DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations

PD Yousefi, M Suderman, R Langdon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation data have become a valuable source of information for biomarker
development, because, unlike static genetic risk estimates, DNA methylation varies …

An ecologist's guide for studying DNA methylation variation in wild vertebrates

VN Laine, B Sepers, M Lindner… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of molecular biology is advancing fast with new powerful technologies, sequencing
methods and analysis software being developed constantly. Commonly used tools originally …

Detection and accurate false discovery rate control of differentially methylated regions from whole genome bisulfite sequencing

K Korthauer, S Chakraborty, Y Benjamini… - Biostatistics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
With recent advances in sequencing technology, it is now feasible to measure DNA
methylation at tens of millions of sites across the entire genome. In most applications …

Calling differentially methylated regions from whole genome bisulphite sequencing with DMRcate

TJ Peters, MJ Buckley, Y Chen, GK Smyth… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Whole genome bisulphite sequencing (WGBS) permits the genome-wide study of single
molecule methylation patterns. One of the key goals of mammalian cell-type identity studies …

DMRcaller: a versatile R/Bioconductor package for detection and visualization of differentially methylated regions in CpG and non-CpG contexts

M Catoni, JMF Tsang, AP Greco… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation has been associated with transcriptional repression and detection of
differential methylation is important in understanding the underlying causes of differential …

CpG-island-based annotation and analysis of human housekeeping genes

L Zhang, Z Dai, J Yu, M Xiao - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
By reviewing previous CpG-related studies, we consider that the transcription regulation of
about half of the human genes, mostly housekeeping (HK) genes, involves CpG islands …

Analysis of DNA modifications in aging research

DR Masser, N Hadad, H Porter, MB Stout… - Geroscience, 2018 - Springer
As geroscience research extends into the role of epigenetics in aging and age-related
disease, researchers are being confronted with unfamiliar molecular techniques and data …

Contrasting DNA methylation responses of inbred fish lines to different rearing environments

WM Berbel-Filho, D Rodríguez-Barreto, N Berry… - Epigenetics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Epigenetic mechanisms generate plastic phenotypes that can become locally adapted
across environments. Disentangling genomic from epigenomic variation is challenging in …

A multi-cohort and multi-omics meta-analysis framework to identify network-based gene signatures

A Shafi, T Nguyen, A Peyvandipour, H Nguyen… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Although massive amounts of condition-specific molecular profiles are being accumulated in
public repositories every day, meaningful interpretation of these data remains a major …

Population epigenomics: advancing understanding of phenotypic plasticity, acclimation, adaptation and diseases

ERV Moler, A Abakir, M Eleftheriou, JS Johnson… - Population genomics …, 2019 - Springer
Advances in chromatin state mapping, high-throughput DNA sequencing, and bioinformatics
have revolutionized the study and interpretability of epigenomic variation. The increasing …