Roles for retrotransposon insertions in human disease

DC Hancks, HH Kazazian - Mobile DNA, 2016 - Springer
Over evolutionary time, the dynamic nature of a genome is driven, in part, by the activity of
transposable elements (TE) such as retrotransposons. On a shorter time scale it has been …

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 …

SWAN: Subset-quantile within array normalization for illumina infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips

J Maksimovic, L Gordon, A Oshlack - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
DNA methylation is the most widely studied epigenetic mark and is known to be essential to
normal development and frequently disrupted in disease. The Illumina …

DNA methylation and human disease

KD Robertson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification of the genome that is involved in
regulating many cellular processes. These include embryonic development, transcription …

The history of cancer epigenetics

AP Feinberg, B Tycko - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2004 - nature.com
Since its discovery in 1983, the epigenetics of human cancer has been in the shadows of
human cancer genetics. But this area has become increasingly visible with a growing …

The mammalian epigenome

BE Bernstein, A Meissner, ES Lander - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Chemical modifications to DNA and histone proteins form a complex regulatory network that
modulates chromatin structure and genome function. The epigenome refers to the complete …

Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing for comparative high-resolution DNA methylation analysis

A Meissner, A Gnirke, GW Bell… - Nucleic acids …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We describe a large-scale random approach termed reduced representation bisulfite
sequencing (RRBS) for analyzing and comparing genomic methylation patterns. BglII …

The power and the promise of DNA methylation markers

PW Laird - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2003 - nature.com
The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in the epigenetics of cancer. This has
been a consequence of both the exciting coalescence of the chromatin and DNA …

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 …

DNA hypomethylation and human diseases

AS Wilson, BE Power, PL Molloy - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2007 - Elsevier
Changes in human DNA methylation patterns are an important feature of cancer
development and progression and a potential role in other conditions such as …