Michael Steffen Kobor

PhD

Director, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging
Edwin S.H. Leong UBC Chair in Healthy Aging – A UBC President’s Excellence Chair
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Investigator, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics
Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Lead, Social Exposome Cluster, UBC

As the sole carrier of genetic information, DNA does not exist as a naked template in the eukaryotic genome; instead DNA exists as a chromatin structure amenable to the changing environment, especially during the sensitive period of childhood. Not surprisingly, many complex regulatory mechanisms act on chromatin to ensure that each cell expresses only the appropriate genes, duplicates its genome with high fidelity, divides only when required, and combats constant assaults on its DNA.

Failure in any of the mechanisms regulating these events can lead to a wide range of outcomes from altered developmental trajectories to complex diseases. Furthermore, a number of chromatin modifying proteins are involved in genetic susceptibility to diseases. The objective of our research is to understand the molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in response to the environment. This is largely achieved through evaluating DNA methylation, histone variants, post-translational modification of histone, and nucleosome positioning. Additionally, genetic variation may interact with specific environments, imparting sensitivity or resilience, to ultimately alter epigenetics patterns and phenotypic outcomes.

Academic Affiliations

  • Professor, , Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Healthy Starts
  • Research Group(s): Origins of Child Health and Disease

Contact Information

Assistant

Tanya Erb

tanya.erb@bcchr.ca

Location

950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 4H4

Aging Out of the Blue: Estimating and Calibrating Region-specific Epigenetic Clocks for a Blue Zone via SuperLearner

Nolan Gunter and Andres Cardenas and Michael Kobor and Nicole Gladish and David Rehkopf and William Dow and Luis Rosero-Bixby and Alan Hubbard

DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.02.26346901

03 / 2026

Not all saliva samples are equal: The role of cellular heterogeneity in DNA methylation and epigenetic age analyses with biological and psychosocial factors

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Meingold H. Chan and Mandy Meijer and Sarah M. Merrill and Maggie P.Y. Fu and David Lin and Julia L. MacIsaac and Jenna L. Riis and Douglas A. Granger and Elizabeth A. Thomas and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107688

02 / 2026

Characterizing the regulatory effects of H2A.Z and SWR1-C on gene expression during hydroxyurea exposure in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

PLOS Genetics

Hilary T. Brewis and Peter C. Stirling and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011566

01 / 2025

Biological sex impacts immune cell proportions and epigenetic profiles in the developing pediatric immune system

Michael Kobor and Karlie Edwards and Sarah Merrill and Chaini Konwar and Marcia Jude and Beryl Zhuang and Mandy Meijer and Erick Navarro-Delgado and Julia MacIsaac and Piushkumar Mandhane and Elinor Simons and Theo Moraes and Meghan Azad and Padmaja Subbarao and Mariona Bustamante and Martine Vrijheid and Stuart Turvey

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5141819/v1

11 / 2024

DNA methylation signatures of youth-onset type 2 diabetes and exposure to maternal diabetes

Clinical Epigenetics

Ola E. Salama and Nikho Hizon and Melissa Del Vecchio and Kurt Kolsun and Mario A. Fonseca and David T. S. Lin and Oscar Urtatiz and Julia L. MacIsaac and Michael S. Kobor and Elizabeth A. C. Sellers and Vernon W. Dolinsky and Allison B. Dart and Meaghan J. Jones and Brandy A. Wicklow

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-024-01675-1

05 / 2024

Pediatric Buccal Epithelial Cell Proportions Decrease Reliably With Age: Considerations for PedBE in Pediatric Research

Michael Kobor

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4219789/v1

04 / 2024

Rtt107 cooperates with Rad55 or Slx4 to maintain genome stability inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

Joshua A. R. Brown and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.05.579050

02 / 2024

Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation

Environmental Pollution

Poojitha Rajasekar and Robert J. Hall and K.C. Binaya and Parth S. Mahapatra and Siva P. Puppala and Dhruma Thakker and Julia L. MacIsaac and David Lin and Michael Kobor and Charlotte E. Bolton and Ian Sayers and Ian P. Hall and Rachel L. Clifford

DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122561

11 / 2023

Cross-Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated with Cumulative Family Adversity

Meingold Hiu-ming Chan and Sarah M. Merrill and Fizza Fatima and Julie L. MacIsaac and Jelena Obradovic and W. Thomas Boyce and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.04.559423

10 / 2023

The Blood DNA Methylation Clock GrimAge Is a Robust Surrogate for Airway Epithelia Aging.

Biomedicines

Hernandez Cordero AI and Yang CX and Li X and Yang J and Shaipanich T and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Horvath S and Man SFP and Sin DD and Leung JM

DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10123094 PubMed: 36551848

12 / 2022

Epigenome-wide Association Study Analysis of Calorie Restriction in Humans, CALERIETM Trial Analysis

The Journals of Gerontology: Series A

Megan E Ramaker and David L Corcoran and Abner T Apsley and Michael S Kobor and Virginia B Kraus and William E Kraus and David T S Lin and Melissa C Orenduff and Carl F Pieper and Reem Waziry and Kim M Huffman and Daniel W Belsky

DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac168

12 / 2022

Sex differences in epigenetic age in Mediterranean high longevity regions.

Frontiers in aging

Engelbrecht HR and Merrill SM and Gladish N and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Ecker S and Chrysohoou CA and Pes GM and Kobor MS and Rehkopf DH

DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2022.1007098 PubMed: 36506464

11 / 2022

A balancing act: interactions within NuA4/TIP60 regulate picNuA4 function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and humans.

Genetics

Lu PYT and Kirlin AC and Aristizabal MJ and Brewis HT and Lvesque N and Setiaputra DT and Avvakumov N and Benschop JJ and Groot Koerkamp M and Holstege FCP and Krogan NJ and Yip CK and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac136 PubMed: 36066422

11 / 2022

Cumulative risk exposure and child cellular aging in a Dutch low-risk community sample.

Psychophysiology

Beijers R and Ten Thije I and Bolhuis E and O'Donnell KJ and Tollenaar MS and Shalev I and Hastings WJ and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Meaney M and Kobor MS and Belsky J and de Weerth C

DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14205 PubMed: 36323627

11 / 2022

Association of Pediatric Buccal Epigenetic Age Acceleration With Adverse Neonatal Brain Growth and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Children Born Very Preterm With a Neonatal Infection.

JAMA network open

Gomaa N and Konwar C and Gladish N and Au-Young SH and Guo T and Sheng M and Merrill SM and Kelly E and Chau V and Branson HM and Ly LG and Duerden EG and Grunau RE and Kobor MS and Miller SP

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39796 PubMed: 36322087

11 / 2022

Alpha-synuclein overexpression induces epigenomic dysregulation of glutamate signaling and locomotor pathways.

Human molecular genetics

Schaffner SL and Wassouf Z and Lazaro DF and Xylaki M and Gladish N and Lin DTS and MacIsaac J and Ramadori K and Hentrich T and Schulze-Hentrich JM and Outeiro TF and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac104 PubMed: 35567546

10 / 2022

Leptin receptor co-expression gene network moderates the effect of early life adversity on eating behavior in children.

Communications biology

de Lima RMS and Barth B and Mar Arcego D and de Mendona Filho EJ and Patel S and Wang Z and Pokhvisneva I and Parent C and Levitan RD and Kobor MS and Silveira PP

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03992-8 PubMed: 36241774

10 / 2022

Childhood Trauma and Epigenetics: State of the Science and Future

Current Environmental Health Reports

N. Gladish and S. M. Merrill and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1007/s40572-022-00381-5

10 / 2022

Human complete NFAT1 deficiency causes a triad ofjoint contractures, osteochondromas, and B-cellmalignancy.

Blood

Sharma M and Fu MP and Lu HY and Sharma AA and Modi BP and Michalski C and Lin S and Dalmann J and Salman A and Del Bel KL and Waqas M and Terry J and Setiadi A and Lavoie PM and Turvey SE

DOI: 10.1182/blood.2022015674 PubMed: 35789258

10 / 2022

Attachment insecurity and the biological embedding of reproductive strategies: Investigating the role of cellular aging.

Biological psychology

Bolhuis E and Belsky J and Frankenhuis WE and Shalev I and Hastings WJ and Tollenaar MS and O'Donnell KJ and McGill MG and Pokhvisneva I and Lin DTS and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Beijers R

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108446 PubMed: 36272562

10 / 2022

Integrative multi-omics database (iMOMdb) of Asian pregnant women.

Human molecular genetics

Pan H and Tan PF and Lim IY and Huan J and Teh AL and Chen L and Gong M and Tin F and Mir SA and Narasimhan K and Chan JKY and Tan KH and Kobor MS and Meikle PJ and Wenk MR and Chong YS and Karnani N

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac079 PubMed: 35445712

09 / 2022

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma gene variants modify human airway and systemic responses to indoor dibutyl phthalate exposure.

Respiratory research

Leung C and Ryu MH and Blling AK and Maestre-Batlle D and Rider CF and Hls A and Urtatiz O and MacIsaac JL and Lau KS and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Carlsten C

DOI: 10.1186/s12931-022-02174-8 PubMed: 36114491

09 / 2022

To what extent do social support and coping strategies mediate the relation between childhood maltreatment and major depressive disorder: A longitudinal community-based cohort.

Development and psychopathology

Li M and O'Donnell KJ and Caron J and Meaney MJ and Kobor M and D'Arcy C and Su Y and Liu A and Meng X

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579422000918 PubMed: 36102218

09 / 2022

Study protocol for Attachment & Child Health (ATTACHTM) program: promoting vulnerable Children's health at scale.

BMC pediatrics

Anis L and Letourneau N and Ross KM and Hart M and Graham I and Lalonde S and Varro S and Baldwin A and Soulsby A and Majnemer A and Donnelly C and Piotrowski C and Collier C and West Z

DOI: 10.1186/s12887-022-03439-3 PubMed: 35986306

08 / 2022

Fetal sex-specific epigenetic associations with prenatal maternal depressive symptoms.

iScience

Kee MZL and Teh AL and Clappison A and Pokhvisneva I and MacIssac JL and Lin DTS and Ramadori KE and Broekman BFP and Chen H and Daniel ML and Karnani N and Kobor MS and Gluckman PD and Meaney MJ

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104860 PubMed: 36046194

08 / 2022

DNA methylation as a mediator of genetic and environmental influences on Parkinson's disease susceptibility: Impacts of alpha-Synuclein, physical activity, and pesticide exposure on the epigenome.

Frontiers in genetics

Schaffner SL and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.971298 PubMed: 36061205

08 / 2022

The relationship between the epigenetic aging biomarker "grimage" and lung function in both the airway and blood of people living with HIV: An observational cohort study.

EBioMedicine

Hernndez Cordero AI and Yang CX and Yang J and Li X and Horvath S and Shaipanich T and MacIsaac J and Lin D and McEwen L and Kobor MS and Guillemi S and Harris M and Lam W and Lam S and INSIGHT START Pulmonary and Genomic Substudy Groups

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104206 PubMed: 35944348

08 / 2022

Airway Aging and Methylation Disruptions in HIV-associated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Hernndez Cordero AI and Yang CX and Yang J and Horvath S and Shaipanich T and MacIsaac J and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Guillemi S and Harris M and Lam W and Lam S and Montaner J and Leung JM

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202106-1440oc PubMed: 35426765

07 / 2022

Early IFN secretion determines variable downstream IL-12p70 responses upon TLR4 activation.

