Max R Highsmith's research while affiliated with University of Missouri and other places

Publications (3)

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As an aneuploidy, trisomy is associated with mammalian embryonic and postnatal abnormalities. Understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in mutant phenotypes is broadly important and may lead to new strategies to treat clinical manifestations in individuals with trisomies, such as trisomy 21 (Down syndrome). While increased gene dosage effect...
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Large offspring syndrome (LOS) and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome are a similar epigenetic congenital overgrowth conditions in ruminants and humans, respectively. We have reported global loss-of-imprinting, methylome epimutations, and gene misregulation in LOS. However, less than 4% of gene misregulation can be explained with short range (<20kb) alter...
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Chromatin conformation is an important characteristic of the genome which has been repeatedly demonstrated to play vital roles in many biological processes. Chromatin can be characterized by the presence or absence of structural motifs called topologically associated domains. The de facto strategy for determination of topologically associated domai...

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... It is The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted April 13, 2024. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.11.588815 doi: bioRxiv preprint increasing linearly with CN, e.g., dosage compensation [41,45,47,48]. Here, we should look beyond expressed gene product, and extend these concepts to regulatory signals of chromatin such as chromatin accessibility and chromatin binding. ...
... The previous authors also carried out whole-genome bisulfite sequencing which revealed 2 839 differentially methylated regions in SLOS compared with control calves. Of these regions, 66% were found to be hypomethylated including the IGF2R ICR, which has been reported to be hypomethylated 100% of ART-induced LOS cases (Chen et al., 2015;Li et al., 2022a). Several LOS-associated vulnerable loci, defined as genomic regions with altered DNA methylation (hypermethylation or hypomethylation) compared with control animals, have been found to be common to ART-induced LOS and SLOS . ...