Genome-wide methylation data mirror ancestry information

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Rahmani, Elior ^a   Shenhav, Liat ^a   Schweiger, Regev ^a   Yousefi, Paul ^b   Huen, Karen ^b   Eskenazi, Brenda ^b   Eng, Celeste ^c   Huntsman, Scott ^c   Hu, Donglei ^c   Galanter, Joshua ^c,d   Oh, Sam S ^c   Waldenberger, Melanie ^e   Strauch, Konstantin ^e,f   Grallert, Harald ^e,g   Meitinger, Thomas ^e,h   Gieger, Christian ^e,g   Holland, Nina ^b   Burchard, Esteban G ^c,d   Zaitlen, Noah ^c   Halperin, Eran ^i,j  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ University of California   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ancestry; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Epigenome wide association study (EWAS); Illumina 450K; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CPG ISLANDS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85010825671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13072-016-0108-y     Document Type: Article

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