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Novel regional age-associated DNA methylation changes within human common disease-associated loci.

ABSTRACT: Advancing age progressively impacts on risk and severity of chronic disease. It also modifies the epigenome, with changes in DNA methylation, due to both random drift and variation within specific functional loci.In a discovery set of 2238 peripheral-blood genome-wide DNA methylomes aged 19-82 years, we identify 71 age-associated differentially methylated regions within the linkage disequilibrium blocks of the single nucleotide polymorphisms from the NIH genome-wide association study catalogue. This included 52 novel regions, 29 within loci not covered by 450 k or 27 k Illumina array, and with enrichment for DNase-I Hypersensitivity sites across the full range of tissues. These age-associated differentially methylated regions also show marked enrichment for enhancers and poised promoters across multiple cell types. In a replication set of 2084 DNA methylomes, 95.7 % of the age-associated differentially methylated regions showed the same direction of ageing effect, with 80.3 % and 53.5 % replicated to p?

SUBMITTER: Bell CG

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5034469 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Novel regional age-associated DNA methylation changes within human common disease-associated loci.

Bell Christopher G CG Xia Yudong Y Yuan Wei W Gao Fei F Ward Kirsten K Roos Leonie L Mangino Massimo M Hysi Pirro G PG Bell Jordana J Wang Jun J Spector Timothy D TD

Genome biology 20160923 1

<h4>Background</h4>Advancing age progressively impacts on risk and severity of chronic disease. It also modifies the epigenome, with changes in DNA methylation, due to both random drift and variation within specific functional loci.<h4>Results</h4>In a discovery set of 2238 peripheral-blood genome-wide DNA methylomes aged 19-82 years, we identify 71 age-associated differentially methylated regions within the linkage disequilibrium blocks of the single nucleotide polymorphisms from the NIH genome ...[more]

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Novel regional age-associated DNA methylation changes within human common disease-associated loci.

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Novel regional age-associated DNA methylation changes within human common disease-associated loci.

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