ArticleGenes, chromosomes & cancer2019
Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of colorectal adenomas with and without recurrence reveals an association between cytosine-phosphate-guanine methylation and histological subtypes.
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- Prediction of metachronous advanced colorectal neoplasia by KRAS mutation in polyps.United European gastroenterology journal · 2024Article
- Elevated EVL Methylation Level in the Normal Colon Mucosa Is a Potential Risk Biomarker for Developing Recurrent Adenomas.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2023Article
- Hypermethylation of tumor suppressor lncRNA MEF2C-AS1 frequently happened in patients at all stages of colorectal carcinogenesis.Clinical epigenetics · 2022Article
- Epigenome-Wide DNA Methylation Profiling in Colorectal Cancer and Normal Adjacent Colon Using Infinium Human Methylation 450K.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Promoter Methylation ofFrontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Evaluation of global and intragenic hypomethylation in colorectal adenomas improves patient stratification and colorectal cancer risk prediction.Clinical epigenetics · 2021Article
- SCTR hypermethylation is a diagnostic biomarker in colorectal cancer.Cancer science · 2020Article
- Aberrantly Methylated-Differentially Expressed Genes Identify Novel Atherosclerosis Risk Subtypes.Frontiers in genetics · 2020Article
- [Colorectal tumor evolution in inflammatory bowel disease : Dynamics of genomic alterations and potential molecular markers to predict malignant progression].Der Pathologe · 2019Review
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Abstract
Aberrant methylation of DNA is supposed to be a major and early driver of colonic adenoma development, which may result in colorectal cancer (CRC). Although gene methylation assays are used already for CRC screening, differential epigenetic alterations of recurring and nonrecurring colorectal adenomas have yet not been systematically investigated. Here, we collected a sample set of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded colorectal low-grade adenomas (n = 72) consisting of primary adenomas without and with recurrence (n = 59), recurrent adenomas (n = 10), and normal mucosa specimens (n = 3). We aimed to unveil differentially methylated CpG positions (DMPs) across the methylome comparing not only primary adenomas without recurrence vs primary adenomas with recurrence but also primary adenomas vs recurrent adenomas using the Illumina Human Methylation 450K BeadChip array. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering exhibited a significant association of methylation patterns with histological adenoma subtypes. No significant DMPs were identified comparing primary adenomas with and without recurrence. Despite that, a total of 5094 DMPs (false discovery rate <0.05; fold change >10%) were identified in the comparisons of recurrent adenomas vs primary adenomas with recurrence (674; 98% hypermethylated), recurrent adenomas vs primary adenomas with and without recurrence (241; 99% hypermethylated) and colorectal adenomas vs normal mucosa (4179; 46% hypermethylated). DMPs in cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) islands were frequently hypermethylated, whereas open sea- and shelf-regions exhibited hypomethylation. Gene ontology analysis revealed enrichment of genes associated with the immune system, inflammatory processes, and cancer pathways. In conclusion, our methylation data could assist in establishing a more robust and reproducible histological adenoma classification, which is a prerequisite for improving surveillance guidelines.
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