# The epimutacions User’s Guide

Leire Abarrategui1,2,3,4*, Carles Hernandez-Ferrer5,6**, Carlos Ruiz-Arenas7,8*** and Juan R. Gonzalez2,9,10****

1Bioinformatics Research Group in Epidemiology (BRGE)
2Barcelona Insitute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
3Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University
4Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
5Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), Center for Genomic Regulation
6Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)
7Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER)
8Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
9Bioinformatics Research Group in Epidemiology (BRGE),
10Department of Mathematics, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

*leire.abarrategui-martinez@newcastle.ac.uk
**carles.hernandez@cnag.crg.eu
***carlos.ruiza@upf.edu
****juanr.gonzalez@isglobal.org

#### 2025-04-15

#### Abstract

Epimutations are rare alterations in the methylation pattern at specific loci. Have been demonstrated that epimutations could be the causative factor of some genetic diseases. Nonetheless, no standard methods are available to detect and quantify these alterations. This vignette provides an introductory guide to the `epimutacions` package. The package contains several outlier detection methods to identify epimutations in genome-wide DNA methylation microarrays data. The areas covered in this document are: (1) package installation; (2) data loading and preprocessing; and (3) epimutation identification, annotation and visualization.

#### Package

epimutacions 1.12.0

# 1 Introduction

## 1.1 Background

Epimutations are rare alterations in the methylation pattern at specific loci. Have been demonstrated that epimutations could be the causative factor of some genetic diseases. For example, epimutations can lead to cancers, such as Lynch syndrome, rare diseases such as Prader-Willi syndrome, and are associated with common disorders, such as autism. Nonetheless, no standard methods are available to detect and quantify these alterations. Two methods for epimutations detection on methylation microarray data have been reported: (1) based on identifying CpGs with outlier values and then cluster them in epimutations (Barbosa et al. 2018); (2) define candidate regions with bumphunter and test their statistical significance with a MANOVA (Aref-Eshghi et al. 2019). However, the implementation of these methods is not publicly available, and these approaches have not been compared.

We have developed `epimutacions` R/Bioconductor package. We have implemented those two methods (called `quantile` and `manova`, respectively). We implemented four additional approaches, using a different distribution to detect CpG outliers (`beta`), or a different model to assess region significance (`mlm`, `mahdist`, and `iForest`).

The package `epimutacions` provides tools to raw DNA methylation microarray intensities normalization and epimutations identification, visualization and annotation.
The full `epimutacions` user´s guide is available in this vignette.
The main function to estimate the epimutations is called `epimutations()`.

The name of the package is `epimutacions` (pronounced `ɛ pi mu ta 'sj ons`) which means epimutations in Catalan, a language from the northeast of Spain.

## 1.2 Methodology

The `epimutacions` package computes a genome-wide DNA methylation analysis to identify the epimutations to be considered as biomarkers for case samples with a suspected genetic disease. The function `epimutations()` infers epimutations on a case-control design. It compares a case sample against a reference panel (healthy individuals). The package also includes leave-one-out approach (`epimutations_one_leave_out()`). It compares individual methylation profiles of a single sample (regardless if they are cases or controls) against all other samples from the same cohort.

The `epimutacions` package includes 6 outlier detection approaches (figure 1): (1) Multivariate Analysis of variance (`manova`), (2) Multivariate Linear Model (`mlm`), (3) isolation forest (`iForest`), (4) robust mahalanobis distance (`mahdist`) (5) `quantile` and (6) `beta`.

The approaches `manova`, `mlm`, `iForest` and `mahdist` define the candidate regions (differentially methylated regions (DMRs)) using bumphunter method (Jaffe et al. 2012). Then, those DMRs are tested to identify regions with CpGs being outliers when comparing with the reference panel. `quantile` uses the sliding window approach to individually compare the methylation value in each proband against the reference panel and then cluster them in epimutations.
`Beta` utilizes beta distribution to identify outlier CpGs.

We have defined an epimutation as a consecutive window of a minimum of 3 outliers CpGs with a maximum distance of 1kb between them (Barbosa et al. 2018).

