Preprocessing, normalization and integration of the Illumina HumanMethylationEPIC array with minfi

JP Fortin, TJ Triche Jr, KD Hansen - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The minfi package is widely used for analyzing Illumina DNA methylation array data. Here
we describe modifications to the minfi package required to support the …

Genome-wide study of DNA methylation shows alterations in metabolic, inflammatory, and cholesterol pathways in ALS

PJ Hop, RAJ Zwamborn, E Hannon… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with an estimated
heritability between 40 and 50%. DNA methylation patterns can serve as proxies of (past) …

DNA methylation as a mediator of the association between prenatal adversity and risk factors for metabolic disease in adulthood

EW Tobi, RC Slieker, R Luijk, KF Dekkers, AD Stein… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Although it is assumed that epigenetic mechanisms, such as changes in DNA methylation
(DNAm), underlie the relationship between adverse intrauterine conditions and adult …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic and environmental influences interact with age and sex in shaping the human methylome

J Van Dongen, MG Nivard, G Willemsen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The methylome is subject to genetic and environmental effects. Their impact may depend on
sex and age, resulting in sex-and age-related physiological variation and disease …

[HTML][HTML] TET2 mutations are associated with hypermethylation at key regulatory enhancers in normal and malignant hematopoiesis

M Tulstrup, M Soerensen, JW Hansen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations in the epigenetic modifier TET2 are frequent in myeloid malignancies and clonal
hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) and clonal cytopenia of undetermined …

Meffil: efficient normalization and analysis of very large DNA methylation datasets

JL Min, G Hemani, G Davey Smith, C Relton… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation DNA methylation datasets are growing ever larger both in sample size and
genome coverage. Novel computational solutions are required to efficiently handle these …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling bias and inflation in epigenome-and transcriptome-wide association studies using the empirical null distribution

M van Iterson, EW van Zwet, Bios Consortium… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
We show that epigenome-and transcriptome-wide association studies (EWAS and TWAS)
are prone to significant inflation and bias of test statistics, an unrecognized phenomenon …

Nicotinamide riboside improves muscle mitochondrial biogenesis, satellite cell differentiation, and gut microbiota in a twin study

HAK Lapatto, M Kuusela, A Heikkinen, M Muniandy… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) precursor nicotinamide riboside (NR) has
emerged as a promising compound to improve obesity-associated mitochondrial dysfunction …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenomic analysis of Sézary syndrome defines patterns of aberrant DNA methylation and identifies diagnostic markers

R van Doorn, RC Slieker, SE Boonk… - Journal of Investigative …, 2016 - Elsevier
Sézary syndrome (Sz) is a malignancy of skin-homing CD4+ memory T cells that is clinically
characterized by erythroderma, lymphadenopathy, and blood involvement. Distinction of Sz …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related DNA methylation changes are tissue-specific with ELOVL2 promoter methylation as exception

RC Slieker, CL Relton, TR Gaunt, PE Slagboom… - Epigenetics & …, 2018 - Springer
Background The well-established association of chronological age with changes in DNA
methylation is primarily founded on the analysis of large sets of blood samples, while …