title: DNA methylation profiling using HpaII tiny fragment enrichment by ligation-mediated PCR (HELP).
abstract: The HELP assay is a technique that allows genome-wide analysis of cytosine methylation. Here we describe the assay, its relative strengths and weaknesses, and the transition of the assay from a microarray to massively-parallel sequencing-based foundation.
authors.affiliation: Center for Epigenomics and Division of Computational Genetics, Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Greally
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019175:DNA Methylation; D019003:Deoxyribonuclease HpaII / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D019003:Deoxyribonuclease HpaII