Figure 1: Implementation of each outlier detection method

# 2 Setup

## 2.1 Installing the packages

    if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
        install.packages("BiocManager")

    BiocManager::install("epimutacions")

    if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
        install.packages("BiocManager")

    BiocManager::install("epimutacionsData")

## 2.2 Loading libraries

    library(epimutacions)

## 2.3 Quick start

The workflow in figure 2 explains the main analysis in the `epimutacions` package.

The package allows two different types of inputs:

- 1. Case samples `IDAT` files (raw microarray intensities) together with `RGChannelSet` object as reference panel. The reference panel can be supplied by the user or can be selected through the example datasets that the package provides (section 3).
- 2. `GenomicRatioSet` object containing case and control samples.

The normalization (`epi_preprocess()`) converts the raw microarray intensities into usable methylation measurement (\(\beta\) values at CpG locus level). As a result, we obtain a `GenomicRatioSet` object, which can be used as `epimutations()` function input. The data should contain information about values of CpG sites, phenotype and feature data.

Figure 2: Allowed data formats, normalization and input types

# 3 Datasets

The package contains 3 example datasets adapted from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO):

- 1. 4 case samples IDAT files (GEO: GSE131350)
- 2. `reference_panel`: a `RGChannelSet` class object containing 22 healthy individuals (GEO: GSE127824)
- 3. `methy`: a `GenomicRatioSet` object which includes 49 controls (GEO: GSE104812) and 3 cases (GEO: GSE97362).

We also included a dataset specifying the 40,408 candidate regions in Illumina 450K array which could be epimutations (see section 3.2).

We created the `epimutacionsData` package in `ExperimentHub`. It contains the reference panel, methy and the candidate epimutations datasets. The package includes the IDAT files as external data. To access the datasets we need to install the packages by running the following commands:

    if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
        install.packages("BiocManager")

    BiocManager::install("ExperimentHub")

Then, we need to load the package and create an `ExperimentHub` object:

    library(ExperimentHub)
    eh <- ExperimentHub()
    query(eh, c("epimutacionsData"))

    ExperimentHub with 3 records
    # snapshotDate(): 2025-04-11
    # $dataprovider: GEO, Illumina 450k array
    # $species: Homo sapiens
    # $rdataclass: RGChannelSet, GenomicRatioSet, GRanges
    # additional mcols(): taxonomyid, genome, description,
    #   coordinate_1_based, maintainer, rdatadateadded, preparerclass, tags,
    #   rdatapath, sourceurl, sourcetype
    # retrieve records with, e.g., 'object[["EH6690"]]'

               title
      EH6690 | Control and case samples
      EH6691 | Reference panel
      EH6692 | Candidate epimutations

## 3.1 IDAT files and reference panel

IDAT files directory in `epimutacionsData` package:

    baseDir <- system.file("extdata", package = "epimutacionsData")

The reference panel and `methy` dataset can be found in `EH6691` and `EH6690` record of the `eh` object:

    reference_panel <- eh[["EH6691"]]
    methy <- eh[["EH6690"]]

## 3.2 Candidate regions

In Illumina 450K array, probes are unequally distributed along the genome, limiting the number of regions that can fulfil the requirements to be considered an epimutation. Thus, we have computed a dataset containing all the regions that could be candidates to become an epimutation.

We used the clustering approach from bumphunter to define the candidate epimutations. We defined a primary dataset with all the CpGs from the Illumina 450K array. Then, we run bumphunter and selected those regions with at least 3 CpGs and a maximum distance of 1kb between them. As a result, we found 40,408 candidate epimutations. The function `epimutation()` filters the identified epimutations using these candidate regions.

The following is the code used to identify the candidate epimutations in Illumina 450K array:

    library(minfi)
    # Regions 450K
    library("IlluminaHumanMethylation450kanno.ilmn12.hg19")

    data(Locations)

    ### Select CpGs (names starting by cg) in autosomic chromosomes
    locs.450 <- subset(Locations, grepl("^cg", rownames(Locations)) & chr %in% paste0("chr", 1:22))
    locs.450GR <- makeGRangesFromDataFrame(locs.450,
                                           start.field = "pos",
                                           end.field = "pos",
                                           strand = "*")
    locs.450GR <- sort(locs.450GR)
    mat <- matrix(0, nrow = length(locs.450GR), ncol = 2,
                  dimnames = list(names(locs.450GR), c("A", "B")))

