Publications by authors named "L M Overman"

Article Synopsis
  • Emerging research links age-related musculoskeletal diseases, particularly osteoarthritis (OA), to developmental factors, highlighting the importance of DNA methylation in OA risk.
  • A study quantified DNA methylation across approximately 700,000 individual CpGs in developing human chondrocytes, revealing significant changes in 3% of CpGs and over 8,200 differentially methylated regions during development.
  • Findings indicate that specific OA genetic variants align with methylation changes, suggesting that understanding these developmental processes could significantly influence future genetic-based therapies for OA.
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Purpose: Online adaptive radiotherapy relies on a high degree of automation to enable rapid planning procedures. The Varian Ethos intelligent optimization engine (IOE) was originally designed for conventional treatments so it is crucial to provide clear guidance for lung SAbR plans. This study investigates using the Ethos IOE together with adaptive-specific optimization tuning structures we designed and templated within Ethos to mitigate inter-planner variability in meeting RTOG metrics for both online-adaptive and offline SAbR plans.

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Abnormalities of the arterial valves, including bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) are amongst the most common congenital defects and are a significant cause of morbidity as well as predisposition to disease in later life. Despite this, and compounded by their small size and relative inaccessibility, there is still much to understand about how the arterial valves form and remodel during embryogenesis, both at the morphological and genetic level. Here we set out to address this in human embryos, using Spatial Transcriptomics (ST).

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Medulloblastoma, a malignant childhood cerebellar tumour, segregates molecularly into biologically distinct subgroups, suggesting that a personalized approach to therapy would be beneficial. Mouse modelling and cross-species genomics have provided increasing evidence of discrete, subgroup-specific developmental origins. However, the anatomical and cellular complexity of developing human tissues-particularly within the rhombic lip germinal zone, which produces all glutamatergic neuronal lineages before internalization into the cerebellar nodulus-makes it difficult to validate previous inferences that were derived from studies in mice.

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