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Imprinting: add the ASM Atlas tracks, and tidy the collection's labels

Adds a composite built from Rosenski et al. 2025, "Atlas of imprinted and
allele-specific DNA methylation in the human body". Three subtracks: the
458 regions whose methylation follows the parent of origin, the 72 known
control regions with the boundaries the paper redrew, and the pool of
385,235 regions carrying two methylation states that those came out of.
A fourth set, the regions whose methylation follows a nearby SNP, is
built by the scripts but its stanza is commented out, since sequence
driven methylation is not imprinting.

The authors released hg19 only, so all three are lifted. Their published
files are close to bare BED, so the SNPs, cell types, p-values, gene
links and gamete methylation on the details pages are read out of the
paper's supplementary tables and joined on by position. Regions that
lift but change length by more than 10%, because hg38 added sequence
inside them, are kept with a note rather than dropped: one of them is
TCEB3C, the only control region on chr18.

Also across the collection:
- long labels name their source right after "Imprinting", so that a
label read on its own says where the data came from
- the two gene catalogs are worded alike, and ordered OMIM, Geneimprint,
MethBase2, Akbari, ASM Atlas
- the OMIM curators confirmed that their (I) marker covers established
and candidate imprinted genes alike, with nothing in the export to
tell them apart. Labels, description page and makeDoc now say so, and
the claim that the set is "more conservative" than the computational
tracks is gone. The bigBed was rebuilt for the autoSql line, same 459
features.
- every subtrack page opens by naming the collection, linked back to
its hgTrackUi page, and no longer repeats the collection page's
introduction to imprinting

refs #37599

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 <h2>Description</h2>
 
 <p>
-An imprinted differentially methylated region, or iDMR, is a stretch of the genome where the CpG sites of one parental copy are methylated and the same sites on the other copy are not. Because the methylated copy is always the one from the same parent, an iDMR is a fixed landmark that says which of a person's two chromosomes came from the mother and which from the father, without sequencing the parents.
+Part of the <a href="hgTrackUi?db=$db&amp;hgsid=${hgsid}&amp;g=$parentTrack">Imprinting</a> track collection, this track shows imprinted differentially methylated
+regions, or iDMRs. Because the methylated copy of an iDMR is always the one from the same parent,
+an iDMR is a fixed landmark that says which of a person's two chromosomes came from the mother and
+which from the father, without sequencing the parents.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 This track shows 192 such regions on the autosomes, assembled by Akbari et al.
 (2023) from five earlier genome-wide surveys of imprinted methylation and used
 by their PatMat method to assign whole chromosomes to a parent of origin. Just
 under half of the regions were reported independently by two or more of the
 five studies. The rest come from a single study and were kept only after they
 showed the expected half-methylated signal in public methylomes from blood and
 from many tissues. The X chromosome was left out, since it is not generally
 thought to carry iDMRs.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The regions cover the classic imprinting control regions, including the H19
 region and both IGF2 DMRs on chromosome 11, KvDMR1 at the KCNQ1 cluster, the
 SNRPN region on chromosome 15, the IG-DMR and MEG3 regions on chromosome 14 and
 both GNAS regions on chromosome 20, together with a long tail of less
 well-established loci.
 </p>
 
-<p>
-See the <a href="hgTrackUi?g=imprinting">Imprinting</a> track collection page for background on genomic imprinting and for the color scheme shared by all of its subtracks.
-</p>
-
 <h2>Display Conventions and Configuration</h2>
 
 <p>
 Each item is one region. Items are labeled with the first gene at or near the
 region; the configuration page can switch the label to the full list of genes,
 which is also shown when the mouse hovers over an item. The regions have no
 meaningful strand.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The color shows which parental copy carries the methylation. Vermillion and
 blue mean the maternal and the paternal copy on every subtrack of this
 collection, but what is marked differs: this track marks the <em>methylated</em>
 copy, while <a href="hgTrackUi?g=geneimprint">Geneimprint</a> marks the
 <em>expressed</em> copy. At the H19 region this track is blue because the
 paternal copy is the methylated one, and Geneimprint shows H19 in vermillion
 because the maternal copy is the expressed one. Both are right. Note also that
 methylation at an imprinting control region does not always silence the nearby
 gene: the methylated paternal H19 region is what allows IGF2 to be expressed
 from the paternal chromosome.
 </p>
 
