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    Systematic evaluation of DNA methylation age estimation with common preprocessing methods and the Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip array

    The capacity of technologies measuring DNA methylation (DNAm) is rapidly evolving, as are the options for applicable bioinformatics methods. The most commonly used DNAm microarray, the Illumina Infinium HumanM...

    Lisa M McEwen, Meaghan J Jones, David Tse Shen Lin, Rachel D Edgar in Clinical Epigenetics (2018)

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    DNA methylation as a predictor of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

    Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a developmental disorder that manifests through a range of cognitive, adaptive, physiological, and neurobiological deficits resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure. A...

    Alexandre A. Lussier, Alexander M. Morin, Julia L. MacIsaac in Clinical Epigenetics (2018)

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    Maternal blood contamination of collected cord blood can be identified using DNA methylation at three CpGs

    Cord blood is a commonly used tissue in environmental, genetic, and epigenetic population studies due to its ready availability and potential to inform on a sensitive period of human development. However, the ...

    Alexander M. Morin, Evan Gatev, Lisa M. McEwen, Julia L. MacIsaac in Clinical Epigenetics (2017)

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    Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region

    The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica has one of the highest old-age life expectancies in the world, but the underlying biological mechanisms of this longevity are not well understood. As DNA methylation is hypot...

    Lisa M. McEwen, Alexander M. Morin, Rachel D. Edgar in Epigenetics & Chromatin (2017)