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Guthrie card methylomics identifies temporally stable epialleles that are present at birth in humans (Methylation BeadChip)

ABSTRACT: A major concern in common disease epigenomics is distinguishing causal from consequential epigenetic variation. One means of addressing this issue is to identify the temporal origins of epigenetic variants via longitudinal analyses. However, prospective birth-cohort studies are expensive and time-consuming. Here we report DNA methylomics of archived Guthrie cards for the retrospective longitudinal analyses of in utero-derived DNA methylation variation. We first validate two methodologies for generating comprehensive DNA methylomes from Guthrie cards. Then, using an integrated epigenomic/genomic analysis of Guthrie cards and follow-up samplings, we identify inter-individual DNA methylation variation that is present both at birth and three years later. These findings suggest that disease-relevant epigenetic variation could be detected at birth i.e. before overt clinical disease. Guthrie card methylomics offers a potentially powerful and cost-effective strategy for studying the dynamics of inter-individual epigenomic variation in a range of common human diseases. Bisulphite converted DNA was hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Thomas Down

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-37966 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Guthrie card methylomics identifies temporally stable epialleles that are present at birth in humans.

Beyan Huriya H Down Thomas A TA Ramagopalan Sreeram V SV Uvebrant Kristina K Nilsson Anita A Holland Michelle L ML Gemma Carolina C Giovannoni Gavin G Boehm Bernhard O BO Ebers George C GC Lernmark Åke Å Cilio Corrado M CM Leslie R David RD Rakyan Vardhman K VK

Genome research 20120823 11

A major concern in common disease epigenomics is distinguishing causal from consequential epigenetic variation. One means of addressing this issue is to identify the temporal origins of epigenetic variants via longitudinal analyses. However, prospective birth-cohort studies are expensive and time consuming. Here, we report DNA methylomics of archived Guthrie cards for the retrospective longitudinal analyses of in-utero-derived DNA methylation variation. We first validate two methodologies for ge ...[more]

PMID: 22919074

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Guthrie card methylomics identifies temporally stable epialleles that are present at birth in humans (Methylation BeadChip)

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Guthrie card methylomics identifies temporally stable epialleles that are present at birth in humans.

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