora Fernandez-Jimenez, Ruby Fore, Ariadna Cilleros-Portet in Communications Biology (2022)

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    Prenatal vitamin intake in first month of pregnancy and DNA methylation in cord blood and placenta in two prospective cohorts

    Prenatal vitamin use is recommended before and during pregnancies for normal fetal development. Prenatal vitamins do not have a standard formulation, but many contain calcium, folic acid, iodine, iron, omega-3...

    John F. Dou, Lauren Y. M. Middleton, Yihui Zhu, Kelly S. Benke in Epigenetics & Chromatin (2022)

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    Placental methylome reveals a 22q13.33 brain regulatory gene locus associated with autism

    Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) involves complex genetics interacting with the perinatal environment, complicating the discovery of common genetic risk. The epigenetic layer of DNA methylation shows dynamic dev...

    Yihui Zhu, J. Antonio Gomez, Benjamin I. Laufer, Charles E. Mordaunt in Genome Biology (2022)

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    Exosomal annexin A6 induces gemcitabine resistance by inhibiting ubiquitination and degradation of EGFR in triple-negative breast cancer

    Exosomes are carriers of intercellular information that regulate the tumor microenvironment, and they have an essential role in drug resistance through various mechanisms such as transporting RNA molecules and...

    Ting Li, Zhonghua Tao, Yihui Zhu, **aojia Liu, Lei** Wang in Cell Death & Disease (2021)

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    Epigenomic signatures in liver and blood of Wilson disease patients include hypermethylation of liver-specific enhancers

    Wilson disease (WD) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in ATP7B encoding a copper transporter. Consequent copper accumulation results in a variable WD clinical phenotype involving hepatic, neur...

    Charles E. Mordaunt, Dorothy A. Kieffer, Noreene M. Shibata in Epigenetics & Chromatin (2019)

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    Conversion of glycerol to pyruvate by Escherichia coli using acetate- and acetate/glucose-limited fed-batch processes

    We report the conversion of glycerol to pyruvate by E. coli ALS929 containing knockouts in the genes encoding for phosphoenolpyruvate synthase, lactate dehydrogenase, pyruvate formate lyase, the pyruvate dehydrog...

    Yihui Zhu, Mark A. Eiteman, Sarah A. Lee in Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biote… (2010)

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    Indirect monitoring of acetate exhaustion and cell recycle improve lactate production by non-growing Escherichia coli

    A two-phase, lactate fermentation by Escherichia coli ALS974 generates succinate and ethanol anaerobically from acetate. These by-products can be minimized by monitoring acetate concentration indirectly with diss...

    Yihui Zhu, Mark A. Eiteman, Elliot Altman in Biotechnology Letters (2008)