Single-cell DNA methylome and 3D multi-omic atlas of the adult mouse brain

H Liu, Q Zeng, J Zhou, A Bartlett, BA Wang, P Berube… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is essential in brain development and is implicated in various
neurological disorders. Understanding DNA methylation diversity across the entire brain in a …

Single-cell DNA methylation and 3D genome architecture in the human brain

W Tian, J Zhou, A Bartlett, Q Zeng, H Liu, RG Castanon… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Delineating the gene-regulatory programs underlying complex cell types is fundamental for
understanding brain function in health and disease. Here, we comprehensively examined …

Global epigenomic reconfiguration during mammalian brain development

R Lister, EA Mukamel, JR Nery, M Urich, CA Puddifoot… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction Several lines of evidence point to a key role for dynamic epigenetic changes
during brain development, maturation, and learning. DNA methylation (mC) is a stable …

DNA methylation atlas of the mouse brain at single-cell resolution

H Liu, J Zhou, W Tian, C Luo, A Bartlett, A Aldridge… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mammalian brain cells show remarkable diversity in gene expression, anatomy and
function, yet the regulatory DNA landscape underlying this extensive heterogeneity is poorly …

Functional annotation of the human brain methylome identifies tissue-specific epigenetic variation across brain and blood

MN Davies, M Volta, R Pidsley, K Lunnon, A Dixit… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Dynamic changes to the epigenome play a critical role in establishing and
maintaining cellular phenotype during differentiation, but little is known about the normal …

Spatiotemporal DNA methylome dynamics of the developing mouse fetus

Y He, M Hariharan, DU Gorkin, DE Dickel, C Luo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is essential for mammalian development but understanding of its
spatiotemporal distribution in the developing embryo remains limited,. Here, as part of the …

A pan-tissue DNA methylation atlas enables in silico decomposition of human tissue methylomes at cell-type resolution

T Zhu, J Liu, S Beck, S Pan, D Capper, M Lechner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Bulk-tissue DNA methylomes represent an average over many different cell types,
hampering our understanding of cell-type-specific contributions to disease development. As …

Divergent neuronal DNA methylation patterns across human cortical development reveal critical periods and a unique role of CpH methylation

AJ Price, L Collado-Torres, NA Ivanov, W Xia, EE Burke… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background DNA methylation (DNAm) is a critical regulator of both development and
cellular identity and shows unique patterns in neurons. To better characterize maturational …

Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

R Lister, M Pelizzola, RH Dowen, RD Hawkins, G Hon… - nature, 2009 - nature.com
DNA cytosine methylation is a central epigenetic modification that has essential roles in
cellular processes including genome regulation, development and disease. Here we …

Comparative methylome analyses identify epigenetic regulatory loci of human brain evolution

I Mendizabal, L Shi, TE Keller… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
How do epigenetic modifications change across species and how do these modifications
affect evolution? These are fundamental questions at the forefront of our evolutionary …