Cell reports

Posseme C and Llibre A and Charbit B and Bondet V and Rouilly V and Saint-Andr V and Boussier J and Bergstedt J and Smith N and Townsend L and Sugrue JA and N Cheallaigh C and Milieu Intrieur Consortium

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110989 PubMed: 35767946

06 / 2022

Pruning and thresholding approach for methylation risk scores in multi-ancestry populations

Chen J and Gatev E and Everson T and Conneely KN and Koen N and Epstein MP and Kobor MS and Zar HJ and Stein DJ and Huels A

DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.09.22276204

06 / 2022

Maternal epigenetic clocks measured during pregnancy do not predict gestational age at delivery or offspring birth outcomes: a replication study in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines.

Clinical epigenetics

Ryan CP and Rege RJ and Lee NR and Carba DB and Kobor MS and MacIsaac JL and Lin DS and Atashzay P and Kuzawa CW

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-022-01296-6 PubMed: 35733189

06 / 2022

Epigenome-wide association study analysis of calorie restriction in humans, CALERIE Trial analysis

Megan E. Ramaker and David L. Corcoran and Abner T. Apsley and Michael S. Kobor and Virginia B. Kraus and William E. Kraus and David T. S. Lin and Melissa C. Orenduff and Carl F. Pieper and Reem Waziry and Kim M. Huffman and Daniel W. Belsky

DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.03.494722

06 / 2022

Birth weight and maternal energy status during pregnancy as predictors of epigenetic age acceleration in young adults from metropolitan Cebu, Philippines.

Epigenetics

Kuzawa CW and Ryan CP and Adair LS and Lee NR and Carba DB and MacIsaac JL and Dever K and Atashzay P and Kobor MS and McDade TW

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2022.2070105 PubMed: 35574972

05 / 2022

DNA methylation as a potential mediator of the association between indoor air pollution and neurodevelopmental delay in a South African birth cohort

Feil D and Abrishamcar S and Christensen GM and Vanker A and Koen N and Kilanowski A and Hoffman N and Wedderburn CJ and Donald KA and Kobor MS and Zar HJ and Stein DJ and Hls A

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1670046/v1

05 / 2022

HIV, pathology and epigenetic age acceleration in different human tissues.

GeroScience

Horvath S and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Zoller JA and Said JW and Morgello S and Singer E and Yong WH and Jamieson BD and Levine AJ

DOI: 10.1007/s11357-022-00560-0 PubMed: 35411474

04 / 2022

In-utero exposure to indoor air pollution or tobacco smoke and cognitive development in a South African birth cohort study.

The Science of the total environment

Christensen GM and Rowcliffe C and Chen J and Vanker A and Koen N and Jones MJ and Gladish N and Hoffman N and Donald KA and Wedderburn CJ and Kobor MS and Zar HJ and Stein DJ and Hls A

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155394 PubMed: 35460774

04 / 2022

Reply to: Crossing the "Birth Border" for Epigenetic Effects.

Biological psychiatry

McGill MG and Pokhvisneva I and Clappison AS and McEwen LM and Beijers R and Tollenaar M and Pham H and Kee MZL and Garg E and de Mendona Filho EJ and Karnani N and Silveira PP and O'Donnell KJ

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.12.008 PubMed: 35249723

03 / 2022

Prenatal exposure to phthalates and peripheral blood and buccal epithelial DNA methylation in infants: An epigenome-wide association study.

Environment international

England-Mason G and Merrill SM and Gladish N and Moore SR and Giesbrecht GF and Letourneau N and MacIsaac JL and MacDonald AM and Kinniburgh DW and Ponsonby AL and Saffery R and APrON Study Team

DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107183 PubMed: 35325772

03 / 2022

Epigenome-wide association study and epigenetic age acceleration associated with cigarette smoking among Costa Rican adults.

Scientific reports

Cardenas A and Ecker S and Fadadu RP and Huen K and Orozco A and McEwen LM and Engelbrecht HR and Gladish N and Kobor MS and Rosero-Bixby L and Dow WH and Rehkopf DH

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08160-w PubMed: 35277542

03 / 2022

DNA methylation changes in cord blood and the developmental origins of health and disease - a systematic review and replication study.

BMC genomics

Akhabir L and Stringer R and Desai D and Mandhane PJ and Azad MB and Moraes TJ and Subbarao P and Turvey SE and Par G and Anand SS and NutriGen Alliance

DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08451-6 PubMed: 35305575

03 / 2022

Human germline biallelic complete NFAT1 deficiency causes the triad of progressive joint contractures, osteochondromas, and susceptibility to B cell malignancy

Sharma M and Fu MP and Lu HY and Sharma AA and Modi BP and Michalski C and Lin S and Dalmann J and Salman A and Del Bel KL and Waqas M and Terry J and Setiadi A and Lavoie PM and Turvey SE

DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.30.22269378

02 / 2022

HIV, Pathology and epigenetic age acceleration in different human tissues

Horvath S and Lin DT and Kobor MS and Said JW and Morgello S and Singer E and Yong WH and Jamieson BD and Levine AJ

DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.10.480013

02 / 2022

Dichotomy in the Impact of Elevated Maternal Glucose Levels on Neonatal Epigenome.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

Lim IY and Lin X and Teh AL and Wu Y and Chen L and He M and Chan SY and MacIsaac JL and Chan JKY and Tan KH and Chong MFF and Kobor MS and Godfrey KM and Meaney MJ and Lee YS and Eriksson JG and Karnani N

DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab710 PubMed: 34633450

02 / 2022

Immune cell type and DNA methylation vary with reproductive status in women: possible pathways for costs of reproduction.

Evolution, medicine, and public health

Ryan CP and Jones MJ and Edgar RD and Lee NR and Kobor MS and McDade TW and Kuzawa CW

DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoac003 PubMed: 35169479

02 / 2022

Newborn differential DNA methylation and subcortical brain volumes as early signs of severe neurodevelopmental delay in a South African Birth Cohort Study.

The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry

Hls A and Wedderburn CJ and Groenewold NA and Gladish N and Jones MJ and Koen N and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Ramadori KE and Epstein MP and Donald KA and Kobor MS and Zar HJ and Stein DJ

DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2021.2016955 PubMed: 34895032

01 / 2022

An invitro chronic damage model impairs inflammatory and regenerative responses in human colonoid monolayers.

Cell reports

Rees WD and Telkar N and Lin DTS and Wong MQ and Poloni C and Fathi A and Kobor M and Zachos NC and Steiner TS

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110283 PubMed: 35045294

01 / 2022

Sex differences in epigenetic age in Mediterranean high longevity regions

Frontiers in aging

Engelbrecht H and Merrill S and Gladish N and MacIsaac J and Lin D and Ecker S and Chrysohoou C and Pes G and Kobor M and Rehkopf D

01 / 2022

What makes a histone variant a variant: Changing H2A to become H2A.Z

PLOS Genetics

Hilary T. Brewis and Alice Y. Wang and Aline Gaub and Justine J. Lau and Peter C. Stirling and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009950

12 / 2021

Association between maternal depression during pregnancy and newborn DNA methylation.

Translational psychiatry

Drzymalla E and Gladish N and Koen N and Epstein MP and Kobor MS and Zar HJ and Stein DJ and Hls A

DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01697-w PubMed: 34750344

11 / 2021

Prenatal Adversity Alters the Epigenetic Profile of the Prefrontal Cortex: Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Food-Related Stress.

Genes

Lussier AA and Bodnar TS and Moksa M and Hirst M and Kobor MS and Weinberg J

DOI: 10.3390/genes12111773 PubMed: 34828381

11 / 2021

Neural correlates of attentional control in social anxiety disorder: the impact of early-life adversity and DNA methylation.

Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN

Wiegand A and Munk MHJ and Drohm S and Fallgatter AJ and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Nieratschker V and Kreifelts B

DOI: 10.1503/jpn.210064 PubMed: 34916236

11 / 2021

Infant DNA methylation: an early indicator of intergenerational trauma?

Early human development

Moore SR and Merrill SM and Sekhon B and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Giesbrecht GF and Letourneau N and APrON Team

DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105519 PubMed: 34890904

11 / 2021

Machine Learning-Based Single Cell and Integrative Analysis Reveals That Baseline mDC Predisposition Correlates With Hepatitis B Vaccine Antibody Response.

Frontiers in immunology

Aevermann BD and Shannon CP and Novotny M and Ben-Othman R and Cai B and Zhang Y and Ye JC and Kobor MS and Gladish N and Lee AH and Blimkie TM and Hancock RE and Llibre A and Duffy D and Scheuermann RH

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.690470 PubMed: 34777332

10 / 2021

Association between the FTO rs9939609 single nucleotide polymorphism and dietary adherence during a 2-year caloric restriction intervention: Exploratory analyses from CALERIE phase 2.

Experimental gerontology

Dorling JL and Belsky DW and Racette SB and Das SK and Ravussin E and Redman LM and Hchsmann C and Huffman KM and Kraus WE and Kobor MS and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Corcoran DL and Martin CK

DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2021.111555 PubMed: 34543722

09 / 2021

Autosomal sex-associated co-methylated regions predict biological sex from DNA methylation.

Nucleic acids research

Gatev E and Inkster AM and Negri GL and Konwar C and Lussier AA and Skakkebaek A and Sokolowski MB and Gravholt CH and Dunn EC and Kobor MS and Aristizabal MJ

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab682 PubMed: 34403484

09 / 2021

Risk-focused Differences in Molecular Processes Implicated in SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Corollaries in DNA Methylation and Gene Expression

Chaini Konwar and Rebecca Asiimwe and Amy M. Inkster and Sarah M. Merrill and Gian L. Negri and Maria J. Aristizabal and Christopher F. Rider and Julie L. MacIsaac and Christopher Carlsten and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-764250/v1

08 / 2021

Maternal Prenatal Anxiety and the Fetal Origins of Epigenetic Aging.

Biological psychiatry

McGill MG and Pokhvisneva I and Clappison AS and McEwen LM and Beijers R and Tollenaar MS and Pham H and Kee MZL and Garg E and de Mendona Filho EJ and Karnani N and Silveira PP and O'Donnell KJ

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.07.025 PubMed: 34756561

08 / 2021

Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation.

Developmental psychobiology

Merrill SM and Moore SR and Gladish N and Giesbrecht GF and Dewey D and Konwar C and MacIssac JL and Kobor MS and Letourneau NL

DOI: 10.1002/dev.22174 PubMed: 34333774

08 / 2021

Epigenetic age is associated with baseline and 3-year change in frailty in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Clinical epigenetics

Verschoor CP and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Mian O and Ma J and Pare G and Ybazeta G

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-021-01150-1 PubMed: 34425884

08 / 2021

Prefrontal cortex VAMP1 gene network moderates the effect of the early environment on cognitive flexibility in children.

Neurobiology of learning and memory

Dalmaz C and Barth B and Pokhvisneva I and Wang Z and Patel S and Quillfeldt JA and Mendona Filho EJ and de Lima RMS and Arcego DM and Sassi RB and Hall GBC and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Silveira PP

DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107509 PubMed: 34454100

08 / 2021

Optimized CRISPR-mediated gene knockin reveals FOXP3-independent maintenance of human Treg identity.

Cell reports

Lam AJ and Lin DTS and Gillies JK and Uday P and Pesenacker AM and Kobor MS and Levings MK

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109494 PubMed: 34348163

08 / 2021

Associations of peripheral blood DNA methylation and estimated monocyte proportion differences during infancy with toddler attachment style.

Attachment & human development

Merrill SM and Gladish N and Fu MP and Moore SR and Konwar C and Giesbrecht GF and MacIssac JL and Kobor MS and Letourneau NL

DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2021.1938872 PubMed: 34196256

07 / 2021

Maternal psychosocial risk factors and child gestational epigenetic age in a South African birth cohort study.

