Genome-wide parent-of-origin DNA methylation analysis reveals the intricacies of human imprinting and suggests a germline methylation-independent mechanism of …

C Tayama, V Romanelli, A Martin-Trujillo… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Differential methylation between the two alleles of a gene has been observed in imprinted
regions, where the methylation of one allele occurs on a parent-of-origin basis, the inactive …

Pervasive polymorphic imprinted methylation in the human placenta

CW Hanna, MS Peñaherrera, H Saadeh… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
The maternal and paternal copies of the genome are both required for mammalian
development, and this is primarily due to imprinted genes, those that are monoallelically …

Genome-wide mapping of imprinted differentially methylated regions by DNA methylation profiling of human placentas from triploidies

RKC Yuen, R Jiang, MS Penaherrera… - Epigenetics & …, 2011 - Springer
Background Genomic imprinting is an important epigenetic process involved in regulating
placental and foetal growth. Imprinted genes are typically associated with differentially …

Allele-specific methylome and transcriptome analysis reveals widespread imprinting in the human placenta

H Hamada, H Okae, H Toh, H Chiba, H Hiura… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
DNA methylation is globally reprogrammed after fertilization, and as a result, the parental
genomes have similar DNA-methylation profiles after implantation except at the germline …

Human oocyte-derived methylation differences persist in the placenta revealing widespread transient imprinting

M Sanchez-Delgado, F Court, E Vidal, J Medrano… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Thousands of regions in gametes have opposing methylation profiles that are largely
resolved during the post-fertilization epigenetic reprogramming. However some specific …

Genomic landscape of human allele-specific DNA methylation

F Fang, E Hodges, A Molaro, M Dean… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
DNA methylation mediates imprinted gene expression by passing an epigenomic state
across generations and differentially marking specific regulatory regions on maternal and …

Imprinting mechanisms

M Constância, B Pickard, G Kelsey, W Reik - Genome research, 1998 - genome.cshlp.org
A number of recent studies have provided new insights into mechanisms that regulate
genomic imprinting in the mammalian genome. Regions of allele-specific differential …

Base-resolution analyses of sequence and parent-of-origin dependent DNA methylation in the mouse genome

W Xie, CL Barr, A Kim, F Yue, AY Lee, J Eubanks… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Differential methylation of the two parental genomes in placental mammals is essential for
genomic imprinting and embryogenesis. To systematically study this epigenetic process, we …

Protection against de novo methylation is instrumental in maintaining parent-of-origin methylation inherited from the gametes

C Proudhon, R Duffié, S Ajjan, M Cowley, J Iranzo… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
Identifying loci with parental differences in DNA methylation is key to unraveling parent-of-
origin phenotypes. By conducting a MeDIP-Seq screen in maternal-methylation free …

Identification of novel imprinted genes in a genome-wide screen for maternal methylation

RJ Smith, W Dean, G Konfortova, G Kelsey - Genome research, 2003 - genome.cshlp.org
A characteristic of imprinted genes is that the maternal and paternal alleles show differences
in methylation. To perform a genome-wide screen for novel imprinted loci, we applied …