Genomic hypomethylation in the human germline associates with selective structural mutability in the human genome.
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014Hypomethylation in the human germline associates w/ structural mutability: Many #SVs in #genomic #methylation deserts
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002692
Genomic hypomethylation in the human germline associates with selective structural mutability in the human genome.
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002692
Li J, Harris RA, Cheung SW, Coarfa C, Jeong M, Goodell MA, White LD, Patel A, Kang SH, Shaw C, Chinault AC, Gambin T, Gambin A, Lupski JR, Milosavljevic A.
PLoS Genet. 2012;8(5):e1002692. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002692. Epub 2012 May 17.
PMID: 22615578 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article
Mutability as a measure of methylation, viz:
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The MI model is based on the fact that in mammals DNA methylation predominantly occurs in CpG dinucleotides, increasing the probability of transitions to TpG or CpA dinucleotides. The MI calculation by Sigurdsson et al. [48] implicitly uses mutability of CpGs in the human genome as an indicator of methylation in the germline. We apply this method of by integrating four million non-redundant SNPs from the HapMap project. Methylation index values were calculated for the same set of 100 Kbp windows used for sperm methylome construction to facilitate comparison.
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Also :
Confounding by repetitive elements and CpG islands does not explain the association between hypomethylation and genomic instability. http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003333
Harris RA, Shaw C, Li J, Cheung SW, Coarfa C, Jeong M, Goodell MA, White LD, Patel A, Kang SH, Chinault AC, Gambin T, Gambin A, Lupski JR, Milosavljevic A.
PLoS Genet. 2013;9(2):e1003333. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003333. Epub 2013 Feb 28. No abstract available.
PMID: 23468659 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article