Tang Binhua
Epigenetics & Function Group, School of Internet of Things, Hohai University, Jiangsu 213022, China; School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200025, China.
Biomed Res Int. 2016;2016:1597489. doi: 10.1155/2016/1597489. Epub 2016 Dec 27.
Genome-wide deciphering intercellular differential DNA methylation as well as its roles in transcriptional regulation remains elusive in cancer epigenetics. Here we developed a toolkit META2 for DNA methylation annotation and analysis, which aims to perform integrative analysis on differentially methylated loci and regions through deep mining and statistical comparison methods. META2 contains multiple versatile functions for investigating and annotating DNA methylation profiles. Benchmarked with T-47D cell, we interrogated the association within differentially methylated CpG (DMC) and region (DMR) candidate count and region length and identified major transition zones as clues for inferring statistically significant DMRs; together we validated those DMRs with the functional annotation. Thus META2 can provide a comprehensive analysis approach for epigenetic research and clinical study.
在癌症表观遗传学中,全基因组层面解析细胞间差异DNA甲基化及其在转录调控中的作用仍不清楚。在此,我们开发了一个用于DNA甲基化注释和分析的工具包META2,其目的是通过深度挖掘和统计比较方法,对差异甲基化位点和区域进行综合分析。META2具有多种用于研究和注释DNA甲基化图谱的通用功能。以T-47D细胞为基准,我们探究了差异甲基化CpG(DMC)和区域(DMR)候选计数与区域长度之间的关联,并确定主要过渡区作为推断具有统计学意义的DMR的线索;我们一起用功能注释验证了那些DMR。因此,META2可为表观遗传学研究和临床研究提供一种全面的分析方法。