Computational prediction of methylation status in human genomic sequences

Das, R., Dimitrova, N., Xuan, Z. Y., Rollins, R. A., Haghighi, F., Edwards, J. R., Ju, J. Y., Bestor, T. H., Zhang, M. Q. (July 2006) Computational prediction of methylation status in human genomic sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103 (28). pp. 10713-6. ISSN 0027-8424 (Print)

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Abstract

Epigenetic effects in mammals depend largely on heritable genomic methylation patterns. We describe a computational pattern recognition method that is used to predict the methylation landscape of human brain DNA. This method can be applied both to CpG islands and to non-CpG island regions. It computes the methylation propensity for an 800-bp region centered on a CpG dinucleotide based on specific sequence features within the region. We tested several classifiers for classification performance, including K means clustering, linear discriminant analysis, logistic regression, and support vector machine. The best performing classifier used the support vector machine approach. Our program (called hdfinder) presently has a prediction accuracy of 86%, as validated with CpG regions for which methylation status has been experimentally determined. Using hdfinder, we have depicted the entire genomic methylation patterns for all 22 human autosomes.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Algorithms Computational Biology DNA chemistry metabolism DNA Methylation Genome Human Humans Predictive Value of Tests
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA methylation
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases > database construction
bioinformatics > computational biology
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > computers > computer software
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > CpG islands
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > databases > databases
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Zhang lab
Depositing User: CSHL Librarian
Date: 11 July 2006
Date Deposited: 20 Dec 2011 16:38
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2017 16:09
PMCID: PMC1502297
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22779

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