Parent-of-origin DNA methylation dynamics during mouse development

Y Stelzer, H Wu, Y Song, CS Shivalila, S Markoulaki… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Parent-specific differentially methylated regions (DMRs) are established during
gametogenesis and regulate parent-specific expression of imprinted genes. Monoallelic …

The human blood DNA methylome displays a highly distinctive profile compared with other somatic tissues

R Lowe, G Slodkowicz, N Goldman, VK Rakyan - Epigenetics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In mammals, DNA methylation profiles vary substantially between tissues. Recent genome-
scale studies report that blood displays a highly distinctive methylomic profile from other …

Divergent neuronal DNA methylation patterns across human cortical development reveal critical periods and a unique role of CpH methylation

AJ Price, L Collado-Torres, NA Ivanov, W Xia, EE Burke… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background DNA methylation (DNAm) is a critical regulator of both development and
cellular identity and shows unique patterns in neurons. To better characterize maturational …

Methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) are consistently detected across ancestry, developmental stage, and tissue type

AK Smith, V Kilaru, M Kocak, LM Almli, KB Mercer… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Individual genotypes at specific loci can result in different patterns of DNA
methylation. These methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) influence methylation across …

Systematic DNA methylation analysis of multiple cell lines reveals common and specific patterns within and across tissues of origin

X Yang, X Shao, L Gao, S Zhang - Human molecular genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is a key functional regulatory mechanism in human genome, which plays
critical roles in development, differentiation and many diseases. With rapid progress of large …

A survey of inter-individual variation in DNA methylation identifies environmentally responsive co-regulated networks of epigenetic variation in the human genome

P Garg, RS Joshi, C Watson, AJ Sharp - PLoS genetics, 2018 - journals.plos.org
While population studies have resulted in detailed maps of genetic variation in humans, to
date there are few robust maps of epigenetic variation. We identified sites containing …

Allele-specific DNA methylation in mouse strains is mainly determined by cis-acting sequences

E Schilling, C El Chartouni, M Rehli - Genome research, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is a vital epigenetic mark that participates in establishing and maintaining
chromatin structures and regulates gene transcription during mammalian development and …

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
Background DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic mechanism involved in gene
regulation and disease, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying inter-individual …

Methods in DNA methylation profiling

T Zuo, B Tycko, TM Liu, HJL Lin, THM Huang - Epigenomics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Metastable and somatically heritable patterns of DNA methylation provide an important level
of genomic regulation. In this article, we review methods for analyzing these genome-wide …

Mapping of variable DNA methylation across multiple cell types defines a dynamic regulatory landscape of the human genome

J Gu, M Stevens, X Xing, D Li, B Zhang… - G3: Genes …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification involved in many biological
processes and diseases. Many studies have mapped DNA methylation changes associated …