Journal
NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 6-27Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nan.12608
Keywords
neurogenesis; developmental disorder; DNA methylation; chromatin remodelling; epitranscriptomics
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- National Institutes of Health [R37NS047344, R01AG057497, P01NS097206]
- Simons Foundation
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Neural development requires the orchestration of dynamic changes in gene expression to regulate cell fate decisions. This regulation is heavily influenced by epigenetics, heritable changes in gene expression not directly explained by genomic information alone. An understanding of the complexity of epigenetic regulation is rapidly emerging through the development of novel technologies that can assay various features of epigenetics and gene regulation. Here, we provide a broad overview of several commonly investigated modes of epigenetic regulation, including DNA methylation, histone modifications, noncoding RNAs, as well as epitranscriptomics that describe modifications of RNA, in neurodevelopment and diseases. Rather than functioning in isolation, it is being increasingly appreciated that these various modes of gene regulation are dynamically interactive and coordinate the complex nature of neurodevelopment along multiple axes. Future work investigating these interactions will likely utilize 'multi-omic' strategies that assay cell fate dynamics in a high-dimensional and high-throughput fashion. Novel human neurodevelopmental models including iPSC and cerebral organoid systems may provide further insight into human-specific features of neurodevelopment and diseases.
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