방법 비교

	베이즈 에피유전체 연관성 연구 (Bayesian EWAS)	전장 후성유전체 연관 분석 (EWAS)
분야	생물정보학	생물정보학
계열	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
기원 연도	2010s (framework developed ~2013–2016)	2008–2011 (term and framework established c. 2011)
창시자	Multiple groups; Bayesian EWAS framework advanced by S. Richardson, P.-C. Tsai, J. T. Bell and colleagues	Rakyan, Down, Balding & Beck (conceptual framework); Illumina arrays enabled large-scale application
유형	Statistical association analysis	Population-scale epigenomic association study
원전	Richardson, S., Tsai, P. C., Bell, J. T., & Timpson, N. J. (2016). Bayesian approaches to studying associations between epigenetic marks and phenotypes. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45(3), 694–705.	Rakyan, V. K., Down, T. A., Balding, D. J., & Beck, S. (2011). Epigenome-wide association studies for common human diseases. Nature Reviews Genetics, 12(8), 529–541.
별칭	Bayesian EWAS, B-EWAS, Bayesian methylation-wide association study, Bayesian epigenetic association analysis	EWAS, methylome-wide association study, epigenetic association study, DNA methylation association study
관련	4	5
요약	A Bayesian EWAS is a genome-scale association analysis that links epigenetic marks — most commonly CpG-site DNA methylation — to a phenotype or trait of interest, replacing or supplementing the classical frequentist p-value framework with a Bayesian probabilistic model. It yields posterior probabilities of association and credible intervals for each CpG site, allowing formal incorporation of prior biological knowledge and more principled handling of the multiple-testing burden intrinsic to testing hundreds of thousands of sites simultaneously.	An epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) is a hypothesis-free, genome-scale method that systematically tests whether epigenetic marks — predominantly CpG-site DNA methylation — differ between individuals with and without a trait, disease, or exposure. By scanning hundreds of thousands of genomic positions simultaneously, EWAS identifies loci where the epigenome is reproducibly associated with a phenotype, offering a layer of biological regulation that classical GWAS does not capture.