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Epigenetics And Chronic Disease Flashcards

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What does heritability of epi genetics mean

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At cellular level after differentiation, the cell progeny will have the shared epigentic markers

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Where does dna methylation occur

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C5 on cytosine
Mainly in cpg sites scattered across genome
Hardly ever at cpg islands near promoter

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Which dnmt is able to recognise and put back same methylated patterns after replication

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Dnmt1

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Which dnmts allow for new methylation patterns important in early development

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3a and b

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5
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Give 3 examples of when cpg islands would be methylated

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Gene imprinting eg x silencing

Transposable elements which can cause mutagenesis are suppressed

Tissue specific expression patterns

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How 2 ways does it cause repression

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A cpg site methylated could be part of a tf binding site

More importantly it recruits large protein complexes eg mecp2 mbd which is usually in complex with other repressors like sin3a or HDACs

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Fr- where is methylated for tissue specificity

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Cpg shores 2kb from islands but still alter gene expression

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Fr- which enzymes/proteins needed to demethylate cytosine

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Tet which adds hydroxyl - can be oxidated

ApoBec which deaminates it

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9
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What does adding hydroxyl stop binding of

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Mecp2

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Fr - Which 3 readers exist

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Mbd eg mecp2

UHRF- phd domain and ring finger

Zinc finger proteins

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What do mbd have which bind other repressor complexes

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Txn repressor domains (mutated in Rhett)

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12
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What is uhrf important for

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Guiding dnmt1 to previously methylated after replication

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13
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Which histone tail when methylated is only one which is activating

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K4 h3

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Which 2 lysine residues commonly both acetylated and methylated

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K9h3
K27h3

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Which group acetylates lysine’s to remove positive charge

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HATS
3 subclasses gnat , myst and cbp/p300

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16
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Are they in complexes?

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Yes eg gcn5 and saga

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17
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Are HDACs in complex and give examples

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Yes eg both nurd and sin3a complexes have both HDAC 1 and 2

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18
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Which histone residues can be phos

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Ser,thr,tyr

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19
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When are some serine residues phos for condensation

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Mitosis by aurora B

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20
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Which hkmt targets k9h3

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Suvsr 39

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21
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Who methylated arginine residues on histones

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PRMTs

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22
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Does ageing cause changes in Epigenetics

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Yes

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23
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Which Epigenetics patterns can predict biological age

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Methylation patterns

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24
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What can methylation pattern analysis not find

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Tumour suppressor/key genes.

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25
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So what is genome wide analysis important for

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Find primary site of tumour to predict best treatment

Also determines sensitivity to drugs

Also determines subtype of cancer and prognosis

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26
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What was found in medulloblastoma methylation profiling

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4 subclasses, and the 3 with poorer prognosis all had methylation in il8 and mxi1

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27
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What does cpg methylation of mgmt dna repair enzyme (common in cancers) cause sensitivity to

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Alkylating agents like carmustine (chemotherapy)

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28
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How

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Targets the 06 methylguanosine and cross links dna using its binding to this

If mgmt is expressed this oncogneuc marker is removed straight away so can’t cross link

29
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What is mismatch repair for

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Correctly changing mismatched bases during replication to stop mutations

30
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What sort of germ line mutations cause mmr deficiencies eg in hereditary crc

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Mlh1

31
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Why does this gene associate with Epigenetics

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It can be hypermethtlsted at 5’ to cause same mmr deficiency

32
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Why is this methylation suggested to cause an MSI+ crc phenotype

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It causes micro satellite instability as the mutations from mmr deficiency usually occur in micro satellite sequences

33
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Why would mlh1 deficiency or methylation reduce the sensitivity to dna damage drugs like cisplarin

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They use the fact mmr response would cause apoptosis of the cancer cell when dna damage induced by these drugs. If mmr not possible can’t do it

34
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Other than mgmt what other TSG are dna methylated

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Brca1 and p14arf

35
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Which reversal therapy is a dnmt inhibitor used for myelodyspplastic syndrome survival

