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Westerman K, Sebastiani P, Jacques P, Liu S, DeMeo D, Ordovás JM. DNA methylation modules associate with incident cardiovascular disease and cumulative risk factor exposure. Clin Epigenetics 2019; 11:142. [PMID: 31615550 PMCID: PMC6792327 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-019-0705-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Epigenome-wide association studies using DNA methylation have the potential to uncover novel biomarkers and mechanisms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, the direction of causation for these associations is not always clear, and investigations to-date have often failed to replicate at the level of individual loci. METHODS Here, we undertook module- and region-based DNA methylation analyses of incident CVD in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort (FHS) in order to find more robust epigenetic biomarkers for cardiovascular risk. We applied weighted gene correlation network analysis (WGCNA) and the Comb-p algorithm to find methylation modules and regions associated with incident CVD in the WHI dataset. RESULTS We discovered two modules whose activation correlated with CVD risk and replicated across cohorts. One of these modules was enriched for development-related processes and overlaps strongly with epigenetic aging sites. For the other, we showed preliminary evidence for monocyte-specific effects and statistical links to cumulative exposure to traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Additionally, we found three regions (associated with the genes SLC9A1, SLC1A5, and TNRC6C) whose methylation associates with CVD risk. CONCLUSIONS In sum, we present several epigenetic associations with incident CVD which reveal disease mechanisms related to development and monocyte biology. Furthermore, we show that epigenetic modules may act as a molecular readout of cumulative cardiovascular risk factor exposure, with implications for the improvement of clinical risk prediction.
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- Kenneth Westerman
- JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
- IMDEA Alimentación, CEI, UAM, Madrid, Spain.
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.
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Avila Cobos F, Vandesompele J, Mestdagh P, De Preter K. Computational deconvolution of transcriptomics data from mixed cell populations. Bioinformatics 2019; 34:1969-1979. [PMID: 29351586 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Summary Gene expression analyses of bulk tissues often ignore cell type composition as an important confounding factor, resulting in a loss of signal from lowly abundant cell types. In this review, we highlight the importance and value of computational deconvolution methods to infer the abundance of different cell types and/or cell type-specific expression profiles in heterogeneous samples without performing physical cell sorting. We also explain the various deconvolution scenarios, the mathematical approaches used to solve them and the effect of data processing and different confounding factors on the accuracy of the deconvolution results. Contact katleen.depreter@ugent.be. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Francisco Avila Cobos
- Center for Medical Genetics Ghent (CMGG), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Bioinformatics Institute Ghent from Nucleotides to Networks (BIG N2N), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Medical Genetics Ghent (CMGG), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Bioinformatics Institute Ghent from Nucleotides to Networks (BIG N2N), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Medical Genetics Ghent (CMGG), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Bioinformatics Institute Ghent from Nucleotides to Networks (BIG N2N), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Center for Medical Genetics Ghent (CMGG), Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium.,Bioinformatics Institute Ghent from Nucleotides to Networks (BIG N2N), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Ringh MV, Hagemann-Jensen M, Needhamsen M, Kular L, Breeze CE, Sjöholm LK, Slavec L, Kullberg S, Wahlström J, Grunewald J, Brynedal B, Liu Y, Almgren M, Jagodic M, Öckinger J, Ekström TJ. Tobacco smoking induces changes in true DNA methylation, hydroxymethylation and gene expression in bronchoalveolar lavage cells. EBioMedicine 2019; 46:290-304. [PMID: 31303497 PMCID: PMC6710853 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background While smoking is known to associate with development of multiple diseases, the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Tobacco smoking can modify the chemical integrity of DNA leading to changes in transcriptional activity, partly through an altered epigenetic state. We aimed to investigate the impact of smoking on lung cells collected from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Methods We profiled changes in DNA methylation (5mC) and its oxidised form hydroxymethylation (5hmC) using conventional bisulphite (BS) treatment and oxidative bisulphite treatment with Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip, and examined gene expression by RNA-seq in healthy smokers. Findings We identified 1667 total 5mC + 5hmC, 1756 5mC and 67 5hmC differentially methylated positions (DMPs) between smokers and non-smokers (FDR-adjusted P <.05, absolute Δβ >0.15). Both 5mC DMPs and to a lesser extent 5mC + 5hmC were predominantly hypomethylated. In contrast, almost all 5hmC DMPs were hypermethylated, supporting the hypothesis that smoking-associated oxidative stress can lead to DNA demethylation, via the established sequential oxidation of which 5hmC is the first step. While we confirmed differential methylation of previously reported smoking-associated 5mC + 5hmC CpGs using former generations of BeadChips in alveolar macrophages, the large majority of identified DMPs, 5mC + 5hmC (1639/1667), 5mC (1738/1756), and 5hmC (67/67), have not been previously reported. Most of these novel smoking-associating sites are specific to the EPIC BeadChip and, interestingly, many of them are associated to FANTOM5 enhancers. Transcriptional changes affecting 633 transcripts were consistent with DNA methylation profiles and converged to alteration of genes involved in migration, signalling and inflammatory response of immune cells. Interpretation Collectively, these findings suggest that tobacco smoke exposure epigenetically modifies BAL cells, possibly involving a continuous active demethylation and subsequent increased activity of inflammatory processes in the lungs. Fund The study was supported by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation, the Stockholm County Council (ALF), the King Gustav's and Queen Victoria's Freemasons' Foundation, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Neuro Sweden, and the Swedish MS foundation.
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- Mikael V Ringh
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Seattle, USA; UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Theme Inflammation and Infection, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Center for Molecular Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jeffries AR, Maroofian R, Salter CG, Chioza BA, Cross HE, Patton MA, Dempster E, Temple IK, Mackay DJG, Rezwan FI, Aksglaede L, Baralle D, Dabir T, Hunter MF, Kamath A, Kumar A, Newbury-Ecob R, Selicorni A, Springer A, Van Maldergem L, Varghese V, Yachelevich N, Tatton-Brown K, Mill J, Crosby AH, Baple EL. Growth disrupting mutations in epigenetic regulatory molecules are associated with abnormalities of epigenetic aging. Genome Res 2019; 29:1057-1066. [PMID: 31160375 PMCID: PMC6633263 DOI: 10.1101/gr.243584.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Germline mutations in fundamental epigenetic regulatory molecules including DNA methyltransferase 3 alpha (DNMT3A) are commonly associated with growth disorders, whereas somatic mutations are often associated with malignancy. We profiled genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in DNMT3A c.2312G > A; p.(Arg771Gln) carriers in a large Amish sibship with Tatton-Brown–Rahman syndrome (TBRS), their mosaic father, and 15 TBRS patients with distinct pathogenic de novo DNMT3A variants. This defined widespread DNA hypomethylation at specific genomic sites enriched at locations annotated as genes involved in morphogenesis, development, differentiation, and malignancy predisposition pathways. TBRS patients also displayed highly accelerated DNA methylation aging. These findings were most marked in a carrier of the AML-associated driver mutation p.Arg882Cys. Our studies additionally defined phenotype-related accelerated and decelerated epigenetic aging in two histone methyltransferase disorders: NSD1 Sotos syndrome overgrowth disorder and KMT2D Kabuki syndrome growth impairment. Together, our findings provide fundamental new insights into aberrant epigenetic mechanisms, the role of epigenetic machinery maintenance, and determinants of biological aging in these growth disorders.
