Imprinting and the Initiation of Gene Silencing in the Germ Line

Role for DNA methylation in genomic imprinting

1994 • 1,695 citations

MeCP2 Is a Transcriptional Repressor with Abundant Binding Sites in Genomic Chromatin

1997 • 1,258 citations

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

1997 • 578 citations

Embryonic germ cells induce epigenetic reprogramming of somatic nucleus in hybrid cells

1997 • 469 citations

DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferases in mouse cells and tissues. studies with a mechanism-based probe

1997 • 353 citations

Sex-specific exons control DNA methyltransferase in mammalian germ cells

1998 • 332 citations

Mammalian homologues of the Polycomb-group gene Enhancer of zeste mediate gene silencing in Drosophila heterochromatin and at S.cerevisiae telomeres

1997 • 277 citations

Germ-line passage is required for establishment of methylation and expression patterns of imprinted but not of nonimprinted genes.

1996 • 271 citations

Biallelic expression of imprinted genes in the mouse germ line: implications for erasure, establishment, and mechanisms of genomic imprinting.

1995 • 263 citations

Imprint switching on human chromosome 15 may involve alternative transcripts of the SNRPN gene

1996 • 257 citations

Epigenetic modifications during oocyte growth correlates with extended parthenogenetic development in the mouse

1996 • 246 citations

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

1997 • 195 citations

DNA Demethylation In Vitro: Involvement of RNA

1996 • 188 citations

Competition- a common motif for the imprinting mechanism?

1997 • 115 citations

Imprinting of Igf2 and H19 from a 130 kb YAC transgene

1997 • 108 citations

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

1997 • 106 citations

A 5′ Differentially Methylated Sequence and the 3′-Flanking Region Are Necessary for H19 Transgene Imprinting

1997 • 77 citations

Genomic imprinting of chromatin inDrosophila melanogaster

1996 • 7 citations