**Meet the editor**

Dr. Christopher J. Payne is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the Human Molecular Genetics Program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Research Center in Chicago, Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wash-

ington and his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from the Oregon Health and Science University in 2003. Dr. Payne's current research focuses on the epigenetic regulation of tissue-specific stem cells and how this influences male fertility. His laboratory demonstrated that the histone deacetylase protein complex SIN3 is essential for the maintenance of spermatogonial stem cells in the testis.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Haddad

I.N. Lebedev

**Curcumin 173**

Chapter 6 **Methylomes 149** Minghua Wu

Chapter 1 **Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Vascular Endothelium 1**

Chapter 3 **Current Understanding of Epigenomics and Epigenetics in**

Takeo Kubota, Kunio Miyake and Takae Hirasawa

Chapter 4 **Epigenetic Mechanisms in Autism Spectrum Disorders 97**

Chapter 2 **Epigenetics, Protein Kinases and Heart Failure 57**

**Neurodevelopmental Disorders 77**

Tafari Mbadiwe and Richard M. Millis

Chapter 5 **Genomic Imprinting and Human Reproduction 121**

Chapter 7 **Epigenome, Cancer Prevention and Flavonoids and**

Alexandra A. Majerski, Anthony C. Quinton and Philip A. Marsden

Richard M. Millis, M. Sadegh Asadi, Vernon Bond, Jr. and Georges E.

Višnja Stepanić, Renata Novak Kujundžić and Koraljka Gall Trošelj
