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Genome-scale sequence data processing and epigenetic analysis of DNA methylation

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  • College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

Received date: 2012-10-24

  Revised date: 2012-12-27

  Online published: 2013-06-25

Abstract

A new approach recently developed for detecting cytosine DNA methylation (mC) and analyzing the genome-scale DNA methylation profiling, is called BS-Seq which is based on bisulfite conversion of genomic DNA combined with next-generation sequencing. The method can not only provide an insight into the difference of genome-scale DNA methylation among different organisms, but also reveal the conservation of DNA methylation in all contexts and nucleotide preference for different genomic regions, including genes, exons, and repetitive DNA sequences. It will be helpful to under-stand the epigenetic impacts of cytosine DNA methylation on the regulation of gene expression and maintaining silence of repetitive sequences, such as transposable elements. In this paper, we introduce the preprocessing steps of DNA methylation data, by which cytosine (C) and guanine (G) in the reference sequence are transferred to thymine (T) and adenine (A), and cytosine in reads is transferred to thymine, respectively. We also comprehensively review the main content of the DNA me-thylation analysis on the genomic scale: (1) the cytosine methylation under the context of different sequences; (2) the dis-tribution of genomic methylcytosine; (3) DNA methylation context and the preference for the nucleotides; (4) DNA- protein interaction sites of DNA methylation; (5) degree of methylation of cytosine in the different structural elements of genes. DNA methylation analysis technique provides a powerful tool for the epigenome study in human and other species, and genes and environment interaction, and founds the theoretical basis for further development of disease diagnostics and therapeutics in human.

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WANG Ting-Zhang, SHAN Gao, XU Jian-Hong, XUE Qing-Zhong . Genome-scale sequence data processing and epigenetic analysis of DNA methylation[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2013 , 35(6) : 685 -684 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2013.00685

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