Genomic imprinting in mammals: an interplay between chromatin and DNA methylation?

Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex

1998 • 3,363 citations

Methylated DNA and MeCP2 recruit histone deacetylase to repress transcription

1998 • 2,686 citations

Role for DNA methylation in genomic imprinting

1994 • 1,695 citations

The essentials of DNA methylation

1992 • 960 citations

Spl elements protect a CpG island from de novo methylation

1994 • 713 citations

DNA methylation and chromatin modification

1999 • 641 citations

Deletion of the H19 differentially methylated domain results in loss of imprinted expression of H19 and Igf2

1998 • 641 citations

Maternal-specific methylation of the imprinted mouse Igf2r locus identifies the expressed locus as carrying the imprinting signal

1993 • 602 citations

Sp1 sites in the mouse aprt gene promoter are required to prevent methylation of the CpG island.

1994 • 597 citations

Imprinted expression of the Igf2r gene depends on an intronic CpG island

1997 • 578 citations

The Sins of the Fathers and Mothers

1999 • 489 citations

Imprinting in Prader–Willi and Angelman syndromes

1998 • 451 citations

DNA methylation and imprinting: why bother?

1997 • 370 citations

Imprinting and the Initiation of Gene Silencing in the Germ Line

1998 • 359 citations

DNA methylation and genomic imprinting

1994 • 349 citations

A 5′ 2-Kilobase-Pair Region of the Imprinted Mouse H19 Gene Exhibits Exclusive Paternal Methylation throughout Development

1997 • 341 citations

A mouse model for Prader-Willi syndrome imprinting-centre mutations

1998 • 298 citations

A role for nuclear NF–κB in B–cell–specific demethylation of the Igκ locus

1996 • 216 citations

Structure of the imprinted mouse Snrpn gene and establishment of its parental-specific methylation pattern

1997 • 195 citations

Imprinting mechanisms in mammals

1998 • 173 citations

Tissue-specific factors additively increase the probability of the all-or-none formation of a hypersensitive site.

1996 • 156 citations

The imprinting box of the mouse Igf2r gene

1999 • 121 citations

Evidence that Protein Binding Specifies Sites of DNA Demethylation

1999 • 111 citations

An imprinting element from the mouse H19 locus functions as a silencer in Drosophila

1997 • 106 citations

An embryonic demethylation mechanism involving binding of transcription factors to replicating DNA

1998 • 102 citations

Parental Allele-Specific Chromatin Configuration in a Boundary–Imprinting-Control Element Upstream of the Mouse H19 Gene

1999 • 83 citations

Chromatin conformation of the H19 epigenetic mark

1998 • 76 citations

In vivo Nuclease Hypersensitivity Studies Reveal Multiple Sites of Parental Origin-Dependent Differential Chromatin Conformation in the 150 Kb SNRPN Transcription Unit

1999 • 56 citations

Parental Chromosome-specific Chromatin Conformation in the Imprinted U2af1-rs1 Gene in the Mouse

1997 • 48 citations

Characterization of Novel Parent-Specific Epigenetic Modifications Upstream of the Imprinted Mouse H19Gene

1998 • 45 citations

Aberrant Methylation of an Imprinted Gene U2af1-rs1(SP2) Caused by Its Own Transgene

1997 • 36 citations

Inactive Allele-Specific Methylation and Chromatin Structure of the Imprinted GeneU2af1-rs1on Mouse Chromosome 11

1996 • 30 citations

An Oocyte-Specific Methylation Imprint Center in the MouseU2afbp-rs/U2af1-rs1Gene Marks the Establishment of Allele-Specific Methylation during Preimplantation Development

1997 • 24 citations