Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 20, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Front Cover""; ""DNA Methylation and Complex Human Disease""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Author""; ""1 DNA Methylation �a�? Introduction""; ""1.1 Epigenetics""; ""1.2 Histone Modifications""; ""1.2.1 Histone Acetylation and Deacetylation""; ""1.2.2 Histone Methylation""; ""1.3 DNA Methylation""; ""1.3.1 DNA Methyltransferases""; ""1.4 Methyl-Binding Domain Proteins""; ""1.5 DNA Demethylation""; ""1.6 DNA Hydroxymethylation""; ""1.7 Differentially Methylated Regions""; ""1.8 Nutriepigenomics""; ""References""

""2 DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Biomarkers in Cancer""""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.1.1 Diagnosis Biomarkers""; ""2.1.2 Progression Biomarkers""; ""2.1.3 Predictive Biomarkers""; ""2.1.4 Discovery of Novel Biomarkers""; ""2.2 Cancerogenesis""; ""2.3 Epimutations in Cancer""; ""2.3.1 Esophageal Adenocarcinoma""; ""2.3.2 Gastric Cancer""; ""2.3.3 Colorectal Carcinoma""; ""2.3.4 Lynch Syndrome""; ""2.3.5 Endometrial and Ovarian Cancers""; ""2.3.6 Lung Cancer""; ""2.3.7 Glioblastoma""; ""2.3.8 Hematopoietic Cancers""; ""2.4 Conclusion""; ""References""

""3 DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Biomarkers in Non-Neoplastic Diseases""""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Autoimmunity""; ""3.2.1 Type 1 Diabetes""; ""3.2.2 Rheumatoid Arthritis""; ""3.2.3 Systemic Lupus Erythematosis""; ""3.2.4 Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn�a�?s Disease, and Ulcerative Colitis""; ""3.3 Metabolic Diseases""; ""3.3.1 Type 2 Diabetes""; ""3.3.2 Heart Failure""; ""3.4 Developmental Diseases""; ""3.4.1 Imprinting Disorders""; ""3.4.2 Arrhythmia""; ""3.5 Psychiatric Diseases""; ""3.5.1 Major Depressive Disorder""; ""3.5.2 Schizophrenia""; ""3.6 Conclusion""; ""References""

""4 DNA Methylation and Environmental Factors""""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Impact of the Environment in Early Life""; ""4.2.1 Genomic Imprinting""; ""4.2.2 Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome""; ""4.2.3 Assisted Reproductive Technologies""; ""4.2.4 Large Offspring Syndrome""; ""4.3 Nutritional Factors""; ""4.3.1 Gestational Maternal Nutritional Factors""; ""4.3.2 Nutritional Deficiencies""; ""4.4 Adverse Environmental Factors""; ""4.4.1 Environmental Toxicants""; ""4.4.2 Ethanol Consumption""; ""4.4.3 Smoking""; ""4.5 Immune Activation""; ""4.5.1 Asthma and Allergy""; ""4.5.2 Bacterial Infections""

""4.5.3 Viral Infections""""4.6 Maternal Mood and Experience in Early Life""; ""4.7 Physical Exercise""; ""4.8 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""5 DNA Methylation and Epidemiology""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals""; ""5.2.1 Bisphenol-A""; ""5.2.2 Diethylstillbestrol""; ""5.2.3 Cadmium""; ""5.3 Epigenomics and Breast Cancer""; ""5.3.1 RASSF1A""; ""5.3.2 P16/CDKN2A""; ""5.4 Tobacco Smoking""; ""5.4.1 F2RL3, Smoking, and Cardiovascular Diseases""; ""5.4.2 RUNX3, Smoking, Low Birth Weight, and Lung Carcinomas""; ""5.4.3 AHRR, Smoking, and Lung Metastasis""

DNA Methylation and Complex Human Disease reviews the possibilities of methyl-group-based epigenetic biomarkers of major diseases, tailored epigenetic therapies, and the future uses of high-throughput methylome technologies. This volume includes many pertinent advances in disease-bearing research, including obesity, type II diabetes, schizophrenia, and autoimmunity. DNA methylation is also discussed as a plasma and serum test for non-invasive screening, diagnostic and prognostic tests, as compared to biopsy-driven gene expression analysis, factors which have led to the use of DNA methylati.