Molecular networks in Network Medicine: Development and applications

EK Silverman, HHHW Schmidt… - … Systems Biology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Network Medicine applies network science approaches to investigate disease
pathogenesis. Many different analytical methods have been used to infer relevant molecular …

Statistical and integrative system-level analysis of DNA methylation data

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

Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function

JS Hawe, R Wilson, KT Schmid, L Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We determined the relationships between DNA sequence variation and DNA methylation
using blood samples from 3,799 Europeans and 3,195 South Asians. We identify …

[HTML][HTML] The International Human Epigenome Consortium: a blueprint for scientific collaboration and discovery

HG Stunnenberg, S Abrignani, D Adams, M de Almeida… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) coordinates the generation of a
catalog of high-resolution reference epigenomes of major primary human cell types. The …

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

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

Iterative random forests to discover predictive and stable high-order interactions

S Basu, K Kumbier, JB Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Genomics has revolutionized biology, enabling the interrogation of whole transcriptomes,
genome-wide binding sites for proteins, and many other molecular processes. However …

Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: results from a prospective, longitudinal study

EC Dunn, TW Soare, Y Zhu, AJ Simpkin… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Association of body mass index with DNA methylation and gene expression in blood cells and relations to cardiometabolic disease: a Mendelian …

MM Mendelson, RE Marioni, R Joehanes, C Liu… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background The link between DNA methylation, obesity, and adiposity-related diseases in
the general population remains uncertain. Methods and Findings We conducted an …

Computational deconvolution of transcriptomics data from mixed cell populations

F Avila Cobos, J Vandesompele, P Mestdagh… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Identification of differentially methylated cell types in epigenome-wide association studies

SC Zheng, CE Breeze, S Beck, AE Teschendorff - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
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 …