DNA methylation patterns formation and function

A Razin, M Szyf - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Structure …, 1984 - Elsevier
… suggests the association of DNA methylation with gene activity [11-… methylation patterns
during development must be elucidated. In this article the basic features of methylation patterns, …

Rethinking how DNA methylation patterns are maintained

PA Jones, G Liang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2009 - nature.com
… occur less frequently than expected in DNA. Not all CpG sites are methylated, and DNA
methylation patterns are tissue specific. DNA methylation is involved in several key physiological …

Programming of DNA methylation patterns

H Cedar, Y Bergman - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
DNA methylation pattern is autonomously copied following replication, it is possible that this
modification pattern … chromatin over methylated DNA (42). It is probably in this manner that …

DNA methylation patterns and epigenetic memory

A Bird - Genes & development, 2002 - genesdev.cshlp.org
… This review concerns DNA methylation, focusing on the generation… methylation patterns in
the development of mammals. Data will be discussed favoring the notion that DNA methylation

Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation patterns

D Zilberman, S Henikoff - 2007 - journals.biologists.com
… This is largely owing to our limited knowledge of DNA methylation patterns. A study published
in early 2006 estimated that DNA methylation of less than 0.1% of the human genome has …

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

JA Law, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
DNA methylation and silencing at loci that produce siRNAs and IGN transcripts. Analyses of
transposon expression and DNA methylation patterns … decreases in DNA methylation occur …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation pattern in human zygotes and developing embryos

H Fulka, M Mrazek, O Tepla, J Fulka - Reproduction, 2004 - rep.bioscientifica.com
We report on observations of the global methylation/demethylation pattern of both pronuclei
in human zygotes and in early embryos up to the blastocyst stage. Our results demonstrate …

DNA methylation patterns in lung carcinomas

GP Pfeifer, TA Rauch - Seminars in cancer biology, 2009 - Elsevier
DNA … cellular DNA methylation patterns following DNA replication. DNMT3A and DNMT3B
are primarily thought of as de novo DNA methyltransferases responsible for methylation of …

Genome-wide quantitative assessment of variation in DNA methylation patterns

H Xie, M Wang, A De Andrade, MF Bonaldo… - Nucleic acids …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… In the present study, we exploited Shannon entropy to assess the variation in DNA
methylation patterns of promoters/CGIs and Alu repeat-encompassing loci. Specifically, we …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines

JT Bell, AA Pai, JK Pickrell, DJ Gaffney, R Pique-Regi… - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
… these on overall DNA methylation patterns in our data. However, variation in methylation are
… may influence DNA methylation. We took this into account when performing all downstream …