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Papers

(The median citation count of Epigenetics & Chromatin is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in DNA methylation hallmark alterations in chromatin accessibility and gene expression for eye lens differentiation	102
The role of genetic diversity, epigenetic regulation, and sex-based differences in HIV cure research: a comprehensive review	73
An optimized approach for multiplexing single-nuclear ATAC-seq using oligonucleotide-conjugated antibodies	50
Co-effects of m6A and chromatin accessibility dynamics in the regulation of cardiomyocyte differentiation	46
Detecting Protein-DNA binding in single molecules using antibody guided methylation	45
Multilevel interrogation of H3.3 reveals a primordial role in transcription regulation	37
Epigenetic regulation of MED12: a key contributor to the leukemic chromatin landscape and transcriptional dysregulation	35
From compartments to loops: understanding the unique chromatin organization in neuronal cells	35
Chromatin structure and 3D architecture define the differential functions of PU.1 regulatory elements in blood cell lineages	32
Evolutionary adaptation of the Polycomb repressive complex 2	29
Mouse Chd4-NURD is required for neonatal spermatogonia survival and normal gonad development	29
Partial erosion on under-methylated regions and chromatin reprogramming contribute to oncogene activation in IDH mutant gliomas	26
Acetylation modification of AIM2 by KAT2B suppresses the AKT/Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway activation and inhibits breast cancer progression	25
One-pot universal NicE-seq: all enzymatic downstream processing of 4% formaldehyde crosslinked cells for chromatin accessibility genomics	21
Intrafamily heterooligomerization as an emerging mechanism of methyltransferase regulation	21
Who’s afraid of the X? Incorporating the X and Y chromosomes into the analysis of DNA methylation array data	21
Development of super-specific epigenome editing by targeted allele-specific DNA methylation	21
Acquired sperm hypomethylation by gestational arsenic exposure is re-established in both the paternal and maternal genomes of post-epigenetic reprogramming embryos	20
Phthalates impact on the epigenetic factors contributed specifically by the father at fertilization	20
Analysis of long-range chromatin contacts, compartments and looping between mouse embryonic stem cells, lens epithelium and lens fibers	20
Chromatin balances cell redox and energy homeostasis	20
Roles of post-translational modifications of UHRF1 in cancer	19
CpG DNA methylation changes during epididymal sperm maturation in bulls	19
Heterosis of growth trait regulated by DNA methylation and miRNA in allotriploid fish	17
Manipulating chromatin architecture in C. elegans	16

Impact of chromatin on HIV-1 latency: a multi-dimensional perspective	16
Multi-omic integration of single-cell data uncovers methylation profiles of super-enhancers in skeletal muscle stem cells	15
The methylome of Biomphalaria glabrata and other mollusks: enduring modification of epigenetic landscape and phenotypic traits by a new DNA methylation inhibitor	15
PDS5A and PDS5B differentially affect gene expression without altering cohesin localization across the genome	14
TP63–TRIM29 axis regulates enhancer methylation and chromosomal instability in prostate cancer	14
Mechanism of non-coding RNA regulation of DNMT3A	14
H3K27me3 and the PRC1-H2AK119ub pathway cooperatively maintain heterochromatin and transcriptional silencing after the loss of H3K9 methylation	14
Maternal SMCHD1 controls both imprinted Xist expression and imprinted X chromosome inactivation	14
Native and tagged CENP-A histones are functionally inequivalent	14
Knockout tales: the versatile roles of histone H3.3 in development and disease	13
Epigenetic control of dental stem cells: progress and prospects in multidirectional differentiation	13
The WAC-downWAC domain in the yeast ISW2 nucleosome remodeling complex forms a structural module essential for ISW2 function but not cell viability	13
Structural and functional specificity of H3K36 methylation	13
Mitochondrial supplementation of Sus scrofa metaphase II oocytes alters DNA methylation and gene expression profiles of blastocysts	13
TET-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation is negatively influenced by the PARP-dependent PARylation	13
Investigation of reversible histone acetylation and dynamics in gene expression regulation using 3D liver spheroid model	12
Multi-omics analyses of MEN1 missense mutations identify disruption of menin–MLL and menin–JunD interactions as critical requirements for molecular pathogenicity	12
Effects of paternal exposure to cigarette smoke on sperm DNA methylation and long-term metabolic syndrome in offspring	12
Making sense of the linear genome, gene function and TADs	12
Identification of genetic and non-genetic modifiers of genomic imprinting through screening of imprinted DMR methylation in humans	12
Prenatal nicotine exposure leads to epigenetic alterations in peripheral nervous system signaling genes in the testis of the rat	11
Reinforcement of repressive marks in the chicken primordial germ cell epigenetic signature: divergence from basal state resetting in mammals	11
Histone H3.3 K27M chromatin functions implicate a network of neurodevelopmental factors including ASCL1 and NEUROD1 in DIPG	11
Var∣Decrypt: a novel and user-friendly tool to explore and prioritize variants in whole-exome sequencing data	10
Drosophila architectural proteins M1BP and Opbp cooperatively form the active promoter of a ribosomal protein gene	10
Premature ovarian insufficiency is associated with global alterations in the regulatory landscape and gene expression in balanced X-autosome translocations	10
Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in Daphnia magna are not significantly associated with age	10
Pioneer transcription factors are associated with the modulation of DNA methylation patterns across cancers	10
TET1 functions as a tumor suppressor in lung adenocarcinoma through epigenetic remodeling and immune modulation	10
Revealing RCOR2 as a regulatory component of nuclear speckles	9
The linker histone chaperone Prothymosin α (PTMA) is essential for efficient DNA damage repair and the recruitment of PARP1	9
Risk-focused differences in molecular processes implicated in SARS-CoV-2 infection: corollaries in DNA methylation and gene expression	9
Hypoxic in vitro culture reduces histone lactylation and impairs pre-implantation embryonic development in mice	9
Functions of HP1 proteins in transcriptional regulation	9
Promoter hypermethylation of neural-related genes is compatible with stemness in solid cancers	9
H3K4me3 regulates the transcription of RSPO3 in dermal papilla cells to influence hair follicle morphogenesis and development	9
The role of MORC3 in silencing transposable elements in mouse embryonic stem cells	9
Differential enrichment of H3K9me3 at annotated satellite DNA repeats in human cell lines and during fetal development in mouse	9
The transgenic IG-DMR sequence of the mouse Dlk1-Dio3 domain acquired imprinted DNA methylation during the post-fertilization period	8
Dissecting the Kaiso binding profile in clear renal cancer cells	8
Functional characterization of transcriptional enhancers in an Anopheles genetic locus controlling natural resistance to the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum	8
Cohesin stabilization at promoters and enhancers by common transcription factors and chromatin regulators	8
Analyses of POL30 (PCNA) reveal positional effects in transient repression or bi-modal active/silent state at the sub-telomeres of S. cerevisiae	8
Identification of tissue-specific and common methylation quantitative trait loci in healthy individuals using MAGAR	8
Histone modification analysis reveals common regulators of gene expression in liver and blood stage merozoites of Plasmodium parasites	8
PCGF6/MAX/KDM5D facilitates MAZ/CDK4 axis expression and pRCC progression by hypomethylation of the DNA promoter	8
Correction: Characterizing chromatin interactions of regulatory elements and nucleosome positions, using Hi‑C, Micro‑C, and promoter capture Micro‑C	8
The solid and liquid states of chromatin	7
Chromatin alterations during the epididymal maturation of mouse sperm refine the paternally inherited epigenome	7
High frequency of intron retention and clustered H3K4me3-marked nucleosomes in short first introns of human long non-coding RNAs	7

