Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation
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Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation
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Corrigendum: Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation.Nature. 2016 Feb 11;530(7589):242. doi: 10.1038/nature16179. Epub 2015 Nov 25. Nature. 2016. PMID: 26605523 No abstract available.
Abstract
Understanding the diversity of human tissues is fundamental to disease and requires linking genetic information, which is identical in most of an individual's cells, with epigenetic mechanisms that could have tissue-specific roles. Surveys of DNA methylation in human tissues have established a complex landscape including both tissue-specific and invariant methylation patterns. Here we report high coverage methylomes that catalogue cytosine methylation in all contexts for the major human organ systems, integrated with matched transcriptomes and genomic sequence. By combining these diverse data types with each individuals' phased genome, we identified widespread tissue-specific differential CG methylation (mCG), partially methylated domains, allele-specific methylation and transcription, and the unexpected presence of non-CG methylation (mCH) in almost all human tissues. mCH correlated with tissue-specific functions, and using this mark, we made novel predictions of genes that escape X-chromosome inactivation in specific tissues. Overall, DNA methylation in several genomic contexts varies substantially among human tissues.
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