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 …

Divergent whole-genome methylation maps of human and chimpanzee brains reveal epigenetic basis of human regulatory evolution

J Zeng, G Konopka, BG Hunt, TM Preuss… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
DNA methylation is a pervasive epigenetic DNA modification that strongly affects chromatin
regulation and gene expression. To date, it remains largely unknown how patterns of DNA …

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 …

Genome-wide DNA methylation analyses in the brain reveal four differentially methylated regions between humans and non-human primates

J Wang, X Cao, Y Zhang, B Su - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 - Springer
Background The highly improved cognitive function is the most significant change in human
evolutionary history. Recently, several large-scale studies reported the evolutionary roles of …

Methylomic trajectories across human fetal brain development

H Spiers, E Hannon, LC Schalkwyk, R Smith… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Epigenetic processes play a key role in orchestrating transcriptional regulation during
development. The importance of DNA methylation in fetal brain development is highlighted …

Adaptation of the targeted capture Methyl-Seq platform for the mouse genome identifies novel tissue-specific DNA methylation patterns of genes involved in …

B Hing, E Ramos, P Braun, M McKane, D Jancic… - Epigenetics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Methyl-Seq was recently developed as a targeted approach to assess DNA methylation
(DNAm) at a genome-wide level in human. We adapted it for mouse and sought to examine …

Genome-wide divergence of DNA methylation marks in cerebral and cerebellar cortices

Y Xin, B Chanrion, MM Liu, H Galfalvy, R Costa… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Emerging evidence suggests that DNA methylation plays an expansive role in
the central nervous system (CNS). Large-scale whole genome DNA methylation profiling of …

Neurons show distinctive DNA methylation profile and higher interindividual variations compared with non-neurons

K Iwamoto, M Bundo, J Ueda, MC Oldham… - Genome …, 2011 - genome.cshlp.org
Epigenome information in mammalian brain cells reflects their developmental history,
neuronal activity, and environmental exposures. Studying the epigenetic modifications …

Species-specific 5 mC and 5 hmC genomic landscapes indicate epigenetic contribution to human brain evolution

A Madrid, P Chopra, RS Alisch - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Human evolution from non-human primates has seen substantial change in the central
nervous system, with the molecular mechanisms underlying human brain evolution …

Characterizing the dynamic and functional DNA methylation landscape in the developing human cortex

KA Perzel Mandell, AJ Price, R Wilton… - Epigenetics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT DNA methylation (DNAm) is a key epigenetic regulator of gene expression
across development. The developing prenatal brain is a highly dynamic tissue, but our …