Quantifying the proportion of different cell types in the human cortex using DNA methylation profiles
Eilis J. Hannon, Emma Louise Dempster, Jonathan P. Davies, Barry A. Chioza, Georgina E. T. Blake, Joe Burrage, Stefania S S Policicchio, Alice Franklin, Emma Walker, Rosemary A. Bamford, Leonard C. Schalkwyk, Jonathan S. Mill
The paper develops and validates deconvolution models using DNA methylation data to estimate cell-type proportions in the human cortex, finding glial cells are twice as abundant as neurons and linking cell-type proportions to Alzheimer's disease neuropathology.
BMC Biology · Jan 25, 2024Peer-reviewedGenomics