Translational psychiatry

Koen N and Jones MJ and Nhapi RT and Lake MT and Donald KA and Barnett W and Hoffman N and MacIsaac JL and Morin AM and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Koenen KC and Zar HJ and Stein DJ

DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01434-3 PubMed: 34215722

07 / 2021

The Immune Factors Driving DNA Methylation Variation in Human Blood

Jacob Bergstedt and Sadoune Ait Kaci Azzou and Kristin Tsuo and Anthony Jaquaniello and Alejandra Urrutia and Maxime Rotival and David T. S. Lin and Julia L. MacIsaac and Michael S. Kobor and Matthew L. Albert and Darragh Duffy and Etienne Patin and Llus Quintana-Murci

DOI: 10.1101/2021.06.23.449602

06 / 2021

Occurrence of Accelerated Epigenetic Aging and Methylation Disruptions in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Before Antiretroviral Therapy.

The Journal of infectious diseases

Yang CX and Schon E and Obeidat M and Kobor MS and McEwen L and MacIsaac J and Lin D and Novak RM and Hudson F and Klinker H and Dharan N and Horvath S and Bourbeau J and Tan W and Sin DD and Leung JM

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa599 PubMed: 32959881

05 / 2021

Risky family climates presage increased cellular aging in young adulthood.

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Brody GH and Yu T and Chen E and Kobor M and Beach SRH and Lei MK and Barr A and Lin DT and Miller GE

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105256 PubMed: 34058561

05 / 2021

DNA methylation differences associated with social anxiety disorder and early life adversity.

Translational psychiatry

Wiegand A and Kreifelts B and Munk MHJ and Geiselhart N and Ramadori KE and MacIsaac JL and Fallgatter AJ and Kobor MS and Nieratschker V

DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01225-w PubMed: 33542190

02 / 2021

Adiposity associated DNA methylation signatures in adolescents are related to leptin and perinatal factors.

Epigenetics

Huang RC and Melton PE and Burton MA and Beilin LJ and Clarke-Harris R and Cook E and Godfrey KM and Burdge GC and Mori TA and Anderson D and Rauschert S and Craig JM and Kobor MS and Lillycrop KA

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1876297 PubMed: 33550919

02 / 2021

Optimized CRISPR-mediated gene knock-in reveals FOXP3-independent control of human Treg identity

Avery J. Lam and David T.S. Lin and Jana K. Gillies and Prakruti Uday and Anne M. Pesenacker and Michael S. Kobor and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.16.426937

01 / 2021

Internalizing symptoms associate with the pace of epigenetic aging in childhood.

Biological psychology

Tollenaar MS and Beijers R and Garg E and Nguyen TTT and Lin DTS and MacIsaac JL and Shalev I and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and O'Donnell KJ and de Weerth C

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108021 PubMed: 33460784

01 / 2021

DNA methylation is associated with airflow obstruction in patients living with HIV.

Thorax

Hernandez Cordero AI and Yang CX and Obeidat M and Yang J and MacIsaac J and McEwen L and Lin D and Kobor M and Novak R and Hudson F and Klinker H and Dharan N and Man SP and Sin DD and INSIGHT START Pulmonary and Genomic Substudy Groups

DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215866 PubMed: 33443234

12 / 2020

Human T-bet Governs Innate and Innate-like Adaptive IFN- Immunity against Mycobacteria.

Cell

Yang R and Mele F and Worley L and Langlais D and Rosain J and Benhsaien I and Elarabi H and Croft CA and Doisne JM and Zhang P and Weisshaar M and Jarrossay D and Latorre D and Shen Y and Casanova JL

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.046 PubMed: 33296702

12 / 2020

Maternal antenatal depression and child mental health: Moderation by genomic risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Development and psychopathology

Chen LM and Tollenaar MS and Hari Dass SA and Bouvette-Turcot AA and Pokhvisneva I and Gaudreau H and Parent C and Diorio J and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Beijers R and MAVAN Study Team

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579420001418 PubMed: 33427178

12 / 2020

Maternal dysglycaemia, changes in the infant's epigenome modified with a diet and physical activity intervention in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of a randomised control trial.

PLoS medicine

Antoun E and Kitaba NT and Titcombe P and Dalrymple KV and Garratt ES and Barton SJ and Murray R and Seed PT and Holbrook JD and Kobor MS and Lin DT and MacIsaac JL and Burdge GC and UPBEAT Consortium

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003229 PubMed: 33151971

11 / 2020

Multi-Omic Data Integration Allows Baseline Immune Signatures to Predict Hepatitis B Vaccine Response in a Small Cohort.

Frontiers in immunology

Shannon CP and Blimkie TM and Ben-Othman R and Gladish N and Amenyogbe N and Drissler S and Edgar RD and Chan Q and Krajden M and Foster LJ and Kobor MS and Mohn WW and Brinkman RR and Lee AH

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.578801 PubMed: 33329547

11 / 2020

Systems Biology Methods Applied to Blood and Tissue for a Comprehensive Analysis of Immune Response to Hepatitis B Vaccine in Adults.

Frontiers in immunology

Ben-Othman R and Cai B and Liu AC and Varankovich N and He D and Blimkie TM and Lee AH and Gill EE and Novotny M and Aevermann B and Drissler S and Shannon CP and McCann S and Marty K and Sadarangani M

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.580373 PubMed: 33250895

11 / 2020

TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma.

Clinical epigenetics

Clifford RL and Yang CX and Fishbane N and Patel J and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and May ST and Castellanos-Uribe M and Nair P and Obeidat M and Kobor MS and Knox AJ and Hackett TL

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-020-00931-4 PubMed: 33008450

10 / 2020

Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Steine IM and LeWinn KZ and Lisha N and Tylavsky F and Smith R and Bowman M and Sathyanarayana S and Karr CJ and Smith AK and Kobor M and Bush NR

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113461 PubMed: 33126094

10 / 2020

Variability in DNA methylation at the serotonin transporter gene promoter: epigenetic mechanism or cell-type artifact?

Molecular Psychiatry

Sarah R. Moore and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0121-6

09 / 2020

Methylation of cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1 genes associates with lung function in asthmatics exposed to traffic-related air pollution.

Epigenetics

Rabinovitch N and Jones MJ and Gladish N and Faino AV and Strand M and Morin AM and MacIsaac J and Lin DTS and Reynolds PR and Singh A and Gelfand EW and Kobor MS and Carlsten C

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2020.1790802 PubMed: 32657253

07 / 2020

Distinctions between sex and time in patterns of DNA methylation across puberty.

BMC genomics

Moore SR and Humphreys KL and Colich NL and Davis EG and Lin DTS and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Gotlib IH

DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-06789-3 PubMed: 32493224

06 / 2020

Multi-Omic Approach to Identify Phenotypic Modifiers Underlying Cerebral Demyelination in X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy.

Frontiers in cell and developmental biology

Richmond PA and van der Kloet F and Vaz FM and Lin D and Uzozie A and Graham E and Kobor M and Mostafavi S and Moerland PD and Lange PF and van Kampen AHC and Wasserman WW and van Karnebeek CDM

DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00520 PubMed: 32671069

06 / 2020

CoMeBack: DNA methylation array data analysis for co-methylated regions.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

Gatev E and Gladish N and Mostafavi S and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa049 PubMed: 31985744

05 / 2020

Amygdala 5-HTT Gene Network Moderates the Effects of Postnatal Adversity on Attention Problems: Anatomo-Functional Correlation and Epigenetic Changes.

Frontiers in neuroscience

de Lima RMS and Barth B and Arcego DM and de Mendona Filho EJ and Clappison A and Patel S and Wang Z and Pokhvisneva I and Sassi RB and Hall GBC and Kobor MS and O'Donnell KJ and Silveira PP

DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00198 PubMed: 32256307

03 / 2020

Genetic susceptibility to asthma increases the vulnerability to indoor air pollution.

The European respiratory journal

Hls A and Vanker A and Gray D and Koen N and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Ramadori KE and Sly PD and Stein DJ and Kobor MS and Zar HJ

DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01831-2019 PubMed: 31949118

03 / 2020

Epigenetic aging in children from a small-scale farming society in The Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict

Developmental Psychobiology

Lee T. Gettler and David T. S. Lin and Valchy Miegakanda and Sheina Lew-Levy and Geeta N. Eick and J. Josh Snodgrass and Julia L. MacIsaac and Katia E. Ramadori and Michael S. Kobor and Adam H. Boyette

DOI: 10.1002/dev.21935

03 / 2020

Neonatal Alcohol Exposure in Mice Induces Select Differentiation- and Apoptosis-Related Chromatin Changes Both Independent of and Dependent on Sex.

Frontiers in genetics

Schaffner SL and Lussier AA and Baker JA and Goldowitz D and Hamre KM and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00035 PubMed: 32117449

02 / 2020

5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in cord blood and associations of DNA methylation with sex in newborns.

Mutagenesis

Solomon O and Macisaac JL and Tindula G and Kobor MS and Eskenazi B and Holland N

DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gez023 PubMed: 31587037

12 / 2019

Systematic evaluation and validation of reference and library selection methods for deconvolution of cord blood DNA methylation data

Clinical Epigenetics

Kristina Gervin and Lucas A. Salas and Kelly M. Bakulski and Menno C. van Zelm and Devin C. Koestler and John K. Wiencke and Liesbeth Duijts and Henritte A. Moll and Karl T. Kelsey and Michael S. Kobor and Robert Lyle and Brock C. Christensen and Janine F. Felix and Meaghan J. Jones

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-019-0717-y

12 / 2019

Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans

Aging Cell

Gregory M. Fahy and Robert T. Brooke and James P. Watson and Zinaida Good and Shreyas S. Vasanawala and Holden Maecker and Michael D. Leipold and David T. S. Lin and Michael S. Kobor and Steve Horvath

DOI: 10.1111/acel.13028

12 / 2019

Airway epithelial cell isolation techniques affect DNA methylation profiles with consequences for analysis of asthma related perturbations to DNA methylation.

Scientific reports

Clifford RL and Patel J and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Johnson SR and Shaw D and Knox AJ and Hackett TL and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50873-y PubMed: 31595000

10 / 2019

The PedBE clock accurately estimates DNA methylation age in pediatric buccal cells.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

McEwen LM and O'Donnell KJ and McGill MG and Edgar RD and Jones MJ and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Ramadori K and Morin A and Gladish N and Garg E and Unternaehrer E and Pokhvisneva I and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820843116 PubMed: 31611402

10 / 2019

Biological embedding of experience: A primer on epigenetics.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Aristizabal MJ and Anreiter I and Halldorsdottir T and Odgers CL and McDade TW and Goldenberg A and Mostafavi S and Kobor MS and Binder EB and Sokolowski MB and O'Donnell KJ

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1820838116 PubMed: 31624126

10 / 2019

DNA methylation of HPA-axis genes and the onset of major depressive disorder in adolescent girls: a prospective analysis.

Translational psychiatry

Humphreys KL and Moore SR and Davis EG and MacIsaac JL and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Gotlib IH

DOI: 10.1038/s41398-019-0582-7 PubMed: 31582756

10 / 2019

Regulation of Skn7-dependent, oxidative stress-induced genes by the RNA polymerase II-CTD phosphatase, Fcp1, and Mediator kinase subunit, Cdk8, in yeast.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Aristizabal MJ and Dever K and Negri GL and Shen M and Hawe N and Benschop JJ and Holstege FCP and Krogan NJ and Sadowski I and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.008515 PubMed: 31506296

09 / 2019

MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 promotes Fanconi Anemia R-loop suppression at transcription-replication conflicts.

Nature communications

Chang EY and Tsai S and Aristizabal MJ and Wells JP and Coulombe Y and Busatto FF and Chan YA and Kumar A and Dan Zhu Y and Wang AY and Fournier LA and Hieter P and Kobor MS and Masson JY and Stirling PC

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12271-w PubMed: 31537797

09 / 2019

Parenting Interacts With Plasticity Genes in Predicting Behavioral Outcomes in Preschoolers.

