GenStatM:
Generation of differential DNA methylation statistics
Description
Given an Illumina 450k data matrix and a phenotype vector, it will
generate statistics of differential DNA methylation using limma, at the
gene-level, for all pairwise comparisons of phenotype levels.
Usage
GenStatM(dnaM.m,pheno.v)
Arguments
dnaM.m
The DNA methylation beta valued data matrix with rownames annotated to
Illumina 450k probe IDs
pheno.v
The phenotype vector.
Value
top
A list of matrices, from the limma output, ranking genes
according to differential methylation between two phenotypes as
specified in the contrasts matrix, i.e. top[[i]] will contain the
ranking for the i'th contrast.
cont
The contrasts matrix, with columns labeling the contrasts.
avbeta
The beta-valued DNAm data matrix at the gene-level,
following the procedure as described in Jiao et al Bioinformatics 2014.
Details
References
A systems-level integrative framework for genome-wide DNA methylation and gene expression data identifies differential gene expression modules under epigenetic control. Jiao Y, Widschwendter M, Teschendorff AE. Bioinformatics. 2014;30(16):2360-2366