DNA methylation-based biomarkers and the epigenetic clock theory of ageing

S Horvath, K Raj - Nature reviews genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying and validating molecular targets of interventions that extend the human health
span and lifespan has been difficult, as most clinical biomarkers are not sufficiently …

Integrative analysis of multi-omics data for discovery and functional studies of complex human diseases

YV Sun, YJ Hu - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Complex and dynamic networks of molecules are involved in human diseases. High-
throughput technologies enable omics studies interrogating thousands to millions of makers …

DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types

S Horvath - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background It is not yet known whether DNA methylation levels can be used to accurately
predict age across a broad spectrum of human tissues and cell types, nor whether the …

Single-cell genome-wide bisulfite sequencing for assessing epigenetic heterogeneity

SA Smallwood, HJ Lee, C Angermueller, F Krueger… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
We report a single-cell bisulfite sequencing (scBS-seq) method that can be used to
accurately measure DNA methylation at up to 48.4% of CpG sites. Embryonic stem cells …

ChAMP: 450k chip analysis methylation pipeline

TJ Morris, LM Butcher, A Feber, AE Teschendorff… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip is a new platform for high-
throughput DNA methylation analysis. Several methods for normalization and processing of …

DNA methylation signatures link prenatal famine exposure to growth and metabolism

EW Tobi, JJ Goeman, R Monajemi, H Gu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Periconceptional diet may persistently influence DNA methylation levels with phenotypic
consequences. However, a comprehensive assessment of the characteristics of prenatal …

Differential DNA methylation in purified human blood cells: implications for cell lineage and studies on disease susceptibility

LE Reinius, N Acevedo, M Joerink, G Pershagen… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Methylation of cytosines at CpG sites is a common epigenetic DNA modification that can be
measured by a large number of methods, now even in a genome-wide manner for hundreds …

Epigenomic analysis of multilineage differentiation of human embryonic stem cells

W **e, MD Schultz, R Lister, Z Hou, N Rajagopal… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Epigenetic mechanisms have been proposed to play crucial roles in mammalian
development, but their precise functions are only partially understood. To investigate …

BSmooth: from whole genome bisulfite sequencing reads to differentially methylated regions

KD Hansen, B Langmead, RA Irizarry - Genome biology, 2012 - Springer
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification involved in gene regulation, which
can now be measured using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing. However, cost, complexity …

Dynamic DNA methylation across diverse human cell lines and tissues

KE Varley, J Gertz, KM Bowling, SL Parker… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
As studies of DNA methylation increase in scope, it has become evident that methylation has
a complex relationship with gene expression, plays an important role in defining cell types …