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InterpolatedXY: a two-step strategy to normalize DNA methylation microarray data avoiding sex bias

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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 38, 期 16, 页码 3950-3957

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac436

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  1. Medical Research Council [MR/R005176/1]
  2. Economic and Social Research Council [ES/M010236/1, ES/M008592/1]
  3. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/V034111/1, EP/P017487/1, EP/R02572X/1, EP/V000462/1]
  4. University of Essex

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This article presents a new two-step strategy to address the bias issue in normalizing sex chromosome data, and proposes a concept to quantitatively measure the normalization effect. The method can be applied to all quantile-based and non-quantile-based normalization methods, as well as other array-based data types.
Motivation Data normalization is an essential step to reduce technical variation within and between arrays. Due to the different karyotypes and the effects of X chromosome inactivation, females and males exhibit distinct methylation patterns on sex chromosomes; thus, it poses a significant challenge to normalize sex chromosome data without introducing bias. Currently, existing methods do not provide unbiased solutions to normalize sex chromosome data, usually, they just process autosomal and sex chromosomes indiscriminately. Results Here, we demonstrate that ignoring this sex difference will lead to introducing artificial sex bias, especially for thousands of autosomal CpGs. We present a novel two-step strategy (interpolatedXY) to address this issue, which is applicable to all quantile-based normalization methods. By this new strategy, the autosomal CpGs are first normalized independently by conventional methods, such as funnorm or dasen; then the corrected methylation values of sex chromosome-linked CpGs are estimated as the weighted average of their nearest neighbors on autosomes. The proposed two-step strategy can also be applied to other non-quantile-based normalization methods, as well as other array-based data types. Moreover, we propose a useful concept: the sex explained fraction of variance, to quantitatively measure the normalization effect. Availability and implementation: The proposed methods are available by calling the function 'adjustedDasen' or 'adjustedFunnorm' in the latest wateRmelon package (https://github.com/schalkwyk/wateRmelon), with methods compatible with all the major workflows, including minfi. Contact: xzhai@essex.ac.uk or lschal@essex.ac.uk Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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