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Blood DNA methylation data of newborn rhesus macaques

ABSTRACT: Methylomic profiling of rhesus macaque blood samples. The Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC kit was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles for over 850,000 CpGs, of which 339,081 were determined to be conserved in rhesus macaques based on the Mmul_10 genome build. A total of 29 samples were included, of which 26 remained after processing.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens Macaca mulatta

PROVIDER: GSE201215 | GEO | 2025/04/15

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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