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Identification of cell type-specific methylation signals in bulk whole genome bisulfite sequencing data. Scott CA, Duryea JD, MacKay H, Baker MS, Laritsky E, Gunasekara CJ, Coarfa C, Waterland RA. Genome Biol. 2020 Jul 1;21(1):156. doi: 10.1186/s13059-020-02065-5. PMID: 32605651 

Can Children Catch up from the Consequences of Undernourishment? Evidence from Child Linear Growth, Developmental Epigenetics, and Brain and Neurocognitive Development. Leroy JL, Frongillo EA, Dewan P, Black MM, Waterland RA. Adv Nutr. 2020 Jul 1;11(4):1032-1041. doi: 10.1093/advances/nmaa020. PMID: 32584399 

DNA methylation in AgRP neurons regulates voluntary exercise behavior in mice. MacKay H, Scott CA, Duryea JD, Baker MS, Laritsky E, Elson AE, Garland T Jr, Fiorotto ML, Chen R, Li Y, Coarfa C, Simerly RB, Waterland RA. Nat Commun. 2019 Dec 2;10(1):5364. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13339-3. PMID: 31792207

A genomic atlas of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans. Gunasekara CJ, Scott CA, Laritsky E, Baker MS, MacKay H, Duryea JD, Kessler NJ, Hellenthal G, Wood AC, Hodges KR, Gandhi M, Hair AB, Silver MJ, Moore SE, Prentice AM, Li Y, Chen R, Coarfa C, Waterland RA. Genome Biol. 2019 Jun 3;20(1):105. doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1708-1. PMID: 31155008

Establishment of environmentally sensitive DNA methylation states in the very early human embryo.
Kessler NJ, Waterland RA, Prentice AM, Silver MJ.
Sci Adv. 2018 Jul 11;4(7):eaat2624. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat2624. eCollection 2018 Jul.
PMID: 30009262

Epigenetic supersimilarity of monozygotic twin pairs.
Van Baak TE, Coarfa C, Dugué PA, Fiorito G, Laritsky E, Baker MS, Kessler NJ, Dong J, Duryea JD, Silver MJ, Saffari A, Prentice AM, Moore SE, Ghantous A, Routledge MN, Gong YY, Herceg Z, Vineis P, Severi G, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Giles GG, Milne RL, Waterland RA.
Genome Biol. 2018 Jan 9;19(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s13059-017-1374-0.
PMID: 29310692

Interindividual Variation in DNA Methylation at a Putative POMC Metastable Epiallele Is Associated with Obesity.
Kühnen P, Handke D, Waterland RA, Hennig BJ, Silver M, Fulford AJ, Dominguez-Salas P, Moore SE, Prentice AM, Spranger J, Hinney A, Hebebrand J, Heppner FL, Walzer L, Grötzinger C, Gromoll J, Wiegand S, Grüters A, Krude H.
Cell Metab. 2016 Sep 13;24(3):502-509. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.08.001. Epub 2016 Aug 25.
PMID: 27568547

Assisted reproductive technology alters deoxyribonucleic acid methylation profiles in bloodspots of newborn infants.
Estill MS, Bolnick JM, Waterland RA, Bolnick AD, Diamond MP, Krawetz SA.
Fertil Steril. 2016 Sep 1;106(3):629-639.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.05.006. Epub 2016 Jun 8.
PMID: 27288894

Maternal exercise during pregnancy promotes physical activity in adult offspring.
Eclarinal JD, Zhu S, Baker MS, Piyarathna DB, Coarfa C, Fiorotto ML, Waterland RA.
FASEB J. 2016 Jul;30(7):2541-8. doi: 10.1096/fj.201500018R. Epub 2016 Mar 31.
PMID: 27033262

CpG methylation differences between neurons and glia are highly conserved from mouse to human.
Kessler NJ, Van Baak TE, Baker MS, Laritsky E, Coarfa C, Waterland RA.
Hum Mol Genet. 2016 Jan 15;25(2):223-32. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddv459. Epub 2015 Nov 12.
PMID: 26566671

Developmental programming of energy balance regulation: is physical activity more 'programmable' than food intake?
Zhu S, Eclarinal J, Baker MS, Li G, Waterland RA.
Proc Nutr Soc. 2016 Feb;75(1):73-77. Epub 2015 Oct 29.
PMID: 26511431

Independent genomewide screens identify the tumor suppressor VTRNA2-1 as a human epiallele responsive to periconceptional environment.
Silver MJ, Kessler NJ, Hennig BJ, Dominguez-Salas P, Laritsky E, Baker MS, Coarfa C, Hernandez-Vargas H, Castelino JM, Routledge MN, Gong YY, Herceg Z, Lee YS, Lee K, Moore SE, Fulford AJ, Prentice AM, Waterland RA.
Genome Biol. 2015 Jun 11;16:118. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0660-y.
PMID: 26062908

Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes.
Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium, Kundaje A, Meuleman W, Ernst J, Bilenky M, Yen A, Heravi-Moussavi A, Kheradpour P, Zhang Z, Wang J, Ziller MJ, Amin V, Whitaker JW, Schultz MD, Ward LD, Sarkar A, Quon G, Sandstrom RS, Eaton ML, Wu YC, Pfenning AR, Wang X, Claussnitzer M, Liu Y, Coarfa C, Harris RA, Shoresh N, Epstein CB, Gjoneska E, Leung D, Xie W, Hawkins RD, Lister R, Hong C, Gascard P, Mungall AJ, Moore R, Chuah E, Tam A, Canfield TK, Hansen RS, Kaul R, Sabo PJ, Bansal MS, Carles A, Dixon JR, Farh KH, Feizi S, Karlic R, Kim AR, Kulkarni A, Li D, Lowdon R, Elliott G, Mercer TR, Neph SJ, Onuchic V, Polak P, Rajagopal N, Ray P, Sallari RC, Siebenthall KT, Sinnott-Armstrong NA, Stevens M, Thurman RE, Wu J, Zhang B, Zhou X, Beaudet AE, Boyer LA, De Jager PL, Farnham PJ, Fisher SJ, Haussler D, Jones SJ, Li W, Marra MA, McManus MT, Sunyaev S, Thomson JA, Tlsty TD, Tsai LH, Wang W, Waterland RA, Zhang MQ, Chadwick LH, Bernstein BE, Costello JF, Ecker JR, Hirst M, Meissner A, Milosavljevic A, Ren B, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Wang T, Kellis M.
Nature. 2015 Feb 19;518(7539):317-30. doi: 10.1038/nature14248.
PMID: 25693563

Epigenetic mechanisms affecting regulation of energy balance: many questions, few answers.
Waterland RA.
Annu Rev Nutr. 2014;34:337-55. doi: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-071813-105315. Epub 2014 May 16. Review.
PMID: 24850387

Maternal nutrition at conception modulates DNA methylation of human metastable epialleles.
Dominguez-Salas P, Moore SE, Baker MS, Bergen AW, Cox SE, Dyer RA, Fulford AJ, Guan Y, Laritsky E, Silver MJ, Swan GE, Zeisel SH, Innis SM, Waterland RA, Prentice AM, Hennig BJ.
Nat Commun. 2014 Apr 29;5:3746. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4746.
PMID: 24781383

Season of conception in rural gambia affects DNA methylation at putative human metastable epialleles.
Waterland RA, Kellermayer R, Laritsky E, Rayco-Solon P, Harris RA, Travisano M, Zhang W, Torskaya MS, Zhang J, Shen L, Manary MJ, Prentice AM.
PLoS Genet. 2010 Dec 23;6(12):e1001252. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001252.
PMID: 21203497

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