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Genome-wide methylation profiling identifies novel methylated genes in neuroblastoma tumors

Olsson, M; Beck, S; Kogner, P; Martinsson, T; Carén, H; (2016) Genome-wide methylation profiling identifies novel methylated genes in neuroblastoma tumors. Epigenetics pp. 1-11. 10.1080/15592294.2016.1138195. Green open access

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Abstract

Neuroblastoma is a very heterogeneous tumor of childhood. The clinical spectra range from very aggressive metastatic disease to spontaneous regression, even without therapy. Aberrant DNA methylation pattern is a common feature of most cancers. For neuroblastoma, it has been demonstrated both for single genes as well as genome-wide, where a so-called methylator phenotype has been described. Here, we present a study using Illumina 450K methylation arrays on 60 neuroblastoma tumors. We show that aggressive tumors, characterized by International Neuroblastoma Risk Group (INRG) as stage M, are hypermethylated compared to low-grade tumors. On the contrary, INRG stage L tumors display more non-CpG methylation. The genes with the highest number of hypermethylated CpG sites in INRG M tumors are TERT, PCDHGA4, DLX5, and DLX6-AS1. Gene ontology analysis showed a representation of neuronal tumor relevant gene functions among the differentially methylated genes. For validation, we used a set of independent tumors previously analyzed with the Illumina 27K methylation arrays, which confirmed the differentially methylated sites. Top candidate genes with aberrant methylation were analyzed for altered gene expression through the R2 platform ( http://r2.amc.nl ), and for correlations between methylation and gene expression in a public dataset. Altered expression in nonsurvivors was found for the genes B3GALT4 and KIAA1949, CLIC5, DLX6-AS, TERT, and PIRT, and strongest correlations were found for TRIM36, KIAA0513, and PIRT. Our data indicate that methylation profiling can be used for patient stratification and informs on epigenetically deregulated genes with the potential of increasing our knowledge about the underlying mechanisms of tumor development.

Type: Article
Title: Genome-wide methylation profiling identifies novel methylated genes in neuroblastoma tumors
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2016.1138195
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2016.1138195
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Epigenetics on 19/01/16, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15592294.2016.1138195.
Keywords: 450K, CIMP, DLX5, DNA methylation, PCDHGA4, TERT, epigenetics, neuroblastoma, pediatric
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Cancer Bio
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475607
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