Dynamic evolution of clonal epialleles revealed by methclone

作者:Li Sheng; Garrett Bakelman Francine; Perl Alexander E; Luger Selina M; Zhang Chao; To Bik L; Lewis Ian D; Brown Anna L; D' Andrea Richard J; Ross M Elizabeth; Levine Ross; Carroll Martin; Melnick Ari*; Mason Christopher E
来源:Genome Biology, 2014, 15(9): 472.
DOI:10.1186/s13059-014-0472-5

摘要

We describe methclone, a novel method to identify epigenetic loci that harbor large changes in the clonality of their epialleles (epigenetic alleles). Methclone efficiently analyzes genome-wide DNA methylation sequencing data. We quantify the changes using a composition entropy difference calculation and also introduce a new measure of global clonality shift, loci with epiallele shift per million loci covered, which enables comparisons between different samples to gauge overall epiallelic dynamics. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of methclone in capturing functional epiallele shifts in leukemia patients from diagnosis to relapse.

  • 出版日期2014