Gene body methylation in cancer: molecular mechanisms and clinical applications

Q Wang, F Xiong, G Wu, W Liu, J Chen, B Wang… - Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mechanism that regulates gene expression. To
date, most DNA methylation studies have focussed on CpG islands in the gene promoter …

Mobile DNA in health and disease

HH Kazazian Jr, JV Moran - New England Journal of Medicine, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
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Dynamics of genome size evolution in birds and mammals

A Kapusta, A Suh, C Feschotte - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Genome size in mammals and birds shows remarkably little interspecific variation compared
with other taxa. However, genome sequencing has revealed that many mammal and bird …

Retrotransposons as regulators of gene expression

RA Elbarbary, BA Lucas, LE Maquat - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Genomes are subject to two types of changes: changes to the DNA
sequence, and changes that are epigenetic in nature. Changes to the DNA sequence can …

Losing DNA methylation at repetitive elements and breaking bad

XG Pappalardo, V Barra - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2021 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an epigenetic chromatin mark that allows heterochromatin
formation and gene silencing. It has a fundamental role in preserving genome stability …

Coevolution between transposable elements and recombination

TV Kent, J Uzunović, SI Wright - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the most striking patterns of genome structure is the tight, typically negative,
association between transposable elements (TEs) and meiotic recombination rates. While …

The impact of retrotransposons on human genome evolution

R Cordaux, MA Batzer - Nature reviews genetics, 2009 - nature.com
Their ability to move within genomes gives transposable elements an intrinsic propensity to
affect genome evolution. Non-long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons—including LINE …

Origins and functional impact of copy number variation in the human genome

DF Conrad, D Pinto, R Redon, L Feuk, O Gokcumen… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Structural variations of DNA greater than 1 kilobase in size account for most bases that vary
among human genomes, but are still relatively under-ascertained. Here we use tiling …

Alu elements: know the SINEs

P Deininger - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
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Active human retrotransposons: variation and disease

DC Hancks, HH Kazazian Jr - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2012 - Elsevier
Mobile DNAs, also known as transposons or 'jumping genes', are widespread in nature and
comprise an estimated 45% of the human genome. Transposons are divided into two …