Maternal DNMT3A-dependent de novo methylation of the paternal genome inhibits gene expression in the early embryo

The paternal genome in mice undergoes widespread DNA methylation loss post-fertilization. Here, the authors apply allele-specific analysis of WGBS data to show that a number of genomic regions are simultaneously de novo methylated on the paternal genome dependent on maternal DNMT3A activity, which i...

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Main Authors: Julien Richard Albert, Wan Kin Au Yeung, Keisuke Toriyama, Hisato Kobayashi, Ryutaro Hirasawa, Julie Brind’Amour, Aaron Bogutz, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Matthew Lorincz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19279-7