Evidence from pyrosequencing indicates that natural variation in animal personality is associated with DRD 4 DNA methylation

DNA methylation contributes to natural human variation.

DNA methylation patterns are important for establishing cell, tissue, and organism phenotypes, but little is known about their contribution to natural human variation. To determine their contribution to variability, we have generated genome-scale DNA methylation profiles of three human populations (Caucasian-American, African-American, and Han Chinese-American) and examined the differentially m...

DNA Methylation Indicates Susceptibility to Isoproterenol-Induced Cardiac Pathology and Is Associated With Chromatin States.

RATIONALE Only a small portion of the known heritability of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure, can be explained based on single-gene mutations. Chromatin structure and regulation provide a substrate through which genetic differences in noncoding regions may affect cellular function and response to disease, but the mechanisms are unknown. OBJECTIVE We conducted genome-wide measure...

Running head: Natural variation of DNA methylation in maize

Serial pyrosequencing for quantitative DNA methylation analysis.

BioTechniques 721 In mammals, DNA methylation is a genetically programmed DNA modification and occurs almost exclusively at the 5-position of the pyrimidine ring of cytosines. Cytosine methylation is essential for mammalian embryogenesis and development, implicated in X inactivation, and influences gene expression of the corresponding genes, giving rise to distinct expressions patterns in diffe...

Natural CMT2 Variation Is Associated With Genome-Wide Methylation Changes and Temperature Seasonality

As Arabidopsis thaliana has colonized a wide range of habitats across the world it is an attractive model for studying the genetic mechanisms underlying environmental adaptation. Here, we used public data from two collections of A. thaliana accessions to associate genetic variability at individual loci with differences in climates at the sampling sites. We use a novel method to screen the genom...