Grasping nettles: cellular heterogeneity and other confounders in epigenome-wide association studies
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Grasping nettles: cellular heterogeneity and other confounders in epigenome-wide association studies
Platform technologies for measurement of CpG methylation at multiple loci across the genome have made ambitious epigenome-wide association studies affordable and practicable. In contrast to genetic studies, which estimate the effects of structural changes in DNA, and transcriptomic studies, which measure genomic outputs, epigenetic studies can access states of regulation of genome function in p...
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☆ WorkshopparticipantDr. Arturas Petronis from the Cen Health at the University of Toronto, Canada, preferred not ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 17186781234; fax: + E-mail address: [email protected] (J.M. Gre http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nepig.2014.10.004 2214-7845/© 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc Article history: Received 13 October 2014 Accepted 14 October 2014
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Molecular Genetics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0964-6906,1460-2083
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu284