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

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

Methylation-regulated long non-coding RNA expression in ulcerative colitis

CG Fenton, MK Ray, W Meng, RH Paulssen - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play a role in the pathogenesis of
ulcerative colitis (UC). Although epigenetic processes such as DNA methylation and lncRNA …

Evaluating performance and applications of sample-wise cell deconvolution methods on human brain transcriptomic data

R Dai, T Chu, M Zhang, X Wang, A Jourdon, F Wu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sample-wise deconvolution methods estimate cell-type proportions and gene expressions
in bulk tissue samples, yet their performance and biological applications remain unexplored …

Associations in cell type-specific hydroxymethylation and transcriptional alterations of pediatric central nervous system tumors

MK Lee, N Azizgolshani, Z Zhang, L Perreard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although intratumoral heterogeneity has been established in pediatric central nervous
system tumors, epigenomic alterations at the cell type level have largely remained …

CeDAR: incorporating cell type hierarchy improves cell type-specific differential analyses in bulk omics data

L Chen, Z Li, H Wu - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Bulk high-throughput omics data contain signals from a mixture of cell types. Recent
developments of deconvolution methods facilitate cell type-specific inferences from bulk …

Identification of cell-type-specific spatially variable genes accounting for excess zeros

J Yu, X Luo - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Spatial transcriptomic techniques can profile gene expressions while retaining
the spatial information, thus offering unprecedented opportunities to explore the relationship …

Quantifying the proportion of different cell types in the human cortex using DNA methylation profiles

E Hannon, EL Dempster, JP Davies, B Chioza… - BMC biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Due to interindividual variation in the cellular composition of the human cortex,
it is essential that covariates that capture these differences are included in epigenome-wide …

Epigenetic Signature of Exposure to Maternal Trypanosoma Cruzi Infection in Cord Blood Cells from Uninfected Newborns

H Desale, P Buekens, J Alger, ML Cafferata… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Aims: To assess the epigenetic effects of in utero exposure to maternal Trypanosoma cruzi
infection. Methods: We performed an epigenome-wide association study to compare the …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay reference dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex

LA Huuki-Myers, KD Montgomery, SH Kwon… - BioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Cellular deconvolution of bulk RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data using single
cell or nuclei RNA-seq (sc/snRNA-seq) reference data is an important strategy for estimating …

Contiguous and stochastic CHH methylation patterns of plant DRM2 and CMT2 revealed by single-read methylome analysis

KD Harris, A Zemach - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Cytosine methylome data is commonly generated through next-generation sequencing, with
analyses averaging methylation states of individual reads. We propose an alternative …