title: Epigenome overlap measure (EPOM) for comparing tissue/cell types based on chromatin states.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The dynamics of epigenomic marks in their relevant chromatin states regulate distinct gene expression patterns, biological functions and phenotypic variations in biological processes. The availability of high-throughput epigenomic data generated by next-generation sequencing technologies allows a data-driven approach to evaluate the similarities and differences of diverse tissue and cell types in terms of epigenomic features. While ChromImpute has allowed for the imputation of large-scale epigenomic information to yield more robust data to capture meaningful relationships between biological samples, widely used methods such as hierarchical clustering and correlation analysis cannot adequately utilize epigenomic data to accurately reveal the distinction and grouping of different tissue and cell types.
  
  
  METHODS
  We utilize a three-step testing procedure-ANOVA, t test and overlap test to identify tissue/cell-type- associated enhancers and promoters and to calculate a newly defined Epigenomic Overlap Measure (EPOM). EPOM results in a clear correspondence map of biological samples from different tissue and cell types through comparison of epigenomic marks evaluated in their relevant chromatin states.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Correspondence maps by EPOM show strong capability in distinguishing and grouping different tissue and cell types and reveal biologically meaningful similarities between Heart and Muscle, Blood & T-cell and HSC & B-cell, Brain and Neurosphere, etc. The gene ontology enrichment analysis both supports and explains the discoveries made by EPOM and suggests that the associated enhancers and promoters demonstrate distinguishable functions across tissue and cell types. Moreover, the tissue/cell-type-associated enhancers and promoters show enrichment in the disease-related SNPs that are also associated with the corresponding tissue or cell types. This agreement suggests the potential of identifying causal genetic variants relevant to cell-type-specific diseases from our identified associated enhancers and promoters.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The proposed EPOM measure demonstrates superior capability in grouping and finding a clear correspondence map of biological samples from different tissue and cell types. The identified associated enhancers and promoters provide a comprehensive catalog to study distinct biological processes and disease variants in different tissue and cell types. Our results also find that the associated promoters exhibit more cell-type-specific functions than the associated enhancers do, suggesting that the non-associated promoters have more housekeeping functions than the non-associated enhancers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, 8125 Math Sciences Bldg., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1554, USA. liw@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Wei Vivian
authors.initials: WV
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, 8125 Math Sciences Bldg., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1554, USA. razaee@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Zahra S
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Razaee
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, 8125 Math Sciences Bldg., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1554, USA. jli@stat.ucla.edu.|Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-7088, USA. jli@stat.ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Jingyi Jessica
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002843:Chromatin / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D057890:Epigenomics; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006657:Histones / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D006657:Histones
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