Journal
EPIGENOMICS
Volume 2, Issue 6, Pages 807-821Publisher
FUTURE MEDICINE LTD
DOI: 10.2217/EPI.10.60
Keywords
brain; epigenetics; epigenetic therapy; mental disease; sex differences
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- European Union [LSHM-CT-2005-018652]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SP 386/4-2]
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Sexual differentiation of the brain takes place during a perinatal-sensitive time window as a result of gonadal hormone-induced activational and organizational effects on neuronal substrates. Increasing evidence suggests that epigenetic mechanisms can contribute to the establishment and maintenance of some aspects of these processes, and that these epigenetic mechanisms may themselves be under the control of sex hormones. Epigenetic programming of neuroendocrine and behavioral phenotypes frequently occurs sex specifically, pointing to sex differences in brain epigenetics as a possible determinant. Understanding how sex-specific epigenomes and sex-biased responses to environmental cues contribute to the development of brain diseases might provide new insights for epigenetic therapy.
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