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  1. Epigenetic modifications such as histone methylation permit change in chromatin structure without accompanying change in the underlying genomic sequence. A number of studies in animal models have shown that dy...

    Authors: Bridget E. Collins, Celeste B. Greer, Benjamin C. Coleman and J. David Sweatt
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:7
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  3. Infection by the human malaria parasite leads to important changes in mosquito phenotypic traits related to vector competence. However, we still lack a clear understanding of the underlying mechanisms and, in ...

    Authors: José L. Ruiz, Rakiswendé S. Yerbanga, Thierry Lefèvre, Jean B. Ouedraogo, Victor G. Corces and Elena Gómez-Díaz
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:5
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  4. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has been a good model system to understand the functional role of 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) in cancer progression. More recently, an oxidized form of 5-mC, 5-hydroxymethylcytos...

    Authors: Sara Wernig-Zorc, Mukesh Pratap Yadav, Pradeep Kumar Kopparapu, Mats Bemark, Hallgerdur Lind Kristjansdottir, Per-Ola Andersson, Chandrasekhar Kanduri and Meena Kanduri
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:4
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  5. The 5 hydroxymethylation (5hmC) mark and TET DNA dioxygenases play a pivotal role in embryonic stem cell differentiation and animal development. However, very little is known about TET enzymes in lineage deter...

    Authors: Dimitrios Cakouros, Sarah Hemming, Kahlia Gronthos, Renjing Liu, Andrew Zannettino, Songtao Shi and Stan Gronthos
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:3
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  6. Boundaries in the Drosophila bithorax complex delimit autonomous regulatory domains that activate the parasegment (PS)-specific expression of homeotic genes. The Fab-7 boundary separates the iab-6 and iab-7 regul...

    Authors: Anna Fedotova, Chaevia Clendinen, Artem Bonchuk, Vladic Mogila, Tsutomu Aoki, Pavel Georgiev and Paul Schedl
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:2
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  7. The widespread use of accessible peripheral tissues for epigenetic analyses has prompted increasing interest in the study of tissue-specific DNA methylation (DNAm) variation in human populations. To date, char...

    Authors: Sumaiya A. Islam, Sarah J. Goodman, Julia L. MacIsaac, Jelena Obradović, Ronald G. Barr, W. Thomas Boyce and Michael S. Kobor
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2019 12:1
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  8. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is an oxidation product of 5-methylcytosine (5mC), and adjacent CpG sites in mammalian genome can be co-methylated and co-hydroxymethylated due to the processivity of DNMT and TE...

    Authors: Qin Ma, Zhengzheng Xu, Huan Lu, Ziying Xu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Bifeng Yuan and Weimin Ci
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:75
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  9. Our understanding of eukaryotic gene regulation is limited by the complexity of protein–DNA interactions that comprise the chromatin landscape and by inefficient methods for characterizing these interactions. ...

    Authors: Derek H. Janssens, Steven J. Wu, Jay F. Sarthy, Michael P. Meers, Carrie H. Myers, James M. Olson, Kami Ahmad and Steven Henikoff
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:74
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  10. Age reprogramming represents a novel method for generating patient-specific tissues for transplantation. It bypasses the de-differentiation/redifferentiation cycle that is characteristic of the induced pluripo...

    Authors: Prim B. Singh and Andrew G. Newman
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:73
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  11. Lysine-specific histone demethylase 5C (KDM5C) belongs to the jumonji family of demethylases and is specific for the di- and tri-demethylation of lysine 4 residues on histone 3 (H3K4 me2/3). KDM5C is expressed...

    Authors: Youni Kim, Youngeun Jeong, Kujin Kwon, Tayaba Ismail, Hyun-Kyung Lee, Chowon Kim, Jeen-Woo Park, Oh-Shin Kwon, Beom-Sik Kang, Dong-Seok Lee, Tae Joo Park, Taejoon Kwon and Hyun-Shik Lee
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:72
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  12. Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is responsible for establishing and maintaining histone H3K27 methylation during cell differentiation and proliferation. H3K27 can be mono-, di-, or trimethylated, resultin...

