Project description:This study encompasses buccal sample DNA methylation (IlluminaMethylationEPIC array) from breast cancer cases and healthy age-matched controls.
Project description:Alternations in gene methylation and other epigenetic changes regulate normal development as well as drive disease progression. Chronic cigarette smoking causes hyper- and hypo-methylation of genes that could contribute to smoking-related diseases. It is unclear whether consumers of non-combustible tobacco, such as moist snuff, also exhibit such perturbations in their methylome. Here, we present global methylation changes relative to non-tobacco consumers in buccal cells collected from smokers (SMK) and moist snuff consumers (MSC). Generally healthy adult male study subjects were recruited into SMK, MSC and Non-Tobacco Consumer (NTC) cohorts (40 subjects/cohort). Global methylation profiling was performed on the Illumina 450K methylation array using buccal cell DNA. A total of 1,252 loci were found to be significantly differentially methylated in tobacco consumers relative to non-tobacco consumers. Overall, the SMK cohort exhibited larger qualitative and quantitative changes relative to MSC. Approximately half of the total number of gene loci, classified as Combustible Tobacco-Related signatures, and a third of the changes, termed Tobacco-Related signatures, were commonly detected in the tobacco consumers. Very few differences were detected between MSC and NTC, and hierarchical clustering of the top 50 significant gene loci suggested that MSC and NTC co-cluster. Consistent with physiological functions of AhR, combustible tobacco drives profound changes in buccal cell methylation status, principally impacting cell development and immune response pathways. These results aid in placing combustible and non-combustible tobacco products along a risk continuum and provide additional insights into the effects of tobacco consumption.
Project description:The study aimed to compare the DNA methylation differences between blood samples from sporadic breast cancer patients and healthy controls from a well-defined cohort in Uruguayan population. Infinium methylation arrays (450K Illumina) are used to identify genome-wide methylation differences between groups. The identified differently methylated CpG were further analyzed in an independent cohort of 80 breast cancer patients and 80 healthy controls.
Project description:DNA methylation analysis was performed for buccal samples from children exposed in utero to maternal smoking during pregnancy (with or without vitamin C supplementation) and in a smaller number of non-smoker controls
Project description:We report on the molecular and cellular events observed in two patients treated by gene therapy in 2004. After the initial resolution of bacterial and fungal infections, both patients exhibited silencing of transgene expression due to methylation of the viral promoter, and myelodysplasia with monosomy 7 as a result of insertional activation of EVI1. In line with this observation, a genome wide methylation analysis of 807 cancer related genes revealed a DNA methylation pattern characteristic of MDS and AML patients. Genomic DNA was prepared from peripheral blood cells of patient 1 (d 0 and month 27) and 25 healthy controls including 12 males and 13 females. The GoldenGate Methylation Cancer Panel I array was used to compare methylation degree in 1.505 CpG sites from promoter regions or the first exon of 807 mostly cancer related genes between the patient 1 (d 0 and month 27) and 25 healthy controls.
Project description:This study used buccal cells and purified blood monocytes from two different clinical cohorts involving Caucasian or African American female populations with or without arthritis. The differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs) between the control and RA populations were identified using MeDIP-seq. The DMRs (i.e., epimutations) identified in the buccal cells and monocytes were found to be distinct. The DMR associated genes were identified and many have previously been shown to be associated with arthritis. Observations indicate DMRs are cell type specific.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of hypertensive, pre-hypertensive, and healthy control samples. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles. Samples included 44 hypertensive samples, 44 pre-hypertensive samples, and 44 healthy controls.