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Optimized Analysis of DNA Methylation and Gene Expression from Small, Anatomically-defined Areas of the Brain
Published on: July 12, 2012
iMETHYL: an integrative database of human DNA methylation, gene expression, and genomic variation
Shohei Komaki1, Yuh Shiwa1,2,3, Ryohei Furukawa1
1Division of Biomedical Information Analysis, Iwate Medical University, Shiwa, Iwate, Japan.
Abstract:
We launched an integrative multi-omics database, iMETHYL (http://imethyl.iwate-megabank.org). iMETHYL provides whole-DNA methylation (~24 million autosomal CpG sites), whole-genome (~9 million single-nucleotide variants), and whole-transcriptome (>14 000 genes) data for CD4+ T-lymphocytes, monocytes, and neutrophils collected from approximately 100 subjects. These data were obtained from whole-genome bisulfite sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, and whole-transcriptome sequencing, making iMETHYL a comprehensive database.
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