Miles C. Benton

This study examines DNA methylation changes in cannabis users with and without tobacco use in a longitudinal cohort, finding distinct methylation patterns associated with cannabis exposure.

The paper identifies nine nuclear-encoded SNPs associated with exercise response in the Gene SMART cohort using whole-mitochondrial genome sequencing and composite trait analysis.

The paper develops a Bayesian model to identify cell-type specific methylation variation in heterogeneous samples and finds it detects more differentially methylated loci in specific cell types.

The paper develops a Bayesian model selection algorithm to identify cell-specific DNA methylation patterns, accounting for cell lineage and sex effects, and shows that many CpG markers are differentially methylated across multiple cell types.