Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in cancer: techniques, resources and analysis

LT Kagohara, GL Stein-O'Brien, D Kelley… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Cancer is a complex disease, driven by aberrant activity in numerous signaling pathways in
even individual malignant cells. Epigenetic changes are critical mediators of these functional …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis pipelines and packages for Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (450k) data

TJ Morris, S Beck - Methods, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip has become a popular platform for
interrogating DNA methylation in epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) and related …

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 …

Functional normalization of 450k methylation array data improves replication in large cancer studies

JP Fortin, A Labbe, M Lemire, BW Zanke, TJ Hudson… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
We propose an extension to quantile normalization that removes unwanted technical
variation using control probes. We adapt our algorithm, functional normalization, to the …

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 …

Reconstructing A/B compartments as revealed by Hi-C using long-range correlations in epigenetic data

JP Fortin, KD Hansen - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Analysis of Hi-C data has shown that the genome can be divided into two
compartments called A/B compartments. These compartments are cell-type specific and are …

Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling

AS Zannas, J Arloth, T Carrillo-Roa, S Iurato, S Röh… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Chronic psychological stress is associated with accelerated aging and
increased risk for aging-related diseases, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are …

[HTML][HTML] The early-life exposome and epigenetic age acceleration in children

P de Prado-Bert, C Ruiz-Arenas, M Vives-Usano… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
The early-life exposome influences future health and accelerated biological aging has been
proposed as one of the underlying biological mechanisms. We investigated the association …

Epigenetic prediction of complex traits and death

DL McCartney, RF Hillary, AJ Stevenson, SJ Ritchie… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Genome-wide DNA methylation (DNAm) profiling has allowed for the
development of molecular predictors for a multitude of traits and diseases. Such predictors …

Novel DNA methylation signatures of tobacco smoking with trans-ethnic effects

C Christiansen, JE Castillo-Fernandez… - Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Background Smoking remains one of the leading preventable causes of death. Smoking
leaves a strong signature on the blood methylome as shown in multiple studies using the …