filter_data: Filtering DNA methylation 450k non_specific probes
Description
This function filters the reported nonspecific probes, and also filters probes that interrogate SNPs of minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.1. A list of nonspecific probes was obtained from Chen et al (2013) supplementary files.
Usage
filter_data(x)
Arguments
x
The normalised beta values in a data matrix format, where conditions are arranged in columns and cg probes are arranged in rows.
References
Chen YA, Lemire M, Choufani S, et al. Discovery of cross-reactive probes and polymorphic CpGs in the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 microarray. Epigenetics 2013;8:203-9.