Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients and healthy subjects. The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across in peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples. Samples included 6 normal subjects and 12 COPD patients among which 3 of them have 2nd samples from follow-up examination.