As a prelude to a potential Human Epigenome Project, the Human Epigenome Pilot Project aims to identify and catalogue Methylation Variable Positions (MVPs) in the human genome.2 Advances in sequencing technology now allow for assaying genome-wide epigenomic states by multiple molecular methodologies.3 Micro- and nanoscale devices have been constructed or proposed to investigate the epigenome.4
An international effort to assay reference epigenomes commenced in 2010 in the form of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC).5678 IHEC members aim to generate at least 1,000 reference (baseline) human epigenomes from different types of normal and disease-related human cell types.91011
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