aging, cohesion, and germline centromere inheritance

Das A, Boese KG, Tachibana K, Baek SH, Lampson MA*, Black BE*. 2023. Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly. *Shared corresponding authors. pdf

Das A, Iwata-Otsubo A, Destouni A, Dawicki-McKenna JM, Boese KG, Black BE, Lampson MA. 2022. Epigenetic, genetic and maternal effects enable stable centromere inheritance. Nature Cell Biology. pdf

Maier NK1, , Ma J1, Lampson MA*, Cheeseman IM*. 2021. Separase cleaves the kinetochore protein Meikin at the meiosis I/II transition. Developmental Cell. 1Equal contribution. *Shared corresponding authors. pdf

Das A, Black BE, Lampson MA. 2020. Maternal inheritance of centromeres through the germline. In Maternal-effect genes in development. Ed. F. Marlow. Current Topics in Developmental Biology. Elsevier. pdf

Das A, Smoak EM, Linares-Saldana R, Lampson MA*, Black BE*. 2017. Centromere inheritance through the germline. Chromosoma 126(5):595-604. *Shared corresponding authors. pdf

Smoak EM, Stein P, Schultz RM, Lampson MA*, Black BE*. 2016. Long-term retention of CENP-A nucleosomes in mammalian oocytes underpins transgenerational inheritance of centromere identity. Current Biology 26(8):1110-6. *Shared corresponding authors. pdf and see Dispatch by Toth and Jessberger.

Chiang T, Schultz RM, Lampson MA. 2012. Meiotic Origins of Maternal Age-Related Aneuploidy. Biology of Reproduction 86(1):1-7. pdf

Chiang T, Schultz RM, Lampson MA. 2011. Age-dependent susceptibility of chromosome cohesion to premature separase activation in mouse oocytes. Biology of Reproduction 85(6):1279-83. pdf

Chiang T, Duncan FE, Schindler K, Schultz RM, Lampson MA. 2010. Evidence that weakened centromere cohesion is a leading cause of age-related aneuploidy in oocytes. Current Biology 20(17):1522-8. pdf and see Time.com feature and Dispatch by Hunt and Hassold.

Duncan FE†, Chiang T†, Schultz RM, Lampson MA. 2009. Evidence that a defective spindle assembly checkpoint is not the primary cause of maternal age-associated aneuploidy in Mouse eggs. †Equal contribution. Biology of Reproduction 81(4):768-76. pdf