Folate deficiency reduced aberrant level of DOT1L-mediated histone H3K79 methylation causes disruptive SHH gene expression involved in neural tube defects	7
Deconvolution of the epigenetic age discloses distinct inter-personal variability in epigenetic aging patterns	7
Imprinted DNA methylation of the H19 ICR is established and maintained in vivo in the absence of Kaiso	7
DNA methylation may affect beef tenderness through signal transduction in Bos indicus	7
Improved epigenetic age prediction models by combining sex chromosome and autosomal markers	7
Expanding the list of sequence-agnostic enzymes for chromatin conformation capture assays with S1 nuclease	7
Long-term exposure to diesel exhaust particles induces concordant changes in DNA methylation and transcriptome in human adenocarcinoma alveolar basal epithelial cells	6
The isoflavone genistein selectively stimulates major satellite repeat transcription in mouse heterochromatin	6
The regional sequestration of heterochromatin structural proteins is critical to form and maintain silent chromatin	6
A standardized nomenclature for mammalian histone genes	6
Multiple distinct domains of human XIST are required to coordinate gene silencing and subsequent heterochromatin formation	5
The mismatch-repair proteins MSH2 and MSH6 interact with the imprinting control regions through the ZFP57-KAP1 complex	5
H3K9 post-translational modifications regulate epiblast/primitive endoderm specification in rabbit blastocysts	5
Chromatin accessibility and cell cycle progression are controlled by the HDAC-associated Sin3B protein in murine hematopoietic stem cells	5
Characterizing chromatin interactions of regulatory elements and nucleosome positions, using Hi-C, Micro-C, and promoter capture Micro-C	5
Bromodomain proteins IBD1 and IBD2 link histone acetylation to SWR1- and INO80-mediated H2A.Z regulation in Tetrahymena	5
Methylation patterns at the adjacent CpG sites within enhancers are a part of cell identity	5
DNA methylation correlates of chronological age in diverse human tissue types	5
Integrative analysis of gene expression and chromatin dynamics multi-omics data in mouse models of bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis	5
Telomere-specific chromatin capture using a pyrrole–imidazole polyamide probe for the identification of proteins and non-coding RNAs	5
Transcriptional regulation mechanism of PARP1 and its application in disease treatment	4
Pan-cancer predictions of transcription factors mediating aberrant DNA methylation	4
3DFAACTS-SNP: using regulatory T cell-specific epigenomics data to uncover candidate mechanisms of type 1 diabetes (T1D) risk	4
LSD1 induces H3 K9 demethylation to promote adipogenesis in thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy	4
Correction: Dissecting the Kaiso binding profle in clear renal cancer cells	4
Nucleophosmin 1 cooperates with the methyltransferase DOT1L to preserve peri-nucleolar heterochromatin organization by regulating H3K27me3 levels and DNA repeats expression	4
Efficient generation of epigenetic disease model mice by epigenome editing using the piggyBac transposon system	4
The MMP-2 histone H3 N-terminal tail protease is selectively targeted to the transcription start sites of active genes	4
Multiple epigenetic factors co-localize with HMGN proteins in A-compartment chromatin	4
FOSL1 is a key regulator of a super-enhancer driving TCOF1 expression in triple-negative breast cancer	4