Alzheimer's disease: early alterations in brain DNA methylation at ANK1, BIN1, RHBDF2 and other loci

We used a collection of 708 prospectively collected autopsied brains to assess the methylation state of the brain's DNA in relation to Alzheimer's disease (AD). We found that the level of methylation at 71 of the 415,848 interrogated CpGs was significantly associated with the burden of AD...

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Main Authors: Srivastava, Gyan (Author), Lunnon, Katie (Author), Burgess, Jeremy (Author), Yu, Lei (Author), Ernst, Jason (Contributor), McCabe, Cristin (Author), Tang, Anna (Author), Raj, Towfique (Author), Replogle, Joseph (Author), Brodeur, Wendy (Author), Gabriel, Stacey (Author), Younkin, Curtis (Author), Zou, Fanggeng (Author), Szyf, Moshe (Author), Meissner, Alexander (Contributor), Ertekin-Taner, Nilufer (Author), Kellis, Manolis (Contributor), Mill, Jonathan (Author), De Jager, Philip L. (Author), Schalkwyk, Leonard C. (Author), Eaton, Matthew Lucas (Contributor), Eaton, Matthew L. (Author), Keenan, Brendan T. (Author), Chai, High S. (Author), Younkin, Steven G. (Author), Epstein, Charles B. (Author), Schneider, Julie A. (Author), Bernstein, Bradley E. (Author), Chibnik, Lori B. (Author), Bennett, David A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2016-01-08T02:35:44Z.
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