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- Aaron R Jeffries
- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom
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- Genetics Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St. George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom.,Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom.,Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, SO16 5YA, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona 85711, USA
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom.,Genetics Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St. George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom
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- Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom.,Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, SO16 5YA, United Kingdom
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- Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 6YD, United Kingdom.,Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, SO16 5YA, United Kingdom
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- Northern Ireland Regional Genetics Centre, Clinical Genetics Service, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, BT9 7AB, United Kingdom
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- Monash Genetics, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, VIC 3168, Australia.,Department of Paediatrics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, VIC 3168, Australia
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, United Kingdom
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- North East Thames Regional Genetics Service and Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom
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- University Hospitals Bristol, Department of Clinical Genetics, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol, BS2 8EG, United Kingdom
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- Monash Genetics, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, VIC 3168, Australia.,Department of Paediatrics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, VIC 3168, Australia
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- Centre de génétique humaine and Clinical Investigation Center 1431 (INSERM), Université de Franche-Comté, 25000, Besançon, France
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Genetics Services, New York University Hospitals Center, New York University, New York, New York 10016, USA
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- Genetics Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Institute, St. George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, United Kingdom.,Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, United Kingdom.,South West Thames Regional Genetics Service, St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London SW17 0QT, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Wellcome Wolfson Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom.,Peninsula Clinical Genetics Service, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, EX1 2ED, United Kingdom
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Bourgey M, Dali R, Eveleigh R, Chen KC, Letourneau L, Fillon J, Michaud M, Caron M, Sandoval J, Lefebvre F, Leveque G, Mercier E, Bujold D, Marquis P, Van PT, Anderson de Lima Morais D, Tremblay J, Shao X, Henrion E, Gonzalez E, Quirion PO, Caron B, Bourque G. GenPipes: an open-source framework for distributed and scalable genomic analyses. Gigascience 2019; 8:giz037. [PMID: 31185495 PMCID: PMC6559338 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giz037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2018] [Revised: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 03/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND With the decreasing cost of sequencing and the rapid developments in genomics technologies and protocols, the need for validated bioinformatics software that enables efficient large-scale data processing is growing. FINDINGS Here we present GenPipes, a flexible Python-based framework that facilitates the development and deployment of multi-step workflows optimized for high-performance computing clusters and the cloud. GenPipes already implements 12 validated and scalable pipelines for various genomics applications, including RNA sequencing, chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing, DNA sequencing, methylation sequencing, Hi-C, capture Hi-C, metagenomics, and Pacific Biosciences long-read assembly. The software is available under a GPLv3 open source license and is continuously updated to follow recent advances in genomics and bioinformatics. The framework has already been configured on several servers, and a Docker image is also available to facilitate additional installations. CONCLUSIONS GenPipes offers genomics researchers a simple method to analyze different types of data, customizable to their needs and resources, as well as the flexibility to create their own workflows.
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- Mathieu Bourgey
- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- McGill HPC Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Calcul Québec, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Beaulieu-Saucier Université de Montréal Pharmacogenomics Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Energy, Mining and Environment, National Research Council Canada, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- McGill HPC Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Calcul Québec, QC, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics, Montréal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Dunn EC, Soare TW, Zhu Y, Simpkin AJ, Suderman MJ, Klengel T, Smith ADAC, Ressler KJ, Relton CL. Sensitive Periods for the Effect of Childhood Adversity on DNA Methylation: Results From a Prospective, Longitudinal Study. Biol Psychiatry 2019; 85:838-849. [PMID: 30905381 PMCID: PMC6552666 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Revised: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 12/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Exposure to early-life adversity is known to predict DNA methylation (DNAm) patterns that may be related to psychiatric risk. However, few studies have investigated whether adversity has time-dependent effects based on the age at exposure. METHODS Using a two-stage structured life course modeling approach, we tested the hypothesis that there are sensitive periods when adversity induces greater DNAm changes. We tested this hypothesis in relation to two alternatives: an accumulation hypothesis, in which the effect of adversity increases with the number of occasions exposed, regardless of timing; and a recency model, in which the effect of adversity is stronger for more proximal events. Data came from the Accessible Resource for Integrated Epigenomic Studies, a subsample of mother-child pairs from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n = 691-774). RESULTS After covariate adjustment and multiple testing correction, we identified 38 CpG sites that were differentially methylated at 7 years of age following exposure to adversity. Most loci (n = 35) were predicted by the timing of adversity, namely exposures before 3 years of age. Neither the accumulation nor recency of the adversity explained considerable variability in DNAm. A standard epigenome-wide association study of lifetime exposure (vs. no exposure) failed to detect these associations. CONCLUSIONS The developmental timing of adversity explains more variability in DNAm than the accumulation or recency of exposure. Very early childhood appears to be a sensitive period when exposure to adversity predicts differential DNAm patterns. Classification of individuals as exposed versus unexposed to early-life adversity may dilute observed effects.
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- Erin C Dunn
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, The Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany
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- Applied Statistics Group, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Institute of Genetic Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Ramos PS, Zimmerman KD, Haddad S, Langefeld CD, Medsger TA, Feghali-Bostwick CA. Integrative analysis of DNA methylation in discordant twins unveils distinct architectures of systemic sclerosis subsets. Clin Epigenetics 2019; 11:58. [PMID: 30947741 PMCID: PMC6449959 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-019-0652-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune fibrosing disease with an incompletely understood genetic and non-genetic etiology. Defining its etiology is important to allow the development of effective predictive, preventative, and therapeutic strategies. We conducted this epigenomic study to investigate the contributions of DNA methylation to the etiology of SSc while minimizing confounding due to genetic heterogeneity. Methods Genomic methylation in whole blood from 27 twin pairs discordant for SSc was assayed over 450 K CpG sites. In silico integration with reported differentially methylated cytosines, differentially expressed genes, and regulatory annotation was conducted to validate and interpret the results. Results A total of 153 unique cytosines in limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc) and 266 distinct sites in diffuse cutaneous SSc (dcSSc) showed suggestive differential methylation levels in affected twins. Integration with available data revealed 76 CpGs that were also differentially methylated in blood cells from lupus patients, suggesting their role as potential epigenetic blood biomarkers of autoimmunity. It also revealed 27 genes with concomitant differential expression in blood from SSc patients, including IFI44L and RSAD2. Regulatory annotation revealed that dcSSc-associated CpGs (but not lcSSc) are enriched at Encyclopedia of DNA Elements-, Roadmap-, and BLUEPRINT-derived regulatory regions, supporting their potential role in disease presentation. Notably, the predominant enrichment of regulatory regions in monocytes and macrophages is consistent with the role of these cells in fibrosis, suggesting that the observed cellular dysregulation might be, at least partly, due to altered epigenetic mechanisms of these cells in dcSSc. Conclusions These data implicate epigenetic changes in the pathogenesis of SSc and suggest functional mechanisms in SSc etiology. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13148-019-0652-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Paula S Ramos
- Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.,Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.,Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.,Center for Public Health Genomics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
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Walton E, Relton CL, Caramaschi D. Using Openly Accessible Resources to Strengthen Causal Inference in Epigenetic Epidemiology of Neurodevelopment and Mental Health. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:E193. [PMID: 30832291 PMCID: PMC6470715 DOI: 10.3390/genes10030193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The recent focus on the role of epigenetic mechanisms in mental health has led to several studies examining the association of epigenetic processes with psychiatric conditions and neurodevelopmental traits. Some studies suggest that epigenetic changes might be causal in the development of the psychiatric condition under investigation. However, other scenarios are possible, e.g., statistical confounding or reverse causation, making it particularly challenging to derive conclusions on causality. In the present review, we examine the evidence from human population studies for a possible role of epigenetic mechanisms in neurodevelopment and mental health and discuss methodological approaches on how to strengthen causal inference, including the need for replication, (quasi-)experimental approaches and Mendelian randomization. We signpost openly accessible resources (e.g., "MR-Base" "EWAS catalog" as well as tissue-specific methylation and gene expression databases) to aid the application of these approaches.
