Masako Suzuki, Ph.D.

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (Selected from 26 peer-reviewed publications)

Most relevant to the current application

1.     Suzuki, M., Jing, Q., Lia, D., Pascual, M., McLellan, A., and Greally, J.M. (2010). Optimized design and data analysis of tag-based cytosine methylation assays. Genome Biol 11, R36. PMID: 20359321

2.     Dubin, R., Jing, Q., O'Broin, P., Calder, B., Moskowitz, D., Suzuki, M., Greally, J.M., and McLellan, A. (2010). WASP: Wiki-based Automated Sequence Processor for Epigenomics and Genomics Applications. J Biomol Tech 21, S11. PMCID: PMC2918104

3.     Oda, M., Glass, J.L., Thompson, R.F., Mo, Y., Olivier, E.N., Figueroa, M.E., Selzer, R.R., Richmond, T.A., Zhang, X., Dannenberg, L., Green, R.D., Melnick, A,.Hatchwell, E,.Bouhassira, E. E., Verma, A., Suzuki, M., and Greally, J. M. (2009). High-resolution genome-wide cytosine methylation profiling with simultaneous copy number analysis and optimization for limited cell numbers. Nucleic Acids Res 37, 3829-3839. PMID: 19386619

4.     Thompson, R.F., Suzuki, M., Lau, K.W., and Greally, J.M. (2009). A pipeline for the quantitative analysis of CG dinucleotide methylation using mass spectrometry. Bioinformatics 25, 2164-2170. PMID: 19561019

5.     Khulan, B., Thompson, R.F., Ye, K., Fazzari, M.J., Suzuki, M., Stasiek, E., Figueroa, M.E., Glass, J.L., Chen, Q., Montagna, C., et al. (2006). Comparative isoschizomer profiling of cytosine methylation: the HELP assay. Genome Res 16, 1046-1055. PMID: 16809668

Additional recent publications of importance to the field (in Epigenetics)

1.     Hattori, N., Abe, T., Hattori, N., Suzuki, M., Matsuyama, T., Yoshida, S., Li, E., and Shiota, K. (2004). Preference of DNA methyltransferases for CpG islands in mouse embryonic stem cells. Genome Res 14, 1733-1740. PMID: 15310660

2.     Ikegami, K., Iwatani, M., Suzuki, M., Tachibana, M., Shinkai, Y., Tanaka, S., Greally, J.M., Yagi, S., Hattori, N., and Shiota, K. (2007). Genome-wide and locus-specific DNA hypomethylation in G9a deficient mouse embryonic stem cells. Genes Cells 12, 1-11. PMID: 17212651

3.     Kremenskoy, M., Kremenska, Y., Suzuki, M., Imai, K., Takahashi, S., Hashizume, K., Yagi, S., and Shiota, K. (2006). DNA methylation profiles of donor nuclei cells and tissues of cloned bovine fetuses. J Reprod Dev 52, 259-266. PMID: 16474212

4.     Kremenskoy, M., Kremenska, Y., Suzuki, M., Imai, K., Takahashi, S., Hashizume, K., Yagi, S., and Shiota, K. (2006). Epigenetic characterization of the CpG islands of bovine Leptin and POU5F1 genes in cloned bovine fetuses. J Reprod Dev 52, 277-285. PMID: 16474211

5.     Wakayama, S., Jakt, M.L., Suzuki, M., Araki, R., Hikichi, T., Kishigami, S., Ohta, H., Van Thuan, N., Mizutani, E., Sakaide, Y., et al. (2006). Equivalency of nuclear transfer-derived embryonic stem cells to those derived from fertilized mouse blastocysts. Stem Cells 24, 2023-2033. PMID: 16690779

6.     Sakamoto, H.*, Suzuki, M.*, Abe, T., Hosoyama, T., Himeno, E., Tanaka, S., Greally, J.M., Hattori, N., Yagi, S., and Shiota, K. (2007). Cell type-specific methylation profiles occurring disproportionately in CpG-less regions that delineate developmental similarity. Genes Cells 12, 1123-1132. PMID: 17903172

7.     Suzuki, M.*, Sato, S.,* Arai, Y., Shinohara, T., Tanaka, S., Greally, J.M., Hattori, N., and Shiota, K. (2007). A new class of tissue-specifically methylated regions involving entire CpG islands in the mouse. Genes Cells 12, 1305-1314. PMID: 18076568

8.     Oda, M., Tanaka, S., Yamazaki, Y., Ohta, H., Iwatani, M., Suzuki, M., Ohgane, J., Hattori, N., Yanagimachi, R., Wakayama, T., and Shiota, K. (2009). Establishment of trophoblast stem cell lines from somatic cell nuclear-transferred embryos. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106, 16293-16297. PMID: 19706390

9.     Nishino, K., Ohgane, J., Suzuki, M., Hattori, N., and Shiota, K. Non-human Embryonic Stem Cell Protocols. Methylation in Embryonic Stem Cells In Vitro. Methods Mol Biol, 329, 421-45 (2006) PMID: 16846008

10.  Suzuki, M. and Greally, J.M. DNA methylation profiling using HpaII tiny fragment enrichment by ligation-mediated PCR (HELP). Methods (2010) PMID: 20434563