Quantitative comparison of genome-wide DNA methylation mapping technologies

C Bock, EM Tomazou, AB Brinkman, F Müller… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
DNA methylation plays a key role in regulating eukaryotic gene expression. Although
mitotically heritable and stable over time, patterns of DNA methylation frequently change in …

Genome‐wide DNA methylation profiling

M Bibikova, JB Fan - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation plays a critical role in the regulation of gene expression. The ability to
access the methylation status for a large number of genes or the entire genome should …

Functional DNA methylation differences between tissues, cell types, and across individuals discovered using the M&M algorithm

B Zhang, Y Zhou, N Lin, RF Lowdon, C Hong… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation plays key roles in diverse biological processes such as X chromosome
inactivation, transposable element repression, genomic imprinting, and tissue-specific gene …

Analysing and interpreting DNA methylation data

C Bock - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that has suspected regulatory roles in a broad range
of biological processes and diseases. The technology is now available for studying DNA …

Profiling DNA methylomes from microarray to genome-scale sequencing

YW Huang, THM Huang… - Technology in cancer …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
DNA cytosine methylation is a central epigenetic modification which plays critical roles in
cellular processes including genome regulation, development and disease. Here, we review …

Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation patterns

D Zilberman, S Henikoff - 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Cytosine methylation is the most common covalent modification of DNA in eukaryotes. DNA
methylation has an important role in many aspects of biology, including development and …

Whole-genome DNA methylation profiling using MethylCap-seq

AB Brinkman, F Simmer, K Ma, A Kaan, J Zhu… - Methods, 2010 - Elsevier
MethylCap-seq is a robust procedure for genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation. The
approach consists of the capture of methylated DNA using the MBD domain of MeCP2, and …

Inter-individual variation of DNA methylation and its implications for large-scale epigenome mapping

C Bock, J Walter, M Paulsen… - Nucleic acids research, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Genomic DNA methylation profiles exhibit substantial variation within the human population,
with important functional implications for gene regulation. So far little is known about the …

Methyl-DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP): hunting down the DNA methylome

FV Jacinto, E Ballestar, M Esteller - Biotechniques, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
One of the most challenging projects in the field of epigenetics is the generation of detailed
functional maps of DNA methylation in different cell and tissue types in normal and disease …

High definition profiling of mammalian DNA methylation by array capture and single molecule bisulfite sequencing

E Hodges, AD Smith, J Kendall, Z Xuan, K Ravi… - Genome …, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation stabilizes developmentally programmed gene expression states. Aberrant
methylation is associated with disease progression and is a common feature of cancer …