Dissecting features of epigenetic variants underlying cardiometabolic risk using full-resolution epigenome profiling in regulatory elements

Obesity and related metabolic complications represent an important health burden. Here the authors carry out a methylC-capture sequencing-based epigenome-wide association study to link circulating plasma lipid levels, CpG methylation and cardiometabolic risk across adipose and blood tissues.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fiona Allum, Åsa K. Hedman, Xiaojian Shao, Warren A. Cheung, Jinchu Vijay, Frédéric Guénard, Tony Kwan, Marie-Michelle Simon, Bing Ge, Cristiano Moura, Elodie Boulier, Lars Rönnblom, Sasha Bernatsky, Mark Lathrop, Mark I. McCarthy, Panos Deloukas, André Tchernof, Tomi Pastinen, Marie-Claude Vohl, Elin Grundberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09184-z