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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Peter Murakami
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-23858 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Science translational medicine 20100901 49
The epigenome consists of non-sequence-based modifications, such as DNA methylation, that are heritable during cell division and that may affect normal phenotypes and predisposition to disease. Here, we have performed an unbiased genome-scale analysis of ~4 million CpG sites in 74 individuals with comprehensive array-based relative methylation (CHARM) analysis. We found 227 regions that showed extreme interindividual variability [variably methylated regions (VMRs)] across the genome, which are e ...[more]