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STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 16, 期 5-6, 页码 313-331出版社
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/sagmb-2016-0062
关键词
DNA methylation; EM-algorithm; Kernel smoothing; MethylC-Seq; RRBS
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec - Sante [31110]
We consider the assessment of DNA methylation profiles for sequencing-derived data from a single cell type or from cell lines. We derive a kernel smoothed EM-algorithm, capable of analyzing an entire chromosome at once, and to simultaneously correct for experimental errors arising from either the pretreatment steps or from the sequencing stage and to take into account spatial correlations between DNA methylation profiles at neighbouring CpG sites. The outcomes of our algorithm are then used to (i) call the true methylation status at each CpG site, (ii) provide accurate smoothed estimates of DNA methylation levels, and (iii) detect differentially methylated regions. Simulations show that the proposed methodology outperforms existing analysis methods that either ignore the correlation between DNA methylation profiles at neighbouring CpG sites or do not correct for errors. The use of the proposed inference procedure is illustrated through the analysis of a publicly available data set from a cell line of induced pluripotent H9 human embryonic stem cells and also a data set where methylation measures were obtained for a small genomic region in three different immune cell types separated from whole blood.
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