Characterization of functional methylomes by next-generation capture sequencing identifies novel disease-associated variants

Fiona Allum, Xiaojian Shao, Frédéric Guénard, Marie Michelle Simon, Stephan Busche, Maxime Caron, John Lambourne, Julie Lessard, Karolina Tandre, Åsa K. Hedman, Tony Kwan, Bing Ge, Lars Rönnblom, Mark I. McCarthy, Panos Deloukas, Todd Richmond, Daniel Burgess, Timothy D. Spector, André Tchernof, Simon MarceauMark Lathrop, Marie Claude Vohl, Tomi Pastinen, Elin Grundberg*, Kourosh R. Ahmadi, Chrysanthi Ainali, Amy Barrett, Veronique Bataille, Jordana T. Bell, Alfonso Buil, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Antigone S. Dimas, Richard Durbin, Daniel Glass, Neelam Hassanali, Catherine Ingle, David Knowles, Maria Krestyaninova, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Christopher E. Lowe, Eshwar Meduri, Paola Di Meglio, Josine L. Min, Stephen B. Montgomery, Frank O. Nestle, Alexandra C. Nica, James Nisbet, Stephen O'Rahilly, Leopold Parts, Simon Potter, Johanna Sandling, Magdalena Sekowska, So Youn Shin, Kerrin S. Small, Nicole Soranzo, Gabriela Surdulescu, Mary E. Travers, Loukia Tsaprouni, Sophia Tsoka, Alicja Wilk, Tsun Po Yang, Krina T. Zondervan

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    Original languageEnglish
    Article number7211
    JournalNature Communications
    Volume6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 29 May 2015

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    We thank J. Wendt (Roche NimbleGen) for useful input on the experiments. We also thank W. Cheung, M. Turgeon and C. Greenwood at McGill University for bioinformatics and statistical support. This work was supported by a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) team grant awarded to E.G., A.T., M.C.V. and M.L. (TEC-128093) and the CIHR funded Epigeneome Mapping Centre at McGill University (EP1-120608) awarded to T.P. and M.L., and the Swedish Research Council, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation awarded to L.R. F.A. holds studentship from The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (MUHC). F.G. is a recipient of a research fellowship award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. A.T. is the director of a Research Chair in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. M.C.V. is the recipient of the Canada Research Chair in Genomics Applied to Nutrition and Health (Tier 1). E.G. and T.P. are recipients of a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 award. The MuTHER Study was funded by a programme grant from the Wellcome Trust (081917/Z/07/Z) and core funding for the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (090532). TwinsUK was funded by the Wellcome Trust; European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013). The study also receives support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-funded BioResource, Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London. T.D.S. is a holder of an ERC Advanced Principal Investigator award. SNP genotyping was performed by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and National Eye Institute via NIH/CIDR. Finally, we thank the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium and the Mapping Centers (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/epigenomics/) for the production of publicly available reference epigenomes. Specifically, we thank the mapping centre at MGH/BROAD for generation of human adipose reference epigenomes used in this study.

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