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ReviewEpigenomics2025

Stage-specific DNA methylation dynamics in mammalian heart development.

Fangfang Zhang, Todd Evans

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Review in Epigenomics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Fangfang ZhangDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Todd EvansDepartment of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7148-9849

Funding

Regulation of DNA methylation by TETs and QSER1R01HD111256 · NICHD · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Todd R Evans, Danwei Huangfu · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD111256
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac development is a precisely regulated process governed by both genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Among these, DNA methylation is one mode of epigenetic regulation that plays a crucial role in controlling gene expression at various stages of heart development and maturation. Understanding stage-specific DNA methylation dynamics is critical for unraveling the molecular processes underlying heart development from specification of early progenitors, formation of a primitive and growing heart tube from heart fields, heart morphogenesis, organ function, and response to developmental and physiological signals. This review highlights research that has explored profiles of DNA methylation that are highly dynamic during cardiac development and maturation, exploring stage-specific roles and the key molecular players involved. By exploring recent insights into the changing methylation landscape, we aim to highlight the complex interplay between DNA methylation and stage-specific cardiac gene expression, differentiation, and maturation.

Indexed as

DNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticHeartOrganogenesisAnimalsCell DifferentiationGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansMammalscardiac progenitorscardiogenesiscell differentiationepigeneticsepigenomicsHeart developmentpluripotent stem cells

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PMID39980349
PMCPMC11970762

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