HBI: a hierarchical Bayesian interaction model to estimate cell-type-specific methylation quantitative trait loci incorporating priors from cell-sorted bisulfite sequencing data
Abstract Methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) quantify the effects of genetic variants on DNA methylation levels. However, most published studies utilize bulk methylation datasets composed of different cell types and limit our understanding of cell-type-specific methylation regulation. We pr...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024-10-01
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| Series: | Genome Biology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-024-03411-7 |
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| Summary: | Abstract Methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) quantify the effects of genetic variants on DNA methylation levels. However, most published studies utilize bulk methylation datasets composed of different cell types and limit our understanding of cell-type-specific methylation regulation. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian interaction (HBI) model to infer cell-type-specific meQTLs, which integrates a large-scale bulk methylation data and a small-scale cell-type-specific methylation data. Through simulations, we show that HBI enhances the estimation of cell-type-specific meQTLs. In real data analyses, we demonstrate that HBI can further improve the functional annotation of genetic variants and identify biologically relevant cell types for complex traits. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-760X |