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ArticleBMC genomics2019

Genome-wide analysis of epigenetic dynamics across human developmental stages and tissues.

Xia Zhang, Yanglan Gan, Guobing Zou, Jihong Guan, Shuigeng Zhou

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Article in BMC genomics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Xia ZhangSchool of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
Yanglan GanSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China. ylgan@dhu.edu.cn.
Guobing ZouSchool of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.
Jihong GuanDepartment of Computer Science and Technology,Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Shuigeng ZhouShanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, and School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai University of Engineering Science · CNDonghua University · CNFudan University · CNTongji University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEpigenome is highly dynamic during the early stages of embryonic development. Epigenetic modifications provide the necessary regulation for lineage specification and enable the maintenance of cellular identity. Given the rapid accumulation of genome-wide epigenomic modification maps across cellular differentiation process, there is an urgent need to characterize epigenetic dynamics and reveal their impacts on differential gene regulation.

methodsWe proposed DiffEM, a computational method for differential analysis of epigenetic modifications and identified highly dynamic modification sites along cellular differentiation process. We applied this approach to investigating 6 epigenetic marks of 20 kinds of human early developmental stages and tissues, including hESCs, 4 hESC-derived lineages and 15 human primary tissues.

resultsWe identified highly dynamic modification sites where different cell types exhibit distinctive modification patterns, and found that these highly dynamic sites enriched in the genes related to cellular development and differentiation. Further, to evaluate the effectiveness of our method, we correlated the dynamics scores of epigenetic modifications with the variance of gene expression, and compared the results of our method with those of the existing algorithms. The comparison results demonstrate the power of our method in evaluating the epigenetic dynamics and identifying highly dynamic regions along cell differentiation process.

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Cell LineageEpigenomicsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenome, HumanCell DifferentiationEmbryonic Stem CellsHistonesHumansOrgan SpecificityHistonesDifferential analysisEpigenetic modificationHamming distance

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PMID30967107
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