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Research Paper

Variation in DNA methylation of human blood over a 1-year period using the Illumina MethylationEPIC array

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Pages 1056-1071 | Received 13 Apr 2018, Accepted 22 Sep 2018, Published online: 21 Oct 2018

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Table 1. Summary characteristics for 35 participants who contributed two blood samples over 1-year period.

Figure 1. (a) Scatterplot of the first two principal components (PCs) estimated from the ComBat-adjusted β-values. Each point represents an individual sample, numbered according to the subject. Two subjects, 30 and 26, are indicated in the plot to illustrate examples of subjects with low/high relative within-person variation in DNA methylation between the two time points.(b) Empirical null distribution of the average Euclidean distance between pairs of samples. Red line denotes the average within-person Euclidean distance computed across each of the n = 35 subjects.

Figure 1. (a) Scatterplot of the first two principal components (PCs) estimated from the ComBat-adjusted β-values. Each point represents an individual sample, numbered according to the subject. Two subjects, 30 and 26, are indicated in the plot to illustrate examples of subjects with low/high relative within-person variation in DNA methylation between the two time points.(b) Empirical null distribution of the average Euclidean distance between pairs of samples. Red line denotes the average within-person Euclidean distance computed across each of the n = 35 subjects.

Table 2. Summary of Intraclass correlation coefficients of CpG locus methylation, for non-sex and sex chromosomes, in Beta and M scale.

Figure 2. ICC profile before and after batch effect (Combat) adjustment.

Figure 2. ICC profile before and after batch effect (Combat) adjustment.

Table 3a. Summary of the ICCs of CpG locus methylation, M values, ComBat adjusted, non-sex chromosomes*.

Figure 3. ICC as a function of mean β-value.

Figure 3. ICC as a function of mean β-value.

Figure 4. Distribution of hyper-stable probes by CpG Island status.

Figure 4. Distribution of hyper-stable probes by CpG Island status.

Table 3b. Summary of the intraclass correlation coefficients of CpG locus methylation, M values, ComBat adjusted, sex chromosomes*.

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