Targeted DNA Methylation Profiling of Human Cardiac Tissue Reveals Novel Epigenetic Traits and Gene Deregulation Across Different Heart Failure Patient Subtypes

Abstract

For the first time DNA methylation alterations and associated gene expression changes were identified in etiologically variant pathological HF tissue. The methylation-sensitive and disease-associated genes/ncRNA identified from this study represent a unique cohort of loci that demonstrate a plausible potential as a novel diagnostic and therapeutic target in HF and warrant further investigation.