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Intraindividual Variation and Short-term Temporal Trend in DNA Methylation of Human Blood

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Methyl-CpG-Binding Domain Sequencing: MBD-seq

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Methylation-derived Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Lung Cancer Risk in Heavy Smokers

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Insights from deconvolution of cell subtype proportions enhance the interpretation of functional genomic data

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Clinical epigenomics for cardiovascular disease: Diagnostics and therapies

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Sex‐specific associations of asthma acquisition with changes in DNA methylation during adolescence

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Leukocyte Counts Based on DNA Methylation at Individual Cytosines

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Association between sleep disordered breathing and epigenetic age acceleration: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

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DNA methylome profiling beyond promoters – taking an epigenetic snapshot of the breast tumor microenvironment

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Elevated OPRD1 promoter methylation in Alzheimer’s disease patients

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Deconvolution of DNA methylation identifies differentially methylated gene regions on 1p36 across breast cancer subtypes

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Leukocyte Traits and Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution in the Women’s Health Initiative and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

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Evaluation of nanopore sequencing for epigenetic epidemiology: a comparison with DNA methylation microarrays

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When to use Quantile Normalization?Preprint

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Using epigenomic studies in monozygotic twins to improve our understanding of cancer

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Understanding the Role of the Immune System in the Development of Cancer: New Opportunities for Population-Based Research

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Alteration of DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Scores Associated With Features of Schizophrenia and Common Variant Genetic Risk

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Estimation of Cell-Type Composition Including T and B Cell Subtypes for Whole Blood Methylation Microarray Data

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Postprandial alterations in whole-blood DNA methylation are mediated by changes in white blood cell composition

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Lymphoblastoid cell lines reveal associations of adult DNA methylation with childhood and current adversity that are distinct from whole blood associations

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Propelling the paradigm shift from reductionism to systems nutrition

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Autophagy impairment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea modulates intermittent hypoxia-induced oxidative stress and cell apoptosis via hypermethylation of the ATG5 gene promoter region

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Training a Model for Estimating Leukocyte Composition using Whole-Blood DNA Methylation and Cell Counts as Reference

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BMI trajectory in childhood is associated with asthma incidence at young adulthood mediated by DNA methylation

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Uncertainty quantification of reference-based cellular deconvolution algorithms

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The effect of age on DNA methylation in whole blood among Bangladeshi men and women

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DNA Methylation at Birth is Associated with Childhood Serum Immunoglobulin E Levels

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Assessment of immune cell profiles among post-menopausal women in the Women’s Health Initiative using DNA methylation-based methods

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Implication of DNA methylation during lifestyle mediated weight loss

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Correlations in global DNA methylation measures in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and granulocytes

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Non-specific filtering of beta-distributed data

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Amnion as a surrogate tissue reporter of the effects of maternal preeclampsia on the fetus

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The tissue-specific aspect of genome-wide DNA methylation in newborn and placental tissues: implications for epigenetic epidemiologic studies

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A crosstalk between epigenetic modulations and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease progression

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Immunomethylomics: A Novel Cancer Risk Prediction Tool.

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Adherence to the Mediterranean diet partially mediates socioeconomic differences in leukocyte LINE-1 methylation: evidence from a cross-sectional study in Italian women

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Nicotine and Its Downstream Metabolites in Maternal and Cord Sera: Biomarkers of Prenatal Smoking Exposure Associated with Offspring DNA Methylation

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A comparison of reference-based algorithms for correcting cell-type heterogeneity in Epigenome-Wide Association StudiesPreprint

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Tsukushi is a novel prognostic biomarker and correlates with tumor-infiltrating B cells in non-small cell lung cancer

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Influence of race, ethnicity, and sex on the performance of epigenetic predictors of phenotypic traits

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Genome-Wide Investigation of DNA Methylation Marks Associated with FV Leiden Mutation

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Air pollution and the epigenome: A model relationship for the exploration of toxicoepigenetics

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Don’t brush off buccal data heterogeneity

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Association of prenatal acetaminophen use and acetaminophen metabolites with DNA methylation of newborns: analysis of two consecutive generations of the Isle of Wight birth cohort

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Imputation of missing covariate values in epigenome-wide analysis of DNA methylation data

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An analysis of the effect of mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) promoter region DNA methylation on the response of naltrexone treatment of alcohol dependence

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DNA methylation signatures of cervical pre‐invasive and invasive disease: An epigenome‐wide association study

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Longitudinal changes in DNA methylation associated with clozapine use in treatment-resistant schizophrenia from two international cohorts

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Data Analysis of DNA Methylation Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS): A Guide to the Principles of Best Practice

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Thrombin Generation Potential and Whole-Blood DNA methylation

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DNA Methylation and Asthma Acquisition during Adolescence and Post-Adolescence, an Epigenome-Wide Longitudinal Study

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Birth weight and postnatal microbial exposures predict the distribution of peripheral blood leukocyte subsets in young adults in the Philippines

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Variability in DNA methylation at the serotonin transporter gene promoter: epigenetic mechanism or cell-type artifact?

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Association of DNA methylation signatures with premature ageing and cardiovascular death in patients with end-stage kidney disease: a pilot epigenome-wide association study

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Methylomic, Proteomic, and Metabolomic Correlates of Traffic-Related Air Pollution in the Context of Cardiorespiratory Health: A Systematic Review, Pathway Analysis, and Network Analysis

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No association between peripheral serotonin-gene-related DNA methylation and brain serotonin neurotransmission in the healthy and depressed state

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Identifying cell lines across pan-cancer to be used in preclinical research as a proxy for patient tumor samples

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Downregulation of Circulating Hsa-miR-200c-3p Correlates with Dyslipidemia in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease

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Association of childhood BMI trajectory with post-adolescent and adult lung function is mediated by pre-adolescent DNA methylation

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Methylation of Host Genes Associated with Coronavirus Infection from Birth to 26 Years

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Pre-adolescence DNA methylation is associated with BMI status change from pre- to post-adolescence

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