Genomic DNA was extracted in triplicate from early and Sen BMSCs and HUVECs and from BMSC-derived adipocytes and osteoblasts using Qiagen’s QiAmp mini kit following the manufacturer’s recommendations. Next, 1 μg DNA was bisulfite-converted using EZ DNA Methylation (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA, USA) and analyzed by the Infinium Human MethylationEPIC BeadChip (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Raw data were extracted using minfi R package [20 (link)] and normalized using the preprocessFunnorm function. Not-reliable probes according to Zhou and collaborators [21 (link)] and probes on X and Y chromosomes were removed. The remaining 748,241 probes were annotated according to IlluminaHumanMethylationEPICanno.ilm10b4.hg19 annotation data.
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