The diverse roles of DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease

MVC Greenberg, D Bourc'his - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation is of paramount importance for mammalian embryonic development. DNA
methylation has numerous functions: it is implicated in the repression of transposons and …

Gene regulation in time and space during X-chromosome inactivation

A Loda, S Collombet, E Heard - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the epigenetic mechanism that ensures X-linked dosage
compensation between cells of females (XX karyotype) and males (XY). XCI is essential for …

CTCF and cohesin in genome folding and transcriptional gene regulation

M Merkenschlager, EP Nora - Annual review of genomics and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Genome function, replication, integrity, and propagation rely on the dynamic structural
organization of chromosomes during the cell cycle. Genome folding in interphase provides …

A comprehensive **st interactome reveals cohesin repulsion and an RNA-directed chromosome conformation

A Minajigi, JE Froberg, C Wei, H Sunwoo, B Kesner… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The mammal has evolved an epigenetic mechanism to silence one of two
X chromosomes in the XX female to equalize gene dosages with the XY male. Once …

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 …

**st RNA in action: Past, present, and future

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 …

[HTML][HTML] **st nucleates local protein gradients to propagate silencing across the X chromosome

Y Markaki, JG Chong, Y Wang, EC Jacobson, C Luong… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary The lncRNA **st forms∼ 50 diffraction-limited foci to transcriptionally silence one
X chromosome. How this small number of RNA foci and interacting proteins regulate a much …

Digenic inheritance of an SMCHD1 mutation and an FSHD-permissive D4Z4 allele causes facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2

RJLF Lemmers, R Tawil, LM Petek, J Balog, GJ Block… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is characterized by chromatin relaxation of the
D4Z4 macrosatellite array on chromosome 4 and expression of the D4Z4-encoded DUX4 …

p53 convergently activates Dux/DUX4 in embryonic stem cells and in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy cell models

EJ Grow, BD Weaver, CM Smith, J Guo, P Stein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In mammalian embryos, proper zygotic genome activation (ZGA) underlies totipotent
development. Double homeobox (DUX)-family factors participate in ZGA, and mouse Dux is …

Genetics of congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: peculiarities and phenotype of an oligogenic disease

B Cangiano, DS Swee, R Quinton, M Bonomi - Human genetics, 2021 - Springer
A genetic basis of congenital isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) can be
defined in almost 50% of cases, albeit not necessarily the complete genetic basis. Next …