[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 …

[PDF][PDF] 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 …

[PDF][PDF] Differences in DNA methylation patterns between humans and chimpanzees

W Enard, A Fassbender, F Model, P Adorján, S Pääbo… - Current Biology, 2004 - cell.com
Methylation at CpG dinucleotides is important for gene regulation in mammals [1]. However,
it is unknown how methylation patterns change during evolution. Here, we compare …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of DNA methylation in recent human and great ape evolution

I Hernando-Herraez, J Prado-Martinez, P Garg… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification involved in regulatory processes such as cell
differentiation during development, X-chromosome inactivation, genomic imprinting and …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-specific DNA methylation is conserved across human, mouse, and rat, and driven by primary sequence conservation

J Zhou, RL Sears, X Xing, B Zhang, D Li… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Uncovering mechanisms of epigenome evolution is an essential step towards
understanding the evolution of different cellular phenotypes. While studies have confirmed …

A comparison of gene expression and DNA methylation patterns across tissues and species

LE Blake, J Roux, I Hernando-Herraez… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Previously published comparative functional genomic data sets from primates using frozen
tissue samples, including many data sets from our own group, were often collected and …

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 …

DNA methylation profile of tissue-dependent and differentially methylated regions (T-DMRs) in mouse promoter regions demonstrating tissue-specific gene expression

S Yagi, K Hirabayashi, S Sato, W Li… - Genome …, 2008 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation constitutes an important epigenetic regulation mechanism in many
eukaryotes, although the extent of DNA methylation in the regulation of gene expression in …

DNA methylation-based variation between human populations

F Kader, M Ghai - Molecular genetics and genomics, 2017 - Springer
Several studies have proved that DNA methylation affects regulation of gene expression and
development. Epigenome-wide studies have reported variation in methylation patterns …

Epigenetics: differential DNA methylation in mammalian somatic tissues

H Nagase, S Ghosh - The FEBS journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic alterations in the absence of DNA sequence
changes, and DNA methylation is one of the extensively studied epigenetic alterations. DNA …