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Mapping allele-specific DNA methylation: a new tool for maximizing information from GWAS.


ABSTRACT: In this issue of The Journal, an article by Schalkwyk et al.(1) shows the landscape of allele-specific DNA methylation (ASM) in the human genome. ASM has long been studied as a hallmark of imprinted genes, and a chromosome-wide version of this phenomenon occurs, in a random fashion, during X chromosome inactivation in female cells. But the type of ASM motivating the study by Schalkwyk et al. is different. They used a high-resolution, methylation-sensitive SNP array (MSNP) method for genome-wide profiling of ASM in total peripheral-blood leukocytes (PBL) and buccal cells from a series of monozygotic twin pairs. Their data bring a new level of detail to our knowledge of a newly recognized phenomenon-nonimprinted, sequence-dependent ASM. They document the widespread occurrence of this phenomenon among human genes and discuss its basic implications for gene regulation and genetic-epigenetic interactions. But this paper and recent work from other laboratories(2,3) raises the possibility of a more immediate and practical application for ASM mapping, namely to help extract maximum information from genome-wide association studies.

SUBMITTER: Tycko B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2820186 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mapping allele-specific DNA methylation: a new tool for maximizing information from GWAS.

Tycko Benjamin B  

American journal of human genetics 20100201 2


In this issue of The Journal, an article by Schalkwyk et al.(1) shows the landscape of allele-specific DNA methylation (ASM) in the human genome. ASM has long been studied as a hallmark of imprinted genes, and a chromosome-wide version of this phenomenon occurs, in a random fashion, during X chromosome inactivation in female cells. But the type of ASM motivating the study by Schalkwyk et al. is different. They used a high-resolution, methylation-sensitive SNP array (MSNP) method for genome-wide  ...[more]

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