DNA methylation is of paramount importance for mammalian embryonic development. DNA methylation has numerous functions: it is implicated in the repression of transposons and …
A Loda, E Heard - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In mammals, dosage compensation of sex chromosomal genes between females (XX) and males (XY) is achieved through X-chromosome inactivation (XCI). The X-linked X-inactive …
DNA methylation is among the best studied epigenetic modifications and is essential to mammalian development. Although the methylation status of most CpG dinucleotides in the …
Y Bergman, H Cedar - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2013 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that is erased in the early embryo and then re- established at the time of implantation. In this Review, dynamics of DNA methylation during …
A DNA sequence is the hard copy of the human genome and it is a driving force in determining the physiological processes in an organism. Concurrently, the chemical …
R Galupa, E Heard - Annual review of genetics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In somatic nuclei of female therian mammals, the two X chromosomes display very different chromatin states: One X is typically euchromatic and transcriptionally active, and the other is …
Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is characterized by chromatin relaxation of the D4Z4 macrosatellite array on chromosome 4 and expression of the D4Z4-encoded DUX4 …
N Brockdorff, JS Bowness, G Wei - Genes & development, 2020 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The X inactive-specific transcript (Xist) gene is the master regulator of X chromosome inactivation in mammals. Xist produces a long noncoding (lnc) RNA that accumulates over …
H Fang, CM Disteche, JB Berletch - Frontiers in cell and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
X inactivation represents a complex multi-layer epigenetic mechanism that profoundly modifies chromatin composition and structure of one X chromosome in females. The …