    ## Set sample B to all 1
    mat[, 2] <- 1

    ## Define model matrix
    pheno <- data.frame(var = c(0, 1))
    model <- model.matrix(~ var, pheno)

    ## Run bumphunter
    bumps <- bumphunter(mat, design = model, pos = start(locs.450GR),
                        chr = as.character(seqnames(locs.450GR)),
                        cutoff = 0.05)$table
    bumps.fil <- subset(bumps, L >= 3)

The candidate regions can be found in `EH6692` record of the `eh` object:

    candRegsGR <- eh[["EH6692"]]

# 4 Preprocessing

The `epi_preprocess()` function allows calling the 6 preprocessing methods from `minfi` package:

Method | Function | Description
--- | --- | ---
`raw` | `preprocessRaw` | Converts the Red/Green channel for an Illumina methylation array into methylation signal, without using any normalization
`illumina` | `preprocessIllumina` | Implements preprocessing for Illumina methylation microarrays as used in Genome Studio
`swan` | `preprocessSWAN` | Subset-quantile Within Array Normalisation (SWAN). It allows Infinium I and II type probes on a single array to be normalized together
`quantile` | `preprocessQuantile` | Implements stratified quantile normalization preprocessing for Illumina methylation microarrays
`noob` | `preprocessNoob` | Noob (normal-exponential out-of-band) is a background correction method with dye-bias normalization for Illumina Infinium methylation arrays
`funnorm` | `preprocessFunnorm` | Functional normalization (FunNorm) is a between-array normalization method for the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 platform

Each normalization approach has some unique parameters which can be modified through `norm_parameters()` function:

parameters | Description
--- | ---
illumina
bg.correct | Performs background correction
normalize | Performs controls normalization
reference | The reference array for control normalization
quantile
fixOutliers | Low outlier Meth and Unmeth signals will be fixed
removeBadSamples | Remove bad samples
badSampleCutoff | The cutoff to label samples as ‘bad’
quantileNormalize | Performs quantile normalization
stratified | Performs quantile normalization within region strata
mergeManifest | Merged to the output the information in the associated manifest package
sex | Sex of the samples
noob
offset | Offset for the normexp background correct
dyeCorr | Performs dye normalization
dyeMethod | Dye bias correction to be done
funnorm
nPCs | The number of principal components from the control probes
sex | Sex of the samples
bgCorr | Performs NOOB background correction before functional normalization
dyeCorr | Performs dye normalization
keepCN | Keeps copy number estimates

We can obtain the default settings for each method by invoking the function `norm_parameters()` with no arguments:

    norm_parameters()

    $illumina
    $illumina$bg.correct
    [1] TRUE

    $illumina$normalize
    [1] "controls" "no"

    $illumina$reference
    [1] 1

    $quantile
    $quantile$fixOutliers
    [1] TRUE

    $quantile$removeBadSamples
    [1] FALSE

    $quantile$badSampleCutoff
    [1] 10.5

    $quantile$quantileNormalize
    [1] TRUE

    $quantile$stratified
    [1] TRUE

    $quantile$mergeManifest
    [1] FALSE

    $quantile$sex
    NULL

    $noob
    $noob$offset
    [1] 15

    $noob$dyeCorr
    [1] TRUE

    $noob$dyeMethod
    [1] "single"    "reference"

    $funnorm
    $funnorm$nPCs
    [1] 2

    $funnorm$sex
    NULL

    $funnorm$bgCorr
    [1] TRUE

    $funnorm$dyeCorr
    [1] TRUE

    $funnorm$keepCN
    [1] FALSE

However, we can modify the parameter(s) as the following example for `illumina` approach:

    parameters <- norm_parameters(illumina = list("bg.correct" = FALSE))
    parameters$illumina$bg.correct

    [1] FALSE

We are going to preprocess the IDAT files and reference panel (3). We need to specify the IDAT files directory and the reference panel in `RGChannelSet` format. As a result, we will obtain a `GenomicRatioSet` object containing the control and case samples:

    GRset <- epi_preprocess(baseDir,
                            reference_panel,
                            pattern = "SampleSheet.csv")

# 5 Epimutations

## 5.1 Epimutations detection

The function `epimutations()` includes 6 methods for epimutation identification: (1) Multivariate Analysis of variance (`manova`), (2) Multivariate Linear Model (`mlm`), (3) isolation forest (`iForest`), (4) robust mahalanobis distance (`mahdist`) (5) `quantile` and (6) `beta`.

