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Overview

Hyang-Min Byun is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. The scientist's work particularly focuses on the molecular and epigenetic effects of environmental exposures and their health implications.

The main fields of study for Hyang-Min Byun include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

In terms of subfields, their research covers:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Genetics
  • Pollution
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

The researcher's main topics of work include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Hyang-Min Byun has published papers in a number of scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Environmental Research
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Epigenetics

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hyang-Min Byun demonstrate a focus on environmental impacts on molecular biology and health outcomes:

  • Associations of adverse pregnancy outcomes with high ambient air pollution exposure: Results from the Project ELEFANT (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Mitochondrial DNA methylation in placental tissue: a proof of concept study by means of prenatal environmental stressors (2020, Epigenetics)
  • Platelet mitochondrial DNA methylation predicts future cardiovascular outcome in adults with overweight and obesity (2020, Clinical Epigenetics)
  • Environmental epitranscriptomics (2020, Environmental Research)
  • The exposure levels and health risk assessment of antibiotics in urine and its association with platelet mitochondrial DNA methylation in adults from Tianjin, China: A preliminary study (2022, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety)

Collaborations appear regularly in their work, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Timothy M. Barrow
  • Liqiong Guo
  • Junkai Fang
  • Penghui Li
  • John C. Mathers

Best Publications

  • Genome-scale analysis of aberrant dna methylation in colorectal cancer

    Toshinori Hinoue;Hui Shen;Daniel J. Weisenberger;Peter W. Laird

  • Changes in DNA Methylation Patterns in Subjects Exposed to Low-Dose Benzene

    Valentina Bollati;Andrea Baccarelli;Lifang Hou;Matteo Bonzini

  • Prenatal tobacco smoke exposure affects global and gene-specific DNA methylation.

    Carrie V. Breton;Hyang-Min Byun;Made Wenten;Fei Pan

  • Hypomethylation of a LINE-1 promoter activates an alternate transcript of the MET oncogene in bladders with cancer.

    Erika M. Wolff;Hyang-Min Byun;Han F. Han;Shikhar Sharma

  • Epigenetic profiling of somatic tissues from human autopsy specimens identifies tissue- and individual-specific DNA methylation patterns

    Hyang-Min Byun;Kimberly D. Siegmund;Fei Pan;Daniel J. Weisenberger

  • Effects of airborne pollutants on mitochondrial DNA Methylation

    Hyang Min Byun;Tommaso Panni;Tommaso Panni;Valeria Motta;Valeria Motta;Lifang Hou

  • Placental mitochondrial methylation and exposure to airborne particulate matter in the early life environment: An ENVIRONAGE birth cohort study.

    Bram G Janssen;Hyang-Min Byun;Wilfried Gyselaers;Wouter Lefebvre

  • Changes in DNA methylation of tandem DNA repeats are different from interspersed repeats in cancer

    Si Ho Choi;Scott Worswick;Hyang-Min Byun;Talia Shear

  • Platelet mitochondrial DNA methylation: a potential new marker of cardiovascular disease

    Andrea A Baccarelli;Hyang-Min Byun

  • Genetic and epigenetic variations in inducible nitric oxide synthase promoter, particulate pollution, and exhaled nitric oxide levels in children

    Muhammad T. Salam;Hyang-Min Byun;Fred Lurmann;Carrie V. Breton

  • Particulate Air Pollution and Fasting Blood Glucose in Nondiabetic Individuals: Associations and Epigenetic Mediation in the Normative Aging Study, 2000-2011.

    Cheng Peng;Marie Abele C Bind;Elena Colicino;Itai Kloog

  • Increased mitochondrial DNA copy number in occupations associated with low-dose benzene exposure.

    Michele Carugno;Angela Cecilia Pesatori;Angela Cecilia Pesatori;Laura Dioni;Mirjam Hoxha

  • DNA Methylation in the Arginase–Nitric Oxide Synthase Pathway Is Associated with Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Children with Asthma

    Carrie V. Breton;Hyang-Min Byun;Xinhui Wang;Muhammad T. Salam

  • Predicting DNA methylation level across human tissues

    Baoshan Ma;Elissa H. Wilker;Saffron A G Willis-Owen;Hyang Min Byun

  • Effects of Air Pollution and Blood Mitochondrial DNA Methylation on Markers of Heart Rate Variability.

    Hyang‐Min Byun;Elena Colicino;Letizia Trevisi;Tianteng Fan

  • Particulate Matter, DNA Methylation in Nitric Oxide Synthase, and Childhood Respiratory Disease

    Carrie V. Breton;Muhammad T. Salam;Xinhui Wang;Hyang-Min Byun

  • Long-term epigenetic therapy with oral zebularine has minimal side effects and prevents intestinal tumors in mice.

    Christine B. Yoo;Jody C. Chuang;Hyang-Min Byun;Gerda Egger

  • Morphine induces redox-based changes in global DNA methylation and retrotransposon transcription by inhibition of excitatory amino acid transporter type 3-mediated cysteine uptake.

    Malav Trivedi;Jayni Shah;Nathaniel Hodgson;Hyang-Min Byun

  • Dietary intervention modifies DNA methylation age assessed by the epigenetic clock

    Chanachai Sae-Lee;Chanachai Sae-Lee;Sarah Corsi;Timothy M. Barrow;Gunter G. C. Kuhnle

  • Enhanced brain targeting efficiency of intranasally administered plasmid DNA: an alternative route for brain gene therapy.

    In Kwon Han;Mi Young Kim;Hyang Min Byun;Tae Sun Hwang

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Baccarelli
Andrea Baccarelli Columbia University
Lifang Hou
Lifang Hou Northwestern University
Pier Alberto Bertazzi
Pier Alberto Bertazzi University of Milan
Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University
Tim S. Nawrot
Tim S. Nawrot Hasselt University
Frank D. Gilliland
Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California
Yu-Kyoung Oh
Yu-Kyoung Oh Seoul National University
Valentina Bollati
Valentina Bollati University of Milan
Kimberly D. Siegmund
Kimberly D. Siegmund University of Southern California
Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute

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