Project description:Robust molecular subgrouping and copy-number profiling of medulloblastoma from small amounts of archival tumor material. Validation of patterns identified by whole-genome bisulphite sequencing in a larger cohort. DNA methylation profiles of 276 primary medulloblastoma and 8 normal cerebellum control samples were generated from fresh-frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded material using the Illumina 450k methylation array.
Project description:Chromothripsis and chromoanasynthesis are one-off catastrophic events leading to clustered genomic rearrangements. Expression profiling were performed on brain tissues with Medulloblastoma (n=9) and normal Cerebellum (n=4) to compare the expression of Double strain break DNA repair pathways.
Project description:Whole-genome screening of CpG Island methylation status by array-based profiling of absolute methylation status (array-PAMS). Methylation-specifically digested DNA (Cy3) was hybridized against methylation-sensitively digested DNA (Cy5) from the same sample. CGI methylation in 20 pediatric medulloblastomas (M) and normal cerebellum (Cb, pool of five unaffected donors, age 25â33 years)
Project description:Methylomic studies require substantial amounts of DNA samples and this restriction hinders applications involving scarce animal or patient samples with direct biomedical relevance. Here we report a microfluidics-based reduced representative bisulfite sequencing protocol, MIcrofluidic Diffusion-based RRBS (MID-RRBS), that permits methylomic profiling with sub-1 ng starting DNA. Using this technology, we studied DNA methylation in NeuN+ and NeuN- fractions isolated from mouse cerebellum, revealing cell-type specific methylomic patterns. We also studied the DNA methylation in NeuN+ nuclei isolated from clozapine or vehicle treated mouse frontal cortex.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of normal and preinvasive cervical smear samples infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV) The Illumina Infinium 27k Human DNA methylation Beadchip v1.2 was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27,000 CpGs in liquid based cytology (LBC) cervical smear samples. Samples included 19 normal smears without HPV, 11 normal smears with HPV infection, and 18 smears with HPV and exhibiting dysplasia. email: a.teschendorff@ucl.ac.uk Keywords: DNA methylation
