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ArticleBiomolecules2024

Identifying Differential Methylation in Cancer Epigenetics via a Bayesian Functional Regression Model.

Farhad Shokoohi, David A Stephens, Celia M T Greenwood

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Article in Biomolecules, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Uncovering alterations in cancer epigenetics via trans-dimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo and hidden Markov models.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Farhad ShokoohiDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6224-2609
David A StephensDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0B9, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9811-7140
Celia M T GreenwoodLady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2427-5696

Funding

The Genome Analysis and Sequencing Pipeline (GASP)P20GM121325 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS · PI CHEN, JINGCHUN · 2018 to 2022
$11.5M
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery GrantsNIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM121325NIGMS NIH HHS P20GM121325University of Nevada, Las Vegas PG18929
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA methylation plays an essential role in regulating gene activity, modulating disease risk, and determining treatment response. We can obtain insight into methylation patterns at a single-nucleotide level via next-generation sequencing technologies. However, complex features inherent in the data obtained via these technologies pose challenges beyond the typical big data problems. Identifying differentially methylated cytosines (dmc) or regions is one such challenge. We have developed DMCFB, an efficient dmc identification method based on Bayesian functional regression, to tackle these challenges. Using simulations, we establish that DMCFB outperforms current methods and results in better smoothing and efficient imputation. We analyzed a dataset of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia and control samples. With DMCFB, we discovered many new dmcs and, more importantly, exhibited enhanced consistency of differential methylation within islands and their adjacent shores. Additionally, we detected differential methylation at more of the binding sites of the fused gene involved in this cancer.

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Bayes TheoremDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticHumansLeukemia, Promyelocytic, Acuteacute promyelocytic leukemiabisulfite sequencingGibbs samplermissing valuesread depth

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PMID38927043
PMCPMC11201607

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