Interplay between chromatin marks in development and disease

SM Janssen, MC Lorincz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation (DNAme) and histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
important roles in transcriptional regulation. Although many reports have characterized the …

MicroRNA biogenesis pathways in cancer

S Lin, RI Gregory - Nature reviews cancer, 2015 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression. Amplification and
overexpression of individual'oncomiRs' or genetic loss of tumour suppressor miRNAs are …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing

JK Nuñez, J Chen, GC Pommier, JZ Cogan… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
A general approach for heritably altering gene expression has the potential to enable many
discovery and therapeutic efforts. Here, we present CRISPRoff—a programmable epigenetic …

Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling

C Koelsche, D Schrimpf, D Stichel, M Sill… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sarcomas are malignant soft tissue and bone tumours affecting adults, adolescents and
children. They represent a morphologically heterogeneous class of tumours and some …

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

SG Zhao, WS Chen, H Li, A Foye, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although DNA methylation is a key regulator of gene expression, the comprehensive
methylation landscape of metastatic cancer has never been defined. Through whole …

The histone mark H3K36me2 recruits DNMT3A and shapes the intergenic DNA methylation landscape

DN Weinberg, S Papillon-Cavanagh, H Chen, Y Yue… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Enzymes that catalyse CpG methylation in DNA, including the DNA methyltransferases 1
(DNMT1), 3A (DNMT3A) and 3B (DNMT3B), are indispensable for mammalian tissue …

DNA methylation loss promotes immune evasion of tumours with high mutation and copy number load

H Jung, HS Kim, JY Kim, JM Sun, JS Ahn… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mitotic cell division increases tumour mutation burden and copy number load, predictive
markers of the clinical benefit of immunotherapy. Cell division correlates also with genomic …

Practical implementation of DNA methylation and copy-number-based CNS tumor diagnostics: the Heidelberg experience

D Capper, D Stichel, F Sahm, DTW Jones… - Acta …, 2018 - Springer
Recently, we described a machine learning approach for classification of central nervous
system tumors based on the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns [6]. Here …

Resolving medulloblastoma cellular architecture by single-cell genomics

V Hovestadt, KS Smith, L Bihannic, MG Filbin… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma is a malignant childhood cerebellar tumour type that comprises distinct
molecular subgroups. Whereas genomic characteristics of these subgroups are well …

Epigenetic modulators, modifiers and mediators in cancer aetiology and progression

AP Feinberg, MA Koldobskiy, A Göndör - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
This year is the tenth anniversary of the publication in this journal of a model suggesting the
existence of'tumour progenitor genes'. These genes are epigenetically disrupted at the …