Weighted Gene Coregulation Network Analysis of Promoter DNA Methylation on All-Cause Mortality in Old-Aged Birth Cohorts Finds Modules of High-Risk Associated Biomarkers.

The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
Jesper LundQihua Tan

Abstract

Overall or all-cause mortality is a key measure of health in a population. Multiple epigenome-wide association studies have been conducted on all-cause mortality with limited significant findings and low replication. To elucidate the coregulated DNA methylation patterns associated with all-cause mortality, we conducted a weighted DNA methylation coregulation network analysis on whole-blood samples of 1,425 older individuals from the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936. Our network-based analysis defined coregulated DNA methylation patterns in gene promoters into clusters or modules whose correlation with all-cause mortality was assessed by survival analysis. We found two significant modules or gene clusters associated with all-cause mortality in LBC1921 based on their eigengenes; one negatively correlated (p = 8.14E-03, 698 genes) and one positively correlated (p = 4.26E-02, 1,431 genes) with the risk of death. The two modules were replicated in LBC1936 with the same directions of correlation (p = 6.35E-02 and p = 3.64E-02, respectively). Furthermore, the modules revealed 32 genes associated with all-cause mortality (FDR < 0.05) linked to various diseases, including cancer and diabetes. Additionally, we performed pathway ana...Continue Reading

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