 <table class="stdTbl">
   <tr><th style="background-color:#D55E00;width:2em">&nbsp;</th>
       <td>Maternal &mdash; the copy inherited from the mother is methylated,
           so it is the silenced copy (144 regions)</td></tr>
   <tr><th style="background-color:#0072B2;width:2em">&nbsp;</th>
       <td>Paternal &mdash; the copy inherited from the father is methylated,
           so it is the silenced copy (48 regions)</td></tr>
 </table>
 
 <p>
 Three filters are available: methylated allele, evidence level (reported by
 several studies or by one study plus confirmation in public methylomes), and
 which of the five source studies reported the region. None of them filters
 anything out by default.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Clicking a region opens a page with the methylated allele, the source studies,
 and the counts behind the confirmation step: how many blood methylomes and how
 many tissue methylomes could be tested at that region, and in how many of them
 the region was partially methylated. One region, the H19 region on chromosome
 11, has no counts in the published table, so those rows are left out on its
 page.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Methods</h2>
 
 <p>
 Akbari et al. combined nanopore sequencing, which reads DNA methylation
 directly off the same molecule as the sequence, with the long-range phase
 information in Strand-seq data, to build chromosome-length haplotypes and then
 assign each haplotype to a parent. Nanopore reads at 24 to 38-fold coverage
 were base called with guppy and mapped to GRCh38 with minimap2, variants were
 called with Clair3, and Strand-seq libraries at 2.8 to 9.5-fold combined
 coverage were used to phase those variants across whole chromosomes. The parent
 of origin then follows from the methylation state of the haplotypes at the
 iDMRs. Tested on five trios with diverse genetic backgrounds, the method
 assigned the parent of origin correctly for every autosome, with a mismatch
 error rate of 0.31% for single-nucleotide variants and 1.89% for insertions and
 deletions.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The region list itself was built as follows. Candidate iDMRs were gathered from
 five earlier genome-wide studies (Court et al. 2014, Joshi et al. 2016,
 Hernandez Mora et al. 2018, Zink et al. 2018 and Akbari et al. 2022). Regions
 overlapping between two or more studies were merged into the largest interval
 covered, and regions within 1 kb of each other with the same parent of origin
 were also merged. This gave 93 regions seen in at least two studies and 306
 seen in only one. The single-study regions were then filtered: first against
 twelve nanopore-sequenced cell lines with trio information, dropping regions
 whose parent of origin conflicted with the original report, and then against
 whole-genome bisulfite data from 119 blood samples from 87 individuals in
 Blueprint and 60 samples covering 29 tissue types from ENCODE and Roadmap. The
 reasoning behind the second filter is that if only one allele of a region is
 methylated, the two alleles together should read as about half methylated. A
 region counted as partially methylated in a sample if it had at least five CpG
 sites with at least five reads and more than 60% of those sites had a
 methylation fraction between 0.35 and 0.65. Regions had to pass in at least two
 samples and in at least 5% of the samples where they could be tested. That left
 99 of the single-study regions, for 192 in total. As a control, randomly chosen
 intervals passed the same criteria only 2.4% of the time.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The region list was taken from table S3 of the paper, which is also distributed
 with the authors' PatMat software as
 <tt>Imprinted_DMR_List_V1.GRCh38.tsv</tt> at
 <a href="https://github.com/vahidAK/PatMat" target="_blank">https://github.com/vahidAK/PatMat</a>.
 It was converted to browser coordinates without any other change, and all 192
 regions are shown. The processing steps are documented in the
 <a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/blob/master/src/hg/makeDb/doc/hg38/imprinting.txt" target="_blank">imprinting makeDoc</a>
 and the script is in
 <a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/tree/master/src/hg/makeDb/scripts/imprinting" target="_blank">makeDb/scripts/imprinting</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Data Access</h2>
 