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- Esther Walton
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN Bristol, UK.
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN Bristol, UK.
- Department of Psychology, University of Bath, BA2 7AY Bath, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN Bristol, UK.
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN Bristol, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN Bristol, UK.
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, BS8 2BN Bristol, UK.
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Lee MK, Xu CJ, Carnes MU, Nichols CE, Ward JM, Kwon SO, Kim SY, Kim WJ, London SJ. Genome-wide DNA methylation and long-term ambient air pollution exposure in Korean adults. Clin Epigenetics 2019; 11:37. [PMID: 30819252 PMCID: PMC6396524 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-019-0635-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Background Ambient air pollution is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood; epigenetic effects including altered DNA methylation could play a role. To evaluate associations of long-term air pollution exposure with DNA methylation in blood, we conducted an epigenome-wide association study in a Korean chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cohort (N = 100 including 60 cases) using Illumina’s Infinium HumanMethylation450K Beadchip. Annual average concentrations of particulate matter ≤ 10 μm in diameter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were estimated at participants’ residential addresses using exposure prediction models. We used robust linear regression to identify differentially methylated probes (DMPs) and two different approaches, DMRcate and comb-p, to identify differentially methylated regions (DMRs). Results After multiple testing correction (false discovery rate < 0.05), there were 12 DMPs and 27 DMRs associated with PM10 and 45 DMPs and 57 DMRs related to NO2. DMP cg06992688 (OTUB2) and several DMRs were associated with both exposures. Eleven DMPs in relation to NO2 confirmed previous findings in Europeans; the remainder were novel. Methylation levels of 39 DMPs were associated with expression levels of nearby genes in a separate dataset of 3075 individuals. Enriched networks were related to outcomes associated with air pollution including cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as inflammatory and immune responses. Conclusions This study provides evidence that long-term ambient air pollution exposure impacts DNA methylation. The differential methylation signals can serve as potential air pollution biomarkers. These results may help better understand the influences of ambient air pollution on human health. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13148-019-0635-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Mi Kyeong Lee
- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergy, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Environmental Health Center, Kangwon National University Hospital, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 24289, South Korea
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- Department of Cancer Control and Population Health, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang, 10408, South Korea.
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Environmental Health Center, Kangwon National University Hospital, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 24289, South Korea.
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- Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA.
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Cazaly E, Saad J, Wang W, Heckman C, Ollikainen M, Tang J. Making Sense of the Epigenome Using Data Integration Approaches. Front Pharmacol 2019; 10:126. [PMID: 30837884 PMCID: PMC6390500 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Epigenetic research involves examining the mitotically heritable processes that regulate gene expression, independent of changes in the DNA sequence. Recent technical advances such as whole-genome bisulfite sequencing and affordable epigenomic array-based technologies, allow researchers to measure epigenetic profiles of large cohorts at a genome-wide level, generating comprehensive high-dimensional datasets that may contain important information for disease development and treatment opportunities. The epigenomic profile for a certain disease is often a result of the complex interplay between multiple genetic and environmental factors, which poses an enormous challenge to visualize and interpret these data. Furthermore, due to the dynamic nature of the epigenome, it is critical to determine causal relationships from the many correlated associations. In this review we provide an overview of recent data analysis approaches to integrate various omics layers to understand epigenetic mechanisms of complex diseases, such as obesity and cancer. We discuss the following topics: (i) advantages and limitations of major epigenetic profiling techniques, (ii) resources for standardization, annotation and harmonization of epigenetic data, and (iii) statistical methods and machine learning methods for establishing data-driven hypotheses of key regulatory mechanisms. Finally, we discuss the future directions for data integration that shall facilitate the discovery of epigenetic-based biomarkers and therapies.
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- Emma Cazaly
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Research Program in Systems Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Reese SE, Xu CJ, den Dekker HT, Lee MK, Sikdar S, Ruiz-Arenas C, Merid SK, Rezwan FI, Page CM, Ullemar V, Melton PE, Oh SS, Yang IV, Burrows K, Söderhäll C, Jima DD, Gao L, Arathimos R, Küpers LK, Wielscher M, Rzehak P, Lahti J, Laprise C, Madore AM, Ward J, Bennett BD, Wang T, Bell DA, Vonk JM, Håberg SE, Zhao S, Karlsson R, Hollams E, Hu D, Richards AJ, Bergström A, Sharp GC, Felix JF, Bustamante M, Gruzieva O, Maguire RL, Gilliland F, Baïz N, Nohr EA, Corpeleijn E, Sebert S, Karmaus W, Grote V, Kajantie E, Magnus MC, Örtqvist AK, Eng C, Liu AH, Kull I, Jaddoe VWV, Sunyer J, Kere J, Hoyo C, Annesi-Maesano I, Arshad SH, Koletzko B, Brunekreef B, Binder EB, Räikkönen K, Reischl E, Holloway JW, Jarvelin MR, Snieder H, Kazmi N, Breton CV, Murphy SK, Pershagen G, Anto JM, Relton CL, Schwartz DA, Burchard EG, Huang RC, Nystad W, Almqvist C, Henderson AJ, Melén E, Duijts L, Koppelman GH, London SJ. Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of DNA methylation and childhood asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018; 143:2062-2074. [PMID: 30579849 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.11.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Epigenetic mechanisms, including methylation, can contribute to childhood asthma. Identifying DNA methylation profiles in asthmatic patients can inform disease pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify differential DNA methylation in newborns and children related to childhood asthma. METHODS Within the Pregnancy And Childhood Epigenetics consortium, we performed epigenome-wide meta-analyses of school-age asthma in relation to CpG methylation (Illumina450K) in blood measured either in newborns, in prospective analyses, or cross-sectionally in school-aged children. We also identified differentially methylated regions. RESULTS In newborns (8 cohorts, 668 cases), 9 CpGs (and 35 regions) were differentially methylated (epigenome-wide significance, false discovery rate < 0.05) in relation to asthma development. In a cross-sectional meta-analysis of asthma and methylation in children (9 cohorts, 631 cases), we identified 179 CpGs (false discovery rate < 0.05) and 36 differentially methylated regions. In replication studies of methylation in other tissues, most of the 179 CpGs discovered in blood replicated, despite smaller sample sizes, in studies of nasal respiratory epithelium or eosinophils. Pathway analyses highlighted enrichment for asthma-relevant immune processes and overlap in pathways enriched both in newborns and children. Gene expression correlated with methylation at most loci. Functional annotation supports a regulatory effect on gene expression at many asthma-associated CpGs. Several implicated genes are targets for approved or experimental drugs, including IL5RA and KCNH2. CONCLUSION Novel loci differentially methylated in newborns represent potential biomarkers of risk of asthma by school age. Cross-sectional associations in children can reflect both risk for and effects of disease. Asthma-related differential methylation in blood in children was substantially replicated in eosinophils and respiratory epithelium.
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- Sarah E Reese
- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Curtin/UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Saguenay, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada; Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
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- Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, IPLESP, INSERM and UPMC Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Research Unit for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Department of Genomics of Complex Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tenn
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sachs' Children's Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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- Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, IPLESP, INSERM and UPMC Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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- Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga; Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain; ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif; Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Sachs' Children's Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC.
