Methylation profiling in the Million Veteran Program: design, quality control, and smoking-associated epigenetic signatures
Patrick A. Schreiner, Kyriacos Markianos, Michael Francis, Brendan M. Despard, Bryan R. Gorman, Iskander Said, Frederick Dong, Shruti Gautam, Daniel R. Dochtermann, Yunling Shi, Poornima Devineni, Colette Kirkpatrick, Nick Khazanov, Jennifer Moser, Million Veterans Program, , Saiju Pyarajan
The paper describes methylation profiling in the Million Veteran Program, identifies smoking-associated epigenetic signatures, and reports novel probe-smoking associations through ancestry-stratified EWAS.
medRxiv · Apr 23, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine