Journal
GENOMICS
Volume 93, Issue 5, Pages 461-472Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.12.012
Keywords
Genomic imprinting; Imprinted gene; Zdbf2; Differentially methylated region; Mouse chromosome 1; Human chromosome 2
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20062009, 20062010] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In mammals, both the maternal and paternal genomes are necessary for normal embryogenesis Clue to parent-specific epigenetic modification of the genome during gametogenesis, which leads to non-equivalent expression of imprinted genes from the maternal and paternal alleles. In this study. we identified a paternally expressed imprinted gene, Zdbf2, by microarray-based screening using parthenogenetic and normal embryos. Expression analyses showed that 70,12 was paternally expressed in various embryonic and adult tissues, except for the placenta and adult testis, which showed biallelic expression of the gene. We also identified a differentially methylated region (DMR) at 10 kb upstream of exon 1 of the Zdbf2 gene and this differential methylation was derived from the germline. Furthermore, we also identified that the human homolog (ZDBF2) of the mouse Zdbf2 gene showed paternal allele-specific expression in human lymphocytes but not ill the human placenta. Thus, our findings defined mouse chromosome 1 and human chromosome 2 as the loci for imprinted genes. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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