作者
Ruth Pidsley, Elena Zotenko, Timothy J Peters, Mitchell G Lawrence, Gail P Risbridger, Peter Molloy, Susan Van Djik, Beverly Muhlhausler, Clare Stirzaker, Susan J Clark
发表日期
2016/12
期刊
Genome biology
卷号
17
页码范围
1-17
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
In recent years the Illumina HumanMethylation450 (HM450) BeadChip has provided a user-friendly platform to profile DNA methylation in human samples. However, HM450 lacked coverage of distal regulatory elements. Illumina have now released the MethylationEPIC (EPIC) BeadChip, with new content specifically designed to target these regions. We have used HM450 and whole-genome bisulphite sequencing (WGBS) to perform a critical evaluation of the new EPIC array platform.
Results
EPIC covers over 850,000 CpG sites, including >90 % of the CpGs from the HM450 and an additional 413,743 CpGs. Even though the additional probes improve the coverage of regulatory elements, including 58 % of FANTOM5 enhancers, only 7 % distal and 27 % proximal ENCODE regulatory elements are represented. Detailed comparisons of …
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