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Title: Genome-wide parent-of-origin DNA methylation analysis reveals the intricacies of human imprinting and suggests a germline methylation-independent mechanism of establishment
Author: Court, Franck
Tayama, Chiharu
Romanelli, Valeria
Martín Trujillo, Alex
Iglesias Platas, Isabel
Okamura, Kohji
Sugahara, Naoko
Simón, Carlos
Moore, Harry
Harness, Julie V.
Keirstead, Hans
Sanchez-Mut, Jose Vicente
Kaneki, Eisuke
Lapunzina, Pablo
Soejima, Hidenobu
Wake, Norio
Esteller, Manel
Ogata, Tsutomu
Hata, Kenichiro
Nakabayashi, Kazuhiko
Monk, David
Keywords: ADN
Metilació
Genòmica
Cèl·lules germinals
DNA
Methylation
Genomics
Germ cells
Issue Date: 1-Apr-2014
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Abstract: Differential methylation between the two alleles of a gene has been observed in imprinted regions, where the methylation of one allele occurs on a parent-of-origin basis, the inactive X-chromosome in females, and at those loci whose methylation is driven by genetic variants. We have extensively characterized imprinted methylation in a substantial range of normal human tissues, reciprocal genome-wide uniparental disomies, and hydatidiform moles, using a combination of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing and high-density methylation microarrays. This approach allowed us to define methylation profiles at known imprinted domains at base-pair resolution, as well as to identify 21 novel loci harboring parent-of-origin methylation, 15 of which are restricted to the placenta. We observe that the extent of imprinted differentially methylated regions (DMRs) is extremely similar between tissues, with the exception of the placenta. This extra-embryonic tissue often adopts a different methylation profile compared to somatic tissues. Further, we profiled all imprinted DMRs in sperm and embryonic stem cells derived from parthenogenetically activated oocytes, individual blastomeres, and blastocysts, in order to identify primary DMRs and reveal the extent of reprogramming during preimplantation development. Intriguingly, we find that in contrast to ubiquitous imprints, the majority of placenta-specific imprinted DMRs are unmethylated in sperm and all human embryonic stem cells. Therefore, placental-specific imprinting provides evidence for an inheritable epigenetic state that is independent of DNA methylation and the existence of a novel imprinting mechanism at these loci.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.164913.113
It is part of: Genome Research, 2014, vol. 24, num. 4, p. 554-569
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/172762
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.164913.113
ISSN: 1088-9051
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