Project description:The oncomir microRNA-125b (miR-125b) is up-regulated in a variety of human neoplastic blood disorders and constitutive up-regulation of miR-125b in mice can promote myeloid and B cell leukemia. We found that miR-125b promotes myeloid and B cell neoplasm by inducing tumorigenesis in hematopoietic progenitor cells. Our study demonstrates that miR-125b induces myeloid leukemia by enhancing myeloid progenitor output from stem cells as well as inducing immortality, self-renewal, and tumorigenesis in myeloid progenitors. Through functional and genetic analyses, we demonstrated that miR-125b induces myeloid and B cell leukemia by inhibiting IRF4 but through distinct mechanisms; it induces myeloid leukemia through repressing IRF4 at the mRNA level without altering the genomic DNA and induces B cell leukemia via genetic deletion of the gene encoding IRF4. The cancer myeloid (Cd11b+ sorted) and B cells (CD19+ sorted) were harvested from mice that over-express miR-125b. The genomic DNA was extracted from these cells. A total of 4 cancer samples (Two myeloid cancer samples and two B cell cancer samples) were analyzed. As control, genomic DNA from cells harvested from healthy C57bl/6 mice were harvested.
Project description:Following the domestication of maize over the past ,10,000 years, breeders have exploited the extensive genetic diversity of this species to mold its phenotype to meet human needs. The extent of structural variation, including copy number variation (CNV) and presence/absence variation (PAV), which are thought to contribute to the extraordinary phenotypic diversity and plasticity of this important crop, have not been elucidated. Whole-genome, array-based, comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) revealed a level of structural diversity between the inbred lines B73 and Mo17 that is unprecedented among higher eukaryotes. A detailed analysis of altered segments of DNA conservatively estimates that there are several hundred CNV sequences among the two genotypes, as well as several thousand PAV sequences that are present in B73 but not Mo17. Haplotype-specific PAVs contain hundreds of single-copy, expressed genes that may contribute to heterosis and to the extraordinary phenotypic diversity of this important crop. In our experimental design we had seven replicates of B73 (one with Cy3 and six with Cy5) and seven replicates of Mo17 (six with Cy3 and one with Cy5). Images were processed and spatial normalization of data within the array was conducted according to Nimblegen's standard protocol. The RIL samples (M0022 and M0023) were in included because we used the probe's B73 and Mo17 signals of those samples during our analysis.
Project description:To predict the progression risk of non-invasive gland-forming gastric neoplasms to invasive carcinoma, we assessed lineage continuity or discontinuity between the non-invasive and invasive neoplasms by applying hierarchical clustering analysis to the gene copy-number profiles of individual tumours. array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization. Samples are including of 7 tumours of Vienna category 3, 12 tumours of Vienna category 4, 8 intramucosal cancers (Vienna category 5), 16 intramucosal lesions and 16 invasive parts (Vienna category 5); 40 reference for control, 19 control replicates
Project description:Array-based comparative genomic hybridization comparing splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) specimens with control DNA A custom high-definition oligonucleotide microarray (4x44K, Agilent) was designed for aCGH from the online application tool eArray (version 5.3) and HD-CGH probe library (sequence source UCSC hg18 / NCBI Build 36). This custom microarray combines the capability to scan human genome-wide with an average resolution of approximately 100 Kb and to focus on regions of interest for highest resolution tiling (11 Kb-resolution for either chromosomes 3q and 7q). The array contains about 8,500 and 9,000 oligonucleotides spanning 97 Mb and 105 Mb of the 7q and the 3q chromosomes respectively. Twenty-seven SMZL specimens (9 males, 18 females) were analyzed using a dye-swap methodology to confirm the copy number variations. Two samples (one male, one female, namely M-CTRL and F-CTRL) collected from healthy volunteers blood from national Etablissement FranM-CM-'ais du Sang were used as DNA reference for aCGH experiments.
Project description:DNA from 136 resected breast cancer tissues from patients exposed to ioinising radiation and non-exposed controls was analysed for genomic copy number alterations. The two groups were compared for the delination of genomic copy number changes associated with exposure status.
Project description:Increasing incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue (SCCT) in young patients has been reported. In this study, we aimed to investigate the transcriptional profiles in tumour and matched tumour-free tissue from patients with SCCT. Particularly, transcriptional profiles of young patients (< 40 years) were compared with those of old patients (> 50 years), in order to know whether young patients are transcriptionally different to old patients. A total of 12 patients with SCCT treated at The University hospital of Umeå (NUS) were recruited. Three patients were younger than 40 years old at diagnosis (young patient), and the other 9 patients were older than 50 years old (old patient). Biopsies of tumour and tumour-free tissues were fresh-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80°C until nuclear acid extraction.
Project description:Maintenance of chromatin structure is essential to eukaryotic life; dysregulation is known to be causal for aberrant development and disease. The Mi-2/nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylase (NuRD) complex is a multiprotein machine proposed to regulate chromatin structure by nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylation activities. We identified the localization of MBD3, a component of Mi-2/NuRD complex, in two breast cancer cell lines (MCF7 and MDA-MB-231) using ChIP-Seq. MBD3 showed cell-type specific localization with overlap across cell lines being less than 50%. MBD3 localized across gene bodies, peaking around the transcription start site (TSS). Contrary to existing models, MBD3 preferentially associated with CpG rich promoters marked by H3K4me3. These data suggest that MBD3, and by extension the Mi-2/NuRD complex, may have roles in fine tuning expression for active genes. These data represent an important first step in defining regulatory mechanisms by which Mi-2/NuRD complex controls chromatin structure and gene expression. DamID experiment was performed in human breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231) in triplicate. Samples were hybridized to NimbleGen Human Whole-Genome Tiling Arrays (0701_HG18_TILE_05_HX1 and 100718_HG18_TILE_05_HX1). MBD3-Dam material was hybridized over Dam-only control.
Project description:Maintenance of chromatin structure is essential to eukaryotic life; dysregulation is known to be causal for aberrant development and disease. The Mi-2/nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylase (NuRD) complex is a multiprotein machine proposed to regulate chromatin structure by nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylation activities. We identified the localization of MBD3, a component of Mi-2/NuRD complex, in two breast cancer cell lines (MCF7 and MDA-MB-231) using ChIP-Seq. MBD3 showed cell-type specific localization with overlap across cell lines being less than 50%. MBD3 localized across gene bodies, peaking around the transcription start site (TSS). Contrary to existing models, MBD3 preferentially associated with CpG rich promoters marked by H3K4me3. These data suggest that MBD3, and by extension the Mi-2/NuRD complex, may have roles in fine tuning expression for active genes. These data represent an important first step in defining regulatory mechanisms by which Mi-2/NuRD complex controls chromatin structure and gene expression. DamID experiment was performed in human breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231) in duplicate. Samples were hybridized to Nimblegen 2.1M Deluxe promoter array. MBD3-Dam material was hybridized over Dam-only control.