Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome

S Hetzel, AL Mattei, H Kretzmer, C Qu, X Chen, Y Fan… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation is tightly regulated during development and is stably maintained in healthy
cells. In contrast, cancer cells are commonly characterized by a global loss of DNA …

Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome

R Weigert, S Hetzel, N Bailly, C Haggerty, IA Ilik… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
DNA and Histone 3 Lysine 27 methylation typically function as repressive modifications and
operate within distinct genomic compartments. In mammals, the majority of the genome is …

mHapTk: a comprehensive toolkit for the analysis of DNA methylation haplotypes

Y Ding, K Cai, L Liu, Z Zhang, X Zheng, J Shi - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bisulfite sequencing remains the gold standard technique to detect DNA methylation profiles
at single-nucleotide resolution. The DNA methylation status of CpG sites on the same …

Genome-wide single-molecule analysis of long-read DNA methylation reveals heterogeneous patterns at heterochromatin that reflect nucleosome organisation

L Kerr, I Kafetzopoulos, R Grima, D Sproul - PLoS Genetics, 2023 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput sequencing technology is central to our current understanding of the
human methylome. The vast majority of studies use chemical conversion to analyse bulk …