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Boyle EA, Pritchard JK, Greenleaf WJ. High-resolution mapping of cancer cell networks using co-functional interactions. Mol Syst Biol 2018; 14:e8594. [PMID: 30573688 PMCID: PMC6300813 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20188594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Powerful new technologies for perturbing genetic elements have recently expanded the study of genetic interactions in model systems ranging from yeast to human cell lines. However, technical artifacts can confound signal across genetic screens and limit the immense potential of parallel screening approaches. To address this problem, we devised a novel PCA-based method for correcting genome-wide screening data, bolstering the sensitivity and specificity of detection for genetic interactions. Applying this strategy to a set of 436 whole genome CRISPR screens, we report more than 1.5 million pairs of correlated "co-functional" genes that provide finer-scale information about cell compartments, biological pathways, and protein complexes than traditional gene sets. Lastly, we employed a gene community detection approach to implicate core genes for cancer growth and compress signal from functionally related genes in the same community into a single score. This work establishes new algorithms for probing cancer cell networks and motivates the acquisition of further CRISPR screen data across diverse genotypes and cell types to further resolve complex cellular processes.
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- Evan A Boyle
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Identification of differentially methylated cell types in epigenome-wide association studies. Nat Methods 2018; 15:1059-1066. [PMID: 30504870 PMCID: PMC6277016 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-018-0213-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
An outstanding challenge of epigenome-wide association studies (EWASs) performed in complex tissues is the identification of the specific cell type(s) responsible for the observed differential DNA methylation. Here we present a statistical algorithm called CellDMC ( https://github.com/sjczheng/EpiDISH ), which can identify differentially methylated positions and the specific cell type(s) driving the differential methylation. We validated CellDMC on in silico mixtures of DNA methylation data generated with different technologies, as well as on real mixtures from epigenome-wide association and cancer epigenome studies. CellDMC achieved over 90% sensitivity and specificity in scenarios where current state-of-the-art methods did not identify differential methylation. By applying CellDMC to an EWAS performed in buccal swabs, we identified smoking-associated differentially methylated positions occurring in the epithelial compartment, which we validated in smoking-related lung cancer. CellDMC may be useful in the identification of causal DNA-methylation alterations in disease.
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van Dongen J, Ehli EA, Jansen R, van Beijsterveldt CEM, Willemsen G, Hottenga JJ, Kallsen NA, Peyton SA, Breeze CE, Kluft C, Heijmans BT, Bartels M, Davies GE, Boomsma DI. Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in buccal cells: a study of monozygotic twins and mQTLs. Epigenetics Chromatin 2018; 11:54. [PMID: 30253792 PMCID: PMC6156977 DOI: 10.1186/s13072-018-0225-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND DNA methylation arrays are widely used in epigenome-wide association studies and methylation quantitative trait locus (mQTL) studies. Here, we performed the first genome-wide analysis of monozygotic (MZ) twin correlations and mQTLs on data obtained with the Illumina MethylationEPIC BeadChip (EPIC array) and compared the performance of the EPIC array to the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (HM450 array) for buccal-derived DNA. RESULTS Good-quality EPIC data were obtained for 102 buccal-derived DNA samples from 49 MZ twin pairs (mean age = 7.5 years, range = 1-10). Differences between MZ twins in the cellular content of buccal swabs were a major driver for differences in their DNA methylation profiles, highlighting the importance to adjust for cellular composition in DNA methylation studies of buccal-derived DNA. After adjusting for cellular composition, the genome-wide mean correlation (r) between MZ twins was 0.21 for the EPIC array, and cis mQTL analysis in 84 twins identified 1,296,323 significant associations (FDR 5%), encompassing 33,749 methylation sites and 616,029 genetic variants. MZ twin correlations were slightly larger (p < 2.2 × 10-16) for novel EPIC probes (N = 383,066, mean r = 0.22) compared to probes that are also present on HM450 (N = 406,822, mean r = 0.20). In line with this observation, a larger percentage of novel EPIC probes was associated with genetic variants (novel EPIC probes with significant mQTL 4.7%, HM450 probes with mQTL 3.9%, p < 2.2 × 10-16). Methylation sites with a large MZ correlation and sites associated with mQTLs were most strongly enriched in epithelial cell DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs), enhancers, and histone mark H3K4me3. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that the contribution of familial factors to individual differences in DNA methylation and the effect of mQTLs are larger for novel EPIC probes, especially those within regulatory elements connected to active regions specific to the investigated tissue.
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- Jenny van Dongen
- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Der Boechorststraat 1, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Avera Institute for Human Genetics, 3720 W. 69th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57108 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Oldenaller 1, 1081 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Der Boechorststraat 1, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Der Boechorststraat 1, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Der Boechorststraat 1, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Avera Institute for Human Genetics, 3720 W. 69th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57108 USA
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- Avera Institute for Human Genetics, 3720 W. 69th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57108 USA
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- Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, 2211 Elliott Ave, Seattle, WA 98121 USA
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- Good Biomarker Sciences, Zernikedreef 8, 2333 CL Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Epidemiology Section, Leiden University Medical Center, Postal Zone S-05-P, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Der Boechorststraat 1, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Avera Institute for Human Genetics, 3720 W. 69th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57108 USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van Der Boechorststraat 1, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Dozmorov MG. Epigenomic annotation-based interpretation of genomic data: from enrichment analysis to machine learning. Bioinformatics 2018; 33:3323-3330. [PMID: 29028263 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Motivation One of the goals of functional genomics is to understand the regulatory implications of experimentally obtained genomic regions of interest (ROIs). Most sequencing technologies now generate ROIs distributed across the whole genome. The interpretation of these genome-wide ROIs represents a challenge as the majority of them lie outside of functionally well-defined protein coding regions. Recent efforts by the members of the International Human Epigenome Consortium have generated volumes of functional/regulatory data (reference epigenomic datasets), effectively annotating the genome with epigenomic properties. Consequently, a wide variety of computational tools has been developed utilizing these epigenomic datasets for the interpretation of genomic data. Results The purpose of this review is to provide a structured overview of practical solutions for the interpretation of ROIs with the help of epigenomic data. Starting with epigenomic enrichment analysis, we discuss leading tools and machine learning methods utilizing epigenomic and 3D genome structure data. The hierarchy of tools and methods reviewed here presents a practical guide for the interpretation of genome-wide ROIs within an epigenomic context. Contact mikhail.dozmorov@vcuhealth.org. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Mikhail G Dozmorov
- Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
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Mendelson MM, Johannes R, Liu C, Huan T, Yao C, Miao X, Murabito JM, Dupuis J, Levy D, Benjamin EJ, Lin H. Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 2 Levels in the Framingham Heart Study. Front Pharmacol 2018; 9:207. [PMID: 29740313 PMCID: PMC5928448 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2018] [Accepted: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background: Transmembrane tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptors are involved in inflammatory, apoptotic, and proliferative processes. In the bloodstream, soluble TNF receptor II (sTNFR2) can modify the inflammatory response of immune cells and is predictive of cardiovascular disease risk. We hypothesize that sTNFR2 is associated with epigenetic modifications of circulating leukocytes, which may relate to the pathophysiology underlying atherogenic risk. Methods: We conducted an epigenome-wide association study of sTNFR2 levels in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort (examination 8; 2005-2008). sTNFR2 was quantitated by enzyme immunoassay and DNA methylation by microarray. The concentration of sTNFR2 was loge-transformed and outliers were excluded. We conducted linear mixed effects models to test the association between sTNFR2 level and methylation at over 400,000 CpGs, adjusting for age, sex, BMI, smoking, imputed cell count, technical covariates, and accounting for familial relatedness. Results: The study sample included 2468 participants (mean age: 67 ± 9 years, 52% women, mean sTNFR2 level 2661 ± 1078 pg/ml). After accounting for multiple testing, we identified 168 CpGs (P < 1.2 × 10-7) that were differentially methylated in relation to sTNFR2. A substantial proportion (27 CpGs; 16%) are in the major histocompatibility complex region and in loci overrepresented for antigen binding molecular functions (P = 1.7 × 10-4) and antigen processing and presentation biological processes (P = 1.3 × 10-8). Identified CpGs are enriched in active regulatory regions and associated with expression of 48 cis-genes (±500 kb) in whole blood (P < 1.1 × 10-5) that coincide with genes identified in GWAS of diseases of immune dysregulation (inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes, IgA nephropathy). Conclusion: Differentially methylated loci in leukocytes associated with sTNF2 levels reside in active regulatory regions, are overrepresented in antigen processes, and are linked to inflammatory diseases.