    Authors: Weipeng Mu, Joshua Starmer, Della Yee and Terry Magnuson
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:71
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  13. Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) is tightly regulated by a network of transcription factors (EMT-TFs). Among them is the nuclear factor ZEB2, a member of the zinc-finger E-box binding homeobox family. Z...

    Authors: Nicolas Skrypek, Kenneth Bruneel, Cindy Vandewalle, Eva De Smedt, Bieke Soen, Nele Loret, Joachim Taminau, Steven Goossens, Niels Vandamme and Geert Berx
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:70
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  14. The Chromomethylase 1 (CMT1) has long been considered a nonessential gene because, in certain Arabidopsis ecotypes, the CMT1 gene is disrupted by the Evelknievel (EK) retroelement, inserted within exon 13, or con...

    Authors: Narendra Singh Yadav, Janardan Khadka, Katherine Domb, Assaf Zemach and Gideon Grafi
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:69
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  16. After publication of this article [1], it was noticed Duane Smoot and Hassan Ashktorab who made and provided the cell line HFE145 were not included in the author list.

    Authors: Saikat Bhattacharya, Divya Reddy, Vinod Jani, Nikhil Gadewal, Sanket Shah, Raja Reddy, Kakoli Bose, Uddhavesh Sonavane, Rajendra Joshi, Duane Smoot, Hassan Ashktorab and Sanjay Gupta
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:67
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    The original article was published in Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:48

  17. Bidirectional promoters (BPs) are prevalent in eukaryotic genomes. However, it is poorly understood how the cell integrates different epigenomic information, such as transcription factor (TF) binding and chrom...

    Authors: Fatemeh Behjati Ardakani, Kathrin Kattler, Karl Nordström, Nina Gasparoni, Gilles Gasparoni, Sarah Fuchs, Anupam Sinha, Matthias Barann, Peter Ebert, Jonas Fischer, Barbara Hutter, Gideon Zipprich, Charles D. Imbusch, Bärbel Felder, Jürgen Eils, Benedikt Brors…
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:66
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  18. In most mammalian cell lines, chromatin located at the nuclear periphery is represented by condensed heterochromatin, as evidenced by microscopy observations and DamID mapping of lamina-associated domains (LAD...

    Authors: Alexey V. Pindyurin, Artem A. Ilyin, Anton V. Ivankin, Mikhail V. Tselebrovsky, Valentina V. Nenasheva, Elena A. Mikhaleva, Ludo Pagie, Bas van Steensel and Yuri Y. Shevelyov
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:65
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  19. Meiotic recombination hotspots control the frequency and distribution of Spo11 (Rec12)-initiated recombination in the genome. Recombination occurs within and is regulated in part by chromatin structure, but re...

    Authors: Aaron J. Storey, Hsin-Ping Wang, Reine U. Protacio, Mari K. Davidson, Alan J. Tackett and Wayne P. Wahls
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:64
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  20. Placental inflammation, often presenting as acute chorioamnionitis (aCA), is commonly associated with preterm birth. Preterm birth can have both immediate and long-term adverse effects on the health of the bab...

    Authors: Chaini Konwar, E. Magda Price, Li Qing Wang, Samantha L. Wilson, Jefferson Terry and Wendy P. Robinson
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:63
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  22. Preservation of genome integrity by complete, error-free DNA duplication prior to cell division and by correct DNA damage repair is paramount for the development and maintenance of an organism. This holds true...

    Authors: Francesco Natale, Annina Scholl, Alexander Rapp, Wei Yu, Cathia Rausch and M. Cristina Cardoso
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:61
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  23. Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced oxidative stress is well known to play a major role in male infertility. Sperm are sensitive to ROS damaging effects because as male germ cells form mature sperm they prog...

    Authors: Sarah Wyck, Carolina Herrera, Cristina E. Requena, Lilli Bittner, Petra Hajkova, Heinrich Bollwein and Raffaella Santoro
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:60
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  24. The mechanism by which protein complexes interact to regulate the deposition of post-translational modifications of histones remains poorly understood. This is particularly important at regulatory regions, suc...

    Authors: Louie N. van de Lagemaat, Maria Flenley, Magnus D. Lynch, David Garrick, Simon R. Tomlinson, Kamil R. Kranc and Douglas Vernimmen
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:59
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  26. The parthenogenetic marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) is a novel species that has rapidly invaded and colonized various different habitats. Adaptation to different environments appears to be independent o...

