Bump hunting to identify differentially methylated regions in epigenetic epidemiology studies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 200-209

  Jaffe, Andrew E ^a,b   Murakami, Peter ^b   Lee, Hwajin ^b   Leek, Jeffrey T ^a   Fallin, M Daniele ^a,b   Feinberg, Andrew P ^a,b   Irizarry, Rafael A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch effects; Bump hunting; DNA methylation; Epigenetic epidemiology; Genome wide analysis

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; METHYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURROGATE VARIABLE ANALYSIS;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84863386102     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr238     Document Type: Article

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