Awardee OrganizationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS
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Abstract Text
Schizophrenia is a severe common mental disease. Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to
the schizophrenia development. DNA methylations, as the dynamic consequence of the interplay between
genome and environment and further link with phenotypes, are investigated in schizophrenia patients using
traditional methylation profiling methods. Many methylation patterns are discovered to deepen our
understanding of the molecular etiology of schizophrenia. However, traditional whole-genome methylation
profiling methods cannot reliably measure all-site methylation level, and leave a lot of methylation patterns
uncovered, while novel methylation and genetic variants are needed urgently for schizophrenia. To
overcome these limitations, this project focuses on novel biomarker discovery from genome-wide
methylation/variant dissection in schizophrenia samples using Nanopore sequencing. To do this, (1)
methylation detection on Nanopore sequencing will be substantially improved using novel self-supervised
learning where unlabeled Nanopore data will substantially improve the learning process. The methylation
detection error in the downstream analysis of schizophrenia is thus minimized; (2) 10 pairs of schizophrenia
samples and control will be sequenced via Nanopore sequencing, and whole-genome millions of
methylations will be detected using improved methylation detection. Since millions of methylation sites are
reliably measured, novel methylation differentiation in schizophrenia will be explored; (3) Both wholegenome
genetic variants and methylation are detected and investigated simultaneously to discover more
methylation-variant patterns for schizophrenia. The completion of these aims will provide novel methylation
and methylation-variant biomarkers for deepening our understanding of schizophrenia.
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