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Mark Westhusin
Texas A & M University, College Station, United States of America

Faculty Member: Genomics & Genetics > Animal Genetics [ since 5 July 2001 ]
[ On Sabbatical from 03-NOV-2008 to 01-JAN-2009 ]
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Evaluations

Maternal and zygotic Dnmt1 are necessary and sufficient for the maintenance of DNA methylation imprints during preimplantation development.
Hirasawa R, Chiba H, …, Jaenisch R, Sasaki H
Genes Dev 2008 Jun 15 22(12):1607-16 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 1 Jul 2008

High-frequency generation of viable mice from engineered bi-maternal embryos.
Kawahara M, Wu Q, …, Ferguson-Smith AC, Kono T
Nat Biotechnol 2007 Sep 25(9):1045-50 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 8 Jan 2008

A mutation creating a potential illegitimate microRNA target site in the myostatin gene affects muscularity in sheep.
Clop A, Marcq F, …, Charlier C, Georges M
Nat Genet 2006 Jul 38(7):813-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Michael Lenhard / Paul Garrity / Ulf Pettersson / Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 26 Mar 2007

Infectious prions in the saliva and blood of deer with chronic wasting disease.
Mathiason CK, Powers JG, …, Telling GC, Hoover EA
Science 2006 Oct 6 314(5796):133-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 2 Jan 2007

Prion protein is expressed on long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells and is important for their self-renewal.
Zhang CC, Steele AD, Lindquist S, Lodish HF
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 Feb 14 103(7):2184-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 31 Mar 2006


ES cells derived from cloned and fertilized blastocysts are transcriptionally and functionally indistinguishable.
Brambrink T, Hochedlinger K, Bell G, Jaenisch R
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 Jan 24 103(4):933-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 3 Feb 2006

RNA interference improves motor and neuropathological abnormalities in a Huntington's disease mouse model.
Harper SQ, Staber PD, …, Paulson HL, Davidson BL
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 Apr 19 102(16):5820-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | P. Shing Ho / Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 3 Jun 2005

Poliovirus escape from RNA interference: short interfering RNA-target recognition and implications for therapeutic approaches.
Gitlin L, Stone JK, Andino R
J Virol 2005 Jan 79(2):1027-35 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 3 Jun 2005

RNA interference targeting VP1 inhibits foot-and-mouth disease virus replication in BHK-21 cells and suckling mice.
Chen W, Yan W, …, Sheng Z, Zheng Z
J Virol 2004 Jul 78(13):6900-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 4 Nov 2004

Generation of transgenic cattle by lentiviral gene transfer into oocytes.
Hofmann A, Zakhartchenko V, …, Wolf E, Pfeifer A
Biol Reprod 2004 Aug 71(2):405-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 21 May 2004

Establishment of conditional vectors for hairpin siRNA knockdowns.
Matsukura S, Jones PA, Takai D
Nucleic Acids Res 2003 Aug 1 31(15):e77 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 9 Dec 2003

Generation of fertile cloned rats by regulating oocyte activation.
Zhou Q, Renard JP, …, Fraichard A, Cozzi J
Science 2003 Nov 14 302(5648):1179 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 9 Dec 2003

Association of in vitro fertilization with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and epigenetic alterations of LIT1 and H19.
DeBaun MR, Niemitz EL, Feinberg AP
Am J Hum Genet 2003 Jan 72(1):156-60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 11 Apr 2003

Germline transmission of RNAi in mice.
Carmell MA, Zhang L, …, Hannon GJ, Rosenquist TA
Nat Struct Biol 2003 Feb 10(2):91-2 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Richard L. Stevens / Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 11 Apr 2003

Aberrant methylation patterns at the two-cell stage as an indicator of early developmental failure.
Shi W, Haaf T
Mol Reprod Dev 2002 Nov 63(3):329-34 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 7 Nov 2002

Cloned mice have an obese phenotype not transmitted to their offspring.
Tamashiro KL, Wakayama T, …, Yanagimachi R, Sakai RR
Nat Med 2002 Mar 8(3):262-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 4 Sep 2002

Early death of mice cloned from somatic cells.
Ogonuki N, Inoue K, …, Nishida A, Ogura A
Nat Genet 2002 Mar 30(3):253-4 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 29 May 2002

Differentiation of trophoblast lineage is associated with DNA methylation and demethylation.
Ohgane J, Hattori N, …, Tanaka S, Shiota K
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002 Jan 18 290(2):701-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 1 Mar 2002

Dynamic reprogramming of DNA methylation in the early mouse embryo.
Santos F, Hendrich B, Reik W, Dean W
Dev Biol 2002 Jan 1 241(1):172-82 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin / Patrick Tam
Evaluated 1 Mar 2002

Dnmt3L and the establishment of maternal genomic imprints.
Bourc'his D, Xu GL, …, Bollman B, Bestor TH
Science 2001 Dec 21 294(5551):2536-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Frank Costantini / Mark Westhusin / Michael Lieber
Evaluated 17 Jan 2002

Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos.
Dean W, Santos F, …, Wolf E, Reik W
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001 Nov 20 98(24):13734-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Mark Westhusin
Evaluated 16 Jan 2002

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