[HTML][HTML] A genome-wide study of DNA methylation patterns and gene expression levels in multiple human and chimpanzee tissues

AA Pai, JT Bell, JC Marioni, JK Pritchard, Y Gilad - PLoS genetics, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The modification of DNA by methylation is an important epigenetic mechanism that affects
the spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression. Methylation patterns have been …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation in the human cerebral cortex is dynamically regulated throughout the life span and involves differentiated neurons

KD Siegmund, CM Connor, M Campan, TI Long… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
The role of DNA cytosine methylation, an epigenetic regulator of chromatin structure and
function, during normal and pathological brain development and aging remains unclear …

DNA methylation contributes to natural human variation

H Heyn, S Moran, I Hernando-Herraez… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation patterns are important for establishing cell, tissue, and organism
phenotypes, but little is known about their contribution to natural human variation. To …

QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation

G Dixon, H Pan, D Yang, BP Rosen, T Jashari… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION DNA methylation is essential to mammalian development, and
dysregulation can cause serious pathological conditions, including immunodeficiency …

[HTML][HTML] Differential DNA methylation with age displays both common and dynamic features across human tissues that are influenced by CpG landscape

K Day, LL Waite, A Thalacker-Mercer, A West… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that changes with age in human
tissues, although the mechanisms and specificity of this process are still poorly understood …

Targeted retrieval and analysis of five Neandertal mtDNA genomes

AW Briggs, JM Good, RE Green, J Krause, T Maricic… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Analysis of Neandertal DNA holds great potential for investigating the population history of
this group of hominins, but progress has been limited due to the rarity of samples and …

Dynamic changes in the human methylome during differentiation

L Laurent, E Wong, G Li, T Huynh, A Tsirigos… - Genome …, 2010 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic regulator in mammalian development. Here, we
present a whole-genome comparative view of DNA methylation using bisulfite sequencing of …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylome profiling of human tissues identifies global and tissue-specific methylation patterns

K Lokk, V Modhukur, B Rajashekar, K Märtens, R Mägi… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background DNA epigenetic modifications, such as methylation, are important regulators of
tissue differentiation, contributing to processes of both development and cancer. Profiling the …

[HTML][HTML] Aging effects on DNA methylation modules in human brain and blood tissue

S Horvath, Y Zhang, P Langfelder, RS Kahn… - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Several recent studies reported aging effects on DNA methylation levels of
individual CpG dinucleotides. But it is not yet known whether aging-related consensus …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease blood highlights robust DNA hypermethylation in the HOXB6 gene

JAY Roubroeks, AR Smith, RG Smith, E Pishva… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A growing number of epigenome-wide association studies have demonstrated a role for
DNA methylation in the brain in Alzheimer's disease. With the aim of exploring peripheral …