title: Chromosome-wide DNA methylation analysis predicts human tissue-specific X inactivation.
abstract: X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) results in the differential marking of the active and inactive X with epigenetic modifications including DNA methylation. Consistent with the previous studies showing that CpG island-containing promoters of genes subject to XCI are approximately 50% methylated in females and unmethylated in males while genes which escape XCI are unmethylated in both sexes; our chromosome-wide (Methylated DNA ImmunoPrecipitation) and promoter-targeted methylation analyses (Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27 array) showed the largest methylation difference (D = 0.12, p < 2.2 E-16) between male and female blood at X-linked CpG islands promoters. We used the methylation differences between males and females to predict XCI statuses in blood and found that 81% had the same XCI status as previously determined using expression data. Most genes (83%) showed the same XCI status across tissues (blood, fetal: muscle, kidney and nerual); however, the methylation of a subset of genes predicted different XCI statuses in different tissues. Using previously published expression data the effect of transcription on gene-body methylation was investigated and while X-linked introns of highly expressed genes were more methylated than the introns of lowly expressed genes, exonic methylation did not differ based on expression level. We conclude that the XCI status predicted using methylation of X-linked promoters with CpG islands was usually the same as determined by expression analysis and that 12% of X-linked genes examined show tissue-specific XCI whereby a gene has a different XCI status in at least one of the four tissues examined.
authors: Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors: Allison M
authors: AM
authors: Cotton
authors: Lucia
authors: L
authors: Lam
authors: Joslynn G
authors: JG
authors: Affleck
authors: Ian M
authors: IM
authors: Wilson
authors: Maria S
authors: MS
authors: Peñaherrera
authors: Deborah E
authors: DE
authors: McFadden
authors: Michael S
authors: MS
authors: Kobor
authors: Wan L
authors: WL
authors: Lam
authors: Wendy P
authors: WP
authors: Robinson
authors: Carolyn J
authors: CJ
authors: Brown
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