Recent, selected publications
Booth MJ, Branco MR, Ficz G, Oxley D, Krueger F, Reik W, Balasubramanian S (In press – Published online 26 April 2012) Quantitative sequencing of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine at single base resolution.
Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1220671
Ficz G, Branco MR, Seisenberger S, Santos F, Krueger F, Hore TA, Marques CJ, Andrews SR, Reik W (2011) Dynamic regulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation.
Nature 473 398-402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10008
Wossidlo M, Nakamura T, Lepikhov K, Marques CJ, Zakhartchenko V, Boiani M, Arand J, Nakano T, Reik W, Walter J (2011) 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the mammalian zygote is linked with epigenetic reprogramming.
Nature Communications 2:241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1240
Feng S, Jacobsen SE, Reik W (2010) Epigenetic reprogramming in plant and animal development.
Science 330 622-627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1190614
Popp C, Dean WL, Feng S, Cokus SJ, Andrews SR, Pellegrini M, Jacobsen SE, Reik W (2010) Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by AID deficiency.
Nature 463 1101-1105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08829
Hemberger MC, Dean WL, Reik W (2009) Epigenetic dynamics of stem cells and cell lineage commitment: digging Waddington's canal.
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 10 526-537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrm2727
Ponting CP, Oliver PL, Reik W (2009) Evolution and functions of long noncoding RNAs.
Cell 136 629-641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2009.02.006
Ng RK, Dean WL, Dawson C, Lucifero D, Madeja Z, Reik W, Hemberger MC (2008) Epigenetic restriction of embryonic cell lineage fate by methylation of Elf5.
Nature Cell Biology 10 1280-1290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncb1786
Smits G, Mungall AJ, Griffiths-Jones S, Smith P, Beury D, Matthews L, Rogers J, Pask AJ, Shaw G, VandeBerg JL, McCarrey JR, SAVOIR Consortium, Renfree MB, Reik W, Dunham I (2008) Conservation of the H19 noncoding RNA and H19-IGF2 imprinting mechanism in therians.
Nature Genetics 40 971-978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.168
Updated 8 May, 2012