人类基因组DNA甲基化数据分析的研究现状

作为人类基因组最为典型的表观遗传现象,DNA甲基化在多种关键生理活动中扮演重要角色.系统分析基因组尺度的DNA甲基化概况意义重大.从Cp G岛等基本定义出发,阐述了高通量DNA甲基化的检测技术以及针对芯片技术与下一代测序技术的低水平数据处理方法;重点对比了基于机器学习理论对Cp G位点及Cp G岛甲基化水平的预测算法,以及所利用的特征对预测效果的影响与发展趋势;并对DNA差异甲基化在组织特异性、癌症等多种疾病中的计算分析进行了全面的综述.

DNA Methylome Data Analysis in Human Genome

As the most common type of epigenomic modifications in human genome, DNA methyaltion plays crucial roles in many key biological activities. It is meaningful to investigate the DNA methylation landscape. In this review, some fundamental and controversial definitions are introduced in the first part, and the genome-wide detection and analysis methods are investigated, especially the array-based and sequence-based methods; the computational prediction models of methylation levels of CpG sites and CpG islands are highlighted in detail, and the vital influence of applied features for prediction performances is analyzed. Finally, the computational analyses of differential methylation in tissues and various diseases including cancer are discussed.