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Multimodal distributions, which can be the result of nearby genetic variation, environmental exposures, or assay artifacts, are susceptible to confounding and important to identify for methylation analysis. MethylModes is easily incorporated into existing quality control pipelines of array-based DNA methylation data. The underlying algorithm uses kernel smoothing of probe-level data to locate the number and location of peaks. The algorithm can be parallelized across probes for efficient implementation at genome-scale. We provide a case study implementation of MethylModes in the Health and Retirement Study as well as the Airwave Health Monitoring Study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>MethylModes is available on GitHub at https:\/\/github.com\/lutiffan\/methylModes as an R package wrapping an R Shiny application. 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