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres

Letourneau NL and de Koning APJ and Sekhon B and Ntanda HN and Kobor M and Deane AJ and Morin AM and Dewey D and Campbell TS and Giesbrecht GF and APrON Study Team

DOI: 10.1177/0844562119863612 PubMed: 31403319

08 / 2019

Prenatal exposure to traffic-related air pollution, the gestational epigenetic clock, and risk of early-life allergic sensitization.

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology

Sbihi H and Jones MJ and MacIsaac JL and Brauer M and Allen RW and Sears MR and Subbarao P and Mandhane PJ and Moraes TJ and Azad MB and Becker AB and Brook JR and Kobor MS and Turvey SE

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.07.047 PubMed: 31470034

08 / 2019

Gestational intermittent hypoxia induces endothelial dysfunction, reduces perivascular adiponectin and causes epigenetic changes in adult male offspring.

The Journal of physiology

Badran M and Yassin BA and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Ayas N and Laher I

DOI: 10.1113/jp277936 PubMed: 31441069

08 / 2019

Comprehensive genomic profiling of glioblastoma tumors, BTICs, and xenografts reveals stability and adaptation to growth environments.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Shen Y and Grisdale CJ and Islam SA and Bose P and Lever J and Zhao EY and Grinshtein N and Ma Y and Mungall AJ and Moore RA and Lun X and Senger DL and Robbins SM and Wang AY and Jones SJM

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813495116 PubMed: 31471491

08 / 2019

Inflammation-related genes are associated with epigenetic aging in HIV.

Journal of neurovirology

Sundermann EE and Hussain MA and Moore DJ and Horvath S and Lin DTS and Kobor MS and Levine A and HNRP Group

DOI: 10.1007/s13365-019-00777-4 PubMed: 31286441

07 / 2019

Integrated analysis of environmental and genetic influences on cord blood DNA methylation in new-borns.

Nature communications

Czamara D and Eraslan G and Page CM and Lahti J and Lahti-Pulkkinen M and Hmlinen E and Kajantie E and Laivuori H and Villa PM and Reynolds RM and Nystad W and Hberg SE and Binder EB

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10461-0 PubMed: 31186427

06 / 2019

Dynamic DNA methylation changes in the maternal oxytocin gene locus (OXT) during pregnancy predict postpartum maternal intrusiveness

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Philipp Toepfer and Kieran J. ODonnell and Sonja Entringer and Elika Garg and Christine M. Heim and David T.S. Lin and Julia L. MacIsaac and Michael S. Kobor and Michael J. Meaney and Nadine Provenal and Elisabeth B. Binder and Pathik D. Wadhwa and Claudia Buss

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.01.013

05 / 2019

Neonatal amygdalae and hippocampi are influenced by genotype and prenatal environment, and reflected in the neonatal DNA methylome.

Genes, brain, and behavior

Ong ML and Tuan TA and Poh J and Teh AL and Chen L and Pan H and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Chong YS and Kwek K and Saw SM and Godfrey KM and Gluckman PD and Fortier MV and Karnani N and Holbrook JD

DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12576 PubMed: 31020763

05 / 2019

Glutaminase Deficiency Caused by Short Tandem Repeat Expansion in GLS.

The New England journal of medicine

van Kuilenburg ABP and Tarailo-Graovac M and Richmond PA and Drgemller BI and Pouladi MA and Leen R and Brand-Arzamendi K and Dobritzsch D and Dolzhenko E and Eberle MA and van Karnebeek CDM

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1806627 PubMed: 30970188

04 / 2019

A biologically-informed polygenic score identifies endophenotypes and clinical conditions associated with the insulin receptor function on specific brain regions.

EBioMedicine

Hari Dass SA and McCracken K and Pokhvisneva I and Chen LM and Garg E and Nguyen TTT and Wang Z and Barth B and Yaqubi M and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Diorio J and Kobor MS and Silveira PP

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.03.051 PubMed: 30922963

03 / 2019

A Role of Oxytocin Receptor Gene Brain Tissue Expression Quantitative Trait Locus rs237895 in the Intergenerational Transmission of the Effects of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Toepfer P and O Donnell KJ and Entringer S and Heim CM and Lin DTS and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Provenal N and Binder EB and Wadhwa PD and Buss C

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.03.006 PubMed: 30858011

03 / 2019

Analysis of two birth tissues provides new insights into the epigenetic landscape of neonates born preterm.

Clinical epigenetics

Wu Y and Lin X and Lim IY and Chen L and Teh AL and MacIsaac JL and Tan KH and Kobor MS and Chong YS and Gluckman PD and Karnani N

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-018-0599-4 PubMed: 30744680

02 / 2019

Budding yeast Rtt107 prevents checkpoint hyperactivation after replicative stress by limiting DNA damage

DNA Repair

Joshua A.R. Brown and Michael S. Kobor

DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.01.001

02 / 2019

Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in relation to socioeconomic status during development and early adulthood.

American journal of physical anthropology

McDade TW and Ryan CP and Jones MJ and Hoke MK and Borja J and Miller GE and Kuzawa CW and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23800 PubMed: 30771258

02 / 2019

Integration of DNA methylation patterns and genetic variation in human pediatric tissues help inform EWAS design and interpretation.

Epigenetics & chromatin

Islam SA and Goodman SJ and MacIsaac JL and Obradovic J and Barr RG and Boyce WT and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-018-0245-6 PubMed: 30602389

01 / 2019

Maternal Metabolic Complications in Pregnancy and Offspring Behavior Problems at 2Years of Age.

Maternal and child health journal

Krzeczkowski JE and Lau A and Fitzpatrick J and Tamana S and Smithson L and de Souza R and Kozyrskyj AL and Lefebvre D and Becker AB and Subbarao P and Turvey SE and Pei J and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1007/s10995-018-2691-y PubMed: 30600520

01 / 2019

Social Environment and Epigenetics.

Current topics in behavioral neurosciences

Merrill SM and Gladish N and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1007/7854_2019_114 PubMed: 31485989

01 / 2019

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Profiling Developmental DNA Methylation Patterns in Central and Peripheral Tissues.

Frontiers in genetics

Lussier AA and Bodnar TS and Mingay M and Morin AM and Hirst M and Kobor MS and Weinberg J

DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00610 PubMed: 30568673

12 / 2018

Residential green space and pathways to term birth weight in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study.

International journal of health geographics

Cusack L and Sbihi H and Larkin A and Chow A and Brook JR and Moraes T and Mandhane PJ and Becker AB and Azad MB and Subbarao P and Kozyrskyj A and Takaro TK and Sears MR and Turvey SE and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1186/s12942-018-0160-x PubMed: 30514315

12 / 2018

Maternal psychosocial risk factors and offspring gestational epigenetic age acceleration in a South African birth cohort study

Koen N and Jones M and Nhapi RT and Donald KA and Barnett W and Hoffman N and MacIsaac JL and Morin AM and Lin DT and Kobor MS and Koenen KC and Zar HJ and Stein DJ

DOI: 10.1101/503623

12 / 2018

Exploring the genetic basis of human population differences in DNA methylation and their causal impact on immune gene regulation.

Genome biology

Husquin LT and Rotival M and Fagny M and Quach H and Zidane N and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Aschard H and Patin E and Quintana-Murci L

DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1601-3 PubMed: 30563547

12 / 2018

Diagnosing atopic dermatitis in infancy: Questionnaire reports vs criteria-based assessment.

Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

Dharma C and Lefebvre DL and Tran MM and Lu Z and Lou WYW and Subbarao P and Becker AB and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Moraes TJ and Azad MB and Sears MR and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1111/ppe.12525 PubMed: 30461044

11 / 2018

Early-life socioeconomic disadvantage, not current, predicts accelerated epigenetic aging of monocytes

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Makeda K. Austin and Edith Chen and Kharah M. Ross and Lisa M. McEwen and Julia L. Maclsaac and Michael S. Kobor and Gregory E. Miller

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.07.007

11 / 2018

Early post-conception maternal cortisol, children's HPAA activity and DNA methylation profiles.

Journal of developmental origins of health and disease

Barha CK and Salvante KG and Jones MJ and Farr P and Blais J and Kobor MS and Zeng L and Emberly E and Nepomnaschy PA

DOI: 10.1017/s2040174418000880 PubMed: 30428949

11 / 2018

The biological embedding of early-life socioeconomic status and family adversity in children's genome-wide DNA methylation.

Epigenomics

Bush NR and Edgar RD and Park M and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Adler NE and Essex MJ and Kobor MS and Boyce WT

DOI: 10.2217/epi-2018-0042 PubMed: 30351206

10 / 2018

Variably methylated regions in the newborn epigenome: environmental, genetic and combined influences

Czamara D and Eraslan G and Lahti J and Page CM and Lahti-Pulkkinen M and Hmlinen E and Kajantie E and Laivuori H and Villa PM and Reynolds RM and Nystad W and Haberg SE and Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

DOI: 10.1101/436113

10 / 2018

Cell type-specific DNA methylation in neonatal cord tissue and cord blood: a 850K-reference panel and comparison of cell types.

Epigenetics

Lin X and Tan JYL and Teh AL and Lim IY and Liew SJ and MacIsaac JL and Chong YS and Gluckman PD and Kobor MS and Cheong CY and Karnani N

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2018.1522929 PubMed: 30232931

10 / 2018

Exposure to childhood abuse is associated with human sperm DNA methylation.

Translational psychiatry

Roberts AL and Gladish N and Gatev E and Jones MJ and Chen Y and MacIsaac JL and Tworoger SS and Austin SB and Tanrikut C and Chavarro JE and Baccarelli AA and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1038/s41398-018-0252-1 PubMed: 30279435

10 / 2018

Systematic evaluation of DNA methylation age estimation with common preprocessing methods and the Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip array.

Clinical epigenetics

McEwen LM and Jones MJ and Lin DTS and Edgar RD and Husquin LT and MacIsaac JL and Ramadori KE and Morin AM and Rider CF and Carlsten C and Quintana-Murci L and Horvath S and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-018-0556-2 PubMed: 30326963

10 / 2018

Children's biobehavioral reactivity to challenge predicts DNA methylation in adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Developmental science

Goodman SJ and Roubinov DS and Bush NR and Park M and Farr P and Emberly E and Hertzman C and Essex MJ and Kobor MS and Boyce WT

DOI: 10.1111/desc.12739 PubMed: 30176105

09 / 2018

The early care environment and DNA methylome variation in childhood.

Development and psychopathology

Garg E and Chen L and Nguyen TTT and Pokhvisneva I and Chen LM and Unternaehrer E and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Mah SM and Gaudreau H and Levitan R and Moss E and Sokolowski MB and Mavan Study Team

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579418000627 PubMed: 30068421

08 / 2018

Comparison of DNA methylation measured by Illumina 450K and EPIC BeadChips in blood of newborns and 14-year-old children.

Epigenetics

Solomon O and MacIsaac J and Quach H and Tindula G and Kobor MS and Huen K and Meaney MJ and Eskenazi B and Barcellos LF and Holland N

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2018.1497386 PubMed: 30044683

08 / 2018

Differences in DNA methylation of white blood cell types at birth and in adulthood reflect postnatal immune maturation and influence accuracy of cell type prediction

Jones M and Dinh L and Razzaghian HR and de Goede O and MacIsaac JL and Morin AM and Gervin K and Ng R and Duijts L and van Zelm MC and Moll HA and Lyle R and Robinson WP and Koestler DC and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1101/399279

08 / 2018

An epigenetic pathway approach to investigating associations between prenatal exposure to maternal mood disorder and newborn neurobehavior.

