Professor Rebecca Oakey Academics Supervisors Professor of Epigenetics Dean for Doctoral Studies. Training Lead for the KHP Digital Health Hub. Lead, King's Innovation Scholars Program. Research subject areas Biomedical and life sciences Contact details rebecca.oakey@kcl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7848 8147 Rebecca Oakey
AI Nurses Network: The Importance of Clinical Research Networks in Nursing Divergent DNA methylation dynamics in marsupial and eutherian embryos Somatic EPAS1 Variants in Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease SOX2+ sustentacular cells are stem cells of the postnatal adrenal medulla Using parenclitic networks on phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma tumours provides novel insights on global DNA methylation Global identification of mammalian host and nested gene pairs reveal tissue-specific transcriptional interplay A comprehensive characterisation of phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma tumours through histone protein profiling, DNA methylation and transcriptomic analysis genome wide Intragenic CpG islands and their impact on gene regulation Hydroxycarbamide effects on DNA methylation and gene expression in myeloproliferative neoplasms Extraction and high-throughput sequencing of oak heartwood DNA: assessing the feasibility of genome-wide DNA methylation profiling Case report of a man with multiple paragangliomas and pathogenic germline variants in both NF1 and SDHD Imprinted gene expression and function of the dopa decarboxylase gene in the developing heart Intellectual disability-associated factor Zbtb11 cooperates with NRF-2/GABP to control mitochondrial function Genomic imprinting: An epigenetic regulatory system Is imprinting the result of “friendly fire” by the host defense system? Transcription of intragenic CpG islands influences spatiotemporal host gene pre-mRNA processing Myocardial Differentiation is Dependent upon Endocardial Signaling During Early Cardiogenesis in vitro Regulatory links between imprinted genes: Evolutionary predictions and consequences Genome-wide methylation analysis in Silver-Russell syndrome patients Network-informed gene ranking tackles genetic heterogeneity in exome-sequencing studies of monogenic disease Imprinted gene expression in hybrids: perturbed mechanisms and evolutionary implications Developmental programming mediated by complementary roles of imprinted Grb10 in mother and pup Mouse chromosome 7 Encyclopedia of the mouse genome VII. Mouse chromosome 7 Analysis of transcription initiation in the Panolis flammea nuclear polyhedrosis virus polyhedrin gene The expression of Jagged1 in the developing mammalian heart correlates with cardiovascular disease in Alagille syndrome Characterization of CDC45L: a gene in the 22q11.2 deletion region expressed during murine and human development Goosecoid-like, a gene deleted in DiGeorge and velocardiofacial syndromes, recognizes DNA with a bicoid-like specificity and is expressed in the developing mouse brain A very large protein with diverse functional motifs is deficient in rjs (runty, jerky, sterile) mice Molecular analysis of the cDNAs encoded by the pun and pJ alleles of the pink-eyed dilution locus Nondisjunction rates and abnormal embryonic development in a mouse cross between heterozygotes carrying a (7, 18) robertsonian translocation chromosome Mouse chromosome 7 Localization of DNA sequences required for human centromere function through an analysis of rearranged Y chromosomes Y chromosome DNA haplotyping suggests that most European and Asian men are descended from one of two males Construction of a physical map on mouse and human chromosome 1: comparison of 13 Mb of mouse and 11 Mb of human DNA Chromosomal mapping of the human (MACS) and mouse (Macs) genes encoding the MARCKS protein A linkage map of mouse chromosome 19: definition of comparative mapping relationships with human chromosomes 10 and 11 including the MEN1 locus A linkage map of mouse chromosome 1 using an interspecific cross segregating for the gld autoimmunity mutation Chromosomal mapping of the high affinity Fc gamma receptor gene The human TTP protein: sequence, alignment with related proteins, and chromosomal localization of the mouse and human genes Genomic organization of adrenergic and serotonin receptors in the mouse: linkage mapping of sequence-related genes provides a method for examining mammalian chromosome evolution A novel role for imprinting in heart development Resetting for the Next Generation Transposable Elements Re-Wire and Fine-Tune the Transcriptome The epigenetic regulator PLZF represses L1 retrotransposition in germ and progenitor cells Genomewide and parental allele-specific analysis of CTCF and cohesin DNA binding in mouse brain reveals a tissue-specific binding pattern and an association with imprinted differentially methylated regions A survey of tissue-specific genomic imprinting in mammals Epigenetic control of alternative mRNA processing at the imprinted Herc3/Nap1l5 locus Protection against De Novo Methylation Is Instrumental in Maintaining Parent-of-Origin Methylation Inherited from the Gametes A CASE-BY-CASE EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF FOUR IMPRINTED RETROGENES View all publications
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