DNA methylation and human disease

KD Robertson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
… common defect might be able to give rise to the diverse array of defective DNA methylation
… It should be noted that I focus only on those diseases for which defective DNA methylation

DNA methylation in health and disease

KD Robertson, AP Wolffe - Nature reviews genetics, 2000 - nature.com
… These disorders of defective DNA methylation highlight the importance of chromosomal
modification for gene control and development. Accumulating observations emphasize the need …

DNA methylation in development and human disease

S Gopalakrishnan, BO Van Emburgh… - … Molecular Mechanisms of …, 2008 - Elsevier
… ) and leads to defects in gene silencing and differentiation [20]. Dicer-deficient mice display
decreased expression of Dnmts and global DNA methylation defects leading to telomere …

A role for RNAi in the selective correction of DNA methylation defects

FK Teixeira, F Heredia, A Sarazin, F Roudier… - Science, 2009 - science.org
… de novo RNA-dependent DNA methylation that is frequently … Although the frequency with
which DNA methylation can be … against transgenerational epigenetic defects. This mechanism …

DNA methylation, methyltransferases, and cancer

KD Robertson - Oncogene, 2001 - nature.com
… It is important to stress that tumors exhibit a global defect in the DNA methylation system with
hypo- and hypermethylation events occurring in the same cell (Figure 3). The reason for the …

DNA methylation and epigenetic defects in carcinogenesis

R Holliday - … Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of …, 1987 - Elsevier
DNA methylation can be carcinogenic and that turnout cells are altered in DNA methylation.
… in gene expression by altering the pattern of DNA methylation. Evidence that one or more …

DNA methylation outliers in normal breast tissue identify field defects that are enriched in cancer

AE Teschendorff, Y Gao, A Jones, M Ruebner… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
… Although epigenetic field defects, notably DNA methylation … By measuring DNA methylation
in almost half a million CpG … defects in normal tissues adjacent to breast cancers, with these …

DNMT3B mutations and DNA methylation defect define two types of ICF syndrome

YL Jiang, M Rigolet, D Bourc'his, F Nigon… - Human …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… to a genomic methylation defect that … methylation defect of alpha satellites allow the
identification of two types of patients, both showing an undermethylation of classical satellite DNA. …

DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

W Dean, D Lucifero, F Santos - Birth Defects Research Part C …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… In this review, we will focus on DNA methylation, explore the known enzymatic activities …
of DNA methylation patterns, compare the reprogramming dynamics of methylation between …

DNA methylation abnormalities in congenital heart disease

C Serra-Juhé, I Cuscó, A Homs, R Flores, N Torán… - Epigenetics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
defects represent the most common malformation at birth, occurring also in ∼50% of individuals
with Down syndrome. Congenital heart defects … altering DNA methylation in fetal heart …