Quantitative comparison of genome-wide DNA methylation mapping technologies
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- 19 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Biotechnology
- Vol. 28 (10), 1106-1114
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1681
Abstract
Comparison of the methylation patterns of cells in different developmental or disease states can help to elucidate both normal and pathological regulatory mechanisms. Bock et al. evaluate the ability of three sequencing-based methods and one microarray-based technology to detect differentially methylated regions on a genome-wide scale. DNA methylation plays a key role in regulating eukaryotic gene expression. Although mitotically heritable and stable over time, patterns of DNA methylation frequently change in response to cell differentiation, disease and environmental influences. Several methods have been developed to map DNA methylation on a genomic scale. Here, we benchmark four of these approaches by analyzing two human embryonic stem cell lines derived from genetically unrelated embryos and a matched pair of colon tumor and adjacent normal colon tissue obtained from the same donor. Our analysis reveals that methylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeDIP-seq), methylated DNA capture by affinity purification (MethylCap-seq), reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) and the Infinium HumanMethylation27 assay all produce accurate DNA methylation data. However, these methods differ in their ability to detect differentially methylated regions between pairs of samples. We highlight strengths and weaknesses of the four methods and give practical recommendations for the design of epigenomic case-control studies.Keywords
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