How has the study of the human placenta aided our understanding of partially methylated genes?

Epigenomic Analysis of Multilineage Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

(2013) Wei Xie et al.   CELL

GC skew at the 5' and 3' ends of human genes links R-loop formation to epigenetic regulation and transcription termination

(2013) P. A. Ginno et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Embryonic stem cell-derived trophoblast differentiation: a comparative review of the biology, function, and signaling mechanisms

(2013) M Giakoumopoulos et al.   JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY

Endogenous retroviruses function as species-specific enhancer elements in the placenta

(2013) Edward B Chuong et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Fetomaternal immune cross-talk and its consequences for maternal and offspring's health

(2013) Petra C Arck et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

DNA methylation: roles in mammalian development

(2013) Zachary D. Smith et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Regulation of Lineage Specific DNA Hypomethylation in Mouse Trophectoderm

(2013) Masaaki Oda et al.   PLoS One

Complete and unidirectional conversion of human embryonic stem cells to trophoblast by BMP4

(2013) M. Amita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The human placenta methylome

(2013) D. I. Schroeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ectopic Activation of Germline and Placental Genes Identifies Aggressive Metastasis-Prone Lung Cancers

(2013) S. Rousseaux et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Insights into the role of DNA methylation in diatoms by genome-wide profiling in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

(2013) Alaguraj Veluchamy et al.   Nature Communications

Enhancers: emerging roles in cell fate specification

(2012) Chin-Tong Ong et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Role of DNMT3B in the regulation of early neural and neural crest specifiers

(2012) Kristen Martins-Taylor et al.   Epigenetics

CpG island structure and trithorax/polycomb chromatin domains in human cells

(2012) David A. Orlando et al.   GENOMICS

R-Loop Formation Is a Distinctive Characteristic of Unmethylated Human CpG Island Promoters

(2012) Paul A. Ginno et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Reprogramming DNA methylation in the mammalian life cycle: building and breaking epigenetic barriers

(2012) S. Seisenberger et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Epigenetic features of the mouse trophoblast

(2012) Peter J. Rugg-Gunn   REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE

Naturally Occurring Variation in Trophoblast Invasion as a Source of Novel (Epigenetic) Biomarkers

(2012) Marie van Dijk et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Cluster Analysis of Placental Inflammatory Proteins can Distinguish Preeclampsia from Preterm Labor and Premature Membrane Rupture in Singleton Deliveries Less Than 28 Weeks of Gestation

(2011) Jessica M. Faupel-Badger et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Associations of pregnancy characteristics with maternal and cord steroid hormones, angiogenic factors, and insulin-like growth factor axis

(2011) Jessica M. Faupel-Badger et al.   CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL

An interspecies analysis reveals a key role for unmethylated CpG dinucleotides in vertebrate Polycomb complex recruitment

(2011) Magnus D Lynch et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Tissue specific epigenetic differences in CRH gene expression

(2011) Claire Abou-Seif   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

CpG islands and the regulation of transcription

(2011) A. M. Deaton et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Global DNA hypomethylation coupled to repressive chromatin domain formation and gene silencing in breast cancer

(2011) G. C. Hon et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Large-scale methylation domains mark a functional subset of neuronally expressed genes

(2011) D. I. Schroeder et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Studying the epigenome using next generation sequencing

(2011) C. S. Ku et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS

DNA-binding factors shape the mouse methylome at distal regulatory regions

(2011) Michael B. Stadler et al.   NATURE

Hotspots of aberrant epigenomic reprogramming in human induced pluripotent stem cells

(2011) Ryan Lister et al.   NATURE

Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

(2011) Kasper Daniel Hansen et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Regions of focal DNA hypermethylation and long-range hypomethylation in colorectal cancer coincide with nuclear lamina–associated domains

(2011) Benjamin P Berman et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Structural and Regulatory Characterization of the Placental Epigenome at Its Maternal Interface

(2011) Tianjiao Chu et al.   PLoS One

Global DNA Demethylation During Mouse Erythropoiesis in Vivo

(2011) J. R. Shearstone et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of invasive placentation with special reference to non-human primates

(2010) Anthony M. Carter et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY

Redefining CpG islands using hidden Markov models

(2010) H. Wu et al.   BIOSTATISTICS

Distinct Epigenomic Landscapes of Pluripotent and Lineage-Committed Human Cells

(2010) R. David Hawkins et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Replication timing-related and gene body-specific methylation of active human genes

(2010) Dvir Aran et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Comparison of sequencing-based methods to profile DNA methylation and identification of monoallelic epigenetic modifications

(2010) R Alan Harris et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Principles and challenges of genome-wide DNA methylation analysis

(2010) Peter W. Laird   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

(2010) S. Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The next generation: Using new sequencing technologies to analyse gene regulation

(2010) Rebecca CULLUM et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Eukaryotic DNA Methylation

(2010) A. Zemach et al.   SCIENCE

Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences

(2009) Ryan Lister et al.   NATURE

Targeted and genome-scale strategies reveal gene-body methylation signatures in human cells

(2009) Madeleine P Ball et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo- and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores

(2009) Rafael A Irizarry et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Adhesion Molecules in Human Trophoblast – A Review. I. Villous Trophoblast

(2009) J.D. Aplin et al.   PLACENTA

Conversion of 5-Methylcytosine to 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Mammalian DNA by MLL Partner TET1

(2009) M. Tahiliani et al.   SCIENCE

The Nuclear DNA Base 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Is Present in Purkinje Neurons and the Brain

(2009) S. Kriaucionis et al.   SCIENCE

Chromatin state maps: new technologies, new insights

(2008) Eric M Mendenhall et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Genome-wide mapping and characterization of hypomethylated sites in human tissues and breast cancer cell lines

(2008) Y.-J. Shann et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Epigenomic profiling of cancer cells

(2008) Gaetano Gargiulo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY