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Madrid A, Papale LA, Bergmann PE, Breen C, Clark LR, Asthana S, Johnson SC, Keleş S, Hogan KJ, Alisch RS. Whole genome methylation sequencing in blood from persons with mild cognitive impairment and dementia due to Alzheimer's disease identifies cognitive status. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.09.26.615196. [PMID: 39386499 PMCID: PMC11463426 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.26.615196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/12/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Whole genome methylation sequencing (WGMS) in blood identifies differential DNA methylation in persons with late-onset dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) but has not been tested in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). METHODS We used WGMS to compare DNA methylation levels at 25,244,219 CpG loci in 382 blood samples from 99 persons with MCI, 109 with AD, and 174 who are cognitively unimpaired (CU). RESULTS WGMS identified 9,756 differentially methylated positions (DMPs) in persons with MCI, including 1,743 differentially methylated genes encoding proteins in biological pathways related to synapse organization, dendrite development, and ion transport. 447 DMPs exhibit progressively increasing or decreasing DNA methylation levels between CU, MCI, and AD that correspond to cognitive status. DISCUSSION WGMS identifies DMPs in known and newly detected genes in blood from persons with MCI and AD that support blood DNA methylation levels as candidate biomarkers of cognitive status.
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- Andy Madrid
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave Room 1220, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
- Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
- Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave Room 1220, Madison, WI 53706 USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA
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Balnis J, Madrid A, Drake LA, Vancavage R, Tiwari A, Patel VJ, Ramos RB, Schwarz JJ, Yucel R, Singer HA, Alisch RS, Jaitovich A. Blood DNA methylation in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC): a prospective cohort study. EBioMedicine 2024; 106:105251. [PMID: 39024897 PMCID: PMC11286994 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2024] [Revised: 07/02/2024] [Accepted: 07/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND DNA methylation integrates environmental signals with transcriptional programs. COVID-19 infection induces changes in the host methylome. While post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is a long-term complication of acute illness, its association with DNA methylation is unknown. No universal blood marker of PASC, superseding single organ dysfunctions, has yet been identified. METHODS In this single centre prospective cohort study, PASC, post-COVID without PASC, and healthy participants were enrolled to investigate their symptoms association with peripheral blood DNA methylation data generated with state-of-the-art whole genome sequencing. PASC-induced quality-of-life deterioration was scored with a validated instrument, SF-36. Analyses were conducted to identify potential functional roles of differentially methylated loci, and machine learning algorithms were used to resolve PASC severity. FINDINGS 103 patients with PASC (22.3% male, 77.7% female), 15 patients with previous COVID-19 infection but no PASC (40.0% male, 60.0% female), and 27 healthy volunteers (48.1% male, 51.9% female) were enrolled. Whole genome methylation sequencing revealed 39 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) specific to PASC, each harbouring an average of 15 consecutive positions, that differentiate patients with PASC from the two control groups. Motif analyses of PASC-regulated DMRs identify binding domains for transcription factors regulating circadian rhythm and others. Some DMRs annotated to protein coding genes were associated with changes of RNA expression. Machine learning support vector algorithm and random forest hierarchical clustering reveal 28 unique differentially methylated positions (DMPs) in the genome discriminating patients with better and worse quality of life. INTERPRETATION Blood DNA methylation levels identify PASC, stratify PASC severity, and suggest that DNA motifs are targeted by circadian rhythm-regulating pathways in PASC. FUNDING This project has been funded by the following agencies: NIH-AI173035 (A. Jaitovich and R. Alisch); and NIH-AG066179 (R. Alisch).
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- Joseph Balnis
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Temple University, PA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA.
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Zhou W, Johnson BK, Morrison J, Beddows I, Eapen J, Katsman E, Semwal A, Habib W, Heo L, Laird P, Berman B, Triche T, Shen H. BISCUIT: an efficient, standards-compliant tool suite for simultaneous genetic and epigenetic inference in bulk and single-cell studies. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:e32. [PMID: 38412294 PMCID: PMC11014253 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
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Data from both bulk and single-cell whole-genome DNA methylation experiments are under-utilized in many ways. This is attributable to inefficient mapping of methylation sequencing reads, routinely discarded genetic information, and neglected read-level epigenetic and genetic linkage information. We introduce the BISulfite-seq Command line User Interface Toolkit (BISCUIT) and its companion R/Bioconductor package, biscuiteer, for simultaneous extraction of genetic and epigenetic information from bulk and single-cell DNA methylation sequencing. BISCUIT's performance, flexibility and standards-compliant output allow large, complex experimental designs to be characterized on clinical timescales. BISCUIT is particularly suited for processing data from single-cell DNA methylation assays, with its excellent scalability, efficiency, and ability to greatly enhance mappability, a key challenge for single-cell studies. We also introduce the epiBED format for single-molecule analysis of coupled epigenetic and genetic information, facilitating the study of cellular and tissue heterogeneity from DNA methylation sequencing.
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- Wanding Zhou
- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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Ferro dos Santos MR, Giuili E, De Koker A, Everaert C, De Preter K. Computational deconvolution of DNA methylation data from mixed DNA samples. Brief Bioinform 2024; 25:bbae234. [PMID: 38762790 PMCID: PMC11102637 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2024] [Revised: 03/30/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/20/2024] Open
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In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the different computational tools that have been published for the deconvolution of bulk DNA methylation (DNAm) data. Here, deconvolution refers to the estimation of cell-type proportions that constitute a mixed sample. The paper reviews and compares 25 deconvolution methods (supervised, unsupervised or hybrid) developed between 2012 and 2023 and compares the strengths and limitations of each approach. Moreover, in this study, we describe the impact of the platform used for the generation of methylation data (including microarrays and sequencing), the applied data pre-processing steps and the used reference dataset on the deconvolution performance. Next to reference-based methods, we also examine methods that require only partial reference datasets or require no reference set at all. In this review, we provide guidelines for the use of specific methods dependent on the DNA methylation data type and data availability.
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- Maísa R Ferro dos Santos
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology (CMB), Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology (CMB), Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology (CMB), Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology (CMB), Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology (CMB), Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Garmire LX, Li Y, Huang Q, Xu C, Teichmann SA, Kaminski N, Pellegrini M, Nguyen Q, Teschendorff AE. Challenges and perspectives in computational deconvolution of genomics data. Nat Methods 2024; 21:391-400. [PMID: 38374264 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02166-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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Deciphering cell-type heterogeneity is crucial for systematically understanding tissue homeostasis and its dysregulation in diseases. Computational deconvolution is an efficient approach for estimating cell-type abundances from a variety of omics data. Despite substantial methodological progress in computational deconvolution in recent years, challenges are still outstanding. Here we enlist four important challenges related to computational deconvolution: the quality of the reference data, generation of ground truth data, limitations of computational methodologies, and benchmarking design and implementation. Finally, we make recommendations on reference data generation, new directions of computational methodologies, and strategies to promote rigorous benchmarking.
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- Lana X Garmire
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK
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Breen C, Papale LA, Clark LR, Bergmann PE, Madrid A, Asthana S, Johnson SC, Keleş S, Alisch RS, Hogan KJ. Whole genome methylation sequencing in blood identifies extensive differential DNA methylation in late-onset dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20:1050-1062. [PMID: 37856321 PMCID: PMC10916976 DOI: 10.1002/alz.13514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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INTRODUCTION DNA microarray-based studies report differentially methylated positions (DMPs) in blood between late-onset dementia due to Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitively unimpaired individuals, but interrogate < 4% of the genome. METHODS We used whole genome methylation sequencing (WGMS) to quantify DNA methylation levels at 25,409,826 CpG loci in 281 blood samples from 108 AD and 173 cognitively unimpaired individuals. RESULTS WGMS identified 28,038 DMPs throughout the human methylome, including 2707 differentially methylated genes (e.g., SORCS3, GABA, and PICALM) encoding proteins in biological pathways relevant to AD such as synaptic membrane, cation channel complex, and glutamatergic synapse. One hundred seventy-three differentially methylated blood-specific enhancers interact with the promoters of 95 genes that are differentially expressed in blood from persons with and without AD. DISCUSSION WGMS identifies differentially methylated CpGs in known and newly detected genes and enhancers in blood from persons with and without AD. HIGHLIGHTS Whole genome DNA methylation levels were quantified in blood from persons with and without Alzheimer's disease (AD). Twenty-eight thousand thirty-eight differentially methylated positions (DMPs) were identified. Two thousand seven hundred seven genes comprise DMPs. Forty-eight of 75 independent genetic risk loci for AD have DMPs. One thousand five hundred sixty-eight blood-specific enhancers comprise DMPs, 173 of which interact with the promoters of 95 genes that are differentially expressed in blood from persons with and without AD.
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- Coleman Breen
- Department of StatisticsUniversity of Wisconsin, Medical Sciences CenterMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Department of Neurological SurgeryUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical CenterWilliam S. Middleton Memorial Veterans HospitalMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Department of Neurological SurgeryUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Department of Neurological SurgeryUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical CenterWilliam S. Middleton Memorial Veterans HospitalMadisonWisconsinUSA
- Wisconsin Alzheimer's InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical CenterWilliam S. Middleton Memorial Veterans HospitalMadisonWisconsinUSA
- Wisconsin Alzheimer's InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Department of StatisticsUniversity of Wisconsin, Medical Sciences CenterMadisonWisconsinUSA
- Department of Biostatistics and Medical InformaticsUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Department of Neurological SurgeryUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer's InstituteUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
- Department of AnesthesiologyUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMadisonWisconsinUSA
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Jeong Y, de Andrade e Sousa LB, Thalmeier D, Toth R, Ganslmeier M, Breuer K, Plass C, Lutsik P. Systematic evaluation of cell-type deconvolution pipelines for sequencing-based bulk DNA methylomes. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:bbac248. [PMID: 35794707 PMCID: PMC9294431 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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DNA methylation analysis by sequencing is becoming increasingly popular, yielding methylomes at single-base pair and single-molecule resolution. It has tremendous potential for cell-type heterogeneity analysis using intrinsic read-level information. Although diverse deconvolution methods were developed to infer cell-type composition based on bulk sequencing-based methylomes, systematic evaluation has not been performed yet. Here, we thoroughly benchmark six previously published methods: Bayesian epiallele detection, DXM, PRISM, csmFinder+coMethy, ClubCpG and MethylPurify, together with two array-based methods, MeDeCom and Houseman, as a comparison group. Sequencing-based deconvolution methods consist of two main steps, informative region selection and cell-type composition estimation, thus each was individually assessed. With this elaborate evaluation, we aimed to establish which method achieves the highest performance in different scenarios of synthetic bulk samples. We found that cell-type deconvolution performance is influenced by different factors depending on the number of cell types within the mixture. Finally, we propose a best-practice deconvolution strategy for sequencing data and point out limitations that need to be handled. Array-based methods-both reference-based and reference-free-generally outperformed sequencing-based methods, despite the absence of read-level information. This implies that the current sequencing-based methods still struggle with correctly identifying cell-type-specific signals and eliminating confounding methylation patterns, which needs to be handled in future studies.
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- Yunhee Jeong
- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter Landstraβ e 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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Jiang H, Yang X, Mi M, Wei X, Wu H, Xin Y, Jiao L, Sun S, Sun C. Development and performance evaluation of TaqMan real-time fluorescence quantitative methylation specific PCR for detecting methylation level of PER2. Mol Biol Rep 2021; 49:2097-2105. [PMID: 34854010 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-021-07027-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND PER2 gene methylation is closely related to the occurrence and progress of some cancers, but there is no method to quantitatively detect PER2 methylation in conventional laboratories. So, we established a TaqMan real-time fluorescence quantitative methylation specific PCR (TaqMan real-time FQ-MSP) assay and use it for quantitative detection of PER2 methylation in leukemia patients. METHODS According to the PER2 sequence searched by GenBank, a CpG sequence enrichment region of the PER2 gene promoter was selected, and the methylated and unmethylated target sequences were designed according to the law of bisulfite conversion of DNA to construct PER2 methylation positive and negative reference materials. Specific primers and probe were designed. The reference materials were continuously diluted into gradient samples by tenfold ratio to evaluate the analytical sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and reproducibility of the method, and the analytical sensitivity of TaqMan real-time FQ-MSP assay was compared with that of the conventional MSP assay. At the same time, the new-established TaqMan real-time FQ-MSP assay and the conventional MSP assay were used to detect the PER2 methylation level of 81 patients with leukemia, and the samples with inconsistent detection results of the two assays were sent to pyromethylation sequencing to evaluate the clinical detection performance. RESULTS The minimum detection limit of TaqMan real-time FQ-MSP assay for detecting PER2 methylation level established in this study was 6 copies/uL, and the coefficient of variation(CV) of intra-assay and inter-assay was less than 3%. Compared with the conventional MSP assay, it has higher analytical sensitivity. For the samples with inconsistent detection results, the results of pyrosequencing and TaqMan real-time FQ-MSP assay are consistent. CONCLUSION TaqMan real-time FQ-MSP assay of PER2 methylation established in this study has high detection performance and can be used for the detection of clinical samples.
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- Huihui Jiang
- Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Center, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital Affiliated to Qingdao University, 20 Yuhuangding East Road, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Center, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, 250000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Center, Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital, Qingdao, 266000, Shandong, China
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- Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266000, Shandong, China
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- Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Center, Yantaishan Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Center, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital Affiliated to Qingdao University, 20 Yuhuangding East Road, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China.
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