Longitudinal data reveal strong genetic and weak non-genetic components of ethnicity-dependent blood DNA methylation levels
Chris G. McKennan, Katherine A. Naughton, Catherine T. Stanhope, Meyer Kattan, George T. O’Connor, Megan T. Sandel, Cynthia M. Visness, Robert A. Wood, Leonard B. Bacharier, Avraham Beigelman, Stephanie Lovinsky‐Desir, Alkis G. Togias, James E. Gern, Dan L. Nicolae, Carole Ober
The paper analyzes longitudinal DNA methylation data to show that race-associated patterns are present at birth and primarily genetic, with strong genetic and weak non-genetic contributions.
Epigenetics · Sep 30, 2020Peer-reviewedGenomics