Project description:Genome-wide patterns of DNA methylation were quantified using the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (“450K array”) in DNA samples isolated from blood for schizophrenia cases and controls. This samples were profiled as part of a wider study where they were meta-analysed with other cohorts.
Project description:Prior candidate gene studies have shown tumor suppressor DNA methylation in breast milk related with history of breast biopsy, an established risk factor for breast cancer. To further establish the utility of breast milk as a tissue-specific biospecimen for investigations of breast carcinogenesis we measured genome-wide DNA methylation in breast milk from women with and without a diagnosis of breast cancer in two independent cohorts. In epigenome-wide analyses we identified 58 differentially methylated CpG sites associated with breast cancer diagnosis in the prospectively collected milk samples from the breast that would develop cancer compared with women without a diagnosis of breast cancer (q-value < 0.05), using linear mixed effects models adjusted for history of breast biopsy, age, age of the baby, cell type proportion estimates, array chip, and subject as random effect. Nearly all sites associated with breast cancer diagnosis were hypomethylated in cases compared with controls, and CpG sites were enriched for CpG islands. In addition, inferred repeat element methylation was lower in breast milk DNA from cases compared to controls, and cases exhibited increased estimated epigenetic mitotic tick rate as well as DNA methylation age compared with controls. Breast milk has promise as a biospecimen for prospective assessment of disease risk, and for understanding the underlying molecular basis of breast cancer risk factors and improving primary and secondary prevention of breast cancer.
Project description:Genome-wide patterns of DNA methylation were quantified using the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450K BeadChip (“450K array”) in DNA samples isolated from blood for schizophrenia cases, first episode psychosis patients and controls. These samples were profiled as part of a wider study where they were meta-analysed with other cohorts.
Project description:Genome-wide DNA Methylation analysis of 210 affected and unaffected individuals from 25 Australian families with multiple cases of breast cancer without carrying a mutation at breast cancer susceptibility genes. Genome-wide methylation was assessed using the Infinium HumanMethylation450K platform.
Project description:The experiment was designed to discover deferentially methylated regions between DNA extracted from breast cancer tissues and DNA samples extracted from tissue obtained form breast reduction surgeries. The study involved 20 breast cancer samples and 5 tissue samples from breast reductions. Each of the samples was processed by the arrays and collected data were used to compare the genome wide methylation pattern cancer samples (cases) and breast reduction samples (controls). The methylation pattern of 5 DNA samples from breast reduction was compared with the methylation pattern of 20 DNA samples from breast cancer tumors
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of normal and breast cancer samples. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip v1.1 was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 485577 CpGs in breast cancer and normal samples. Samples included 40 normal, 80 breast cancer samples. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 120 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip v1.1