title: The influence of aging, environmental exposures and local sequence features on the variation of DNA methylation in blood.
abstract: In order to properly comprehend the epigenetic dysregulation that occurs during the course of disease, there is a need to characterize the epigenetic variability in healthy individuals that arises in response to aging and exposures, and to understand such variation within the biological context of the DNA sequence. We analyzed the methylation of 26,486 autosomal CpG loci in blood from 205 healthy subjects, using three complementary approaches to assess the association between methylation, age or exposures, and local sequence features, such as CpG island status, repeat sequences, location within a polycomb target gene or proximity to a transcription factor binding site. We clustered CpGs (1) using unsupervised recursively partitioned mixture modeling (RPMM) and (2) bioinformatically-informed methods, and (3) also employed a marginal model-based (non-clustering) approach. We observed associations between age and methylation and hair dye use and methylation, where the direction and magnitude was contingent on the local sequence features of the CpGs. Our results demonstrate that CpGs are differentially methylated dependent upon the genomic features of the sequence in which they are embedded, and that CpG methylation is associated with age and hair dye use in a CpG context-dependent manner in healthy individuals.
authors: Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
authors: Scott M
authors: SM
authors: Langevin
authors: E Andres
authors: EA
authors: Houseman
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authors: HH
authors: Nelson
authors: Margaret R
authors: MR
authors: Karagas
authors: Carmen J
authors: CJ
authors: Marsit
authors: Karl T
authors: KT
authors: Kelsey
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