Genetic impacts on DNA methylation: research findings and future perspectives

S Villicaña, JT Bell - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Multiple recent studies highlight that genetic variants can have strong impacts on a
significant proportion of the human DNA methylome. Methylation quantitative trait loci, or …

Epigenome-wide association studies: current knowledge, strategies and recommendations

MP Campagna, A Xavier, J Lechner-Scott, V Maltby… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
The aetiology and pathophysiology of complex diseases are driven by the interaction
between genetic and environmental factors. The variability in risk and outcomes in these …

Critical evaluation of the Illumina MethylationEPIC BeadChip microarray for whole-genome DNA methylation profiling

R Pidsley, E Zotenko, TJ Peters, MG Lawrence… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background In recent years the Illumina HumanMethylation450 (HM450) BeadChip has
provided a user-friendly platform to profile DNA methylation in human samples. However …

[PDF][PDF] DNA methylation in newborns and maternal smoking in pregnancy: genome-wide consortium meta-analysis

BR Joubert, JF Felix, P Yousefi, KM Bakulski… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, represent a potential mechanism for
environmental impacts on human disease. Maternal smoking in pregnancy remains an …

DNA methylation: an epigenetic mark of cellular memory

M Kim, J Costello - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that can be inherited through multiple cell
divisions. During development and cell differentiation, DNA methylation is dynamic, but …

Charting a dynamic DNA methylation landscape of the human genome

MJ Ziller, H Gu, F Müller, J Donaghey, LTY Tsai… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a defining feature of mammalian cellular identity and is essential for
normal development,. Most cell types, except germ cells and pre-implantation embryos …

DNA methylation and body-mass index: a genome-wide analysis

KJ Dick, CP Nelson, L Tsaprouni, JK Sandling, D Aïssi… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Obesity is a major health problem that is determined by interactions between
lifestyle and environmental and genetic factors. Although associations between several …

ChAMP: 450k chip analysis methylation pipeline

TJ Morris, LM Butcher, A Feber, AE Teschendorff… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip is a new platform for high-
throughput DNA methylation analysis. Several methods for normalization and processing of …

Discovery of cross-reactive probes and polymorphic CpGs in the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 microarray

Y Chen, M Lemire, S Choufani, DT Butcher… - Epigenetics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
DNA methylation, an important type of epigenetic modification in humans, participates in
crucial cellular processes, such as embryonic development, X-inactivation, genomic …

A beta-mixture quantile normalization method for correcting probe design bias in Illumina Infinium 450 k DNA methylation data

AE Teschendorff, F Marabita, M Lechner… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation: The Illumina Infinium 450 k DNA Methylation Beadchip is a prime
candidate technology for Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS). However, a …