Tracing the origin of cell-Free DNA molecules through tissue-Specific epigenetic signatures

A Oberhofer, AJ Bronkhorst, C Uhlig, V Ungerer… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
All cell and tissue types constantly release DNA fragments into human body fluids by various
mechanisms including programmed cell death, accidental cell degradation and active …

Cell-specific DNA methylation signatures in asthma

AA Hudon Thibeault, C Laprise - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Asthma is a complex trait, often associated with atopy. The genetic contribution has been
evidenced by familial occurrence. Genome-wide association studies allowed for associating …

Deconvolution of cellular subsets in human tissue based on targeted DNA methylation analysis at individual CpG sites

M Schmidt, T Maié, E Dahl, IG Costa, W Wagner - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The complex composition of different cell types within a tissue can be estimated
by deconvolution of bulk gene expression profiles or with various single-cell sequencing …

Spurious transcription and its impact on cell function

JT Wade, DC Grainger - Transcription, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Most RNA polymerases can initiate transcription from diverse DNA template sequences with
relatively few outright sequence restraints. Recent reports have demonstrated that failure to …

The epigenetic machinery in the life cycle and pharmacoepigenetics

R Cacabelos, I Tellado, P Cacabelos - Pharmacoepigenetics, 2019 - Elsevier
Epigenetics is a discipline that studies potentially reversible heritable changes in gene
expression with no structural modifications in the DNA sequence. The epigenetic machinery …

Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Detected Immune Cell‐Related Pathways Associated with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

P Luo, L Liu, W Hou, K Xu, P Xu - BioMed Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim. To explore various immune cell‐related causal pathways for primary sclerosing
cholangitis (PSC). Methods. Immune cell‐related pathway association study was conducted …

[HTML][HTML] HMST-Seq-Analyzer: A new python tool for differential methylation and hydroxymethylation analysis in various DNA methylation sequencing data

A Farooq, S Grønmyr, O Ali, T Rognes… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
DNA methylation (5mC) and hydroxymethylation (5hmC) are chemical modifications of
cytosine bases which play a crucial role in epigenetic gene regulation. However, cost, data …

HeteroMeth: a database of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in DNA methylation

Q Huan, Y Zhang, S Wu, W Qian - Genomics, Proteomics and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that plays a vital role in gene expression
and cell differentiation. The average DNA methylation level among a group of cells has been …

Correlation of Infinium HumanMethylation450K and MethylationEPIC BeadChip arrays in cartilage

K Cheung, MJ Burgers, DA Young, S Cockell… - Epigenetics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT DNA methylation of CpG sites is commonly measured using Illumina Infinium
BeadChip platforms. The Infinium MethylationEPIC array has replaced the Infinium …

Inference of crosstalk effects between DNA methylation and lncRNA regulation in NSCLC

B Tang - BioMed research international, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Intercellular crosstalk effects between DNA methylation and lncRNA regulation remain
elusive in lung carcinoma epigenetics. We present an application toolkit MetLnc in …