Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals

RF Hillary, DL McCartney, HM Smith, E Bernabeu… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background DNA methylation is a dynamic epigenetic mechanism that occurs at cytosine-
phosphate-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) sites. Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) …

Statistical and integrative system-level analysis of DNA methylation data

AE Teschendorff, CL Relton - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Epigenetics plays a key role in cellular development and function. Alterations to the
epigenome are thought to capture and mediate the effects of genetic and environmental risk …

Enhanced cell deconvolution of peripheral blood using DNA methylation for high-resolution immune profiling

LA Salas, Z Zhang, DC Koestler, RA Butler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation microarrays can be employed to interrogate cell-type composition in
complex tissues. Here, we expand reference-based deconvolution of blood DNA …

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 …

An optimized library for reference-based deconvolution of whole-blood biospecimens assayed using the Illumina HumanMethylationEPIC BeadArray

LA Salas, DC Koestler, RA Butler, HM Hansen… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Genome-wide methylation arrays are powerful tools for assessing cell composition of
complex mixtures. We compare three approaches to select reference libraries for …

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‐based biomarkers of aging were slowed down in a two‐year diet and physical activity intervention trial: The DAMA study

G Fiorito, S Caini, D Palli, B Bendinelli, C Saieva… - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Several biomarkers of healthy aging have been proposed in recent years, including the
epigenetic clocks, based on DNA methylation (DNAm) measures, which are getting …

The activity of early-life gene regulatory elements is hijacked in aging through pervasive AP-1-linked chromatin opening

R Patrick, M Naval-Sanchez, N Deshpande, Y Huang… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
A mechanistic connection between aging and development is largely unexplored. Through
profiling age-related chromatin and transcriptional changes across 22 murine cell types …

EWAS Open Platform: integrated data, knowledge and toolkit for epigenome-wide association study

Z **ong, F Yang, M Li, Y Ma, W Zhao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Epigenome-Wide Association Study (EWAS) has become a standard strategy to
discover DNA methylation variation of different phenotypes. Since 2018, we have developed …

Decoding the genetic and epigenetic basis of asthma

BS Stikker, RW Hendriks, R Stadhouders - Allergy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Asthma is a complex and heterogeneous chronic inflammatory disease of the airways.
Alongside environmental factors, asthma susceptibility is strongly influenced by genetics …