ArticleBioMed research international2015
DNA Methylation Levels of Melanoma Risk Genes Are Associated with Clinical Characteristics of Melanoma Patients.
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- Metabolic Reprogramming in Melanoma: An Epigenetic Point of View.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Genetic effects on the skin methylome in healthy older twins.American journal of human genetics · 2024Article
- P16-CD8-Ki67 Triple Algorithm for Prediction of CDKN2A Mutations in Patients with Multiple Primary and Familial Melanoma.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Current understanding of epigenetics role in melanoma treatment and resistance.Cancer cell international · 2022Review
- Epigenetic modification regulates tumor progression and metastasis through EMT (Review).International journal of oncology · 2022Review
- Methylation Markers in Cutaneous Melanoma: Unravelling the Potential Utility of Their Tracking by Liquid Biopsy.Cancers · 2021Review
- Loss of BAP1 in Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas Seems Unrelated to Genetic Mutations.Endocrine pathology · 2019Article
- Loss of BAP1 expression is associated with genetic mutation and can predict outcomes in gallbladder cancer.PloS one · 2018Article
- DNA methylation/hydroxymethylation in melanoma.Oncotarget · 2017Review
- DNA methylation profiling reveals the presence of population-specific signatures correlating with phenotypic characteristics.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2017Article
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Abstract
In melanoma development, oncogenic process is mediated by genetic and epigenetic mutations, and few studies have so far explored the role of DNA methylation either as predisposition factor or biomarker. We tested patient samples for germline CDKN2A methylation status and found no evidence of inactivation by promoter hypermethylation. We have also investigated the association of clinical characteristics of samples with the DNA methylation pattern of twelve genes relevant for melanomagenesis. Five genes (BAP1, MGMT, MITF, PALB2, and POT1) presented statistical association between blood DNA methylation levels and either CDKN2A-mutation status, number of lesions, or Breslow thickness. In tumors, five genes (KIT, MGMT, MITF, TERT, and TNF) exhibited methylation levels significantly different between tumor groups including acral compared to nonacral melanomas and matched primary lesions and metastases. Our data pinpoint that the methylation level of eight melanoma-associated genes could potentially represent markers for this disease both in peripheral blood and in tumor samples.
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