… Understanding the molecular determinants of both normal and abnormal patterns of chromatin
formation and DNA methylation thus holds great promise for our understanding of cancer …

… DNA methylation will be discussed later. Initially, I will consider the question of the epigenetic
control of gene activity by DNA methylation in … the relation between DNA methylation and …

… explain the inheritance of all histone methylation associated … lack DNA methylation, yet
employ histone methylation for the … study chromatin assembly during DNA replication, but a DNA …

… inherited chromatin domains. It is important to note that although we have some idea about
the propagation of DNA methylation … known about the inheritance of nucleosome occupancy …

… of chromatin in these events. The influence of DNA methylation on chromatin structure will
… Finally, we will speculate on the molecular mechanisms that use chromatin components to …

… from the maintenance of most methylation in the genome. This result pinpoints our ignorance
of the biochemical mechanisms by which DNA methylation patterns are maintained in vivo. …

… cis-replication of DNA methylation patterns is well understood, models for cis-inheritance of
… Here I propose models for cis-inheritance of chromatin states that provide an explanation for …

… go awry, a number of inherited genetic diseases … DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling
and describe a model of how chromatin states may dictate genome-wide DNA methylation …

… Although the induction of a repressive chromatin structure may not require DNA methylation
per se, there is evidence that methylation is required for the preservation of such imprints in …

… chromatin at these loci. Our results demonstrate a model whereby inherited DNA methylation
signatures from gametes prime the establishment of accessible chromatin during zebrafish …