
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 15(12), P. 1287 - 1302
Published: Nov. 1, 2019
Introduction: The development of childhood asthma is caused by a combination genetic factors and environmental exposures. Epigenetics describes mechanisms (heritable) regulation gene expression that occur without changes in DNA sequence. strongly related to aging, cell-type specific, includes methylation, noncoding RNAs, histone modifications.Areas covered: This review summarizes recent epigenetic studies humans, which mostly involve methylation published the five years. Environmental exposures, particular cigarette smoking, have significant impact on changes, but few these signals are also associated with asthma. Several asthma-associated variants relate methylation. Epigenetic can be better understood studying their correlation expression, revealed higher presence activation blood eosinophils Strong associations nasal signatures atopic were identified, replicable across different populations.Expert commentary: markers been asthma, might serve as biomarker causal longitudinal relationships between epigenetics disease, exposures need further investigated. Efforts should made understand cell-type-specific
Language: Английский