Evaluation of pre-processing on the meta-analysis of DNA methylation data from the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip platform

• Claudia Sala ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: claudia.sala3@unibo.it (CS); christine.nardini.rsrc@gmail.com (CN)

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4889-1047

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• Pietro Di Lena,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-8918

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• Danielle Fernandes Durso,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andrea Prodi,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Smart Cities Living Lab, Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity, CNR, Bologna, Italy

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• Gastone Castellani,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Interdepartmental Center “L. Galvani”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Christine Nardini

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: claudia.sala3@unibo.it (CS); christine.nardini.rsrc@gmail.com (CN)

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, CNR IAC “Mauro Picone”, Roma, Italy, Sol Group, Monza, Italy

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