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Table 2 Forensic exhibits and some epigenetic markers (CpG) information available using Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array

From: Crime investigation through DNA methylation analysis: methods and applications in forensics

S. No.

Forensic exhibits

Gene

Map Infoc

CpG Target/Illumina IDc

References

1.

Blood/MNCa

MAFG

SBNO2

MYO1G

NCOR2

Chr17: 79881543

Chr19: 1155225

Chr7: 45018849

Chr12: 124950720

cg01543184

cg06578434

cg10673833

cg25922751

(Thompson et al., 2012; Smith et al., 2014; Benton et al., 2015; Lee et al., 2015)

Saliva/BECb

DMRTA2

BARX1

HOXA3

NFIX

Chr1: 50884480

Chr9: 96715256

Chr7: 27146262

Chr19: 13112283

cg10512745

cg13398482

cg01964852

cg22824635

Vaginal Secretion/Menstrual Fluid

HOXD9

HOTAIR

C3

SHANK3

Chr2: 176988203

Chr12: 54355528

Chr19: 6721955

Chr22: 51169500

cg22541735

cg26079753

cg14279361

cg06422471

Semen

ACCN4;ASIC4

PLEC;MIR661

SARS

ANKAR

DACT1

USP49

Chr2: 220379058

Chr8: 145018185

Chr1: 109756023

Chr2: 190540650

Chr14: 59104243

Chr6: 41862737

cg24743778 cg26763284

cg18346935

cg05540789

cg04216397

cg01289140

2.

Monozygotic twins

SLC6A4/SERT

MAOA

PTPN7

Chr17: 28562220

ChrX: 43515457

Chr1: 202129566

cg22584138

cg14191108

cg18384097

(Wong et al., 2010; Zhao et al., 2011; Souren et al., 2013)

3.

Age

CELF6

NHLRC1

EDARADD

ASPA

PDE4C

ELOVL2

Chr15: 72612125

Chr6: 18122719

Chr1: 236559675

Chr17:3377265

Chr19: 18343901

Chr6: 11043368

cg21801378

cg22736354

cg09809672

cg02228185

cg17861230 cg01799681

(Bocklandt et al., 2011; Zykovich et al., 2013; Bekaert et al., 2015; Jones et al., 2015; Eipel et al., 2016)

4.

Race/Ethnic

CD101; IGSF2

PLSCR2

KRTCAP3

PM20D1

Chr1:117544416

Chr3:146213845

Chr 2: 27665128

Chr1:205818956

cg23953831

cg15847988

cg24768116

cg17178900

(Fraser et al., 2012; Heyn et al., 2013)

5.

Smoking

Obesity

T2D

Pain

AHRR

F2RL3

PLIN4

FTO

ADCY1

Chr5: 373378

Chr19: 17000585

Chr19: 4517804

Chr16: 53809231

Chr11: 507970

cg05575921

cg03636183

cg01907005

cg26580413

cg06417962

(Breitling et al., 2011; Zeilinger et al., 2013; Bell et al., 2014; Benton et al., 2015)

  1. aMononuclear cells
  2. bBuccal epithelial cells
  3. c(Source: Infinium HumanMethylation450K v1.2 Product Files for Beadchip, https://support.illumina.com/downloads/infinium_humanmethylation450_product_files.html)