NDLI: Agglomerative Epigenetic Aberrations are a Common Event in Human Breast Cancer

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Author	Petr, Novak Taylor, Jensen Marc, M. Oshiro George, S. Watts Christina, J. Kim Bernard, W. Futscher
Abstract	Changes in DNA methylation patterns are a common characteristic of cancer cells. Recent studies suggest that DNA methylation affects not only discrete genes, but it can also affect large chromosomal regions, potentially leading to long range epigenetic silencing. It is unclear whether such long-range epigenetic events are relatively rare or frequent occurrences in cancer. Here we use a high-resolution promoter tiling array approach to analyze DNA methylation in breast cancer specimens and normal breast tissue to address this question. We identified 3506 cancer specific differentially methylated regions (DMR) in human breast cancer with 2033 being hypermethylation events and 1473 hypomethylation events. Most of these DMRs are recurrent in breast cancer; 90% of the identified DMRs occurred in at least 33% of the samples. Interestingly, we found a non-random spatial distribution of aberrantly methylated regions across the genome that showed a tendency to concentrate in relatively small genomic regions. Such agglomerates of hyper- and hypomethylated DMRs spanned up to several hundred kilobases and were frequently found at gene family clusters. The hypermethylation events usually occurred in the proximity of the transcription start site in CpG island promoters while hypomethylation events were frequently found in regions of segmental duplication. One example of a newly discovered agglomerate of hypermethylated DMRs associated with gene silencing in breast cancer that we examined in greater detail involved the protocadherin gene family clusters on chromosome 5 (PCDHA, PCDHB, and PCDHG). Taken together, our results suggest that agglomerative epigenetic aberrations are frequent events in human breast cancer.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-1419
Ending Page	8625
Page Count	10
Starting Page	8616
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00085472
e-ISSN	15387445
Journal	Cancer research
Issue Number	20
Volume Number	68
Language	English
Publisher Date	2008-10-15
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cancer Research Oncology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cancer Research Oncology

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