[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes: Paradigms, puzzles, and potential

A Kazanets, T Shorstova, K Hilmi, M Marques… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cancer constitutes a set of diseases with heterogeneous molecular pathologies. However,
there are a number of universal aberrations common to all cancers, one of these being the …

Establishment and functions of DNA methylation in the germline

KR Stewart, L Veselovska, G Kelsey - Epigenomics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic modifications established during gametogenesis regulate transcription and other
nuclear processes in gametes, but also have influences in the zygote, embryo and postnatal …

Mapping DNA methylation across development, genotype and schizophrenia in the human frontal cortex

AE Jaffe, Y Gao, A Deep-Soboslay, R Tao… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAm) is important in brain development and is potentially important in
schizophrenia. We characterized DNAm in prefrontal cortex from 335 non-psychiatric …

SHAPE reveals transcript-wide interactions, complex structural domains, and protein interactions across the Xist lncRNA in living cells

MJ Smola, TW Christy, K Inoue… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The 18-kb Xist long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) is essential for X-chromosome inactivation
during female eutherian mammalian development. Global structural architecture, cell …

Protection of CpG islands from DNA methylation is DNA-encoded and evolutionarily conserved

HK Long, HW King, RK Patient, DT Odom… - Nucleic Acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is a repressive epigenetic modification that covers vertebrate genomes.
Regions known as CpG islands (CGIs), which are refractory to DNA methylation, are often …

Evolution of epigenetic regulation in vertebrate genomes

RF Lowdon, HS Jang, T Wang - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
Empirical models of sequence evolution have spurred progress in the field of evolutionary
genetics for decades. We are now realizing the importance and complexity of the eukaryotic …

Epigenome-wide association analysis identified nine skin DNA methylation loci for psoriasis

F Zhou, W Wang, C Shen, H Li, X Zuo, X Zheng… - Journal of Investigative …, 2016 - Elsevier
Psoriasis is a chronic hyperproliferative and inflammatory skin disease caused by the
interplay of genetic and environmental factors. DNA methylation has been linked to …

Hypoxia-inducible factor 3A gene expression and methylation in adipose tissue is related to adipose tissue dysfunction

S Pfeiffer, J Krüger, A Maierhofer, Y Böttcher… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recently, a genome-wide analysis identified DNA methylation of the HIF3A (hypoxia-
inducible factor 3A) as strongest correlate of BMI. Here we tested the hypothesis that HIF3A …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic response to environmental stress: Assembly of BRG1–G9a/GLP–DNMT3 repressive chromatin complex on Myh6 promoter in pathologically …

P Han, W Li, J Yang, C Shang, CH Lin, W Cheng… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Chromatin structure is determined by nucleosome positioning, histone modifications, and
DNA methylation. How chromatin modifications are coordinately altered under pathological …

ZFP57 recognizes multiple and closely spaced sequence motif variants to maintain repressive epigenetic marks in mouse embryonic stem cells

Z Anvar, M Cammisa, V Riso, I Baglivo… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Imprinting Control Regions (ICRs) need to maintain their parental allele-specific
DNA methylation during early embryogenesis despite genome-wide demethylation and …