Accurate ethnicity prediction from placental DNA methylation data.

Victor YuanE Magda PriceGiulia Del GobboSara MostafaviBrian CoxAlexandra M BinderKarin B MichelsCarmen MarsitWendy P Robinson

Published in: Epigenetics & chromatin (2019)

PlaNET provides an improved approach to address population stratification in placental DNAme association studies. The method can be applied to predict ethnicity as a discrete or continuous variable and will be especially useful when self-reported ethnicity information is missing and genotyping markers are unavailable.

Keyphrases

dna methylation
genome wide
gene expression
electronic health record
high resolution
high throughput
big data
health information
case control
data analysis