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Wendy Dean is affiliated with the Babraham Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with significant contributions also made in the field of medicine.

The scientist's main research subfields include molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, obstetrics and gynecology, immunology, and biophysics.

Key topics covered in Wendy Dean's work are:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Endometriosis Research and Treatment

The scientist has contributed several recent papers, including:

  • Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Defects in placental syncytiotrophoblast cells are a common cause of developmental heart disease, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The placenta: epigenetic insights into trophoblast developmental models of a generation-bridging organ with long-lasting impact on lifelong health, 2023, Physiological Reviews
  • Epigenetic changes occur at decidualisation genes as a function of reproductive ageing in mice, 2020, Development
  • Advanced Maternal Age Differentially Affects Embryonic Tissues with the Most Severe Impact on the Developing Brain, 2022, Cells

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Myriam Hemberger
  • Bethany N. Radford
  • Jay Devine
  • Benedikt Hallgrímsson
  • Marta Vidal-García

Wendy Dean's work appears often in the following publication venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Cells
  • Development
  • Scientific Data
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mammalian Development

    Wolf Reik;Wendy Dean;Jörn Walter

  • Single-cell Hi-C reveals cell-to-cell variability in chromosome structure

    Takashi Nagano;Yaniv Lubling;Tim J. Stevens;Stefan Schoenfelder

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in mammals

    Hugh D. Morgan;Fátima Santos;Kelly Green;Wendy Dean

  • Dynamic reprogramming of DNA methylation in the early mouse embryo.

    Fátima Santos;Brian Hendrich;Wolf Reik;Wendy Dean

  • Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth

    Miguel Constância;Myriam Hemberger;Jennifer Hughes;Wendy Dean

  • Active demethylation of the paternal genome in the mouse zygote.

    J. Oswald;S Engemann;N Lane;W. Mayer

  • Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos.

    Wendy Dean;Fátima Santos;Miodrag Stojkovic;Valeri Zakhartchenko

  • Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by Aid deficiency

    Christian Popp;Wendy Dean;Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus

  • The Dynamics of Genome-wide DNA Methylation Reprogramming in Mouse Primordial Germ Cells

    Stefanie Seisenberger;Simon Andrews;Felix Krueger;Julia Arand

  • Resistance of IAPs to methylation reprogramming may provide a mechanism for epigenetic inheritance in the mouse

    Natasha Lane;Wendy Dean;Sylvia Erhardt;Petra Hajkova

  • Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase Deaminates 5-Methylcytosine in DNA and Is Expressed in Pluripotent Tissues IMPLICATIONS FOR EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING

    Hugh D. Morgan;Wendy Dean;Heather A. Coker;Wolf Reik

  • Culture of Preimplantation Mouse Embryos Affects Fetal Development and the Expression of Imprinted Genes

    Sanjeev Khosla;Wendy Dean;David Brown;Wolf Reik

  • Epigenetic Marking Correlates with Developmental Potential in Cloned Bovine Preimplantation Embryos

    Fátima Santos;Valeri Zakhartchenko;Miodrag Stojkovic;Antoine Peters

  • Epigenetic dynamics of stem cells and cell lineage commitment: digging Waddington's canal

    Myriam Hemberger;Myriam Hemberger;Wendy Dean;Wendy Dean;Wolf Reik;Wolf Reik

  • Epigenetic reprogramming during early development in mammals.

    Fátima Santos;Wendy Dean

  • Reprogramming DNA methylation in the mammalian life cycle: building and breaking epigenetic barriers

    Stefanie Seisenberger;Julian R. Peat;Timothy A. Hore;Fátima Santos

  • Regulation of supply and demand for maternal nutrients in mammals by imprinted genes

    Wolf Reik;Miguel Constância;Abigail Fowden;Neil Anderson

  • Imprinting on distal chromosome 7 in the placenta involves repressive histone methylation independent of DNA methylation

    Annabelle Lewis;Kohzoh Mitsuya;Kohzoh Mitsuya;David Umlauf;Paul Smith

  • Dynamic chromatin modifications characterise the first cell cycle in mouse embryos.

    Fátima Santos;Antoine H. Peters;Arie P. Otte;Wolf Reik

  • Altered imprinted gene methylation and expression in completely ES cell-derived mouse fetuses: association with aberrant phenotypes

    Wendy Dean;Lucy Bowden;Alan Aitchison;Joachim Klose

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute
Myriam Hemberger
Myriam Hemberger University of Calgary
robert feil
robert feil Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Simon Andrews
Simon Andrews Babraham Institute
Jörn Walter
Jörn Walter Saarland University
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Miodrag Stojkovic
Miodrag Stojkovic University of Kragujevac
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge
Simon J. Cook
Simon J. Cook Babraham Institute

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