To illustrate the following examples we are going to use the dataset `methy` (section 3). We need to separate the case and control samples:

    case_samples <- methy[,methy$status == "case"]
    control_samples <- methy[,methy$status == "control"]

We can specify the chromosome or region to analyze which helps to reduce the execution time:

    epi_mvo <- epimutations(case_samples,
                            control_samples,
                            method = "manova")

The function `epimutations_one_leave_out()` compared individual methylation profiles of a single sample (regardless if they are cases or controls) against all other samples from the same cohort. To use this function we do not need to split the dataset. To ilustrate this example we are going to use the `GRset` dataset available in `epimutacions` package:

    #manova (default method)
    data(GRset)
    epi_mva_one_leave_out<- epimutations_one_leave_out(GRset)

## 5.2 Unique parameters

The `epi_parameters()` function is useful to set the individual parameters for each outliers detection approach. The following table describes the arguments:

parameters | Description
--- | ---
Manova, mlm
pvalue_cutoff | The threshold p-value to select which CpG regions are outliers
iso.forest
outlier_score_cutoff | The threshold to select which CpG regions are outliers
ntrees | The number of binary trees to build for the model
mahdist.mcd
nsamp | The number of subsets used for initial estimates in the MCD
quantile
window_sz | The maximum distance between CpGs to be considered in the same DMR
offset_mean/offset_abs | The upper and lower threshold to consider a CpG an outlier
beta
pvalue_cutoff | The minimum p-value to consider a CpG an outlier
diff_threshold | The minimum methylation difference between the CpG and the mean methylation to consider a position an outlier

`epi_parameters()` with no arguments, returns a list of the default settings for each method:

    epi_parameters()

    $manova
    $manova$pvalue_cutoff
    [1] 0.05

    $mlm
    $mlm$pvalue_cutoff
    [1] 0.05

    $iForest
    $iForest$outlier_score_cutoff
    [1] 0.7

    $iForest$ntrees
    [1] 100

    $mahdist
    $mahdist$nsamp
    [1] "deterministic"

    $quantile
    $quantile$window_sz
    [1] 1000

    $quantile$offset_abs
    [1] 0.15

    $quantile$qsup
    [1] 0.995

    $quantile$qinf
    [1] 0.005

    $beta
    $beta$pvalue_cutoff
    [1] 1e-06

    $beta$diff_threshold
    [1] 0.1

The set up of any parameter can be done as the following example for `manova`:

    parameters <- epi_parameters(manova = list("pvalue_cutoff" = 0.01))
    parameters$manova$pvalue_cutoff

    [1] 0.01

## 5.3 Results description

The `epimutations` function returns a data frame (tibble) containing all the epimutations identified in the given case sample. If no epimutation is found, the function returns a row containing the case sample information and missing values for all other arguments. The following table describes each argument:

Column name | Description
--- | ---
`epi_id` | systematic name for each epimutation identified
`sample` | The name of the sample containing that epimutation
`chromosome` `start` `end` | The location of the epimutation
`sz` | The window’s size of the event
`cpg_ids` | The number of CpGs in the epimutation
`cpg_n` | The names of CpGs in the epimutation
`outlier_score` | For method `manova` it provides the approximation to F-test and the Pillai score, separated by `/` For method `mlm` it provides the approximation to F-test and the R2 of the model, separated by `/` For method `iForest` it provides the magnitude of the outlier score. For method `beta` it provides the mean p-value of all GpGs in that DMR For methods `quantile` and `mahdist` it is filled with `NA`.
`pvalue` | For methods `manova` and `mlm` it provides the p-value obtained from the model. For method `quantile`, `iForest`, `beta` and `mahdist` it is filled with `NA`.
`outlier_direction` | Indicates the direction of the outlier with “hypomethylation” and “hypermethylation”. For `manova`, `mlm`, `iForest`, and `mahdist` it is computed from the values obtained from `bumphunter`. For `beta` is computed from the p value for each CpG using `diff_threshold` and `pvalue_threshold` arguments. For `quantile` it is computed from the location of the sample in the reference distribution (left vs. right outlier).
`adj_pvalue` | For methods `manova` and `mlm` it provides the adjusted p-value with Benjamini-Hochberg based on the total number of regions detected by Bumphunter. For method `quantile`, `iForest`, `mahdist` and `beta` it is filled with `NA`.
`epi_region_id` | Name of the epimutation region as defined in `candRegsGR`.
`CRE` | cREs (cis-Regulatory Elements) as defined by ENCODE overlapping the epimutation region.
`CRE_type` | Type of cREs (cis-Regulatory Elements) as defined by ENCODE.