    Authors: Fanny Gatzmann, Cassandra Falckenhayn, Julian Gutekunst, Katharina Hanna, Günter Raddatz, Vitor Coutinho Carneiro and Frank Lyko
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:57
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  27. G9a and the related enzyme GLP were originally identified as histone lysine methyltransferases and then shown to also methylate several other non-histone proteins.

    Authors: Takeshi Tsusaka, Masaki Kikuchi, Tadahiro Shimazu, Takehiro Suzuki, Yoshihiro Sohtome, Mai Akakabe, Mikiko Sodeoka, Naoshi Dohmae, Takashi Umehara and Yoichi Shinkai
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:56
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  28. Genomic imprinting leads to maternal expression of IGF2R in both mouse and opossum. In mouse, the antisense long noncoding (lnc) RNA Airn, which is paternally expressed from the differentially methylated region (...

    Authors: Shunsuke Suzuki, Geoffrey Shaw and Marilyn B. Renfree
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:55
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  29. DNA methylation arrays are widely used in epigenome-wide association studies and methylation quantitative trait locus (mQTL) studies. Here, we performed the first genome-wide analysis of monozygotic (MZ) twin ...

    Authors: Jenny van Dongen, Erik A. Ehli, Rick Jansen, Catharina E. M. van Beijsterveldt, Gonneke Willemsen, Jouke J. Hottenga, Noah A. Kallsen, Shanna A. Peyton, Charles E. Breeze, Cornelis Kluft, Bastiaan T. Heijmans, Meike Bartels, Gareth E. Davies and Dorret I. Boomsma
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:54
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  30. Contact domains of chromatin serve as a fundamental unit to regulate action of enhancers for target genes. Looping between a pair of CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF)-binding sites in convergent orientations underli...

    Authors: Taro Tsujimura, Osamu Takase, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Etsuko Sano, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Tsuyoshi Takato, Atsushi Toyoda, Hideyuki Okano and Keiichi Hishikawa
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:51
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  31. There are multiple copies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) present in each cell type, and they are strictly regulated in a cell-specific manner by a group of nuclear-encoded mtDNA-specific replication factors. Thi...

    Authors: Xin Sun and Justin C. St John
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:53
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  32. Compensatory liver hyperplasia—or regeneration—induced by two-thirds partial hepatectomy (PH) permits the study of synchronized activation of mammalian gene expression, particularly in relation to cell prolife...

    Authors: Leonor Rib, Dominic Villeneuve, Shilpi Minocha, Viviane Praz, Nouria Hernandez, Nicolas Guex and Winship Herr
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:52
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  33. The long noncoding RNA Xist is critical for initiation and establishment of X-chromosome inactivation during embryogenesis in mammals, but it is unclear whether its continued expression is required for maintai...

    Authors: Robin L. Adrianse, Kaleb Smith, Tonibelle Gatbonton-Schwager, Smitha P. Sripathy, Uyen Lao, Eric J. Foss, Ruben G. Boers, Joachim B. Boers, Joost Gribnau and Antonio Bedalov
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:50
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  34. Our appreciation of the critical role of the genome’s 3D organization in gene regulation is steadily increasing. Recent 3C-based deep sequencing techniques elucidated a hierarchy of structures that underlie th...

    Authors: Idan Nurick, Ron Shamir and Ran Elkon
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:49
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  35. The silkworm, Bombyx mori, a typical representative of metamorphic insects, is of great agricultural and economic importance. The steroid hormone ecdysone (20-hydroxyecdysone, 20E) is the central regulator of ins...

    Authors: Dong Cheng, Tingcai Cheng, Xi Yang, Quan Zhang, Jianfeng Fu, Tieshan Feng, Jiao Gong and Qingyou Xia
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:48
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  36. Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1 (FSHD1) has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance and primarily affects skeletal muscle. The genetic cause of FSHD1 is contraction of the D4Z4 macrosatellite arr...

