Prediction of genome-wide DNA methylation in repetitive elements

Y Zheng, BT Joyce, L Liu, Z Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation in repetitive elements (RE) suppresses their mobility and maintains
genomic stability, and decreases in it are frequently observed in tumor and/or surrogate …

Methods for genome-wide DNA methylation analysis in human cancer

S Fan, W Chi - Briefings in Functional Genomics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aberrant DNA methylation is considered to be one of the most common hallmarks of cancer.
Several recent advances in assessing the DNA methylome provide great promise for …

Cytosine methylation profiling of cancer cell lines

M Ehrich, J Turner, P Gibbs, L Lipton… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
DNA-methylation changes in human cancer are complex and vary between the different
types of cancer. Capturing this epigenetic variability in an atlas of DNA-methylation changes …

Tumour class prediction and discovery by microarray-based DNA methylation analysis

P Adorján, J Distler, E Lipscher, F Model… - Nucleic acids …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Aberrant DNA methylation of CpG sites is among the earliest and most frequent alterations
in cancer. Several studies suggest that aberrant methylation occurs in a tumour type-specific …

Modeling complex patterns of differential DNA methylation that associate with gene expression changes

CE Schlosberg, ND VanderKraats… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Numerous genomic studies are underway to determine which genes are abnormally
regulated by DNA methylation in disease. However, we have a poor understanding of how …

Tissue-independent and tissue-specific patterns of DNA methylation alteration in cancer

Y Chen, CE Breeze, S Zhen, S Beck… - Epigenetics & …, 2016 - Springer
Background There is growing evidence that DNA methylation alterations contribute to
carcinogenesis. While cancer tissue exhibits widespread DNA methylation changes, the …

Gene-set analysis is severely biased when applied to genome-wide methylation data

P Geeleher, L Hartnett, LJ Egan, A Golden… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that can stably repress gene expression.
Because of its biological and clinical significance, several methods have been developed to …

MEDME: an experimental and analytical methodology for the estimation of DNA methylation levels based on microarray derived MeDIP-enrichment

M Pelizzola, Y Koga, AE Urban… - Genome …, 2008 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation is an important component of epigenetic modifications that influences the
transcriptional machinery and is aberrant in many human diseases. Several methods have …

MethylMix 2.0: an R package for identifying DNA methylation genes

PL Cedoz, M Prunello, K Brennan, O Gevaert - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an important mechanism regulating gene transcription, and its role in
carcinogenesis has been extensively studied. Hyper and hypomethylation of genes is a …

Functional DNA methylation differences between tissues, cell types, and across individuals discovered using the M&M algorithm

B Zhang, Y Zhou, N Lin, RF Lowdon, C Hong… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation plays key roles in diverse biological processes such as X chromosome
inactivation, transposable element repression, genomic imprinting, and tissue-specific gene …