DNA methylation dynamics in health and disease

Yehudit Bergman; Howard Cedar

doi:10.1038/nsmb.2518

DNA methylation dynamics in health and disease

Yehudit Bergman^*, Howard Cedar

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Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research

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Abstract

DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that is erased in the early embryo and then reestablished in each individual, through a developmentally regulated program mediated by sequence information and trans-acting factors that direct the de novo DNA methylation and demethylation machinery to its targets in a dynamic manner. Once established, these patterns can be maintained in a stable manner over the lifetime of the organism. Additional changes in methylation that occur during aging and as part of disease processes may also be directed by similar molecular rules using the same complex machinery.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	274-281
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2518
State	Published - Mar 2013

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This work was supported by research grants from the Israel Academy of Sciences (H.C. and Y.B.), the Israel Cancer Research Foundation (H.C. and Y.B.), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (Y.B.), the BSF (Y.B.), The Sur Zelman Cowen Universities Fund (Y.B.), Lew Sanders (H.C.) and Norton Herrick (H.C.).

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