Publications

Zac1 and the Imprinted Gene Network program juvenile non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in response to maternal metabolic syndrome
Baptissart M, Bradish CM, Jones B, Walsh E, Tehrani J, Mehta S, Jima DD, Fougeray T, Guillou H & Cowley M (in revision)
Transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic analyses identify candidate pathways linking maternal cadmium exposure to altered neurodevelopment and behavior
Hudson KM, Shiver E, Yu J, Mehta S, Jima DD, Kane MA, Patisaul HB & Cowley M (in revision)
Epigenetic dysregulation of the imprinted growth regulator Cdkn1c in cadmium-induced placental insufficiency
Simmers MD, Hudson KM, Baptissart M & Cowley M (in preparation)
Maternal cadmium exposure in the mouse leads to increased heart weight at birth and programs susceptibility to hypertension in adulthood.
Hudson KM, Belcher SM & Cowley M (2019) Sci Rep, 9:13553.
Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity, offspring cord blood DNA methylation, and offspring cardiometabolic health in early childhood: an epigenome-wide association study.
Martin CL, Jima DD, Sharp GC, McCullough LE, Park SS, Gowdy KM, Skaar DA, Cowley M, Maguire RL, Fuemmeler B, Collier D, Relton CL, Murphy SK & Hoyo C (2019) Epigenetics, 14(4):325.
Neonatal mice exposed to a high fat diet ​in utero influence the behavior of their nursing dam.
Baptissart M, Lamb HE, To K, Bradish C, Tehrani J, Reif D & Cowley M (2018) Proc R Soc B, 285:20181237.
Effects of cadmium exposure on DNA methylation at imprinting control regions and genome-wide in mothers and newborn children. 
Cowley M*, Skaar DA, Jima DD, Maguire R, Hudson KM, Park SS, Sorrow P & Hoyo C (2018) Environ Health Perspect, 126(3):037003. ​*corresponding author
Regulatory links between imprinted genes: evolutionary predictions and consequences. ​
Patten MM, Cowley M, Oakey RJ & Feil R (2016) Proc R Soc B, 283(1824).​
Antagonistic roles in fetal development and adult physiology for the oppositely imprinted Grb10 and Dlk1 genes.
Madon-Simon M, Cowley M, Garfield AS, Moorwood K, Bauer SR & Ward A (2014) BMC Biol, 12(1):771.
Transposable elements re-wire and fine-tune the transcriptome.
Cowley M & Oakey RJ (2013) PLoS Genet, 9(1): e1003234.
Resetting for the next generation.
Cowley M & Oakey RJ (2012) Mol Cell, 48(6):819-21.
Epigenetic control of alternative mRNA processing at the imprinted Herc3/Nap1l5 locus.
Cowley M, Wood AJ, Böhm S, Schulz R & Oakey RJ (2012) Nucleic Acids Res, 40(18):8917-26.
Protection against de novo methylation is instrumental in maintaining parent-of-origin methylation inherited from the gametes.
Proudhon C, Duffié R, Ajjan S, Cowley M, Carbajosa G, Iranzo J, Holland M, Oakey RJ, Rakyan V, Schulz R & Bourc’his D (2012) Mol Cell, 47(6):909-20.
Short interspersed element (SINE) depletion and long interspersed element (LINE) abundance are not features universally required for imprinting.
Cowley M, de Burca A, McCole RB, Chahal M, Saadat G, Oakey RJ & Schulz R (2011) PLoS ONE, 6(4): e18953.
Human imprinted retrogenes have small DMRs that exhibit non-canonical imprint chromatin signatures and reside in non-imprinted host genes.
Monk D, Arnaud P, Frost JM, Wood AJ, Cowley M, Trullijo AM, Adkins AG, Platas II, Camprubi C, Bourc’his D, Feil R, Moore GE & Oakey RJ (2011) Nucleic Acids Res, 39(11):4577-86.
Retrotransposition and genomic imprinting.
Cowley M & Oakey RJ (2010) Brief Funct Genomics, 9(4):340-6.