Omics Approaches to Understanding Muscle Biology

This book is a collection of principles and current practices in omics research, applied to skeletal muscle physiology and disorders. The various sections are categorized according to the level of biological organization, namely, genomics (DNA), transcrip

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Jatin George Burniston Yi-Wen Chen Editors

Omics Approaches to Understanding Muscle Biology

Methods in Physiology Published on behalf of The American Physiological Society by Springer

Methods in Physiology This series describes experimental techniques in cellular, molecular and general physiology. Each book is edited by experts in their field and covers theory and history behind the method, critical commentary, major applications with examples, limitations and extensions of each technique, and vital future directions. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11781

Jatin George Burniston • Yi-Wen Chen Editors

Omics Approaches to Understanding Muscle Biology

Editors Jatin George Burniston Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

Yi-Wen Chen Children’s National Health System George Washington University Washington, DC, USA

Methods in Physiology ISBN 978-1-4939-9801-2 ISBN 978-1-4939-9802-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9802-9

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Contents

1

The Role of Omics Approaches in Muscle Research . . . . . . . . . . . . Stefano Schiaffino, Carlo Reggiani, and Marta Murgia

Part I 2

Genomic and Epi-genomic

Genome-Wide Association Studies in Muscle Physiology and Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luca Bello, Elena Pegoraro, and Eric P. Hoffman

3

Chromatin Epigenomics in Muscle Development and Disease . . . . . Jelena Perovanovic

4

Guidelines for Bioinformatics and the Statistical Analysis of Omic Data .