Statistical methods for detecting differentially methylated loci and regions

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Robinson, Mark D ^a   Kahraman, Abdullah ^a   Law, Charity W ^a   Lindsay, Helen ^a   Nowicka, Malgorzata ^a   Weber, Lukas M ^a   Zhou, Xiaobei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Bisulphite sequencing; Cell type composition; Differential methylation

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84917696448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00324     Document Type: Short Survey

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