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Case-control meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation and autism spectrum disorder.

Shan V AndrewsBrooke SheppardGayle C WindhamLaura A SchieveDiana E SchendelLisa A CroenPankaj ChopraReid S AlischCraig J NewschafferStephen T WarrenAndrew P FeinbergM Daniele FallinChristine Ladd-Acosta
Published in: Molecular autism (2018)
No single CpG site showed a large enough DNAm difference between cases and controls to achieve epigenome-wide significance in this sample size. However, our results suggest the potential to observe disease associations from blood-based samples. Among the seven sites achieving suggestive statistical significance, we observed consistent, and stronger, effects at the same sites among brain samples. Discovery-oriented EWAS for ASD using blood samples will likely need even larger samples and unified genetic data to further understand DNAm differences in ASD.
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