DNA methylation at the crossroads of gene and environment interactions

PP Law, ML Holland - Essays in biochemistry, 2019‏ - portlandpress.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark involved in regulating genome function and is critical
for normal development in mammals. It has been observed that the developmental …

Transmission of trained immunity and heterologous resistance to infections across generations

N Katzmarski, J Domínguez-Andrés, B Cirovic… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Intergenerational inheritance of immune traits linked to epigenetic modifications has been
demonstrated in plants and invertebrates. Here we provide evidence for transmission of …

A guide to designing germline-dependent epigenetic inheritance experiments in mammals

J Bohacek, IM Mansuy - nature methods, 2017‏ - nature.com
Recent work has demonstrated that environmental factors experienced by parents can affect
their offspring across multiple generations, and that such transgenerational transmission can …

Identification, characterization, and heritability of murine metastable epialleles: implications for non-genetic inheritance

A Kazachenka, TM Bertozzi, MK Sjoberg-Herrera… - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
Generally repressed by epigenetic mechanisms, retrotransposons represent around 40% of
the murine genome. At the Agouti viable yellow (A vy) locus, an endogenous retrovirus …

Epigenetic inheritance and its role in evolutionary biology: re-evaluation and new perspectives

W Burggren - Biology, 2016‏ - mdpi.com
Epigenetics increasingly occupies a pivotal position in our understanding of inheritance,
natural selection and, perhaps, even evolution. A survey of the PubMed database, however …

CRISPRi screens reveal a DNA methylation-mediated 3D genome dependent causal mechanism in prostate cancer

M Ahmed, F Soares, JH **a, Y Yang, J Li, H Guo… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Prostate cancer (PCa) risk-associated SNPs are enriched in noncoding cis-regulatory
elements (rCREs), yet their modi operandi and clinical impact remain elusive. Here, we …

Extensive sex differences at the initiation of genetic recombination

K Brick, S Thibault-Sennett, F Smagulova, KWG Lam… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Meiotic recombination differs between males and females; however, when and how these
differences are established is unknown. Here we identify extensive sex differences at the …

Establishment of environmentally sensitive DNA methylation states in the very early human embryo

NJ Kessler, RA Waterland, AM Prentice, MJ Silver - Science advances, 2018‏ - science.org
The molecular mechanisms responsible for the developmental origins of later disease are
currently unknown. We previously demonstrated that women's periconceptional nutrition …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of historic migrations and evolutionary processes on human immunity

J Domínguez-Andrés, MG Netea - Trends in Immunology, 2019‏ - cell.com
The evolution of mankind has constantly been influenced by the pathogens encountered.
The various populations of modern humans that ventured out of Africa adapted to different …

A survey of inter-individual variation in DNA methylation identifies environmentally responsive co-regulated networks of epigenetic variation in the human genome

P Garg, RS Joshi, C Watson, AJ Sharp - PLoS genetics, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
While population studies have resulted in detailed maps of genetic variation in humans, to
date there are few robust maps of epigenetic variation. We identified sites containing …