DNA methylation loss in late-replicating domains is linked to mitotic cell division

W Zhou, HQ Dinh, Z Ramjan, DJ Weisenberger… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation loss occurs frequently in cancer genomes, primarily within lamina-
associated, late-replicating regions termed partially methylated domains (PMDs). We …

Cell division drives DNA methylation loss in late-replicating domains in primary human cells

JL Endicott, PA Nolte, H Shen, PW Laird - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation undergoes dramatic age-related changes, first described more than four
decades ago. Loss of DNA methylation within partially methylated domains (PMDs), late …

Global delay in nascent strand DNA methylation

J Charlton, TL Downing, ZD Smith, H Gu… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
Cytosine methylation is widespread among organisms and essential for mammalian
development. In line with early postulations of an epigenetic role in gene regulation …

Kinetics and mechanisms of mitotic inheritance of DNA methylation and their roles in aging-associated methylome deterioration

X Ming, Z Zhang, Z Zou, C Lv, Q Dong, Q He, Y Yi, Y Li… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Mitotic inheritance of the DNA methylome is a challenging task for the maintenance of cell
identity. Whether DNA methylation pattern in different genomic contexts can all be faithfully …

Regions of focal DNA hypermethylation and long-range hypomethylation in colorectal cancer coincide with nuclear lamina–associated domains

BP Berman, DJ Weisenberger, JF Aman, T Hinoue… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Extensive changes in DNA methylation are common in cancer and may contribute to
oncogenesis through transcriptional silencing of tumor-suppressor genes. Genome-scale …

Senescent cells harbour features of the cancer epigenome

HA Cruickshanks, T McBryan, DM Nelson… - Nature cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Altered DNA methylation and associated destabilization of genome integrity and function is
a hallmark of cancer. Replicative senescence is a tumour suppressor process that imposes …

The human placenta methylome

DI Schroeder, JD Blair, P Lott, HOK Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Tissue-specific DNA methylation is found at promoters, enhancers, and CpG islands but also
over larger genomic regions. In most human tissues, the vast majority of the genome is …

Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

KD Hansen, W Timp, HC Bravo, S Sabunciyan… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Tumor heterogeneity is a major barrier to effective cancer diagnosis and treatment. We
recently identified cancer-specific differentially DNA-methylated regions (cDMRs) in colon …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide methylation analysis of human colon cancer reveals similar hypo-and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores

RA Irizarry, C Ladd-Acosta, B Wen, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alterations in DNA methylation (DNAm) in cancer have been known for 25 years, including
hypomethylation of oncogenes and hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes 1 …

A comprehensive analysis of 195 DNA methylomes reveals shared and cell-specific features of partially methylated domains

A Salhab, K Nordström, G Gasparoni, K Kattler, P Ebert… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Partially methylated domains are extended regions in the genome exhibiting a
reduced average DNA methylation level. They cover gene-poor and transcriptionally …