Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of epidermal and dermal samples obtained from sun-exposed and sun-protected body sites from younger (<35 years old) and older (>60 years old) individuals. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 450,000 CpGs in dermal and epidermal samples. Samples included 10 younger sun protected dermal samples, 10 younger sun exposed dermal samples, 10 older sun protected dermal samples, 10 older sun exposed dermal samples, 9 younger sun protected epidermal samples, 9 younger sun exposed epidermal samples, 10 older sun protected epidermal sample, 10 older sun exposed epidermal samples.
Project description:Gene methylation profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells comparing HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs cells with human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)- and HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs. hTERT may increase gene methylation in MSCs. Goal was to determine the effects of different transfected genes on global gene methylation in MSCs.