Development and psychopathology

Conradt E and Adkins DE and Crowell SE and Monk C and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1017/S0954579418000688 PubMed: 30068429

08 / 2018

PRS-on-Spark (PRSoS): a novel, efficient and flexible approach for generating polygenic risk scores.

BMC bioinformatics

Chen LM and Yao N and Garg E and Zhu Y and Nguyen TTT and Pokhvisneva I and Hari Dass SA and Unternaehrer E and Gaudreau H and Forest M and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and O'Donnell KJ

DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2289-9 PubMed: 30089455

08 / 2018

Reproduction predicts shorter telomeres and epigenetic age acceleration among young adult women

Scientific Reports

Calen P. Ryan and M. Geoffrey Hayes and Nanette R. Lee and Thomas W. McDade and Meaghan J. Jones and Michael S. Kobor and Christopher W. Kuzawa and Dan T. A. Eisenberg

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29486-4

07 / 2018

Exploring the Genetic Basis of Human Population Differences in DNA Methylation and their Causal Impact on Immune Gene Regulation

Lucas T. Husquin and Maxime Rotival and Maud Fagny and Hlne Quach and Nora Zidane and Lisa M. McEwen and Julia L. MacIsaac and Michael S Kobor and Hugues Aschard and Etienne Patin and Lluis Quintana-Murci

DOI: 10.1101/371872

07 / 2018

Perinatally acquired HIV infection accelerates epigenetic aging in South African adolescents.

AIDS (London, England)

Horvath S and Stein DJ and Phillips N and Heany SJ and Kobor MS and Lin DTS and Myer L and Zar HJ and Levine AJ and Hoare J

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000001854 PubMed: 29746298

07 / 2018

Human milk oligosaccharide profiles and food sensitization among infants in the CHILD Study.

Allergy

Miliku K and Robertson B and Sharma AK and Subbarao P and Becker AB and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Lefebvre DL and Sears MR and CHILD Study Investigators and Bode L and Azad MB

DOI: 10.1111/all.13476 PubMed: 29775217

05 / 2018

Cysteinyl Leukotriene Receptor 1 and Health Effects of Particulate Exposure in Asthma.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Rabinovitch N and Jones MJ and Faino A and Strand M and Morin AM and MacIsaac J and Reynolds PR and Singh A and Kobor MS and Gelfand EW and Carlsten C

DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.201706-469mg PubMed: 29676619

04 / 2018

A novel, biologically-informed polygenic score reveals role of mesocorticolimbic insulin receptor gene network on impulsivity and addiction

McCracken K and Hari Dass SA and Pokhvisneva I and Chen LM and Garg E and Nguyen TT and Yaqubi M and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Diorio J and Kobor MS and O'Donnell KJ and Meaney MJ and Silveira P

DOI: 10.1101/289983

03 / 2018

DNA methylation signatures in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a lifestyle intervention for women at midlife: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme

McEwen LM and Gatev EG and Jones MJ and MacIsaac JL and McAllister MM and Goulding RE and Madden KM and Dawes MG and Kobor MS and Ashe MC

DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2017-0436 PubMed: 29049890

03 / 2018

Predicting the atopic march: Results from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development Study.

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology

Tran MM and Lefebvre DL and Dharma C and Dai D and Lou WYW and Subbarao P and Becker AB and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Sears MR and Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development Study investigators

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.08.024 PubMed: 29153857

02 / 2018

DNA methylome variation in a perinatal nurse-visitation program that reduces child maltreatment: a 27-year follow-up.

Translational psychiatry

O'Donnell KJ and Chen L and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Nguyen T and Beckmann K and Zhu Y and Chen LM and Brooks-Gunn J and Goldman D and Grigorenko EL and Leckman JF and Diorio J and Meaney MJ

DOI: 10.1038/s41398-017-0063-9 PubMed: 29317599

01 / 2018

Patterns of allergic sensitization and atopic dermatitis from 1 to 3 years: Effects on allergic diseases.

Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Dharma C and Lefebvre DL and Tran MM and Lou WYW and Subbarao P and Becker AB and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Sears MR and CHILD Study investigators

DOI: 10.1111/cea.13063 PubMed: 29143385

01 / 2018

Healthy Foundations Study: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate biological embedding of early-life experiences.

BMJ open

Gonzalez A and Catherine N and Boyle M and Jack SM and Atkinson L and Kobor M and Sheehan D and Tonmyr L and Waddell C and MacMillan HL and Healthy Foundations Study Team

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018915 PubMed: 29374668

01 / 2018

DNA methylation as a predictor of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Clinical epigenetics

Lussier AA and Morin AM and MacIsaac JL and Salmon J and Weinberg J and Reynolds JN and Pavlidis P and Chudley AE and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-018-0439-6 PubMed: 29344313

Altered DNA methylation is associated with aberrant gene expression in parenchymal but not airway fibroblasts isolated from individuals with COPD.

Clinical epigenetics

Clifford RL and Fishbane N and Patel J and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Fisher AJ and Brandsma CA and Nair P and Kobor MS and Hackett TL and Knox AJ

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-018-0464-5 PubMed: 29527240

Epigenetic analysis of human postmortem brain tissue.

Handbook of clinical neurology

Islam SA and Lussier AA and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-63639-3.00017-7 PubMed: 29496144

Agreement in DNA methylation levels from the Illumina 450K array across batches, tissues, and time.

Epigenetics

Forest M and O'Donnell KJ and Voisin G and Gaudreau H and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Silveira PP and Steiner M and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Greenwood CMT

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2017.1411443 PubMed: 29381404

Choice of surrogate tissue influences neonatal EWAS findings.

BMC medicine

Lin X and Teh AL and Chen L and Lim IY and Tan PF and MacIsaac JL and Morin AM and Yap F and Tan KH and Saw SM and Lee YS and Holbrook JD and Godfrey KM and Meaney MJ and Kobor MS and Chong YS and Karnani N

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0970-x PubMed: 29202839

12 / 2017

Epigenetic correlates of neonatal contact in humans.

Development and psychopathology

Moore SR and McEwen LM and Quirt J and Morin A and Mah SM and Barr RG and Boyce WT and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1017/s0954579417001213 PubMed: 29162165

12 / 2017

PRS-on-Spark: a novel, efficient and flexible approach for generating polygenic risk scores

Chen LM and Yao N and Garg E and Zhu Y and Nguyen TTT and Pokhvisneva I and Hari Dass SA and Forest M and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Kobor MS and Greenwood CMT and Silveira PP and O'Donnell KJ

DOI: 10.1101/209833

11 / 2017

Modes of Infant Feeding and the Risk of Childhood Asthma: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.

The Journal of pediatrics

Klopp A and Vehling L and Becker AB and Subbarao P and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Lefebvre DL and Sears MR and CHILD Study Investigators and Azad MB

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.07.012 PubMed: 29144244

11 / 2017

Birth weight and postnatal microbial exposures predict the distribution of peripheral blood leukocyte subsets in young adults in the Philippines.

Journal of developmental origins of health and disease

DOI: 10.1017/s2040174417000794 PubMed: 29017617

10 / 2017

RECQ-like helicases Sgs1 and BLM regulate R-loop-associated genome instability.

The Journal of cell biology

DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201703168 PubMed: 29042409

10 / 2017

DNA methylation patterns are related to co-morbidity status and circulating C-reactive protein levels in the nursing home elderly.

Experimental gerontology

DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2017.10.010 PubMed: 29032243

10 / 2017

Principles and Challenges of Applying Epigenetic Epidemiology to Psychology.

Annual review of psychology

DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033653 PubMed: 29035689

10 / 2017

Exploring genetic influences underlying acute aerobic exercise effects on motor learning.

Scientific reports

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12422-3 PubMed: 28935933

09 / 2017

Accelerated DNA methylation age in adolescent girls: associations with elevated diurnal cortisol and reduced hippocampal volume.

Translational psychiatry

DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.188 PubMed: 28850111

08 / 2017

Timing of food introduction and development of food sensitization in a prospective birth cohort.

Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

DOI: 10.1111/pai.12739 PubMed: 28557044

08 / 2017

Worldwide patterns of human epigenetic variation

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Oana Carja and Julia L. MacIsaac and Sarah M. Mah and Brenna M. Henn and Michael S. Kobor and Marcus W. Feldman and Hunter B. Fraser

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0299-z

08 / 2017

BECon: a tool for interpreting DNA methylation findings from blood in the context of brain.

Translational psychiatry

DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.171 PubMed: 28763057

08 / 2017

DNA methylation signatures of chronic alcohol dependence in purified CD3+ T-cells of patients undergoing alcohol treatment

Scientific Reports

Christof Brckmann and Sumaiya A. Islam and Julia L. MacIsaac and Alexander M. Morin and Kathrin N. Karle and Adriana Di Santo and Richard Wst and Immanuel Lang and Anil Batra and Michael S. Kobor and Vanessa Nieratschker

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06847-z

07 / 2017

Social and physical environments early in development predict DNA methylation of inflammatory genes in young adulthood.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620661114 PubMed: 28673994

07 / 2017

Trends in DNA Methylation with Age Replicate Across Diverse Human Populations.

Genetics

DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.195594 PubMed: 28533441

07 / 2017

Blood and nasal epigenetics correlate with allergic rhinitis symptom development in the environmental exposure unit.

Allergy

DOI: 10.1111/all.13263 PubMed: 28755526

07 / 2017

The relation between DNA methylation patterns and serum cytokine levels in community-dwelling adults: a preliminary study.

BMC genetics

DOI: 10.1186/s12863-017-0525-3 PubMed: 28637423

06 / 2017

The Intersection Of Aging Biology and The Pathobiology of Lung Diseases: A Joint NHLBI/NIA Workshop.

Budinger GS and Kohanski RA and Gan W and Kobor MS and Amaral LA and Armanios M and Kelsey KT and Pardo A and Tuder R and Macian F and Chandel N and Vaughan D and Rojas M and Mora AL and Kovacs E and Duncan SR and Finkel T and Choi A and Eickelberg O and Chen D and dummy-AUTHOR_name and Thannickal VJ

DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glx090 PubMed: 28498894

05 / 2017

Exposure to household furry pets influences the gut microbiota of infant at 3-4months following various birth scenarios.

Tun HM and Konya T and Takaro TK and Brook JR and Chari R and Field CJ and Guttman DS and Becker AB and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Subbarao P and Sears MR and Scott JA and Kozyrskyj AL and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1186/s40168-017-0254-x PubMed: 28381231

04 / 2017

Epigenetics studies of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: where are we now?

Lussier AA and Weinberg J and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.2217/epi-2016-0163 PubMed: 28234026

03 / 2017

Developmental pathways to adiposity begin before birth and are influenced by genotype, prenatal environment and epigenome.

Lin X and Lim IY and Wu Y and Teh AL and Chen L and Aris IM and Soh SE and Tint MT and MacIsaac JL and Morin AM and Yap F and Tan KH and Saw SM and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Godfrey KM and Chong YS and Holbrook JD and Lee YS and Gluckman PD

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0800-1 PubMed: 28264723

03 / 2017

Longitudinal study of surrogate aging measures during human immunodeficiency virus seroconversion.

Leung JM and Fishbane N and Jones M and Morin A and Xu S and Liu JC and MacIsaac J and Milloy MJ and Hayashi K and Montaner J and Horvath S and Kobor M and Sin DD and Harrigan PR and Man SF

DOI: 10.18632/aging.101184 PubMed: 28237978

02 / 2017

Inhalation of diesel exhaust and allergen alters human bronchial epithelium DNA methylation.

Clifford RL and Jones MJ and MacIsaac JL and McEwen LM and Goodman SJ and Mostafavi S and Kobor MS and Carlsten C

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.046 PubMed: 27321436

01 / 2017

An empirically driven data reduction method on the human 450K methylation array to remove tissue specific non-variable CpGs.