    Authors: Premi Haynes, Karol Bomsztyk and Daniel G. Miller
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:47
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  39. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), a ring-shaped homotrimer complex, promotes DNA replication via binding to DNA polymerase. Trimerized PCNA is critical for DNA replication. Enhancer of zeste homologue...

    Authors: Peng A, Xinyi Xu, Chenglin Wang, Jing Yang, Shida Wang, Jiewen Dai and Ling Ye
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:44
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  40. Linker histones establish and maintain higher-order chromatin structure. Eleven linker histone subtypes have been reported in mammals. HILS1 is a spermatid-specific linker histone, and its expression overlaps ...

    Authors: Laxmi Narayan Mishra, Vasantha Shalini, Nikhil Gupta, Krittika Ghosh, Neeraj Suthar, Utsa Bhaduri and M. R. Satyanarayana Rao
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:43
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  42. Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) based on human brain samples allow a deep and direct understanding of epigenetic dysregulation in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, strong variation of cell-type prop...

    Authors: Gilles Gasparoni, Sebastian Bultmann, Pavlo Lutsik, Theo F. J. Kraus, Sabrina Sordon, Julia Vlcek, Vanessa Dietinger, Martina Steinmaurer, Melanie Haider, Christopher B. Mulholland, Thomas Arzberger, Sigrun Roeber, Matthias Riemenschneider, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Armin Giese, Heinrich Leonhardt…
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:41
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  43. Telomeric small RNAs related to PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) have been described in various eukaryotes; however, their role in germline-specific telomere function remains poorly understood. Using a Drosophila m...

    Authors: Elizaveta Radion, Valeriya Morgunova, Sergei Ryazansky, Natalia Akulenko, Sergey Lavrov, Yuri Abramov, Pavel A. Komarov, Sergey I. Glukhov, Ivan Olovnikov and Alla Kalmykova
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:40
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  44. The ability to accurately and efficiently measure DNA methylation is critical to advance the understanding of this epigenetic mechanism and its contribution to common diseases. Here, we present a highly accura...

    Authors: Simone Roeh, Tobias Wiechmann, Susann Sauer, Maik Ködel, Elisabeth B. Binder and Nadine Provençal
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:39
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  45. Unfortunately, the original version of this article contained a typographical error in one of the author names. The name of the author Alexey Pindyurin was incorrectly spelt as Alexey Pinduyrin. The correct sp...

    Authors: Marco La Fortezza, Giovanna Grigolon, Andrea Cosolo, Alexey Pindyurin, Laura Breimann, Helmut Blum, Bas van Steensel and Anne-Kathrin Classen
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:38
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    The original article was published in Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:27

  46. DNA methylation is one of the main epigenetic mechanisms for the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes. In the standard model, methylation in gene promoters has received the most attention since it is ge...

    Authors: Dafni Anastasiadi, Anna Esteve-Codina and Francesc Piferrer
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:37
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  47. Genomic imprinting is governed by allele-specific DNA methylation at imprinting control regions (ICRs), and the mechanism controlling its differential methylation establishment during gametogenesis has been a ...

    Authors: Hitomi Matsuzaki, Eiichi Okamura, Daichi Kuramochi, Aki Ushiki, Katsuhiko Hirakawa, Akiyoshi Fukamizu and Keiji Tanimoto
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:36
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  48. The concept of pioneer transcription factors is emerging as an essential part of the epigenetic regulation, taking place during cell development and differentiation. However, the precise molecular mechanism un...

    Authors: Bettina M. Fuglerud, Marit Ledsaak, Marie Rogne, Ragnhild Eskeland and Odd S. Gabrielsen
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:35
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  49. In hepatocyte nuclei, hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes occur episomally as covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA). The HBV X protein (HBx) is required to initiate and maintain HBV replication. The functional n...

    Authors: Kai O. Hensel, Franziska Cantner, Felix Bangert, Stefan Wirth and Jan Postberg
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:34
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  50. The lysine-specific histone demethylase 1A (KDM1A) was the first demethylase to challenge the concept of the irreversible nature of methylation marks. KDM1A, containing a flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-depe...

    Authors: Tayaba Ismail, Hyun-Kyung Lee, Chowon Kim, Taejoon Kwon, Tae Joo Park and Hyun-Shik Lee
    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:33
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