Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of three normal (N) and eight ulcerative colitis (UC) samples as well as one human colon cancer cell (HCT116) . The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation platform was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 480,000 CpGs.
Project description:Abstract The proper identification of differentially methylated CpGs is central in most epigenetic studies. The Illumina Human Methylation 450k BeadChip is widely used to quantify DNA methylation, nevertheless the design of an appropriate analysis pipeline faces severe challenges due to the convolution of biological and technical variability and the presence of a signal bias between Infinium I and II probe design types. Despite recent attempts to investigate how to analyze DNA methylation data with such an array design, it has not been possible to perform a comprehensive comparison between different bioinformatics pipelines due to the lack of appropriate datasets having both large sample size and sufficient number of technical replicates. Here we perform such a comparative analysis, targeting the problems of reducing the technical variability, eliminating the probe design bias and reducing the batch effect by exploiting two unpublished datasets, which included technical replicates and were profiled for DNA methylation either on peripheral blood, monocytes or muscle biopsies. We evaluated the performance of different analysis pipelines and demonstrated that a) it is critical to correct for the probe design type, since the amplitude of the measured methylation change depends on the underlying chemistry; b) the effect of different normalization schemes is mixed, and the most effective method in our hands were quantile normalization and Beta Mixture Quantile dilation (BMIQ); c) it is beneficial to correct for batch effects. In conclusion, our comparative analysis using a comprehensive dataset suggests an efficient pipeline for proper identification of differentially methylated CpGs using the Illumina 450k arrays. DNA samples from peripheral blood or CD14+ monocytes were included in the study. DNA methylation levels were profiled using Illumina 450K arrays. Specifically, 50 biological sample replicates from PB and 36 biological sample replicates from monocytes were randomly assigned to 8 BeadChips with technical replicates and processed in one run (a total of 96 DNA samples). Eight samples were technically replicated in pairs, while one sample was represented in a trio of replicates. Different analysis pipelines were compared, however, the file uploaded refers to the best scored. In our publication we used this one to make all analyses and conclusions.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of human medulloblastoma. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip v1.2 was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 450,000 CpGs. Preprocessed data performed using Illumina normalization in the minfi package as described in Sturm et al, Cancer Cell, 2012.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of individuals across a large age range. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 450k CpGs from human whole blood.
Project description:Abstract The proper identification of differentially methylated CpGs is central in most epigenetic studies. The Illumina Human Methylation 450k BeadChip is widely used to quantify DNA methylation, nevertheless the design of an appropriate analysis pipeline faces severe challenges due to the convolution of biological and technical variability and the presence of a signal bias between Infinium I and II probe design types. Despite recent attempts to investigate how to analyze DNA methylation data with such an array design, it has not been possible to perform a comprehensive comparison between different bioinformatics pipelines due to the lack of appropriate datasets having both large sample size and sufficient number of technical replicates. Here we perform such a comparative analysis, targeting the problems of reducing the technical variability, eliminating the probe design bias and reducing the batch effect by exploiting two unpublished datasets, which included technical replicates and were profiled for DNA methylation either on peripheral blood, monocytes or muscle biopsies. The blood samples included individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). We evaluated the performance of different analysis pipelines and demonstrated that a) it is critical to correct for the probe design type, since the amplitude of the measured methylation change depends on the underlying chemistry; b) the effect of different normalization schemes is mixed, and the most effective method in our hands were quantile normalization and Beta Mixture Quantile dilation (BMIQ); c) it is beneficial to correct for batch effects. In conclusion, our comparative analysis using a comprehensive dataset suggests an efficient pipeline for proper identification of differentially methylated CpGs using the Illumina 450k arrays.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of human medulloblastoma. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip v1.2 was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 450,000 CpGs. Preprocessed data performed using Illumina normalization in the minfi package as described in Sturm et al, Cancer Cell, 2012. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 91 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip v1.2
Project description:We obtained a comprehensive DNA methylation profile of 15 breast cancer discordant twins, using the high resolution Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip platform (450K, Illumina), previously established to reliably detect methylation changes of more than 450,000 CpG sites. To provide insight into the temporal and causal relationships and predictive potential, samples from breast cancer patients before (7) and after diagnosis (8) were also analyzed. Using whole blood from 15 twin pairs discordant for breast cancer and high-resolution (450k) DNA methylation analysis we identified 403 differentially methylated CpG sites including known and novel potential breast cancer genes.
Project description:Since characterization of molecular alterations in elderly acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients using comprehensive studies are lacking, we investigated genetic and epigenetic alterations to unravel the specific background of this unfavorable disease. We studied AML patients by sequencing 555 genes on an Illumina HiSeq2000 platform and investigated DNA methylation profiles using the Illumina 450K array.
Project description:Methylome data obtained from human embryonic kindey (HEK)-293T cells expressing a GFP (293T-GFP) or a truncated form of Arabidopsis DEMETER (DME) 5-methylcytosine (5mC) DNA glycosylase (293T-DMEΔ) analyzed on a Human Methylation 450K BeadChip platform (Illumina). These methylation array data revealed genome-wide DNA methylation patterns of the 293T-GFP cells (without direct 5mC excision activity) and 293T-DMEΔ cells (with artificially implemented direct 5mC excision activity).