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The advantages of SMRT sequencing
Richard
J
Roberts,
Mauricio
O
Carneiro,
Michael
C
Schatz
Genome Biology 2013, 14:405 (3 July 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Rich Roberts, Mauricio Carneiro and Michael Schatz argue for a greater uptake of the impressive PacBio SMRT sequencing platform
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Hyperosmotic priming of Arabidopsis seedlings establishes a long-term somatic memory accompanied by specific changes of the epigenome
Emanuela
Sani,
Pawel
Herzyk,
Giorgio
Perrella,
Vincent
Colot,
Anna
Amtmann
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R59 (14 June 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | F1000 Biology
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Editor’s summary
Exposure of young seedlings to salt stress causes histone modifications and transcriptional changes, enhancing stress tolerance in mature plants
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Conservation and divergence of transcriptomic and epigenomic variation in maize hybrids
Guangming
He,
Beibei
Chen,
Xuncheng
Wang,
Xueyong
Li,
Jigang
Li,
Hang
He,
Mei
Yang,
Lu
Lu,
Yijun
Qi,
Xiping
Wang,
Xing
Wang Deng
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R57 (12 June 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
An analysis of the effect of genotype and tissue type on transcriptional and epigenetic changes in maize inbred lines and hybrids
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Deep C diving: mapping the low-abundance modifications of the DNA demethylation pathway
John
P
Thomson,
Jennifer
M
Hunter,
Richard
R
Meehan
Genome Biology 2013, 14:118 (29 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Richard Meehan and colleagues highlight recent insights into the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th DNA bases: 5mC, 5hmC, 5fC and 5caC
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Rising from the crypt: decreasing DNA methylation during differentiation of the small intestine
Sean
M
Cullen,
Margaret
A
Goodell
Genome Biology 2013, 14:116 (28 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A Research Highlight examines why differentiation in the small intestine crypt bypasses the DNA methylation changes observed in other lineage progressions
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DNA methylation dynamics during intestinal stem cell differentiation reveals enhancers driving gene expression in the villus
Lucas
TJ
Kaaij,
Marc
van de Wetering,
Fang
Fang,
Benjamin
Decato,
Antoine
Molaro,
Harmen
JG
van de Werken,
Johan
H
van Es,
Jurian
Schuijers,
Elzo
de Wit,
Wouter
de Laat,
Gregory
J
Hannon,
Hans
C
Clevers,
Andrew
D
Smith,
René
F
Ketting
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R50 (28 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Intriguingly, DNA methylation in mouse intestinal cells does not change much during differentiation
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Genome-wide analysis of functional sirtuin chromatin targets in yeast
Mingguang
Li,
Veena
Valsakumar,
Kunal
Poorey,
Stefan
Bekiranov,
Jeffrey
S
Smith
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R48 (27 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Sirtuins regulate both glycolytic gene expression and condensin/cohesin deposition, suggesting a mechanistic link between metabolism and chromatin architecture
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5-Hydroxymethylcytosine is an essential intermediate of active DNA demethylation processes in primary human monocytes
Maja
Klug,
Sandra
Schmidhofer,
Claudia
Gebhard,
Reinhard
Andreesen,
Michael
Rehli
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R46 (26 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
TET2-mediated conversion of 5mC to 5hmC initiates active demethylation of the genome during monocyte differentiation
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Adult monozygotic twins discordant for intra-uterine growth have indistinguishable genome-wide DNA methylation profiles
Nicole
YP
Souren,
Pavlo
Lutsik,
Gilles
Gasparoni,
Sascha
Tierling,
Jasmin
Gries,
Matthias
Riemenschneider,
Jean-Pierre
Fryns,
Catherine
Derom,
Maurice
P
Zeegers,
Jörn
Walter
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R44 (26 May 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | F1000 Biology
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Editor’s summary
Monozygotic twins discordant for birth weight have very similar DNA methylation profiles
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Inactive or moderately active human promoters are enriched for inter-individual epialleles
Carolina
Gemma,
Sreeram
V
Ramagopalan,
Thomas
A
Down,
Huriya
Beyan,
Mohammed
I
Hawa,
Michelle
L
Holland,
Paul
J
Hurd,
Gavin
Giovannoni,
R
David Leslie,
George
C
Ebers,
Vardhman
K
Rakyan
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R43 (25 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
Epialleles between monozygotic twins are temporally stable, associated with chromatin changes and enriched in transcriptionally inactive regions
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Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance
Emilie
Brasset,
Séverine
Chambeyron
Genome Biology 2013, 14:306 (24 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A report on the 'Non-coding RNA, epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance' meeting, held at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, April 11-12, 2013.
