DNA methylation profiling of human chromosomes 6, 20 and 22

F Eckhardt, J Lewin, R Cortese, VK Rakyan, J Attwood… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
DNA methylation is the most stable type of epigenetic modification modulating the
transcriptional plasticity of mammalian genomes. Using bisulfite DNA sequencing, we report …

Distribution, silencing potential and evolutionary impact of promoter DNA methylation in the human genome

M Weber, I Hellmann, MB Stadler, L Ramos, S Pääbo… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
To gain insight into the function of DNA methylation at cis-regulatory regions and its impact
on gene expression, we measured methylation, RNA polymerase occupancy and histone …

DNA methylation analysis of chromosome 21 gene promoters at single base pair and single allele resolution

Y Zhang, C Rohde, S Tierling, TP Jurkowski… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Differential DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic signal for gene regulation,
development, and disease processes. We mapped DNA methylation patterns of 190 gene …

Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

R Lister, M Pelizzola, RH Dowen, RD Hawkins, G Hon… - nature, 2009 - nature.com
DNA cytosine methylation is a central epigenetic modification that has essential roles in
cellular processes including genome regulation, development and disease. Here we …

A DNA methylation atlas of normal human cell types

N Loyfer, J Magenheim, A Peretz, G Cann, J Bredno… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic mark that governs gene expression and
chromatin organization, thus providing a window into cellular identity and developmental …

Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation

MD Schultz, Y He, JW Whitaker, M Hariharan… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding the diversity of human tissues is fundamental to disease and requires linking
genetic information, which is identical in most of an individual's cells, with epigenetic …

Variations in DNA methylation patterns during the cell cycle of HeLa cells

SE Brown, MF Fraga, ICG Weaver, M Berdasco… - Epigenetics, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
DNA methylation has been viewed as a stable component of the epigenome, which is
established during development and fixed thereafter. We show here using nearest neighbor …

Genome-scale DNA methylation maps of pluripotent and differentiated cells

A Meissner, TS Mikkelsen, H Gu, M Wernig, J Hanna… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
DNA methylation is essential for normal development,, and has been implicated in many
pathologies including cancer,. Our knowledge about the genome-wide distribution of DNA …

Spatiotemporal DNA methylome dynamics of the developing mouse fetus

Y He, M Hariharan, DU Gorkin, DE Dickel, C Luo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is essential for mammalian development but understanding of its
spatiotemporal distribution in the developing embryo remains limited,. Here, as part of the …

Temporal uncoupling of the DNA methylome and transcriptional repression during embryogenesis

O Bogdanović, SW Long, SJ van Heeringen… - Genome …, 2011 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is a tightly regulated epigenetic mark associated with transcriptional
repression. Next-generation sequencing of purified methylated DNA obtained from early …