A comparison of reference-based algorithms for correcting cell-type heterogeneity in Epigenome-Wide Association Studies

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Teschendorff, Andrew E ^a,b,c   Breeze, Charles E ^c   Zheng, Shijie C ^a,d   Beck, Stephan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cellular heterogeneity; DNA methylation; EWAS

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; BLOOD; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DECONVOLUTION; METHYLATION; TISSUE;

CELLULAR HETEROGENEITY; COMBINED ALGORITHMS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; DECONVOLUTION METHOD; DNA METHYLATION; EWAS; PROJECTION TECHNIQUES;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

GENETIC MARKER;

ALGORITHM; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; EPIGENOMICS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS;

EID: 85012965214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1511-5     Document Type: Article

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