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However, if there is significant variability between individuals or limited data available, these methods might produce biased results. This situation has prompted researchers to seek alternative approaches for handling single-sample data, particularly in the context of personalized medicine. Accordingly, we propose One-Sample Methyl Imputation (OSMI), an imputation method that can also be used in single-sample applications.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The proposed method in single-subject cases yielded an average imputation accuracy of RMSE\u2009=\u20090.2713 (95%-CI from 0.2696 to 0.2730) in \u03b2-value units (range: 0\u20131) based on real 450\u00a0K BeadChip data sets of 3,402 individuals. It is possible to take the affiliation of individual CpGs to CpG islands into account during the imputation of missing methylation values. This improves the imputation accuracy. In addition, the accuracy of imputation depends in general on the density of CpG sites on DNA-methylation microarrays and increases as the CpG site density increases. OSMI has low memory and computational requirements.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>OSMI uses a single methylome to impute missing values quickly at very low memory constraints. 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