BACKGROUND: The impact of cell-composition effects in analysis of DNA methylation data is now widely appreciated.
With the availability of a reference data set consisting of DNA methylation measurements on isolated cell types, it is
possible to impute cell proportions and adjust for them, but there is increasing interest in...
BACKGROUND: The impact of cell-composition effects in analysis of DNA methylation data is now widely appreciated.
With the availability of a reference data set consisting of DNA methylation measurements on isolated cell types, it is
possible to impute cell proportions and adjust for them, but there is increasing interest in...
BACKGROUND: Cell lineage-specific DNA methylation patterns distinguish normal human leukocyte subsets and can
be used to detect and quantify these subsets in peripheral blood. We have developed an approach that uses DNA
methylation to simultaneously quantify multiple leukocyte subsets, enabling investigation of immune modulations
in virtually any blood sample including...
BACKGROUND: Cell lineage-specific DNA methylation patterns distinguish normal human leukocyte subsets and can
be used to detect and quantify these subsets in peripheral blood. We have developed an approach that uses DNA
methylation to simultaneously quantify multiple leukocyte subsets, enabling investigation of immune modulations
in virtually any blood sample including...
Understanding the precise role of the immune system in cancer has been hindered by the complexity of the immune response and challenges in measuring immune cell types in health and disease in the context of large epidemiologic studies. In this review, we present the rationale to study immunity in cancer...
BACKGROUND: The impact of cell-composition effects in analysis of DNA methylation data is now widely appreciated. With the availability of a reference data set consisting of DNA methylation measurements on isolated cell types, it is possible to impute cell proportions and adjust for them, but there is increasing interest in...
BACKGROUND: Cell lineage-specific DNA methylation patterns distinguish normal human leukocyte subsets and can be used to detect and quantify these subsets in peripheral blood. We have developed an approach that uses DNA methylation to simultaneously quantify multiple leukocyte subsets, enabling investigation of immune modulations in virtually any blood sample including...
The potential influence of underlying differences in relative leukocyte distributions in studies involving blood-based profiling of DNA methylation is well recognized and has prompted development of a set of statistical methods for inferring changes in the distribution of white blood cells using DNA methylation signatures. However, the extent to which...
Background: There has been a long-standing need in biomedical research for a method that quantifies the normally mixed composition of leukocytes beyond what is possible by simple histological or flow cytometric assessments. The latter is restricted by the labile nature of protein epitopes, requirements for cell processing, and timely cell...
