Epigenetics

Gene silencing by methyl-Cpg-binding proteins; DNA methylation, the nucleosome and the inheritance of chromatin structure; Pcg/Trx-induced heritable chromatin states; variegation of position; an epigenetic mechanism regulates silencing, directionality and recombination suppression in fission yeast; nuclear organization and silencing - the comings and goings of sirs; regulation of the maize suppressor (mutator transposon; co-suppression of homologous genes in plants and epigenetic switches in gene expression; homology-dependent gene silencing in transgenic plants; cytosine methylation and the control of intragenomic parasites; structure and function of the mammalian X chromosome inactivation centre; methylation dynamics, epigenetic fidelity and X chromosome structure; gene imprinting in the mouse; making sense of imprinting the mouse and human IGF2R locus; imprinted genes in the Prader-Willi deletion region.