Edgar RD and Jones MJ and Robinson WP and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-017-0320-z PubMed: 28184257

Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region.

McEwen LM and Morin AM and Edgar RD and MacIsaac JL and Jones MJ and Dow WH and Rosero-Bixby L and Kobor MS and Rehkopf DH

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-017-0128-2 PubMed: 28465725

Associations between maternal risk factors of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes and the offspring epigenetic clock of gestational age at birth.

Girchenko P and Lahti J and Czamara D and Knight AK and Jones MJ and Suarez A and Hmlinen E and Kajantie E and Laivuori H and Villa PM and Reynolds RM and Kobor MS and Smith AK and Binder EB and Rikknen K

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-017-0349-z PubMed: 28503212

Cesarean Section, Formula Feeding, and Infant Antibiotic Exposure: Separate and Combined Impacts on Gut Microbial Changes in Later Infancy.

Frontiers in Pediatrics

DOI: 10.3389/fped.2017.00200 PubMed: 29018787

Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acid Variations by Breastfeeding Status in Infants at 4Months: Differences in Relative versus Absolute Concentrations.

Bridgman SL and Azad MB and Field CJ and Haqq AM and Becker AB and Mandhane PJ and Subbarao P and Turvey SE and Sears MR and Scott JA and Wishart DS and Kozyrskyj AL and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2017.00011 PubMed: 28443284

Maternal blood contamination of collected cord blood can be identified using DNA methylation at three CpGs.

Clinical epigenetics

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-017-0370-2 PubMed: 28770015

Combined Action of Histone Reader Modules Regulates NuA4 Local Acetyltransferase Function but Not Its Recruitment on the Genome.

Steunou AL and Cramet M and Rossetto D and Aristizabal MJ and Lacoste N and Drouin S and Ct V and Paquet E and Utley RT and Krogan N and Robert F and Kobor MS and Ct J

DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00112-16 PubMed: 27550811

11 / 2016

Genome-wide Interaction Analysis of Air Pollution Exposure and Childhood Asthma with Functional Follow-up.

Gref A and Kebede Merid S and Gruzieva O and Ballereau S and Becker A and Bellander T and Bergstrm A and Boss Y and Bottai M and Chan-Yeung M and Fuertes E and Ierodiakonou D and Jiang R and Joly S and Jones M and Kobor MS and Korek M and Kozyrskyj AL and Kumar A and Lemonnier N

PubMed: 27901618

11 / 2016

An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease.

Horvath S and Gurven M and Levine ME and Trumble BC and Kaplan H and Allayee H and Ritz BR and Chen B and Lu AT and Rickabaugh TM and Jamieson BD and Sun D and Li S and Chen W and Quintana-Murci L and Fagny M and Kobor MS and Tsao PS and Reiner AP and Edlefsen KL

DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1030-0 PubMed: 27511193

08 / 2016

Epigenetics: A New Model for Intracellular Parasite-Host Cell Regulation.

Robert McMaster W and Morrison CJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.04.002 PubMed: 27142564

04 / 2016

DNA Methylation Profiling in Human Huntington's Disease Brain.

De Souza RA and Islam SA and McEwen LM and Mathelier A and Hill A and Mah SM and Wasserman WW and Kobor MS and Leavitt BR

PubMed: 26953320

03 / 2016

A single flexible RNAPII-CTD integrates many different transcriptional programs.

Aristizabal MJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1080/21541264.2016.1163451 PubMed: 26985717

03 / 2016

Low birth weight associates with hippocampal gene expression.

Buschdorf JP and Ong ML and Ong SX and MacIsaac JL and Chng K and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Holbrook JD

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.01.013 PubMed: 26791528

03 / 2016

Differential DNA methylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in adolescents exposed to significant early but not later childhood adversity.

Esposito EA and Jones MJ and Doom JR and MacIsaac JL and Gunnar MR and Kobor MS

PubMed: 26847422

02 / 2016

Infant gut immunity: a preliminary study of IgA associations with breastfeeding.

Bridgman SL and Konya T and Azad MB and Sears MR and Becker AB and Turvey SE and Mandhane PJ and Subbarao P and CHILD Study Investigators and Scott JA and Field CJ and Kozyrskyj AL

DOI: 10.1017/S2040174415007862 PubMed: 26690933

02 / 2016

funtooNorm: an R package for normalization of DNA methylation data when there are multiple cell or tissue types.

Oros Klein K and Grinek S and Bernatsky S and Bouchard L and Ciampi A and Colmegna I and Fortin JP and Gao L and Hivert MF and Hudson M and Kobor MS and Labbe A and MacIsaac JL and Meaney MJ and Morin AM and O'Donnell KJ and Pastinen T and Van Ijzendoorn MH and Voisin G and Greenwood CM

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv615 PubMed: 26500152

02 / 2016

Comparison of Methyl-capture Sequencing vs. Infinium 450K methylation array for methylome analysis in clinical samples.

Teh AL and Pan H and Lin X and Lim YI and Patro CP and Cheong CY and Gong M and MacIsaac JL and Kwoh CK and Meaney MJ and Kobor MS and Chong YS and Gluckman PD and Holbrook JD and Karnani N

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2015.1132136 PubMed: 26786415

01 / 2016

Natural variation in maternal care and cross-tissue patterns of oxytocin receptor gene methylation in rats.

Beery AK and McEwen LM and MacIsaac JL and Francis DD and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.05.022 PubMed: 26122287

01 / 2016

Rtt107 BRCT domains act as a targeting module in the DNA damage response.

Leung GP and Brown JA and Glover JN and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.10.007 PubMed: 26641499

01 / 2016

Improving cell mixture deconvolution by identifying optimal DNA methylation libraries (IDOL).

Koestler DC and Jones MJ and Usset J and Christensen BC and Butler RA and Kobor MS and Wiencke JK and Kelsey KT

DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-0943-7 PubMed: 26956433

AllerGens 8th research conference.

Arrieta M and Arevalos A and Stiemsma L and Chico ME and Sandoval C and Jin M and Walter J and Cooper P and Finlay B and Bernatchez E and Gold MJ and Langlois A and Blais-Lecours P and Duchaine C and Marsolais D and McNagny KM and Blanchet M and Brubacher J and Chhetri B and Sabaliauskas K

DNA methylation signature of human fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Portales-Casamar E and Lussier AA and Jones MJ and MacIsaac JL and Edgar RD and Mah SM and Barhdadi A and Provost S and Lemieux-Perreault LP and Cynader MS and Chudley AE and Dub MP and Reynolds JN and Pavlidis P and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0074-4 PubMed: 27358653

DNA methylation and healthy human aging.

Jones MJ and Goodman SJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1111/acel.12349 PubMed: 25913071

12 / 2015

Bacterial infection remodels the DNA methylation landscape of human dendritic cells.

Pacis A and Tailleux L and Morin AM and Lambourne J and MacIsaac JL and Yotova V and Dumaine A and Danckaert A and Luca F and Grenier JC and Hansen KD and Gicquel B and Yu M and Pai A and He C and Tung J and Pastinen T and Kobor MS and Pique-Regi R and Gilad Y

DOI: 10.1101/gr.192005.115 PubMed: 26392366

12 / 2015

Maternal early life adversities and the offspring's epigenome: A M.A.V.A.N. project.

Unternaehrer E and O'Donnell K and Bouvette-Turcot AA and Gaudreau H and Cost K and Fleming A and Steiner M and MacIsaac J and Mah S and McEwen L and Kobor M and Chen L and Pan H and Hui WY and Holbrook J and Meaney M and Study Team MAVAN

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.07.477 PubMed: 26383363

11 / 2015

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study: examining developmental origins of allergy and asthma.

Subbarao P and Anand SS and Becker AB and Befus AD and Brauer M and Brook JR and Denburg JA and HayGlass KT and Kobor MS and Kollmann TR and Kozyrskyj AL and Lou WY and Mandhane PJ and Miller GE and Moraes TJ and Pare PD and Scott JA and Takaro TK and Turvey SE and Duncan JM

DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207246 PubMed: 26069286

10 / 2015

The RNAPII-CTD Maintains Genome Integrity through Inhibition of Retrotransposon Gene Expression and Transposition.

Aristizabal MJ and Negri GL and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005608 PubMed: 26496706

10 / 2015

Prenatal alcohol exposure alters gene expression in the rat brain: Experimental design and bioinformatic analysis of microarray data.

Lussier AA and Stepien KA and Weinberg J and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.05.007 PubMed: 26217797

09 / 2015

Impact of maternal intrapartum antibiotics, method of birth and breastfeeding on gut microbiota during the first year of life: a prospective cohort study.

Azad MB and Konya T and Persaud RR and Guttman DS and Chari RS and Field CJ and Sears MR and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Subbarao P and Becker AB and Scott JA and Kozyrskyj AL and CHILD Study Investigators

PubMed: 26412384

09 / 2015

Adjusting for Cell Type Composition in DNA Methylation Data Using a Regression-Based Approach.

Jones MJ and Islam SA and Edgar RD and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1007/7651_2015_262 PubMed: 26126446

07 / 2015

A pooling-based approach to mapping genetic variants associated with DNA methylation.

Kaplow IM and MacIsaac JL and Mah SM and McEwen LM and Kobor MS and Fraser HB

DOI: 10.1101/gr.183749.114 PubMed: 25910490

06 / 2015

Landscape of DNA methylation on the X chromosome reflects CpG density, functional chromatin state and X-chromosome inactivation.

Cotton AM and Price EM and Jones MJ and Balaton BP and Kobor MS and Brown CJ

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu564 PubMed: 25381334

03 / 2015

Infant gut microbiota and food sensitization: associations in the first year of life.

Azad MB and Konya T and Guttman DS and Field CJ and Sears MR and HayGlass KT and Mandhane PJ and Turvey SE and Subbarao P and Becker AB and Scott JA and Kozyrskyj AL and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1111/cea.12487 PubMed: 25599982

03 / 2015

Prenatal alcohol exposure alters steady-state and activated gene expression in the adult rat brain.

Lussier AA and Stepien KA and Neumann SM and Pavlidis P and Kobor MS and Weinberg J

DOI: 10.1111/acer.12622 PubMed: 25684047

02 / 2015

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism influences the association of the methylome with maternal anxiety and neonatal brain volumes.

Chen L and Pan H and Tuan TA and Teh AL and MacIsaac JL and Mah SM and McEwen LM and Li Y and Chen H and Broekman BF and Buschdorf JP and Chong YS and Kwek K and Saw SM and Gluckman PD and Fortier MV and Rifkin-Graboi A and Kobor MS and Qiu A and Meaney MJ

DOI: 10.1017/S0954579414001357 PubMed: 25640836

02 / 2015

Development and the epigenome: the 'synapse' of gene-environment interplay.

Boyce WT and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1111/desc.12282 PubMed: 25546559

01 / 2015

The Canadian healthy infant longitudinal development birth cohort study: biological samples and biobanking.

Moraes TJ and Lefebvre DL and Chooniedass R and Becker AB and Brook JR and Denburg J and HayGlass KT and Hegele RG and Kollmann TR and Macri J and Mandhane PJ and Scott JA and Subbarao P and Takaro TK and Turvey SE and Duncan JD and Sears MR and Befus AD and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1111/ppe.12161 PubMed: 25405552

01 / 2015

HIF3A association with adiposity: the story begins before birth.

Pan H and Lin X and Wu Y and Chen L and Teh AL and Soh SE and Lee YS and Tint MT and MacIsaac JL and Morin AM and Tan KH and Yap F and Saw SM and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Godfrey KM and Chong YS and Gluckman PD and Karnani N and Holbrook JD

DOI: 10.2217/epi.15.45 PubMed: 26011824

The epigenomic landscape of African rainforest hunter-gatherers and farmers.