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Longitudinal, genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation in twins from birth to 18 months of age reveals rapid epigenetic change in early life and pair-specific effects of discordance
David
Martino,
Yuk
Loke,
Lavinia
Gordon,
Miina
Ollikainen,
Mark
N
Cruickshank,
Richard
Saffery,
Jeffrey
M
Craig
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R42 (22 May 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A longitudinal study of DNA methylation in twins at birth and 18 months finds that some loci drift in methylation status
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jMOSAiCS: joint analysis of multiple ChIP-seq datasets
Xin
Zeng,
Rajendran
Sanalkumar,
Emery
H
Bresnick,
Hongda
Li,
Qiang
Chang,
Sündüz
Keleş
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R38 (29 April 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
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Editor’s summary
A novel probabilistic method for jointly analyzing multiple ChIP-seq datasets offers an improvement over chromHMM
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Redistribution of H3K27me3 upon DNA hypomethylation results in de-repression of Polycomb target genes
James
P
Reddington,
Sara
M
Perricone,
Colm
E
Nestor,
Judith
Reichmann,
Neil
A
Youngson,
Masako
Suzuki,
Diana
Reinhardt,
Donncha
S
Dunican,
James
G
Prendergast,
Heidi
Mjoseng,
Bernard
H
Ramsahoye,
Emma
Whitelaw,
John
M
Greally,
Ian
R
Adams,
Wendy
A
Bickmore,
Richard
R
Meehan
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R25 (25 March 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
An intact DNA methylome is required for appropriate Polycomb-mediated gene repression, as revealed by H3K4me3 and PRC2 mapping in hypomethylated cells
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DNA methylation of distal regulatory sites characterizes dysregulation of cancer genes
Dvir
Aran,
Sivan
Sabato,
Asaf
Hellman
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R21 (12 March 2013)
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Editor’s summary
A new study using an innovative machine learning approach finds that distal gene regulatory sites are hypermethylated in cancers
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The B cell transcription program mediates hypomethylation and overexpression of key genes in Epstein-Barr virus-associated proliferative conversion
Henar
Hernando,
Claire
Shannon-Lowe,
Abul
B
Islam,
Fatima
Al-Shahrour,
Javier
Rodríguez-Ubreva,
Virginia
C
Rodríguez-Cortez,
Biola
M
Javierre,
Cristina
Mangas,
Agustín
F
Fernández,
Maribel
Parra,
Henri-Jacques
Delecluse,
Manel
Esteller,
Eduardo
López-Granados,
Mario
F
Fraga,
Nuria
López-Bigas,
Esteban
Ballestar
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R3 (15 January 2013)
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Editor’s summary
DNA hypomethylation is a key feature of Epstein-Barr virus-associated B cell proliferative transformation, and occurs via a passive demethylation process
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Natural variation of H3K27me3 distribution between two Arabidopsis accessions and its association with flanking transposable elements
Xue
Dong,
Julia
Reimer,
Ulrike
Göbel,
Julia
Engelhorn,
Fei
He,
Heiko
Schoof,
Franziska
Turck
Genome Biology 2012, 13:R117 (19 December 2012)
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Editor’s summary
An analysis of natural variation of H3K27me3 in 2 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions and in their F1 hybrids
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Human genes with CpG island promoters have a distinct transcription-associated chromatin organization
Tanya
Vavouri,
Ben
Lehner
Genome Biology 2012, 13:R110 (27 November 2012)
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Editor’s summary
A study of the chromatin architecture at promoters reveals different histone modifications at those with CpG islands and those without
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Hog1 bypasses stress-mediated down-regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II redistribution and chromatin remodeling
Mariona
Nadal-Ribelles,
Núria
Conde,
Oscar
Flores,
Juan
González-Vallinas,
Eduardo
Eyras,
Modesto
Orozco,
Eulàlia
de Nadal,
Francesc
Posas
Genome Biology 2012, 13:R106 (18 November 2012)
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Editor’s summary
Hog1 bypasses gene expression regulation by targeting RNA polymerase II machinery and inducing chromatin remodeling at stress-responsive loci
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The birth of the Epitranscriptome: deciphering the function of RNA modifications
Yogesh
Saletore,
Kate
Meyer,
Jonas
Korlach,
Igor
D
Vilfan,
Samie
Jaffrey,
Christopher
E
Mason
Genome Biology 2012, 13:175 (31 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
First came genomics, and then epigenomics. But is epitranscriptomics the future? A picture is emerging of RNA methylation's functional importance
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What can epigenomics do for you?
Alexander
Meissner
Genome Biology 2012, 13:420 (23 October 2012)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed | Cited on BioMed Central
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Editor’s summary
Alexander Meissner asks not what you can do for epigenomics, but what epigenomics can do for you
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The allure of the epigenome
Naomi
Attar
Genome Biology 2012, 13:419 (23 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
A guide to the articles published in our special issue on epigenomics
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Balance of DNA methylation and demethylation in cancer development
Chun-Xiao
Song,
Chuan
He
Genome Biology 2012, 13:173 (23 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
How this issue's research article on 5hmC, together with other recent work, adds to our understanding of methylation processes in cancer
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The roles of the reprogramming factors Oct4, Sox2 and Klf4 in resetting the somatic cell epigenome during induced pluripotent stem cell generation
Ryan
Schmidt,
Kathrin
Plath
Genome Biology 2012, 13:251 (22 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
How a dramatic reorganization of the epigenome ultimately results in the induced pluripotent stem cell state
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Surveying the epigenomic landscape, one base at a time
Gabriel
E
Zentner,
Steven
Henikoff
Genome Biology 2012, 13:250 (22 October 2012)
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Editor’s summary
New methods for mapping histones at higher resolution open many new doors in epigenomics research
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