HBI: a hierarchical Bayesian interaction model to estimate cell-type-specific methylation quantitative trait loci incorporating priors from cell-sorted bisulfite sequencing data
Cheng Y, Cai B, Li H, Zhang X, D’Souza G, Shrestha S, Edmonds A, Meyers J, Fischl M, Kassaye S, Anastos K, Cohen M, Aouizerat B, Xu K, Zhao H. HBI: a hierarchical Bayesian interaction model to estimate cell-type-specific methylation quantitative trait loci incorporating priors from cell-sorted bisulfite sequencing data. Genome Biology 2024, 25: 273. PMID: 39407252, PMCID: PMC11476968, DOI: 10.1186/s13059-024-03411-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMethylation quantitative trait lociQuantitative trait lociTrait lociMethylation dataFunctional annotation of genetic variantsAnnotation of genetic variantsGenetic variantsBisulfite sequencing dataEffects of genetic variantsBiologically relevant cell typesDNA methylation levelsCell typesFunctional annotationSequence dataComplex traitsMethylation datasetsRelevant cell typesMeQTLsMethylation levelsMethylation regulatorsReal data analysesLociVariantsMethylationDNAComputationally inferred cell-type specific epigenome-wide DNA methylation analysis unveils distinct methylation patterns among immune cells for HIV infection in three cohorts
Zhang X, Hu Y, Vandenhoudt R, Yan C, Marconi V, Cohen M, Wang Z, Justice A, Aouizerat B, Xu K. Computationally inferred cell-type specific epigenome-wide DNA methylation analysis unveils distinct methylation patterns among immune cells for HIV infection in three cohorts. PLOS Pathogens 2024, 20: e1012063. PMID: 38466776, PMCID: PMC10957090, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012063.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCD4+ T cellsEpigenome-wide association studiesPeripheral blood mononuclear cellsHIV infectionHIV pathogenesisT cellsCpG sitesNatural killer (NK) cellsCell typesAssociated with HIV infectionCD8+ T cellsMethylation patternsCpG methylationDNA methylationEpigenome-wide DNA methylation analysisBlood mononuclear cellsImmune cell typesDifferentially methylated CpG sitesUnique CpG sitesDifferential CpG methylationDNA methylation analysisSignificant CpG sitesArray-based methodsGene set enrichment analysisComputational deconvolution methods