SWAN: Subset-quantile Within Array Normalization for Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips

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We thank Kasper Hansen, Martin Aryee and Rafael Irizarry for making their minfi code available and including our methods. We thank Mark Robinson for helpful discussion and critical reading of the manuscript. We also acknowledge Terry Speed, Nadia Davidson, the Cancer and Disease Epigenetics (Saffery) Lab and Early Life Epigenetics (Craig) Lab at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) for helpful discussion. We thank David Martino and Marina Bibikova for providing access to their published data. We would also like to acknowledge the TCGA Research Network for making their vast resource of genomic data available. This work was supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program to MCRI.