Fagny M and Patin E and MacIsaac JL and Rotival M and Flutre T and Jones MJ and Siddle KJ and Quach H and Harmant C and McEwen LM and Froment A and Heyer E and Gessain A and Betsem E and Mouguiama-Daouda P and Hombert JM and Perry GH and Barreiro LB and Kobor MS and Quintana-Murci L

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10047 PubMed: 26616214

Concordant and discordant DNA methylation signatures of aging in human blood and brain.

Farr P and Jones MJ and Meaney MJ and Emberly E and Turecki G and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/s13072-015-0011-y PubMed: 25977707

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort study: assessment of environmental exposures.

Takaro TK and Scott JA and Allen RW and Anand SS and Becker AB and Befus AD and Brauer M and Duncan J and Lefebvre DL and Lou W and Mandhane PJ and McLean KE and Miller G and Sbihi H and Shu H and Subbarao P and Turvey SE and Wheeler AJ and Zeng L and Sears MR

DOI: 10.1038/jes.2015.7 PubMed: 25805254

Prenatal antidepressant exposure associated with CYP2E1 DNA methylation change in neonates.

Gurnot C and Martin-Subero I and Mah SM and Weikum W and Goodman SJ and Brain U and Werker JF and Kobor MS and Esteller M and Oberlander TF and Hensch TK

DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2015.1026031 PubMed: 25891251

Discordance of DNA methylation variance between two accessible human tissues.

Jiang R and Jones MJ and Chen E and Neumann SM and Fraser HB and Miller GE and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1038/srep08257 PubMed: 25660083

Nucleated red blood cells impact DNA methylation and expression analyses of cord blood hematopoietic cells.

de Goede OM and Razzaghian HR and Price EM and Jones MJ and Kobor MS and Robinson WP and Lavoie PM

DOI: 10.1186/s13148-015-0129-6 PubMed: 26366232

Greater inflammatory activity and blunted glucocorticoid signaling in monocytes of chronically stressed caregivers.

Miller GE and Murphy ML and Cashman R and Ma R and Ma J and Arevalo JM and Kobor MS and Cole SW

DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.05.016 PubMed: 25242587

10 / 2014

Leishmania donovani infection causes distinct epigenetic DNA methylation changes in host macrophages.

Marr AK and MacIsaac JL and Jiang R and Airo AM and Kobor MS and McMaster WR

DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004419 PubMed: 25299267

10 / 2014

Infinium monkeys: Infinium 450K array for the Cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis).

Ong ML and Tan PY and MacIsaac JL and Mah SM and Buschdorf JP and Cheong CY and Stunkel W and Chan L and Gluckman PD and Chng K and Kobor MS and Meaney MJ and Holbrook JD

DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010967 PubMed: 24815017

07 / 2014

The effect of genotype and in utero environment on interindividual variation in neonate DNA methylomes.

Teh AL and Pan H and Chen L and Ong ML and Dogra S and Wong J and MacIsaac JL and Mah SM and McEwen LM and Saw SM and Godfrey KM and Chong YS and Kwek K and Kwoh CK and Soh SE and Chong MF and Barton S and Karnani N and Cheong CY and Buschdorf JP

DOI: 10.1101/gr.171439.113 PubMed: 24709820

07 / 2014

Conditional genetic interactions of RTT107, SLX4, and HRQ1 reveal dynamic networks upon DNA damage in S. cerevisiae.

Leung GP and Aristizabal MJ and Krogan NJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.011205 PubMed: 24700328

06 / 2014

Eaf5/7/3 form a functionally independent NuA4 submodule linked to RNA polymerase II-coupled nucleosome recycling.

Rossetto D and Cramet M and Wang AY and Steunou AL and Lacoste N and Schulze JM and Ct V and Monnet-Saksouk J and Piquet S and Nourani A and Kobor MS and Ct J

DOI: 10.15252/embj.201386433 PubMed: 24843044

06 / 2014

Associations between bacterial communities of house dust and infant gut.

Konya T and Koster B and Maughan H and Escobar M and Azad MB and Guttman DS and Sears MR and Becker AB and Brook JR and Takaro TK and Kozyrskyj AL and Scott JA and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.02.005 PubMed: 24637181

05 / 2014

Maintenance of heterochromatin boundary and nucleosome composition at promoters by the Asf1 histone chaperone and SWR1-C chromatin remodeler in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Lu PY and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.162909 PubMed: 24578349

05 / 2014

Genome-wide profiling of yeast DNA:RNA hybrid prone sites with DRIP-chip.

Chan YA and Aristizabal MJ and Lu PY and Luo Z and Hamza A and Kobor MS and Stirling PC and Hieter P

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004288 PubMed: 24743342

04 / 2014

Spread of X-chromosome inactivation into autosomal sequences: role for DNA elements, chromatin features and chromosomal domains.

Cotton AM and Chen CY and Lam LL and Wasserman WW and Kobor MS and Brown CJ

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt513 PubMed: 24158853

03 / 2014

DaVIE: Database for the Visualization and Integration of Epigenetic data.

Fejes AP and Jones MJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00325 PubMed: 25278960

The era of integrative genomics: more data or better methods?

Koestler DC and Jones MJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.2217/epi.14.44 PubMed: 25431938

Short-term diesel exhaust inhalation in a controlled human crossover study is associated with changes in DNA methylation of circulating mononuclear cells in asthmatics.

Jiang R and Jones MJ and Sava F and Kobor MS and Carlsten C

DOI: 10.1186/s12989-014-0071-3 PubMed: 25487561

Genomewide DNA methylation dynamics upon diesel exhaust exposure in asthmatics.

Jiang R and Sava F and Kobor MS and Carlsten CR

Molecular pathways underpinning ethanol-induced neurodegeneration.

Goldowitz D and Lussier AA and Boyle JK and Wong K and Lattimer SL and Dubose C and Lu L and Kobor MS and Hamre KM

DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00203 PubMed: 25076964

Social stress up-regulates inflammatory gene expression in the leukocyte transcriptome via -adrenergic induction of myelopoiesis.

Powell ND and Sloan EK and Bailey MT and Arevalo JM and Miller GE and Chen E and Kobor MS and Reader BF and Sheridan JF and Cole SW

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310655110 PubMed: 24062448

10 / 2013

High-throughput genetic and gene expression analysis of the RNAPII-CTD reveals unexpected connections to SRB10/CDK8.

Aristizabal MJ and Negri GL and Benschop JJ and Holstege FC and Krogan NJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003758 PubMed: 24009531

08 / 2013

Reply to Suderman et al.: Importance of accounting for blood cell composition in epigenetic studies.

Lam LL and Emberly E and Fraser HB and Neumann SM and Chen E and Miller GE and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222104110 PubMed: 23667927

04 / 2013

Gut microbiota of healthy Canadian infants: profiles by mode of delivery and infant diet at 4 months.

Azad MB and Konya T and Maughan H and Guttman DS and Field CJ and Chari RS and Sears MR and Becker AB and Scott JA and Kozyrskyj AL and CHILD Study Investigators

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.121189 PubMed: 23401405

03 / 2013

The molecular mechanism of a cis-regulatory adaptation in yeast.

Chang J and Zhou Y and Hu X and Lam L and Henry C and Green EM and Kita R and Kobor MS and Fraser HB

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003813 PubMed: 24068973

Additional annotation enhances potential for biologically-relevant analysis of the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array.

Price ME and Cotton AM and Lam LL and Farr P and Emberly E and Brown CJ and Robinson WP and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-6-4 PubMed: 23452981

Epigenetic vestiges of early developmental adversity: childhood stress exposure and DNA methylation in adolescence.

Essex MJ and Boyce WT and Hertzman C and Lam LL and Armstrong JM and Neumann SM and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01641.x PubMed: 21883162

Distinct DNA methylation patterns of cognitive impairment and trisomy 21 in Down syndrome.

Jones MJ and Farr P and McEwen LM and Macisaac JL and Watt K and Neumann SM and Emberly E and Cynader MS and Virji-Babul N and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-6-58 PubMed: 24373378

DNA methylation, genotype and gene expression: who is driving and who is along for the ride?

Jones MJ and Fejes AP and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-7-126 PubMed: 23899167

Histone H3K4 demethylation is negatively regulated by histone H3 acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Maltby VE and Martin BJ and Brind'Amour J and Chruscicki AT and McBurney KL and Schulze JM and Johnson IJ and Hills M and Hentrich T and Kobor MS and Lorincz MC and Howe LJ

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202070109 PubMed: 23091032

11 / 2012

Factors underlying variable DNA methylation in a human community cohort.

Lam LL and Emberly E and Fraser HB and Neumann SM and Chen E and Miller GE and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121249109 PubMed: 23045638

10 / 2012

Histone H3 lysine 36 methylation targets the Isw1b remodeling complex to chromatin.

Maltby VE and Martin BJ and Schulze JM and Johnson I and Hentrich T and Sharma A and Kobor MS and Howe L

DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00389-12 PubMed: 22751925

09 / 2012

p300/CBP-associated factor selectively regulates the extinction of conditioned fear.

Wei W and Coelho CM and Li X and Marek R and Yan S and Anderson S and Meyers D and Mukherjee C and Sbardella G and Castellano S and Milite C and Rotili D and Mai A and Cole PA and Sah P and Kobor MS and Bredy TW

DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0178-12.2012 PubMed: 22933779

08 / 2012

Different measures of "genome-wide" DNA methylation exhibit unique properties in placental and somatic tissues.

Price EM and Cotton AM and Peaherrera MS and McFadden DE and Kobor MS and Robinson W

DOI: 10.4161/epi.20221 PubMed: 22531475

06 / 2012

CHROMATRA: a Galaxy tool for visualizing genome-wide chromatin signatures.

Hentrich T and Schulze JM and Emberly E and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts007 PubMed: 22238257

03 / 2012

19p13.2 microduplication causes a Sotos syndrome-like phenotype and alters gene expression.

Lehman AM and du Souich C and Chai D and Eydoux P and Huang JL and Fok AK and Avila L and Swingland J and Delaney AD and McGillivray B and Goldowitz D and Argiropoulos B and Kobor MS and Boerkoel CF

DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01615.x PubMed: 21204797

01 / 2012

R-loop-mediated genome instability in mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation mutants.

Stirling PC and Chan YA and Minaker SW and Aristizabal MJ and Barrett I and Sipahimalani P and Kobor MS and Hieter P

DOI: 10.1101/gad.179721.111 PubMed: 22279048

01 / 2012

Population-specificity of human DNA methylation.

Fraser HB and Lam LL and Neumann SM and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-2-r8 PubMed: 22322129

DNA methylation profiles of airway epithelial cells and PBMCs from healthy, atopic and asthmatic children.

Stefanowicz D and Hackett TL and Garmaroudi FS and Gnther OP and Neumann S and Sutanto EN and Ling KM and Kobor MS and Kicic A and Stick SM and Par PD and Knight DA

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044213 PubMed: 22970180

Splitting the task: Ubp8 and Ubp10 deubiquitinate different cellular pools of H2BK123.

Schulze JM and Hentrich T and Nakanishi S and Gupta A and Emberly E and Shilatifard A and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1101/gad.177220.111 PubMed: 22056669

11 / 2011

The brain-specific microRNA miR-128b regulates the formation of fear-extinction memory.

Lin Q and Wei W and Coelho CM and Li X and Baker-Andresen D and Dudley K and Ratnu VS and Boskovic Z and Kobor MS and Sun YE and Bredy TW

DOI: 10.1038/nn.2891 PubMed: 21841775

09 / 2011

Key functional regions in the histone variant H2A.Z C-terminal docking domain.

