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Table 1 The top-ranked DMPs in asthma-discordant MZ twins

From: Methylomic markers of persistent childhood asthma: a longitudinal study of asthma-discordant monozygotic twins

Probe ID

Co-twin mean

Asthma mean

Mean ∆β

P value

Empirical P value

Hg19

Relation to CpG island

Gene region feature category (UCSC)

Illumina gene annotation

Probe type

Gene annotation from GREAT (distance from TSS)

cg03284554

0.178

0.218

0.041

6.87E-06

<0.0001

Chr8:43113670

N_Shore

TSS1500

HGSNAT

II

HGSNAT (−1078)

cg01496463

0.761

0.795

0.034

1.80E-05

0.0002

Chr12:3262908

 

3′UTR

TSPAN9

II

PRMT8 (−207777), TSPAN9 (+206127)

cg04373937

0.836

0.859

0.023

4.26E-05

<0.0001

Chr14:29622576

 

Intergenic

 

II

G2E3 (−475503), PRKD1 (−155927)

cg14688104

0.035

0.038

0.003

4.29E-05

0.0001

Chr8:99508617

Island

1stExon; 5′UTR

KCNS2

I

KCNS2 (+192)

cg08158233

0.244

0.192

−0.052

5.36E-05

0.0001

Chr8:37470214

 

Intergenic

 

II

ZNF703 (−202244), KCNU1 (+709215)

cg17269596

0.581

0.637

0.056

5.49E-05

0.0004

Chr1:243061735

N_Shelf

Intergenic

 

II

FAM36A (−3526)

cg14299157

0.813

0.756

−0.058

5.59E-05

<0.0001

Chr9:137272770

N_Shelf

Intergenic

 

II

PPP1R26 (−238698), OLFM1 (+165861)

cg21201551

0.747

0.779

0.032

5.90E-05

0.0001

Chr1:31404820

S_Shelf

Intergenic

 

II

PUM1 (−93670), NKAIN1 (+80500)

cg16414472

0.503

0.414

−0.089

6.05E-05

0.0002

Chr11:67866681

 

Body

LRP5

I

PPP6R3 (−118080), LRP5 (+29998)

cg01431063

0.057

0.072

0.014

8.92E-05

<0.0001

Chr10:115850893

Island

Intergenic

 

II

TDRD1 (−78125), ADRB1 (+57098)

cg01048931

0.071

0.084

0.013

9.42E-05

<0.0001

Chr7:55639931

Island

Body

VOPP1

I

VOPP1 (+268)

  1. Ranked by P value. Empirical P value = (number of permutations which are at least as significant as the true result (P < 0.0001) divided by the number of permutations performed (n =10000))
  2. DMPs differentially methylated positions, MZ monozygotic, GREAT Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool, TSS transcription start site, UCSC University of California Santa Cruz genome browser