If no outliers are detected in the region, valures for `sz`, `cpg_n`, `cpg_ids`, `outlier_score`, `outlier_direction`, `pvalue`, `adj_pvalue` and `epi_region_id` are set to `NA`

As an example we are going to visualize the obtained results with MANOVA method (`epi_mvo`):

    dim(epi_mvo)

    [1] 51 16

    class(epi_mvo)

    [1] "tbl_df"     "tbl"        "data.frame"

    head(as.data.frame(epi_mvo), 1)

            epi_id     sample chromosome    start      end  sz cpg_n
    1 epi_manova_1 GSM2562699      chr19 12777736 12777903 167     7
                                                                           cpg_ids
    1 cg20791841,cg25267526,cg03641858,cg25441478,cg14132016,cg23954461,cg03143365
                           outlier_score outlier_direction       pvalue
    1 302.558383959437/0.981008923520812  hypermethylation 3.441085e-33
        adj_pvalue delta_beta  epi_region_id                                    CRE
    1 2.236705e-31  0.2960902 chr19_12776725 EH38E1939817,EH38E1939818,EH38E1939819
                                 CRE_type
    1 pELS;pELS,CTCF-bound;PLS,CTCF-bound

## 5.4 Epimutations annotations

The `annotate_epimutations()` function enriches the identified epimutations. It includes information about GENECODE gene names, description of the regulatory feature provided by methylation consortium, the location of the CpG relative to the CpG island, OMIM accession and description number and Ensembl region id, coordinates, type and tissue:

    rst_mvo <- annotate_epimutations(epi_mvo, omim = TRUE)

Column name | Description
--- | ---
`GencodeBasicV12_NAME` | Gene names from the basic GENECODE build
`Regulatory_Feature_Group` | Description of the regulatory feature provided by the Methylation Consortium
`Relation_to_Island` | The location of the CpG relative to the CpG island
`OMIM_ACC` `OMIM_DESC` | OMIM accession and description number
`ensembl_reg_id` `ensembl_reg_coordinates` `ensembl_reg_type` `ensembl_reg_tissues` | The Ensembl region id, coordinates, type and tissue

As an example we are going to visualize different annotations

    kableExtra::kable(
        rst_mvo[ c(27,32) ,c("epi_id", "cpg_ids", "Relation_to_Island")],
        row.names = FALSE) %>%
      column_spec(1:3, width = "4cm")

epi_id | cpg_ids | Relation_to_Island
--- | --- | ---
epi_manova_44 | cg19560927,cg02876326,cg16167052 | N_Shore/N_Shore/Island
epi_manova_51 | cg01396855,cg08684893,cg02386644 | N_Shore/N_Shore/N_Shore

    kableExtra::kable(
        rst_mvo[ c(4,8,22) , c("epi_id", "OMIM_ACC", "OMIM_DESC")],
        row.names = FALSE ) %>%
      column_spec(1:3, width = "4cm")

epi_id | OMIM_ACC | OMIM_DESC
--- | --- | ---
epi_manova_4 | 248500 | MANNOSID….
epi_manova_12 | 616689/6…. | DEHYDRAT….
epi_manova_33 | 620332/6…. | OOCYTE/Z….

