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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2020

Maternal H3K27me3-dependent autosomal and X chromosome imprinting.

Zhiyuan Chen, Yi Zhang

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The multi-omics regulatory landscape of human early embryogenesis.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  12. An EED/PRC2-H19 Loop Regulates Cerebellar Development.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  17. Paternal impact on the developmental programming of sexual dimorphism.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  20. X-chromosome inactivation: the gift that keeps on giving.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhiyuan ChenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6756-1895
Yi ZhangHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. yzhang@genetics.med.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2789-0811
Boston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

Understanding mechanism and improving efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transferR01HD092465 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ZHANG, YI · 2017 to 2021
$2.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNICHD NIH HHS R01 HD092465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomic imprinting and X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) are classic epigenetic phenomena that involve transcriptional silencing of one parental allele. Germline-derived differential DNA methylation is the best-studied epigenetic mark that initiates imprinting, but evidence indicates that other mechanisms exist. Recent studies have revealed that maternal trimethylation of H3 on lysine 27 (H3K27me3) mediates autosomal maternal allele-specific gene silencing and has an important role in imprinted XCI through repression of maternal Xist. Furthermore, loss of H3K27me3-mediated imprinting contributes to the developmental defects observed in cloned embryos. This novel maternal H3K27me3-mediated non-canonical imprinting mechanism further emphasizes the important role of parental chromatin in development and could provide the basis for improving the efficiency of embryo cloning.

Indexed as

Chromosomes, Human, XDNA MethylationGenomic ImprintingX Chromosome InactivationAnimalsGametogenesisGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHistonesHumansLysineHistonesLysine

Identifiers

PMID32514155
PMCPMC7717073
OpenAlexW3033170943

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