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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Akiko Doi
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-18227 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nature genetics 20091101 12
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are derived by epigenetic reprogramming, but their DNA methylation patterns have not yet been analyzed on a genome-wide scale. Here, we find substantial hypermethylation and hypomethylation of cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) island shores in nine human iPS cell lines as compared to their parental fibroblasts. The differentially methylated regions (DMRs) in the reprogrammed cells (denoted R-DMRs) were significantly enriched in tissue-specific (T-DMRs; 2.6-fol ...[more]