Part I: Parent-of-Origin Effects
1. Uniparental Embryos in the Study of Genomic Imprinting
Yong Cheng, Dasari Amarnath, and Keith E. Latham
2. Derivation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Retroviral Gene Transduction in Mammalian Species
Masanori Imamura, Hironobu Okuno, Ikuo Tomioka, Yoshimi Kawamura, Zachary Yu-Ching Lin, Ryusuke Nakajima, Wado Akamatsu, Hirotaka James Okano, Yumi Matsuzaki, Erika Sasaki, and Hideyuki Okano
3. Generation of Trophoblast Stem Cells
Michael C. Golding
4. Immunomagnetic Purification of Murine Primordial Germ Cells
Emily Y. Smith and James L. Resnick
Part II: Identifying Imprinted Genes
5. Whole Genome Methylation Profiling by Immunoprecipitation of Methylated DNA
Andrew J. Sharp
6. Identification of Imprinted Loci by Transcriptome Sequencing
Tomas Babak
7. Data Mining as a Discovery Tool for Imprinted Genes
Chelsea Brideau and Paul Soloway
Part III: Identifying the Regulatory Features of Imprinted Domains
8. Engineering of Large Deletions and Duplications In Vivo
Louis Lefebvre
Part IV: Epigenetics of Imprinted Regions
9. Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation (MeDIP) from Low Amounts of Cells
Julie Borgel, Sylvain Guibert, and Michael Weber
10. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation to Characterize the Epigenetic Profiles of Imprinted Domains
Purnima Singh and Piroska E. Szabó
11. Quantitative Chromosome Conformation Capture
Raffaella Nativio, Yoko Ito, and Adele Murrell
12. Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation in Low Cell Numbers by Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing
Sébastien A. Smallwood and Gavin Kelsey
Part V: Analysis of Imprinted Expression
13. Isolation of RNA and DNA from Single Preimplantation Embryos and a Small Number of Mammalian Oocytes for Imprinting Studies
Sarah Rose Huffman, Md Almamun, and Rocío Melissa Rivera
14. Generation of cDNA Libraries from RNP-Derived Regulatory Non-Coding RNAs
Mathieu Rederstorff
15. Co-Immunoprecipitation of Long Non-Coding RNAs
Victoria A. Moran, Courtney N. Niland, and Ahmad M. Khalil
Part VI: Imprinting in Plants
16. Specialized Technologies for Epigenetics in Plants
Wenyan Xiao
Part VII: Evolution of Imprinted Genes
17. Computational Studies of Imprinted Genes
Martina Paulsen
18. Insights on Imprinting from Beyond Mice and Men
Andrew Pask
19. Non-Mammalian Parent-Of-Origin Effects
Elena de la Casa-Esperón