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Azacitidine

36
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What does it do

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Increases survival more than conventional therapies

Since mds chronic disease is associated with dna methylation

37
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Is it known why cancer abnormal methylation occurs

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No but it maybe due to increased Epigenetic drift in prolif cells

38
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Which hkmt gene mutation occurs commonly

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Ezh2

39
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What is this mutation associated with

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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (b cell cancer)

40
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What does Ezh2 usually do in b cells

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Methylates anti proliferation genes like cdkn so that b cells can expand

41
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What does the mutation cause

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Blocks Ezh2 degradation

42
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Which cancers also see Ezh2 increased expression unknown why

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Prostate and breast

43
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APL leukaemia causes fusion proteins. What do these bind which recruits HDAC complexes

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Retinoids acid response elements RARE

44
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What do these HDAC complexes do

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Repress genes for normal myeloid differentiation and proliferation = promutafenic

45
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What can cause ecadherin suppression allowing metastasis eg in breast cancer

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HDAC complexes

46
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Why are HDACs complicated

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More then 70 diff enzymes
4 classes (1,2,4 and sirtuins)

Can de acetylate histone proteins but also normal proteins which may also cause cancer eg e2f

47
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How can smoking be an example of environmental impacts on Epigenetics

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Seen in bronchial epi cells to methylate p16 and dapk (known to suppress cancers)

Same pattern seen in lung cancer patients

48
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Which dietary nutrient important for methylation of the iap upstream of agouti gene

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Folate

49
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What happens when low maternal folate in mice

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Agouti iap can’t be methylated suppressed any long and agouti gene is expressed. Causes diabetes, obesity and yellow coat

50
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Give an example of early life/in uteri exposure having impact on chronic disease susceptibility

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Dutch hunger
Those in first trimester show levels of obesity, diabetes and heart disease susceptibility

51
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What did later exposure correlate with

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Smaller birth weight but nothing else

52
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What was the first gene seen to be hypometthlated and correlated to the time of the Dutch hunger

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Igf2

53
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What did gwas later study find

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181 differential ly methylated regions in sibling pairs exposed and not exposed

54
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Cpt1a was found methylated more in exposed. How does this suggest the heart disease susceptibility

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Methylated increases LDL cholesterol levels

55
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What does smad7 methylation indicate

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Reduced pancreatic b cell function = diabetes?

56
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Which fungicide endocrine disruptor can reduce sperm count and motility in 2 mice generations (trans generational inheritance)

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Vinclozolin fungicide

57
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How did this correlate with methylation

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5 differentially methylated genes found in up to 3 mouse generations after f0 was exposed / injected

58
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Which chemical found in plastic manufactures eg plastic bottles can affect Epigenetics and reproductive health

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BPA

59
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Which protein snp needs presence of childhood trauma to dysregulste stress responses via GR and cause issues like ptsd/psychiatric disorders

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Fkbp5

60
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How does early trauma affect the fkbp5 gene

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Demetthlates intron 7 which increases its txn by glucocorticoids binding to their receptor in nucleus

61
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Why is increased fkbp5 an issue

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It blocks GR activity so causes cortisol/glucocorticoid resistance and impairs the stress response

62
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Which HDAC is found to increase longevity in drosophila and mice and c elegans

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Sirt1

63
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What does this suggest

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Maybe reversing epigenefics can reduce chronic disease

64
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What does caloric restriction have to do with sirt1

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Increases its activation

65
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What nutrient pathway is downregulated by CR

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Mtor (blocks autophagy)

66
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Mouse model of machado Joseph disease (neuropathy) found Cr and what drug reverses symptoms

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Resveratrol

67
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What does resveratrol do

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Increase sirt1 activity

68
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What symptoms of machado Joseph did cr/sirt1 help

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Increased autophagy via deacetylation of lc3 protein
Reduced neuro inflammation via deacetylation of TNFa, il1?b and il6

69
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What is resverstrol (a natural phenol) used for now

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Anti inflam and anti oxidant via sirt1 deacetylation to protect from diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer and arthritis (chronic diseases)

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