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- Michael M Mendelson
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.,Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Section of Cardiovascular Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States.,Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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Bramsen JB, Rasmussen MH, Ongen H, Mattesen TB, Ørntoft MBW, Árnadóttir SS, Sandoval J, Laguna T, Vang S, Øster B, Lamy P, Madsen MR, Laurberg S, Esteller M, Dermitzakis ET, Ørntoft TF, Andersen CL. Molecular-Subtype-Specific Biomarkers Improve Prediction of Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer. Cell Rep 2018; 19:1268-1280. [PMID: 28494874 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.04.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Revised: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/16/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is characterized by major inter-tumor diversity that complicates the prediction of disease and treatment outcomes. Recent efforts help resolve this by sub-classification of CRC into natural molecular subtypes; however, this strategy is not yet able to provide clinicians with improved tools for decision making. We here present an extended framework for CRC stratification that specifically aims to improve patient prognostication. Using transcriptional profiles from 1,100 CRCs, including >300 previously unpublished samples, we identify cancer cell and tumor archetypes and suggest the tumor microenvironment as a major prognostic determinant that can be influenced by the microbiome. Notably, our subtyping strategy allowed identification of archetype-specific prognostic biomarkers that provided information beyond and independent of UICC-TNM staging, MSI status, and consensus molecular subtyping. The results illustrate that our extended subtyping framework, combining subtyping and subtype-specific biomarkers, could contribute to improved patient prognostication and may form a strong basis for future studies.
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva 1211, Switzerland; Institute for Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark
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- Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Barcelona 08908, Catalonia, Spain
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- Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Barcelona 08908, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark
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- Section of Coloproctology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
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- Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet, Barcelona 08908, Catalonia, Spain; Physiological Sciences Department, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08907, Catalonia, Spain; Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Barcelona 08010, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva 1211, Switzerland; Institute for Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark
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We developed a predictive, stable, and interpretable tool: the iterative random forest algorithm (iRF). iRF discovers high-order interactions among biomolecules with the same order of computational cost as random forests. We demonstrate the efficacy of iRF by finding known and promising interactions among biomolecules, of up to fifth and sixth order, in two data examples in transcriptional regulation and alternative splicing. Genomics has revolutionized biology, enabling the interrogation of whole transcriptomes, genome-wide binding sites for proteins, and many other molecular processes. However, individual genomic assays measure elements that interact in vivo as components of larger molecular machines. Understanding how these high-order interactions drive gene expression presents a substantial statistical challenge. Building on random forests (RFs) and random intersection trees (RITs) and through extensive, biologically inspired simulations, we developed the iterative random forest algorithm (iRF). iRF trains a feature-weighted ensemble of decision trees to detect stable, high-order interactions with the same order of computational cost as the RF. We demonstrate the utility of iRF for high-order interaction discovery in two prediction problems: enhancer activity in the early Drosophila embryo and alternative splicing of primary transcripts in human-derived cell lines. In Drosophila, among the 20 pairwise transcription factor interactions iRF identifies as stable (returned in more than half of bootstrap replicates), 80% have been previously reported as physical interactions. Moreover, third-order interactions, e.g., between Zelda (Zld), Giant (Gt), and Twist (Twi), suggest high-order relationships that are candidates for follow-up experiments. In human-derived cells, iRF rediscovered a central role of H3K36me3 in chromatin-mediated splicing regulation and identified interesting fifth- and sixth-order interactions, indicative of multivalent nucleosomes with specific roles in splicing regulation. By decoupling the order of interactions from the computational cost of identification, iRF opens additional avenues of inquiry into the molecular mechanisms underlying genome biology.
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Richard MA, Huan T, Ligthart S, Gondalia R, Jhun MA, Brody JA, Irvin MR, Marioni R, Shen J, Tsai PC, Montasser ME, Jia Y, Syme C, Salfati EL, Boerwinkle E, Guan W, Mosley TH, Bressler J, Morrison AC, Liu C, Mendelson MM, Uitterlinden AG, van Meurs JB, Franco OH, Zhang G, Li Y, Stewart JD, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Chen YDI, Kardia SLR, Zhao W, Turner ST, Absher D, Aslibekyan S, Starr JM, McRae AF, Hou L, Just AC, Schwartz JD, Vokonas PS, Menni C, Spector TD, Shuldiner A, Damcott CM, Rotter JI, Palmas W, Liu Y, Paus T, Horvath S, O'Connell JR, Guo X, Pausova Z, Assimes TL, Sotoodehnia N, Smith JA, Arnett DK, Deary IJ, Baccarelli AA, Bell JT, Whitsel E, Dehghan A, Levy D, Fornage M. DNA Methylation Analysis Identifies Loci for Blood Pressure Regulation. Am J Hum Genet 2017; 101:888-902. [PMID: 29198723 PMCID: PMC5812919 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with blood pressure (BP), but sequence variation accounts for a small fraction of the phenotypic variance. Epigenetic changes may alter the expression of genes involved in BP regulation and explain part of the missing heritability. We therefore conducted a two-stage meta-analysis of the cross-sectional associations of systolic and diastolic BP with blood-derived genome-wide DNA methylation measured on the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip in 17,010 individuals of European, African American, and Hispanic ancestry. Of 31 discovery-stage cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) dinucleotides, 13 replicated after Bonferroni correction (discovery: N = 9,828, p < 1.0 × 10-7; replication: N = 7,182, p < 1.6 × 10-3). The replicated methylation sites are heritable (h2 > 30%) and independent of known BP genetic variants, explaining an additional 1.4% and 2.0% of the interindividual variation in systolic and diastolic BP, respectively. Bidirectional Mendelian randomization among up to 4,513 individuals of European ancestry from 4 cohorts suggested that methylation at cg08035323 (TAF1B-YWHAQ) influences BP, while BP influences methylation at cg00533891 (ZMIZ1), cg00574958 (CPT1A), and cg02711608 (SLC1A5). Gene expression analyses further identified six genes (TSPAN2, SLC7A11, UNC93B1, CPT1A, PTMS, and LPCAT3) with evidence of triangular associations between methylation, gene expression, and BP. Additional integrative Mendelian randomization analyses of gene expression and DNA methylation suggested that the expression of TSPAN2 is a putative mediator of association between DNA methylation at cg23999170 and BP. These findings suggest that heritable DNA methylation plays a role in regulating BP independently of previously known genetic variants.
