[PDF][PDF] DNA demethylation dynamics in the human prenatal germline

S Gkountela, KX Zhang, TA Shafiq, WW Liao… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Global DNA demethylation in humans is a fundamental process that occurs in pre-
implantation embryos and reversion to naive ground state pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) …

[PDF][PDF] The dynamics of genome-wide DNA methylation reprogramming in mouse primordial germ cells

S Seisenberger, S Andrews, F Krueger, J Arand… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
Genome-wide DNA methylation reprogramming occurs in mouse primordial germ cells
(PGCs) and preimplantation embryos, but the precise dynamics and biological outcomes are …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation dynamics during early human development

H Okae, H Chiba, H Hiura, H Hamada, A Sato… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation is globally reprogrammed during mammalian preimplantation
development, which is critical for normal development. Recent reduced representation …

High-resolution DNA methylome analysis of primordial germ cells identifies gender-specific reprogramming in mice

H Kobayashi, T Sakurai, F Miura, M Imai… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
Dynamic epigenetic reprogramming occurs during mammalian germ cell development,
although the targets of this process, including DNA demethylation and de novo methylation …

Global profiling of DNA methylation erasure in mouse primordial germ cells

S Guibert, T Forné, M Weber - Genome research, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Epigenetic reprogramming, characterized by loss of cytosine methylation and histone
modifications, occurs during mammalian development in primordial germ cells (PGCs), yet …

[PDF][PDF] A unique gene regulatory network resets the human germline epigenome for development

WWC Tang, S Dietmann, N Irie, HG Leitch, VI Floros… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Resetting of the epigenome in human primordial germ cells (hPGCs) is critical for
development. We show that the transcriptional program of hPGCs is distinct from that in …

[PDF][PDF] FGF signaling inhibition in ESCs drives rapid genome-wide demethylation to the epigenetic ground state of pluripotency

G Ficz, TA Hore, F Santos, HJ Lee, W Dean, J Arand… - Cell stem cell, 2013 - cell.com
Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation takes place in primordial germ cells (PGCs) and
early embryos and is linked with pluripotency. Inhibition of Erk1/2 and Gsk3β signaling in …

Single-cell methylome landscapes of mouse embryonic stem cells and early embryos analyzed using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

H Guo, P Zhu, X Wu, X Li, L Wen, F Tang - Genome research, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is crucial for a wide variety of biological processes, yet no technique
suitable for the methylome analysis of DNA methylation at single-cell resolution is available …

Genome-wide reprogramming in the mouse germ line entails the base excision repair pathway

P Hajkova, SJ Jeffries, C Lee, N Miller, SP Jackson… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Genome-wide active DNA demethylation in primordial germ cells (PGCs), which reprograms
the epigenome for totipotency, is linked to changes in nuclear architecture, loss of histone …

[HTML][HTML] Global mapping of DNA methylation in mouse promoters reveals epigenetic reprogramming of pluripotency genes

CR Farthing, G Ficz, RK Ng, CF Chan, S Andrews… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
DNA methylation patterns are reprogrammed in primordial germ cells and in preimplantation
embryos by demethylation and subsequent de novo methylation. It has been suggested that …