1. The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer
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Zhao, Shuang G, Chen, William S, Li, Haolong, Foye, Adam, Zhang, Meng, Sjöström, Martin, Aggarwal, Rahul, Playdle, Denise, Liao, Arnold, Alumkal, Joshi J, Das, Rajdeep, Chou, Jonathan, Hua, Junjie T, Barnard, Travis J, Bailey, Adina M, Chow, Eric D, Perry, Marc D, Dang, Ha X, Yang, Rendong, Moussavi-Baygi, Ruhollah, Zhang, Li, Alshalalfa, Mohammed, Laura Chang, S, Houlahan, Kathleen E, Shiah, Yu-Jia, Beer, Tomasz M, Thomas, George, Chi, Kim N, Gleave, Martin, Zoubeidi, Amina, Reiter, Robert E, Rettig, Matthew B, Witte, Owen, Yvonne Kim, M, Fong, Lawrence, Spratt, Daniel E, Morgan, Todd M, Bose, Rohit, Huang, Franklin W, Li, Hui, Chesner, Lisa, Shenoy, Tanushree, Goodarzi, Hani, Asangani, Irfan A, Sandhu, Shahneen, Lang, Joshua M, Mahajan, Nupam P, Lara, Primo N, Evans, Christopher P, Febbo, Phillip, Batzoglou, Serafim, Knudsen, Karen E, He, Housheng H, Huang, Jiaoti, Zwart, Wilbert, Costello, Joseph F, Luo, Jianhua, Tomlins, Scott A, Wyatt, Alexander W, Dehm, Scott M, Ashworth, Alan, Gilbert, Luke A, Boutros, Paul C, Farh, Kyle, Chinnaiyan, Arul M, Maher, Christopher A, Small, Eric J, Quigley, David A, and Feng, Felix Y
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Biological Sciences ,Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ,Genetics ,Cancer ,Human Genome ,Biotechnology ,Cancer Genomics ,Prostate Cancer ,Urologic Diseases ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,Aged ,Aged ,80 and over ,Carcinogenesis ,DNA Methylation ,Epigenomics ,Gene Expression Regulation ,Neoplastic ,Genome ,Humans ,Male ,Middle Aged ,Mutation ,Prospective Studies ,Prostatic Neoplasms ,Sequence Analysis ,DNA ,Exome Sequencing ,Whole Genome Sequencing ,Medical and Health Sciences ,Developmental Biology ,Agricultural biotechnology ,Bioinformatics and computational biology - Abstract
Although DNA methylation is a key regulator of gene expression, the comprehensive methylation landscape of metastatic cancer has never been defined. Through whole-genome bisulfite sequencing paired with deep whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing of 100 castration-resistant prostate metastases, we discovered alterations affecting driver genes that were detectable only with integrated whole-genome approaches. Notably, we observed that 22% of tumors exhibited a novel epigenomic subtype associated with hypermethylation and somatic mutations in TET2, DNMT3B, IDH1 and BRAF. We also identified intergenic regions where methylation is associated with RNA expression of the oncogenic driver genes AR, MYC and ERG. Finally, we showed that differential methylation during progression preferentially occurs at somatic mutational hotspots and putative regulatory regions. This study is a large integrated study of whole-genome, whole-methylome and whole-transcriptome sequencing in metastatic cancer that provides a comprehensive overview of the important regulatory role of methylation in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
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- 2020