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- Melissa A Richard
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, SE17EH London, UK
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000, the Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Unit, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, SE17EH London, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, SE17EH London, UK
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; The Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada; Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON M6A 2E1, Canada; Child Mind Institute, New York, NY 10022, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Gonda Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Departments of Physiology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40563, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 8JZ, UK
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London, SE17EH London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000, the Netherlands; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Statistical and integrative system-level analysis of DNA methylation data. Nat Rev Genet 2017; 19:129-147. [PMID: 29129922 DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2017.86] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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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 factors on complex disease. Currently, DNA methylation is the only epigenetic mark that can be measured reliably and genome-wide in large numbers of samples. This Review discusses some of the key statistical challenges and algorithms associated with drawing inferences from DNA methylation data, including cell-type heterogeneity, feature selection, reverse causation and system-level analyses that require integration with other data types such as gene expression, genotype, transcription factor binding and other epigenetic information.
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Smoking induces DNA methylation changes in Multiple Sclerosis patients with exposure-response relationship. Sci Rep 2017; 7:14589. [PMID: 29109506 PMCID: PMC5674007 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14788-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Cigarette smoking is an established environmental risk factor for Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease, although a mechanistic basis remains largely unknown. We aimed at investigating how smoking affects blood DNA methylation in MS patients, by assaying genome-wide DNA methylation and comparing smokers, former smokers and never smokers in two Swedish cohorts, differing for known MS risk factors. Smoking affects DNA methylation genome-wide significantly, an exposure-response relationship exists and the time since smoking cessation affects methylation levels. The results also show that the changes were larger in the cohort bearing the major genetic risk factors for MS (female sex and HLA risk haplotypes). Furthermore, CpG sites mapping to genes with known genetic or functional role in the disease are differentially methylated by smoking. Modeling of the methylation levels for a CpG site in the AHRR gene indicates that MS modifies the effect of smoking on methylation changes, by significantly interacting with the effect of smoking load. Alongside, we report that the gene expression of AHRR increased in MS patients after smoking. Our results suggest that epigenetic modifications may reveal the link between a modifiable risk factor and the pathogenetic mechanisms.
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Chu AY, Tin A, Schlosser P, Ko YA, Qiu C, Yao C, Joehanes R, Grams ME, Liang L, Gluck CA, Liu C, Coresh J, Hwang SJ, Levy D, Boerwinkle E, Pankow JS, Yang Q, Fornage M, Fox CS, Susztak K, Köttgen A. Epigenome-wide association studies identify DNA methylation associated with kidney function. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1286. [PMID: 29097680 PMCID: PMC5668367 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01297-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined by reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Previous genetic studies have implicated regulatory mechanisms contributing to CKD. Here we present epigenome-wide association studies of eGFR and CKD using whole-blood DNA methylation of 2264 ARIC Study and 2595 Framingham Heart Study participants to identify epigenetic signatures of kidney function. Of 19 CpG sites significantly associated (P < 1e-07) with eGFR/CKD and replicated, five also associate with renal fibrosis in biopsies from CKD patients and show concordant DNA methylation changes in kidney cortex. Lead CpGs at PTPN6/PHB2, ANKRD11, and TNRC18 map to active enhancers in kidney cortex. At PTPN6/PHB2 cg19942083, methylation in kidney cortex associates with lower renal PTPN6 expression, higher eGFR, and less renal fibrosis. The regions containing the 243 eGFR-associated (P < 1e-05) CpGs are significantly enriched for transcription factor binding sites of EBF1, EP300, and CEBPB (P < 5e-6). Our findings highlight kidney function associated epigenetic variation. Genome-wide association studies of kidney function show enrichment of associated genetic variants in regulatory regions. Here, the authors perform epigenome-wide association studies of kidney function and disease, identifying 19 CpG sites significantly associated with these.
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- Audrey Y Chu
- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center-University of Freiburg, 79106, Freiburg, Germany
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- Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA.,Institute of Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, MA, 02131, USA.,Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
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- NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.,NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. .,Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center-University of Freiburg, 79106, Freiburg, Germany.
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Bell CG. The Epigenomic Analysis of Human Obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2017; 25:1471-1481. [PMID: 28845613 DOI: 10.1002/oby.21909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Analysis of the epigenome-the chemical modifications and packaging of the genome that can influence or indicate its activity-enables molecular insight into cell type-specific machinery. It can, therefore, reveal the pathophysiological mechanisms at work in disease. Detected changes can also represent physiological responses to adverse environmental exposures, thus enabling the epigenetic mark of DNA methylation to act as an epidemiological biomarker, even in surrogate tissue. This makes epigenomic analysis an attractive prospect to further understand the pathobiology and epidemiological aspects of obesity. Furthermore, integrating epigenomic data with known obesity-associated common genetic variation can aid in deciphering their molecular mechanisms. METHODS AND CONCLUSIONS This review primarily examines epidemiological or population-based studies of epigenetic modifications in relation to adiposity traits, as opposed to animal or cell models. It discusses recent work exploring the epigenome with respect to human obesity, which to date has predominately consisted of array-based studies of DNA methylation in peripheral blood. It is of note that highly replicated BMI DNA methylation associations are not causal, but strongly driven by coassociations for more precisely measured intertwined outcomes and factors, such as hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, and inflammation. Finally, the potential for the future exploration of the epigenome in obesity and related disorders is considered.
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- Christopher G Bell
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Epigenomic Medicine, Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Natural Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Human Development and Health Academic Unit, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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Nair N, Wilson AG, Barton A. DNA methylation as a marker of response in rheumatoid arthritis. Pharmacogenomics 2017; 18:1323-1332. [PMID: 28836487 DOI: 10.2217/pgs-2016-0195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex disease affecting approximately 0.5-1% of the population. While there are effective biologic therapies, in up to 40% of patients, disease activity remains inadequately controlled. Therefore, identifying factors that predict, prior to the initiation of therapy, which patients are likely to respond best to which treatment is a research priority and DNA methylation is increasingly being explored as a potential theranostic biomarker. DNA methylation is thought to play a role in RA disease pathogenesis and in mediating the relationship between genetic variants and patient outcomes. The role of DNA methylation has been most extensively explored in cancer medicine, where it has been shown to be predictive of treatment response. Studies in RA, however, are in their infancy and, while showing promise, further investigation in well-powered studies is warranted.
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- Nisha Nair
- Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics & Genomics, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- University College Dublin School of Medicine & Medical Science & Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland
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- Arthritis Research UK Centre for Genetics & Genomics, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.,NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal BRU, Central Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester, UK
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Holbrook JD, Huang RC, Barton SJ, Saffery R, Lillycrop KA. Is cellular heterogeneity merely a confounder to be removed from epigenome-wide association studies? Epigenomics 2017; 9:1143-1150. [DOI: 10.2217/epi-2017-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Excitement about DNA methylation biomarkers has been tempered by a growing appreciation of the complex causal relations with cell fate. Intersample differences in DNA methylation can be partitioned into those that are independent of cellular heterogeneity and those that are caused by differential mixtures of cell types. Generally, the field has assumed that the former are more likely to be causative of disease. The latter has been considered a likely consequence of disease and a confounder to be removed. We argue that the conceptual separation of these signals is artificial and not necessarily informative about causation. DNA methylation is a very sensitive measure of cell fate mix and therefore reveals much about underlying disease etiology including aspects of causation.
