Detection of cell-type-specific risk-CpG sites in epigenome-wide association studies

Cellular heterogeneity is one of the major confounding factors in EWAS studies. Here the authors present a statistical method, HIgh REsolution (HIRE), which enables the detection of risk-CpG sites for individual cell types.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiangyu Luo, Can Yang, Yingying Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10864-z