    kableExtra::kable(
        rst_mvo[ c(1:5), c("epi_id", "ensembl_reg_id", "ensembl_reg_type")],
        row.names = FALSE ) %>%
      column_spec(1:3, width = "4cm")

epi_id | ensembl_reg_id | ensembl_reg_type
--- | --- | ---
epi_manova_1 | ENSR00000287480 | Promoter
epi_manova_2 | ENSR00000215007 | Promoter
epi_manova_3 | ENSR00000325316 | Promoter
epi_manova_4 | ENSR00001156259///ENSR00001156260 | Promoter///CTCF Binding Site
epi_manova_5 | ENSR00000324412 | CTCF Binding Site

## 5.5 Epimutation visualization

The `plot_epimutations()` function locates the epimutations along the genome. It plots the methylation values of the case sample in red, the control samples in dashed black lines and population mean in blue:

    plot_epimutations(as.data.frame(epi_mvo[1,]), methy)

If we set the argument `gene_annot == TRUE` the plot includes the gene annotations:

    p <- plot_epimutations(as.data.frame(epi_mvo[1,]),
                           methy = methy,
                           genes_annot = TRUE)

    plot(p)

To plot the chromatin marks H3K4me3, H3K27me3 and H3K27ac we need to specify the argument `regulation = TRUE`:

- H3K4me3: commonly associated with the activation of transcription of nearby genes.
- H3K27me3: is used in epigenetics to look for inactive genes.
- H3K27ac: is associated with the higher activation of transcription and therefore defined as an active enhancer mark

    p <- plot_epimutations(as.data.frame(epi_mvo[1,]),
                           methy =  methy,
                           regulation = TRUE)

    plot(p)

# 6 Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the team who collaborated in the initial design of the package in the European BioHackathon 2020: Lordstrong Akano, James Baye, Alejandro Caceres, Pavlo Hrab, Raquel Manzano and Margherita Mutarelli. The authors also want to thank the organization of European BioHackathon 2020 for its support.

All the team members of Project #5 for the contribution to this package:

Name | Surname | ORCID | Affiliation | Team
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Leire | Abarrategui | 0000-0002-1175-038X | Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK; Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain | Development
Lordstrong | Akano | 0000-0002-1404-0295 | College of Medicine, University of Ibadan | Development
James | Baye | 0000-0002-0078-3688 | Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0AW, UK; Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK | Development
Alejandro | Caceres | - | ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain | Development
Carles | Hernandez-Ferrer | 0000-0002-8029-7160 | Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), Center for Genomic, Regulation; Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | Development
Pavlo | Hrab | 0000-0002-0742-8478 | Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Biology faculty, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv | Validation
Raquel | Manzano | 0000-0002-5124-8992 | Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom | Reporting
Margherita | Mutarelli | 0000-0002-2168-5059 | Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI-CNR) | Validation
Carlos | Ruiz-Arenas | 0000-0002-6014-3498 | Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain | Reporting

# 7 Session Info

    sessionInfo()

    R version 4.5.0 RC (2025-04-04 r88126 ucrt)
    Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
    Running under: Windows Server 2022 x64 (build 20348)

    Matrix products: default
      LAPACK version 3.12.1

    locale:
    [1] LC_COLLATE=C
    [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8
    [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
    [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
    [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8

    time zone: America/New_York
    tzcode source: internal

    attached base packages:
    [1] parallel  stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
    [8] methods   base

    other attached packages:
     [1] IlluminaHumanMethylationEPICanno.ilm10b2.hg19_0.6.0
     [2] kableExtra_1.4.0
     [3] minfi_1.54.0
     [4] bumphunter_1.50.0
     [5] locfit_1.5-9.12
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    [13] matrixStats_1.5.0
    [14] GenomicRanges_1.60.0
    [15] GenomeInfoDb_1.44.0
    [16] IRanges_2.42.0
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    [18] ExperimentHub_2.16.0
    [19] AnnotationHub_3.16.0
    [20] BiocFileCache_2.16.0
    [21] dbplyr_2.5.0
    [22] BiocGenerics_0.54.0
    [23] generics_0.1.3
    [24] epimutacions_1.12.0
    [25] epimutacionsData_1.11.0
    [26] BiocStyle_2.36.0

    loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
      [1] ProtGenerics_1.40.0
      [2] bitops_1.0-9
      [3] isotree_0.6.1-4
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