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MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS
卷 292, 期 3, 页码 655-662出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-017-1298-0
关键词
DNA methylation; Epigenome; Phenotypic plasticity; Population signature
资金
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research [CSIR], Government of India through Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Research [CARDIOMED] project [BSC0122-(9)]
Phenotypic characteristics are known to vary substantially among different ethnicities around the globe. These variations are mediated by number of stochastic events and cannot be attributed to genetic architecture alone. DNA methylation is a well-established mechanism that sculpts our epigenome influencing phenotypic variation including disease manifestation. Since DNA methylation is an important determinant for health issues of a population, it demands a thorough investigation of the natural differences in genome wide DNA methylation patterns across different ethnic groups. This study is based on comparative analyses of methylome from five different ethnicities with major focus on Indian subjects. The current study uses hierarchical clustering approaches, principal component analysis and locus specific differential methylation analysis on Illumina 450K methylation data to compare methylome of different ethnic subjects. Our data indicates that the variations in DNA methylation patterns of Indians are less among themselves compared to other global population. It empirically correlated with dietary, cultural and demographical divergences across different ethnic groups. Our work further suggests that Indians included in this study, despite their genetic similarity with the Caucasian population, are in close proximity with Japanese in terms of their methylation signatures.
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