Gene-methylation epistatic analyses via the W-test identifies enriched signals of neuronal genes in patients undergoing lipid-control treatment

Abstract An increasing number of studies are focused on the epigenetic regulation of DNA to affect gene expression without modifications to the DNA sequence. Methylation plays an important role in shaping disease traits; however, previous studies were mainly experiment, based, resulting in few repor...

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Main Authors: Rui Sun, Haoyi Weng, Ruoting Men, Xiaoxuan Xia, Ka Chun Chong, William K. K. Wu, Benny Chung-Ying Zee, Maggie Haitian Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Proceedings
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12919-018-0143-8