Wang AY and Aristizabal MJ and Ryan C and Krogan NJ and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1128/MCB.05182-11 PubMed: 21791612

09 / 2011

Chromosome-wide DNA methylation analysis predicts human tissue-specific X inactivation.

Cotton AM and Lam L and Affleck JG and Wilson IM and Peaherrera MS and McFadden DE and Kobor MS and Lam WL and Robinson WP and Brown CJ

DOI: 10.1007/s00439-011-1007-8 PubMed: 21597963

08 / 2011

Maternal warmth buffers the effects of low early-life socioeconomic status on pro-inflammatory signaling in adulthood.

Chen E and Miller GE and Kobor MS and Cole SW

DOI: 10.1038/mp.2010.53 PubMed: 20479762

07 / 2011

Rtt107 is required for recruitment of the SMC5/6 complex to DNA double strand breaks.

Leung GP and Lee L and Schmidt TI and Shirahige K and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.235200 PubMed: 21642432

07 / 2011

Epigenetic mechanisms mediating vulnerability and resilience to psychiatric disorders.

Dudley KJ and Li X and Kobor MS and Kippin TE and Bredy TW

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.12.016 PubMed: 21251925

06 / 2011

The specificity and topology of chromatin interaction pathways in yeast.

Lenstra TL and Benschop JJ and Kim T and Schulze JM and Brabers NA and Margaritis T and van de Pasch LA and van Heesch SA and Brok MO and Groot Koerkamp MJ and Ko CW and van Leenen D and Sameith K and van Hooff SR and Lijnzaad P and Kemmeren P and Hentrich T and Kobor MS and Buratowski S and Holstege FC

DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.03.026 PubMed: 21596317

05 / 2011

Dot1 and histone H3K79 methylation in natural telomeric and HM silencing.

Takahashi YH and Schulze JM and Jackson J and Hentrich T and Seidel C and Jaspersen SL and Kobor MS and Shilatifard A

DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.03.006 PubMed: 21474073

04 / 2011

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: gene-environment interactions, predictive biomarkers, and the relationship between structural alterations in the brain and functional outcomes.

Reynolds JN and Weinberg J and Clarren S and Beaulieu C and Rasmussen C and Kobor M and Dube MP and Goldowitz D

DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2011.02.006 PubMed: 21575841

03 / 2011

Focus on: epigenetics and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Kobor MS and Weinberg J

PubMed: 23580038

Extensive epigenetic reprogramming in human somatic tissues between fetus and adult.

Yuen RK and Neumann SM and Fok AK and Peaherrera MS and McFadden DE and Robinson WP and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-4-7 PubMed: 21545704

Loss of H3 K79 trimethylation leads to suppression of Rtt107-dependent DNA damage sensitivity through the translesion synthesis pathway.

Lvesque N and Leung GP and Fok AK and Schmidt TI and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M110.116855 PubMed: 20810656

11 / 2010

Reading chromatin: insights from yeast into YEATS domain structure and function.

Schulze JM and Wang AY and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.4161/epi.5.7.12856 PubMed: 20657183

10 / 2010

Decreased fibronectin production significantly contributes to dysregulated repair of asthmatic epithelium.

Kicic A and Hallstrand TS and Sutanto EN and Stevens PT and Kobor MS and Taplin C and Par PD and Beyer RP and Stick SM and Knight DA

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200907-1071OC PubMed: 20110557

05 / 2010

How the epigenome contributes to the development of psychiatric disorders.

Bredy TW and Sun YE and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1002/dev.20424 PubMed: 20127889

05 / 2010

Roles for H2A.Z and its acetylation in GAL1 transcription and gene induction, but not GAL1-transcriptional memory.

Halley JE and Kaplan T and Wang AY and Kobor MS and Rine J

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000401 PubMed: 20582323

Asf1-like structure of the conserved Yaf9 YEATS domain and role in H2A.Z deposition and acetylation.

Wang AY and Schulze JM and Skordalakes E and Gin JW and Berger JM and Rine J and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906539106 PubMed: 19966225

12 / 2009

NuA4 and SWR1-C: two chromatin-modifying complexes with overlapping functions and components.

Lu PY and Lvesque N and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1139/O09-062 PubMed: 19898529

10 / 2009

Linking cell cycle to histone modifications: SBF and H2B monoubiquitination machinery and cell-cycle regulation of H3K79 dimethylation.

Schulze JM and Jackson J and Nakanishi S and Gardner JM and Hentrich T and Haug J and Johnston M and Jaspersen SL and Kobor MS and Shilatifard A

DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2009.07.017 PubMed: 19682934

09 / 2009

Low early-life social class leaves a biological residue manifested by decreased glucocorticoid and increased proinflammatory signaling.

Miller GE and Chen E and Fok AK and Walker H and Lim A and Nicholls EF and Cole S and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902971106 PubMed: 19617551

08 / 2009

H2A.Z and DNA methylation: irreconcilable differences.

Kobor MS and Lorincz MC

DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2008.12.006 PubMed: 19282182

04 / 2009

YEATS domain proteins: a diverse family with many links to chromatin modification and transcription.

Schulze JM and Wang AY and Kobor MS

DOI: 10.1139/O08-111 PubMed: 19234524

02 / 2009

Human placental-specific epipolymorphism and its association with adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Yuen RK and Avila L and Peaherrera MS and von Dadelszen P and Lefebvre L and Kobor MS and Robinson WP

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007389 PubMed: 19838307

Slx4 regulates DNA damage checkpoint-dependent phosphorylation of the BRCT domain protein Rtt107/Esc4.

Roberts TM and Kobor MS and Bastin-Shanower SA and Ii M and Horte SA and Gin JW and Emili A and Rine J and Brill SJ and Brown GW

DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E05-08-0785 PubMed: 16267268

01 / 2006

NMR structure of the amino-terminal domain from the Tfb1 subunit of TFIIH and characterization of its phosphoinositide and VP16 binding sites.

Di Lello P and Nguyen BD and Jones TN and Potempa K and Kobor MS and Legault P and Omichinski JG

DOI: 10.1021/bi050099s PubMed: 15909982

05 / 2005

Interaction of Fcp1 phosphatase with elongating RNA polymerase II holoenzyme, enzymatic mechanism of action, and genetic interaction with elongator.

Kong SE and Kobor MS and Krogan NJ and Somesh BP and Sgaard TM and Greenblatt JF and Svejstrup JQ

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M411071200 PubMed: 15563457

02 / 2005

Dephosphorylation of RNA polymerase I by Fcp1p is required for efficient rRNA synthesis.

Fath S and Kobor MS and Philippi A and Greenblatt J and Tschochner H

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M401867200 PubMed: 15073185

06 / 2004

A protein complex containing the conserved Swi2/Snf2-related ATPase Swr1p deposits histone variant H2A.Z into euchromatin.

Kobor MS and Venkatasubrahmanyam S and Meneghini MD and Gin JW and Jennings JL and Link AJ and Madhani HD and Rine J

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020131 PubMed: 15045029

05 / 2004

NMR structure of a complex containing the TFIIF subunit RAP74 and the RNA polymerase II carboxyl-terminal domain phosphatase FCP1.

Nguyen BD and Abbott KL and Potempa K and Kobor MS and Archambault J and Greenblatt J and Legault P and Omichinski JG

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1031524100 PubMed: 12732728

05 / 2003

Solution structure of the carboxyl-terminal domain of RAP74 and NMR characterization of the FCP1-binding sites of RAP74 and human TFIIB.

Nguyen BD and Chen HT and Kobor MS and Greenblatt J and Legault P and Omichinski JG

DOI: 10.1021/bi0265473 PubMed: 12578358

02 / 2003

Purification and assay of Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphatase that acts on the C-terminal domain of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II.

Hoheisel S and Kobor MS and Pierstorff E and Greenblatt J and Kane CM

DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(03)70034-2 PubMed: 14712662

RNA polymerase II elongation factors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a targeted proteomics approach.

Krogan NJ and Kim M and Ahn SH and Zhong G and Kobor MS and Cagney G and Emili A and Shilatifard A and Buratowski S and Greenblatt JF

DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.20.6979-6992.2002 PubMed: 12242279

10 / 2002

Regulation of transcription elongation by phosphorylation.

Kobor MS and Greenblatt J

DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(02)00457-8 PubMed: 12213657

09 / 2002

Opposing effects of Ctk1 kinase and Fcp1 phosphatase at Ser 2 of the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain.

Cho EJ and Kobor MS and Kim M and Greenblatt J and Buratowski S

DOI: 10.1101/gad.935901 PubMed: 11751637

12 / 2001

A motif shared by TFIIF and TFIIB mediates their interaction with the RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain phosphatase Fcp1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Kobor MS and Simon LD and Omichinski J and Zhong G and Archambault J and Greenblatt J

DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.20.7438-7449.2000 PubMed: 11003641

10 / 2000

An unusual eukaryotic protein phosphatase required for transcription by RNA polymerase II and CTD dephosphorylation in S. cerevisiae.

Kobor MS and Archambault J and Lester W and Holstege FC and Gileadi O and Jansma DB and Jennings EG and Kouyoumdjian F and Davidson AR and Young RA and Greenblatt J

DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80187-2 PubMed: 10445027

07 / 1999

GAL4 is regulated by the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme-associated cyclin-dependent protein kinase SRB10/CDK8.

Hirst M and Kobor MS and Kuriakose N and Greenblatt J and Sadowski I

DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80360-3 PubMed: 10360183

05 / 1999

An essential component of a C-terminal domain phosphatase that interacts with transcription factor IIF in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Archambault J and Chambers RS and Kobor MS and Ho Y and Cartier M and Bolotin D and Andrews B and Kane CM and Greenblatt J

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.26.14300 PubMed: 9405607

12 / 1997

Identification of a nucleic acid-binding region within the largest subunit of Drosophila melanogaster RNA polymerase II.

Kontermann RE and Kobor M and Bautz EK

DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560020211 PubMed: 8443600

02 / 1993

Current project

In one facet of our research program, we study human population epigenetics aimed at deciphering the mechanisms by which environmental exposures and early-life experiences can "get under the skin" to regulate gene activity and contribute to health and disease across the life course. This research aligns with the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis, which postulates that the developmental period and early life are particularly sensitive periods where social or environmental insults can influence health long after the insult itself. Our findings support the model that early-life social and environmental factors, including stress and socioeconomic status, leave a biological footprint. We measure this biological embedding of early life exposures through epigenetic patterns and accompanying gene expression changes, many of which are maintained until adulthood and may influence future health. We have extensive interdisciplinary collaborations across Canada and around the world and are affiliated with multiple NCEs (including AllerGen and NeuroDevNet).

Rather than acting as an inert scaffold for DNA, dynamic and flexible chromatin structures and modifications have profound effects on almost all aspects of chromosome behaviour and genome function. Thus, the second objective of our research utilizes Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism to tease apart the mechanisms responsible for the creation, regulation, and maintenance of the chromatin signature. These queries include how distinct chromosomal neighbourhoods are established, how they function and interact with enzymes involved in DNA metabolism, what functional differences exist between histone variants and canonical histones, and how chromatin-remodeling complexes are regulated. Currently, we focus on three distinct areas of chromatin biology: functional genomic characterization of chromatin-modifying complexes; DNA damage repair in the context of the chromatin template; and crosstalk between the RNAPII machinery and chromatin.

Together, the research in our lab bridges the molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation with the social and environmental determinants of human health to develop a comprehensive understanding of early life.

Honours & Awards

Award of Excellence, Biomedical Research, CFRI Member Recognition Awards, 2013

Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Social Epigenetics, 2014-present

Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Child & Brain Development program, 2013-present

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