• Epigenetic mechanisms of lung carcinogenesis involve differentially methylated CpG sites beyond those associated with smoking 

      Petrovic, Dusan; Bodinier, Barbara; Dagnino, Sonia; Whitaker, Matthew; Karimi, Maryam; Campanella, Gianluca; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Polidoro, Silvia; Palli, Domenico; Krogh, Vittorio; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Panico, Salvatore; Lund, Eiliv; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Giles, Graham G; Severi, Gianluca; Southey, Melissa; Vineis, Paolo; Stringhini, Silvia; Bochud, Murielle; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Vermeulen, Roel CH; Guida, Florence; Chadeau-Hyam, Marc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-20)
      Smoking-related epigenetic changes have been linked to lung cancer, but the contribution of epigenetic alterations unrelated to smoking remains unclear. We sought for a sparse set of CpG sites predicting lung cancer and explored the role of smoking in these associations. We analysed CpGs in relation to lung cancer in participants from two nested case–control studies, using (LASSO)-penalised ...
    • Socioeconomic position, lifestyle habits and biomarkers of epigenetic aging: A multi-cohort analysis 

      Fiorito, Giovanni; McCrory, Cathal; Robinson, Oliver; Carmeli, Cristian; Rosales, Carolina Ochoa; Zhang, Yan; Colicino, Elena; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Artaud, Fanny; McKay, Gareth J.; Jeong, Ayoung; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Krogh, Vittorio; Panico, Salvatore; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Tumino, Rosario; Palli, Domenico; Matullo, Giuseppe; Guarrera, Simonetta; Gandini, Martina; Bochud, Murielle; Dermitzakis, Emmanouil; Muka, Taulant; Schwartz, Joel; Vokonas, Pantel S.; Just, Allan; Hodge, Allison M.; Giles, Graham G.; Southey, Melissa C.; Hurme, Mikko A.; Young, Ian; McKnight, Amy Jayne; Kunze, Sonja; Waldenberger, Melanie; Peters, Annette; Schwettmann, Lars; Lund, Eiliv; Baccarelli, Andrea; Milne, Roger L.; Kenny, Rose A.; Elbaz, Alexis; Brenner, Hermann; Kee, Frank; Voortman, Trudy; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Lehtimäki, Terho; Elliot, Paul; Stringhini, Silvia; Vineis, Paolo; Polidoro, Silvia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-14)
      <p>Differences in health status by socioeconomic position (SEP) tend to be more evident at older ages, suggesting the involvement of a biological mechanism responsive to the accumulation of deleterious exposures across the lifespan. DNA methylation (DNAm) has been proposed as a biomarker of biological aging that conserves memory of endogenous and exogenous stress during life. <p>We examined the ...
    • Stochastic Epigenetic Mutations Are Associated with Risk of Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Mature B-cell Neoplasms 

      Gagliardi, Amedeo; Dugué, Pierre-Antoine; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Southey, Melissa C.; Buchanan, Daniel D.; Schmidt, Daniel F; Makalic, Enes; Hodge, Allison M; English, Dallas R.; Wong Doo, Nicole; Hopper, John L.; Severi, Gianluca; Baglietto, Laura; Naccarati, Alessio; Krogh, Vittorio; Palli, Domenico; Panico, Salvatore; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Tumino, Rosario; Lund, Eiliv; Giles, Graham; Pardini, Barbara; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Milne, Roger L.; Paolo, Vineis; Polidoro, Silvia; Fiorito, Giovanni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-11)
      <p>Background: Age-related epigenetic dysregulations are associated with several diseases, including cancer. The number of stochastic epigenetic mutations (SEM) has been suggested as a biomarker of life-course accumulation of exposure-related DNA damage; however, the predictive role of SEMs in cancer has seldom been investigated. <p>Methods: A SEM, at a given CpG site, was defined as an extreme ...