Transgenerational inheritance: how impacts to the epigenetic and genetic information of parents affect offspring health

MJ Xavier, SD Roman, RJ Aitken… - Human reproduction …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND A defining feature of sexual reproduction is the transmission of genomic
information from both parents to the offspring. There is now compelling evidence that the …

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

JA Law, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

Mettl3-mediated m6A regulates spermatogonial differentiation and meiosis initiation

K Xu, Y Yang, GH Feng, BF Sun, JQ Chen, YF Li… - Cell research, 2017 - nature.com
METTL3 catalyzes the formation of N 6-methyl-adenosine (m 6 A) which has important roles
in regulating various biological processes. However, the in vivo function of Mettl3 remains …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of 67 histone marks and histone lysine crotonylation as a new type of histone modification

M Tan, H Luo, S Lee, F Jin, JS Yang, E Montellier… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
We report the identification of 67 previously undescribed histone modifications, increasing
the current number of known histone marks by about 70%. We further investigated one of the …

Low paternal dietary folate alters the mouse sperm epigenome and is associated with negative pregnancy outcomes

R Lambrot, C Xu, S Saint-Phar, G Chountalos… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Epidemiological studies suggest that a father's diet can influence offspring health. A
proposed mechanism for paternal transmission of environmental information is via the …

Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells

TS Mikkelsen, M Ku, DB Jaffe, B Issac, E Lieberman… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
We report the application of single-molecule-based sequencing technology for high-
throughput profiling of histone modifications in mammalian cells. By obtaining over four …

Lysine benzoylation is a histone mark regulated by SIRT2

H Huang, D Zhang, Y Wang, M Perez-Neut… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Metabolic regulation of histone marks is associated with diverse biological processes
through dynamically modulating chromatin structure and functions. Here we report the …

Child health, developmental plasticity, and epigenetic programming

Z Hochberg, R Feil, M Constancia, M Fraga… - Endocrine …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Plasticity in developmental programming has evolved in order to provide the best chances of
survival and reproductive success to the organism under changing environments …

De novo DNA methylation: a germ cell perspective

SA Smallwood, G Kelsey - Trends in Genetics, 2012 - cell.com
DNA methylation is a fundamentally important epigenetic modification of the mammalian
genome that has widespread influences on gene expression. During germ-cell specification …

In embryonic stem cells, ZFP57/KAP1 recognize a methylated hexanucleotide to affect chromatin and DNA methylation of imprinting control regions

S Quenneville, G Verde, A Corsinotti, A Kapopoulou… - Molecular cell, 2011 - cell.com
The maintenance of H3K9 and DNA methylation at imprinting control regions (ICRs) during
early embryogenesis is key to the regulation of imprinted genes. Here, we reveal that ZFP57 …