[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation of the first exon is tightly linked to transcriptional silencing

F Brenet, M Moh, P Funk, E Feierstein, AJ Viale… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Tissue specific patterns of methylated cytosine residues vary with age, can be altered by
environmental factors, and are often abnormal in human disease yet the cellular …

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

JA Law, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

S Feng, SJ Cokus, X Zhang, PY Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Cytosine DNA methylation is a heritable epigenetic mark present in many eukaryotic
organisms. Although DNA methylation likely has a conserved role in gene silencing, the …

Putting DNA methylation in context: from genomes to gene expression in plants

CE Niederhuth, RJ Schmitz - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2017 - Elsevier
Plant DNA methylation is its own language, interpreted by the cell to maintain silencing of
transposons, facilitate chromatin structure, and to ensure proper expression of some genes …

[HTML][HTML] Global loss of DNA methylation uncovers intronic enhancers in genes showing expression changes

A Blattler, L Yao, H Witt, Y Guo, CM Nicolet, BP Berman… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Gene expression is epigenetically regulated by a combination of histone
modifications and methylation of CpG dinucleotides in promoters. In normal cells, CpG-rich …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of multiple individuals reveals complementary roles of promoter and gene body methylation in transcriptional regulation

S Lou, HM Lee, H Qin, JW Li, Z Gao, X Liu, LL Chan… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an important type of epigenetic modification involved in
gene regulation. Although strong DNA methylation at promoters is widely recognized to be …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic DNA methylation in plant growth and development

A Bartels, Q Han, P Nair, L Stacey, H Gaynier… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification required for transposable element (TE)
silencing, genome stability, and genomic imprinting. Although DNA methylation has been …

The methylome: approaches for global DNA methylation profiling

S Beck, VK Rakyan - Trends in Genetics, 2008 - cell.com
DNA methylation plays a critical role in genome function both in health and disease. Almost
60 years after the discovery of 5-methyl cytosine and∼ 25 years since the discovery that …

[HTML][HTML] Profiling genome-wide DNA methylation

WS Yong, FM Hsu, PY Chen - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2016 - Springer
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that plays an important role in regulating
gene expression and therefore a broad range of biological processes and diseases. DNA …

Dynamic DNA methylation across diverse human cell lines and tissues

KE Varley, J Gertz, KM Bowling, SL Parker… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
As studies of DNA methylation increase in scope, it has become evident that methylation has
a complex relationship with gene expression, plays an important role in defining cell types …