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- Joanna D Holbrook
- Human Development & Health Academic Unit, University of Southampton & NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton & University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
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- Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Cancer & Disease Epigenetics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Human Development & Health Academic Unit, University of Southampton & NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton & University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
- Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
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Fruit and Juice Epigenetic Signatures Are Associated with Independent Immunoregulatory Pathways. Nutrients 2017; 9:nu9070752. [PMID: 28708104 PMCID: PMC5537866 DOI: 10.3390/nu9070752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 06/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Epidemiological evidence strongly suggests that fruit consumption promotes many health benefits. Despite the general consensus that fruit and juice are nutritionally similar, epidemiological results for juice consumption are conflicting. Our objective was to use DNA methylation marks to characterize fruit and juice epigenetic signatures within PBMCs and identify shared and independent signatures associated with these groups. Genome-wide DNA methylation marks (Illumina Human Methylation 450k chip) for 2,148 individuals that participated in the Framingham Offspring exam 8 were analyzed for correlations between fruit or juice consumption using standard linear regression. CpG sites with low P-values (P < 0.01) were characterized using Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA), and epigenetic Functional element Overlap analysis of the Results of Genome Wide Association Study Experiments (eFORGE). Fruit and juice-specific low P-value epigenetic signatures were largely independent. Genes near the fruit-specific epigenetic signature were enriched among pathways associated with antigen presentation and chromosome or telomere maintenance, while the juice-specific epigenetic signature was enriched for proinflammatory pathways. IPA and eFORGE analyses implicate fruit and juice-specific epigenetic signatures in the modulation of macrophage (fruit) and B or T cell (juice) activities. These data suggest a role for epigenetic regulation in fruit and juice-specific health benefits and demonstrate independent associations with distinct immune functions and cell types, suggesting that these groups may not confer the same health benefits. Identification of such differences between foods is the first step toward personalized nutrition and ultimately the improvement of human health and longevity.
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Normal breast tissue DNA methylation differences at regulatory elements are associated with the cancer risk factor age. Breast Cancer Res 2017; 19:81. [PMID: 28693600 PMCID: PMC5504720 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-017-0873-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The underlying biological mechanisms through which epidemiologically defined breast cancer risk factors contribute to disease risk remain poorly understood. Identification of the molecular changes associated with cancer risk factors in normal tissues may aid in determining the earliest events of carcinogenesis and informing cancer prevention strategies. METHODS Here we investigated the impact cancer risk factors have on the normal breast epigenome by analyzing DNA methylation genome-wide (Infinium 450 K array) in cancer-free women from the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank (n = 100). We tested the relation of established breast cancer risk factors, age, body mass index, parity, and family history of disease, with DNA methylation adjusting for potential variation in cell-type proportions. RESULTS We identified 787 cytosine-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) sites that demonstrated significant associations (Q value <0.01) with subject age. Notably, DNA methylation was not strongly associated with the other evaluated breast cancer risk factors. Age-related DNA methylation changes are primarily increases in methylation enriched at breast epithelial cell enhancer regions (P = 7.1E-20), and binding sites of chromatin remodelers (MYC and CTCF). We validated the age-related associations in two independent populations, using normal breast tissue samples (n = 18) and samples of normal tissue adjacent to tumor tissue (n = 97). The genomic regions classified as age-related were more likely to be regions altered in both pre-invasive (n = 40, P = 3.0E-03) and invasive breast tumors (n = 731, P = 1.1E-13). CONCLUSIONS DNA methylation changes with age occur at regulatory regions, and are further exacerbated in cancer, suggesting that age influences breast cancer risk in part through its contribution to epigenetic dysregulation in normal breast tissue.
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The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery. Cell 2017; 167:1145-1149. [PMID: 27863232 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) coordinates the generation of a catalog of high-resolution reference epigenomes of major primary human cell types. The studies now presented (see the Cell Press IHEC web portal at http://www.cell.com/consortium/IHEC) highlight the coordinated achievements of IHEC teams to gather and interpret comprehensive epigenomic datasets to gain insights in the epigenetic control of cell states relevant for human health and disease. PAPERCLIP.
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Khyzha N, Alizada A, Wilson MD, Fish JE. Epigenetics of Atherosclerosis: Emerging Mechanisms and Methods. Trends Mol Med 2017; 23:332-347. [PMID: 28291707 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Revised: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Atherosclerosis is a vascular pathology characterized by inflammation and plaque build-up within arterial vessel walls. Vessel occlusion, often occurring after plaque rupture, can result in myocardial and cerebral infarction. Epigenetic changes are increasingly being associated with atherosclerosis and are of interest from both therapeutic and biomarker perspectives. Emerging genomic approaches that profile DNA methylation, chromatin accessibility, post-translational histone modifications, transcription factor binding, and RNA expression in low or single cell populations are poised to enhance our spatiotemporal understanding of atherogenesis. Here, we review recent therapeutically relevant epigenetic discoveries and emerging technologies that may generate new opportunities for atherosclerosis research.
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- Nadiya Khyzha
- Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, Toronto, Canada
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- Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, Toronto, Canada; Genetics and Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, Toronto, Canada; Genetics and Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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- Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Heart & Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, Toronto, Canada.
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Li Y, Xu Q, Lv N, Wang L, Zhao H, Wang X, Guo J, Chen C, Li Y, Yu L. Clinical implications of genome-wide DNA methylation studies in acute myeloid leukemia. J Hematol Oncol 2017; 10:41. [PMID: 28153026 PMCID: PMC5290606 DOI: 10.1186/s13045-017-0409-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 01/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults. AML is a heterogeneous malignancy characterized by distinct genetic and epigenetic abnormalities. Recent genome-wide DNA methylation studies have highlighted an important role of dysregulated methylation signature in AML from biological and clinical standpoint. In this review, we will outline the recent advances in the methylome study of AML and overview the impacts of DNA methylation on AML diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
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- Yan Li
- Department of Hematology and BMT center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China.,Department of Hematology, Hainan Branch of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, 572013, Hainan Province, China
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- Department of Hematology and BMT center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China.,Medical school of Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- Department of Hematology and BMT center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China
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- Department of Hematology and BMT center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China
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- Annoroad Gene Technology Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100176, China
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- Annoroad Gene Technology Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100176, China
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- Annoroad Gene Technology Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100176, China
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- Annoroad Gene Technology Co. Ltd, Beijing, 100176, China
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- Department of Hematology and BMT center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China
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- Department of Hematology and BMT center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China.
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Rodger EJ, Chatterjee A. The epigenomic basis of common diseases. Clin Epigenetics 2017; 9:5. [PMID: 28149333 PMCID: PMC5270348 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-017-0313-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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A report of the 6th Epigenomics of Common Diseases Conference held at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, on 1-4 November 2016.
