Anne Richmond, Jure Mur, Sarah Harris, Janie Corley, Hannah R Elliott, Chris N Foley, Eilis Hannon, Zhana Kuncheva, Josine Min, Mahdi Moqri, Magatte Ndiaye, Benjamin Sun, Catalina Vallejos, Kejun Ying, Vadim N Gladyshev, Simon R Cox, Daniel L. McCartney, Riccardo Marioni
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Abstract
Multi-locus signatures of blood-based DNA methylation are well-established biomarkers for lifestyle and health outcomes. Here, we focus on two CpGs that are strongly associated with age and smoking behaviour. Imputing these loci via epigenome-wide CpGs results in stronger associations with outcomes in external datasets compared to directly measured CpGs. If extended epigenome-wide, CpG imputation could augment historic arrays and recently-released, inexpensive but lower-content arrays, thereby yielding better-powered association studies.