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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Reprod Toxicol. 2010 Nov 3;31(3):337–343. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.10.012

Table 7.

Techniques for Measuring DNA Methylation and Epigenome

CATEGORY TECHNICAL BASIS REFERENCES
Global Methylation HPLC [83]
Radioactive Incorporation [84]
Antibody Labeling and Cytometry [82]
Local Methylation Restriction Enzyme Digestion [85]
Combined Restriction Enzyme and Bisulfite Conversion [81]
Bisulphite Conversion and Sequencing [86, 87, 90]
Bisulfite Conversion and Pyrosequencing [88]
Bisulfite Conversion and Mass Spectometry [89]
Genome-wide Methylation MeDIP - Chip [56, 91]
ChIP - Seq [94]