 <p>
 The data can be explored interactively in table format with the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> or the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgIntegrator">Data Integrator</a> and exported from there to
 spreadsheet or tab-sep tables. From scripts, the data can be accessed through
 our <a href="https://api.genome.ucsc.edu">API</a>, track=<i>akbariIdmr</i>.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 For automated download and analysis, the genome annotation is stored in a
 bigBed file that can be downloaded from
 <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/imprinting/akbari2023/" target="_blank">our download server</a>.
 The file for this track is called <tt>akbariIdmr.bb</tt>. Individual regions or
 the whole genome annotation can be obtained using our tool
 <tt>bigBedToBed</tt>, which can be compiled from the source code or downloaded
 as a precompiled binary for your system. Instructions for downloading source
 code and binaries can be found
 <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#utilities_downloads">here</a>.
 The tool can also be used to obtain features within a given range, e.g.
 <tt>bigBedToBed http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/imprinting/akbari2023/akbariIdmr.bb -chrom=chr11 -start=1900000 -end=2800000 stdout</tt>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 The original region list can be downloaded from the
 <a href="https://github.com/vahidAK/PatMat" target="_blank">PatMat repository</a>
 or from the supplementary material of the paper.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Credits</h2>
 
 <p>
 Thanks to Vahid Akbari and colleagues at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences
 Centre and the University of British Columbia for compiling and publishing the
 region list.
 </p>
 
 <h2>References</h2>
 
 <p>
 Akbari V, Hanlon VCT, O&#x27;Neill K, Lefebvre L, Schrader KA, Lansdorp PM, Jones SJM.
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36777186" target="_blank">
 Parent-of-origin detection and chromosome-scale haplotyping using long-read DNA methylation
 sequencing and Strand-seq</a>.
 <em>Cell Genom</em>. 2023 Jan 11;3(1):100233.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36777186" target="_blank">36777186</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9903809/" target="_blank">PMC9903809</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Akbari V, Garant JM, O&#x27;Neill K, Pandoh P, Moore R, Marra MA, Hirst M, Jones SJM.
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35787786" target="_blank">
 Genome-wide detection of imprinted differentially methylated regions using nanopore sequencing</a>.
 <em>Elife</em>. 2022 Jul 5;11.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35787786" target="_blank">35787786</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9255983/" target="_blank">PMC9255983</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Zink F, Magnusdottir DN, Magnusson OT, Walker NJ, Morris TJ, Sigurdsson A, Halldorsson GH,
 Gudjonsson SA, Melsted P, Ingimundardottir H <em>et al</em>.
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349119" target="_blank">
 Insights into imprinting from parent-of-origin phased methylomes and transcriptomes</a>.
 <em>Nat Genet</em>. 2018 Nov;50(11):1542-1552.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349119" target="_blank">30349119</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Hernandez Mora JR, Tayama C, Sánchez-Delgado M, Monteagudo-Sánchez A, Hata K, Ogata T, Medrano J,
 Poo-Llanillo ME, Simón C, Moran S <em>et al</em>.
 <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.2217/epi-2017-0172?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:ri
 d:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed" target="_blank">
 Characterization of parent-of-origin methylation using the Illumina Infinium MethylationEPIC array
 platform</a>.
 <em>Epigenomics</em>. 2018 Jul;10(7):941-954.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29962238" target="_blank">29962238</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Joshi RS, Garg P, Zaitlen N, Lappalainen T, Watson CT, Azam N, Ho D, Li X, Antonarakis SE, Brunner
 HG <em>et al</em>.
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27569549" target="_blank">
 DNA Methylation Profiling of Uniparental Disomy Subjects Provides a Map of Parental Epigenetic Bias
 in the Human Genome</a>.
 <em>Am J Hum Genet</em>. 2016 Sep 1;99(3):555-566.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27569549" target="_blank">27569549</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011056/" target="_blank">PMC5011056</a>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Court F, Tayama C, Romanelli V, Martin-Trujillo A, Iglesias-Platas I, Okamura K, Sugahara N, Simón
 C, Moore H, Harness JV <em>et al</em>.
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24402520" target="_blank">
 Genome-wide parent-of-origin DNA methylation analysis reveals the intricacies of human imprinting
 and suggests a germline methylation-independent mechanism of establishment</a>.
 <em>Genome Res</em>. 2014 Apr;24(4):554-69.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24402520" target="_blank">24402520</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3975056/" target="_blank">PMC3975056</a>
 </p>