Introduction to single-cell DNA methylation profiling methods

J Ahn, S Heo, J Lee, D Bang - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that is related to mammalian cellular
differentiation, gene expression regulation, and disease. In several studies, DNA …

Analyzing modern biomolecules: the revolution of nucleic-acid sequencing–Review

G Dorado, S Gálvez, TE Rosales, VF Vásquez… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent developments have revolutionized the study of biomolecules. Among them are
molecular markers, amplification and sequencing of nucleic acids. The latter is classified into …

A machine learning approach utilizing DNA methylation as an accurate classifier of COVID-19 disease severity

S Bowler, G Papoutsoglou, A Karanikas… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing cases with variable outcomes
continue globally because of variants and despite vaccines and therapies. There is a need …

Challenges and perspectives in computational deconvolution of genomics data

LX Garmire, Y Li, Q Huang, C Xu, SA Teichmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deciphering cell-type heterogeneity is crucial for systematically understanding tissue
homeostasis and its dysregulation in diseases. Computational deconvolution is an efficient …

Sex-specific epigenetic development in the mouse hypothalamic arcuate nucleus pinpoints human genomic regions associated with body mass index

H MacKay, CJ Gunasekara, KY Yam, D Srisai… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Recent genome-wide association studies corroborate classical research on developmental
programming indicating that obesity is primarily a neurodevelopmental disease strongly …

Detection of cell types contributing to cancer from circulating, cell-free methylated DNA

ME Barefoot, N Loyfer, AJ Kiliti, AP McDeed IV… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Detection of cellular changes in tissue biopsies has been the basis for cancer diagnostics.
However, tissue biopsies are invasive and limited by inaccuracies due to sampling …

Machine learning for deciphering cell heterogeneity and gene regulation

M Scherer, F Schmidt, O Lazareva, J Walter… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Epigenetics studies inheritable and reversible modifications of DNA that allow cells to
control gene expression throughout their development and in response to environmental …

Systemic interindividual DNA methylation variants in cattle share major hallmarks with those in humans

WJ Chang, MS Baker, E Laritsky, CJ Gunasekara… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background We recently identified~ 10,000 correlated regions of systemic
interindividual epigenetic variation (CoRSIVs) in the human genome. These methylation …

Systematic evaluation of cell-type deconvolution pipelines for sequencing-based bulk DNA methylomes

Y Jeong, LB de Andrade e Sousa… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation analysis by sequencing is becoming increasingly popular, yielding
methylomes at single-base pair and single-molecule resolution. It has tremendous potential …

Computational deconvolution of DNA methylation data from mixed DNA samples

MR Ferro dos Santos, E Giuili, A De Koker… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the different computational tools that
have been published for the deconvolution of bulk DNA methylation (DNAm) data. Here …