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- Euan J. Rodger
- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Hanover Street, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Level 2, 3A Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Hanover Street, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054 New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Level 2, 3A Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand
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Mendelson MM, Marioni RE, Joehanes R, Liu C, Hedman ÅK, Aslibekyan S, Demerath EW, Guan W, Zhi D, Yao C, Huan T, Willinger C, Chen B, Courchesne P, Multhaup M, Irvin MR, Cohain A, Schadt EE, Grove ML, Bressler J, North K, Sundström J, Gustafsson S, Shah S, McRae AF, Harris SE, Gibson J, Redmond P, Corley J, Murphy L, Starr JM, Kleinbrink E, Lipovich L, Visscher PM, Wray NR, Krauss RM, Fallin D, Feinberg A, Absher DM, Fornage M, Pankow JS, Lind L, Fox C, Ingelsson E, Arnett DK, Boerwinkle E, Liang L, Levy D, Deary IJ. Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach. PLoS Med 2017; 14:e1002215. [PMID: 28095459 PMCID: PMC5240936 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The link between DNA methylation, obesity, and adiposity-related diseases in the general population remains uncertain. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted an association study of body mass index (BMI) and differential methylation for over 400,000 CpGs assayed by microarray in whole-blood-derived DNA from 3,743 participants in the Framingham Heart Study and the Lothian Birth Cohorts, with independent replication in three external cohorts of 4,055 participants. We examined variations in whole blood gene expression and conducted Mendelian randomization analyses to investigate the functional and clinical relevance of the findings. We identified novel and previously reported BMI-related differential methylation at 83 CpGs that replicated across cohorts; BMI-related differential methylation was associated with concurrent changes in the expression of genes in lipid metabolism pathways. Genetic instrumental variable analysis of alterations in methylation at one of the 83 replicated CpGs, cg11024682 (intronic to sterol regulatory element binding transcription factor 1 [SREBF1]), demonstrated links to BMI, adiposity-related traits, and coronary artery disease. Independent genetic instruments for expression of SREBF1 supported the findings linking methylation to adiposity and cardiometabolic disease. Methylation at a substantial proportion (16 of 83) of the identified loci was found to be secondary to differences in BMI. However, the cross-sectional nature of the data limits definitive causal determination. CONCLUSIONS We present robust associations of BMI with differential DNA methylation at numerous loci in blood cells. BMI-related DNA methylation and gene expression provide mechanistic insights into the relationship between DNA methylation, obesity, and adiposity-related diseases.
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- Michael M. Mendelson
- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics and Department of Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics and Department of Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America
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- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- * E-mail:
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Ligthart S, Marzi C, Aslibekyan S, Mendelson MM, Conneely KN, Tanaka T, Colicino E, Waite LL, Joehanes R, Guan W, Brody JA, Elks C, Marioni R, Jhun MA, Agha G, Bressler J, Ward-Caviness CK, Chen BH, Huan T, Bakulski K, Salfati EL, Fiorito G, Wahl S, Schramm K, Sha J, Hernandez DG, Just AC, Smith JA, Sotoodehnia N, Pilling LC, Pankow JS, Tsao PS, Liu C, Zhao W, Guarrera S, Michopoulos VJ, Smith AK, Peters MJ, Melzer D, Vokonas P, Fornage M, Prokisch H, Bis JC, Chu AY, Herder C, Grallert H, Yao C, Shah S, McRae AF, Lin H, Horvath S, Fallin D, Hofman A, Wareham NJ, Wiggins KL, Feinberg AP, Starr JM, Visscher PM, Murabito JM, Kardia SLR, Absher DM, Binder EB, Singleton AB, Bandinelli S, Peters A, Waldenberger M, Matullo G, Schwartz JD, Demerath EW, Uitterlinden AG, van Meurs JBJ, Franco OH, Chen YDI, Levy D, Turner ST, Deary IJ, Ressler KJ, Dupuis J, Ferrucci L, Ong KK, Assimes TL, Boerwinkle E, Koenig W, Arnett DK, Baccarelli AA, Benjamin EJ, Dehghan A. DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases. Genome Biol 2016; 17:255. [PMID: 27955697 PMCID: PMC5151130 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1119-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Chronic low-grade inflammation reflects a subclinical immune response implicated in the pathogenesis of complex diseases. Identifying genetic loci where DNA methylation is associated with chronic low-grade inflammation may reveal novel pathways or therapeutic targets for inflammation. RESULTS We performed a meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) of serum C-reactive protein (CRP), which is a sensitive marker of low-grade inflammation, in a large European population (n = 8863) and trans-ethnic replication in African Americans (n = 4111). We found differential methylation at 218 CpG sites to be associated with CRP (P < 1.15 × 10-7) in the discovery panel of European ancestry and replicated (P < 2.29 × 10-4) 58 CpG sites (45 unique loci) among African Americans. To further characterize the molecular and clinical relevance of the findings, we examined the association with gene expression, genetic sequence variants, and clinical outcomes. DNA methylation at nine (16%) CpG sites was associated with whole blood gene expression in cis (P < 8.47 × 10-5), ten (17%) CpG sites were associated with a nearby genetic variant (P < 2.50 × 10-3), and 51 (88%) were also associated with at least one related cardiometabolic entity (P < 9.58 × 10-5). An additive weighted score of replicated CpG sites accounted for up to 6% inter-individual variation (R2) of age-adjusted and sex-adjusted CRP, independent of known CRP-related genetic variants. CONCLUSION We have completed an EWAS of chronic low-grade inflammation and identified many novel genetic loci underlying inflammation that may serve as targets for the development of novel therapeutic interventions for inflammation.
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- Symen Ligthart
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Partner Munich, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber, Germany
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Translational Gerontology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Human Genetics Foundation, Torino, Italy.,Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Partner Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, München, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Building Level 3 Research, Exeter, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.,VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Human Genetics Foundation, Torino, Italy.,Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Exeter Medical School, RILD Building Level 3 Research, Exeter, UK
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- VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, München, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), München-Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber, Germany.,German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Partner Munich, Germany
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- UCLA, Department of Human Genetics, Gonda Research Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.,University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.,Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherber, Germany
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- Human Genetics Foundation, Torino, Italy.,Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,Medical Genetics Section, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.,Division of Depression & Anxiety Disorders, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine II-Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.,Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.,DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Boston University and the NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. .,Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Abstract
Coupling chromosome conformation capture to molecular enrichment for promoter-containing DNA fragments enables the systematic mapping of interactions between individual distal regulatory sequences and their target genes. In this Minireview, we describe recent progress in the application of this technique and related complementary approaches to gain insight into the lineage- and cell-type-specific dynamics of interactions between regulators and gene promoters.
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- Cailyn H Spurrell
- MS 84-171, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- MS 84-171, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- MS 84-171, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA; School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA.
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Bujold D, Morais DADL, Gauthier C, Côté C, Caron M, Kwan T, Chen KC, Laperle J, Markovits AN, Pastinen T, Caron B, Veilleux A, Jacques PÉ, Bourque G. The International Human Epigenome Consortium Data Portal. Cell Syst 2016; 3:496-499.e2. [PMID: 27863956 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Revised: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) coordinates the production of reference epigenome maps through the characterization of the regulome, methylome, and transcriptome from a wide range of tissues and cell types. To define conventions ensuring the compatibility of datasets and establish an infrastructure enabling data integration, analysis, and sharing, we developed the IHEC Data Portal (http://epigenomesportal.ca/ihec). The portal provides access to >7,000 reference epigenomic datasets, generated from >600 tissues, which have been contributed by seven international consortia: ENCODE, NIH Roadmap, CEEHRC, Blueprint, DEEP, AMED-CREST, and KNIH. The portal enhances the utility of these reference maps by facilitating the discovery, visualization, analysis, download, and sharing of epigenomics data. The IHEC Data Portal is the official source to navigate through IHEC datasets and represents a strategy for unifying the distributed data produced by international research consortia.
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- David Bujold
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- Centre de Calcul Scientifique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- McGill High Performance Computing Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
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- Département d'Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada; Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- McGill High Performance Computing Centre, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
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- Centre de Calcul Scientifique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Centre de Calcul Scientifique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada; Département d'Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada; Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada; Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada
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- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada; Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada.
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