Postnatal DNA demethylation and its role in tissue maturation

Here the authors show that a large fraction of the tissue-specific methylation pattern is generated postnatally. These changes, which occur in response to hormone signaling, appear to play a major role in the regulation of gene expression and tissue maturation in the liver.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yitzhak Reizel, Ofra Sabag, Yael Skversky, Adam Spiro, Benjamin Steinberg, Diana Bernstein, Amber Wang, Julia Kieckhaefer, Catherine Li, Eli Pikarsky, Rena Levin-Klein, Alon Goren, Klaus Rajewsky, Klaus H. Kaestner, Howard Cedar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04456-6