Journal: Clinical Epigenetics
Article Title: Comprehensive comparison of enzymatic and bisulfite DNA methylation analysis in clinically relevant samples
doi: 10.1186/s13148-025-01959-0
Figure Lengend Snippet: A) Heatmap of differentially methylated regions hypermethylated in tumor vs normal samples. B) Average methylation across two CpG islands in panel capture-sequencing from cfDNA of a NSCLC patient. C) PCA plot of Arm 3 samples from EPIC, panel, and WGMS. D) Density plot of panel regions by average percent methylation (NGS) or normalized beta values (EPIC). BS-seq, bisulfite cytosine conversion and next-generation sequencing; cfDNA, circulating cell-free plasma DNA; CRC, colorectal cancer; EM-seq, enzymatic cytosine conversion and next-generation sequencing; EPIC, MethylationEPIC array; NGS, next-generation sequencing; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; WGMS, whole genome methylation sequencing
Article Snippet: In this study, we directly compared enzymatic methylation conversion (NEBNext EM-seq; New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, USA [ ]) with the gold-standard bisulfite conversion, using a post-bisulfite adapter tagging (PBAT) approach (EZ-96 DNA Methylation-Gold, Zymo Research, Irvine, CA, USA and Accel-NGS methyl-seq DNA library kit [hereafter referred to as BS-seq, also used generally to refer to bisulfite conversion followed by NGS, and not to be confused with the original BS-Seq method [ ]], Swift Bioscience, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) for whole genome methylation sequencing (WGMS), targeted methylation panel sequencing and MethylationEPIC [ ] arrays (EPIC; Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) (Supplemental Fig. ).
Techniques: Methylation, Sequencing, Next-Generation Sequencing, Clinical Proteomics