Title
Long-read single-molecule maps of the functional methylome
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
4-1-2019
Journal
Genome Research
Volume
29
Issue
4
DOI
10.1101/gr.240739.118
Abstract
We report on the development of a methylation analysis workflow for optical detection of fluorescent methylation profiles along chromosomal DNA molecules. In combination with Bionano Genomics genome mapping technology, these profiles provide a hybrid genetic/epigenetic genome-wide map composed of DNA molecules spanning hundreds of kilobase pairs. The method provides kilobase pair–scale genomic methylation patterns comparable to whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) along genes and regulatory elements. These long single-molecule reads allow for methylation variation calling and analysis of large structural aberrations such as pathogenic macrosatellite arrays not accessible to single-cell second-generation sequencing. The method is applied here to study facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), simultaneously recording the haplotype, copy number, and methylation status of the disease-associated, highly repetitive locus on Chromosome 4q.
APA Citation
Sharim, H., Grunwald, A., Gabrieli, T., Michaeli, Y., Margalit, S., Torchinsky, D., Arielly, R., Nifker, G., Juhasz, M., Gularek, F., Almalvez, M., Dufault, B., Chandra, S., Liu, A., Bhattacharya, S., Chen, Y., Vilain, E., Wagner, K., Pevsner, J., Reifenberger, J., Lam, E., Hastie, A., Cao, H., Barseghyan, H., Weinhold, E., & Ebenstein, Y. (2019). Long-read single-molecule maps of the functional methylome. Genome Research, 29 (4). http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.240739.118