Methylation data for 27,720 Illumina 450K arrays retrieved from GEO

This data accompanies the manuscript 'Integration of public DNA methylation and expression networks via eQTMs improves prediction of functional gene-gene association' by Shuang Li et al, 2021. In this manuscript, we generate a co-methylation network using 27,720 Illumina 450K arrays, which have been jointly harmonized and normalized. We use the resulting co-methylation network, and eQTMs from a cross-tissue eQTM meta-analysis to determine links between methylated sites in the genome and gene expression levels from a RNA-seq based co-regulation network. The DNA methylation dataset for the harmonized 450K arrays is available for download below.

The download size is approximately 90Gb. We note that storage on this server is likely temporary: We intend to publish this dataset on Zenodo as well.

The discovered and predicted eQTMs, the corresponding CCA components and the trained prediction models in a Zenodo repository (https://zenodo.org/deposit/4666994). We provide notebooks to facilitate use of the proposed pipeline in a GitHub repository (https://github.com/molgenis/methylationnetwork).

Citation

Li, S; 2021; Integration of public DNA methylation and expression networks via eQTMs improves prediction of functional gene-gene association