RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Preprocessing, normalization and integration of the Illumina HumanMethylationEPIC array
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 065490
DO 10.1101/065490
A1 Jean-Philippe Fortin
A1 Timothy J. Triche, Jr.
A1 Kasper D. Hansen
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/23/065490.abstract
AB The minfi package is widely used for analyzing Illumina DNA methylation array data. Here we describe modifications to the minfi package required to support the HumanMethylationEPIC (”EPIC”) array from Illumina. We discuss methods for the joint analysis and normalization of data from the HumanMethylation450 (”450k”) and EPIC platforms. We also introduce the single-sample Noob (ssNoob) method, a normalization procedure suitable for incremental preprocessing of individual Human-Methylation arrays. Our results recommend the ssNoob method when integrating data from multiple generations of Infinium methylation arrays. Finally, we show how to use reference 450k datasets to estimate cell type composition of samples on EPIC arrays. The cumulative effect of these updates is to ensure that minfi provides the tools to best integrate existing and forthcoming Illumina methylation array data.