TY - JOUR AU - Ecker, Simone AU - Chen, Lu AU - Pancaldi, Vera AU - Bagger, Frederik O AU - Fernández, José María AU - Carrillo-de-Santa-Pau, Enrique AU - Juan, David AU - Mann, Alice L AU - Watt, Stephen AU - Casale, Francesco Paolo AU - Sidiropoulos, Nikos AU - Rapin, Nicolas AU - Merkel, Angelika AU - Stunnenberg, Hendrik G AU - Stegle, Oliver AU - Frontini, Mattia AU - Downes, Kate AU - Pastinen, Tomi AU - Kuijpers, Taco W AU - Rico, Daniel AU - Valencia, Alfonso AU - Beck, Stephan AU - Soranzo, Nicole AU - Paul, Dirk S PY - 2017 DO - 10.1186/s13059-017-1156-8 SN - 1474-760X UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7240 AB - BACKGROUND: A healthy immune system requires immune cells that adapt rapidly to environmental challenges. This phenotypic plasticity can be mediated by transcriptional and epigenetic variability. RESULTS: We apply a novel analytical approach to... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - DNA methylation KW - Differential variability KW - Gene expression KW - Heterogeneity KW - Immune cells KW - Monocytes KW - Neutrophils KW - Phenotypic plasticity KW - T cells KW - Cluster Analysis KW - CpG Islands KW - DNA Methylation KW - Female KW - Gene Expression Profiling KW - Gene Regulatory Networks KW - Genetic Variation KW - Humans KW - Immune System KW - Male KW - Neutrophils KW - Organ Specificity KW - Sex Factors KW - Epigenesis, Genetic KW - Gene Expression Regulation KW - Genome-Wide Association Study KW - Transcription, Genetic TI - Genome-wide analysis of differential transcriptional and epigenetic variability across human immune cell types TY - journal article ER -