Project description:Maternal-effect mutations in components of the subcortical maternal complex (SCMC) of the human oocyte can cause early embryonic failure, gestational abnormalities and recurrent pregnancy loss. Enigmatically, they are also associated with DNA methylation abnormalities at imprinted genes in conceptuses, in the devastating gestational abnormality biparental complete hydatidiform mole (BiCHM) or in multi-locus imprinting disease (MLID). However, the developmental timing, genomic extent and mechanistic basis of these imprinting defects are unknown. Here, we studied methylation level of a women reported with familial recurrent hydatidiform mole and multiple pregnancy loss. Genotype analysis revealed homozygous mutation in KHDC3L. We obtained biparental mole from patient (Patient D) and compared it’s whole-genome methylation profile with respect to control placentas and sporadic mole (AnCHM) using Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip (WG-317-1001, Illumina). We also used endometrium samples from their respective mother for the comparison purposes. Molar conceptuses were observed with methylation defects at genome-wide level and profound loss of methylation at multiple genome-derived differentially methylated regions (gDMRs) confirming MLID.
Project description:Mutations in components of the subcortical maternal complex (SMC) of the human oocyte are enigmatically associated with DNA methylation abnormalities specifically at imprinted genes in conceptuses, but the developmental timing, genomic extent and mechanistic details of these defects are unknown. Here, we show, by single-cell bisulphite sequencing, that mutation in human KHDC3L that causes recurrent hydatidiform mole results in a genome-wide deficit of de novo methylation in oocytes.
Project description:Imprinted genes are critical for normal human growth and neurodevelopment. We developed a strategy to identify new DNA differentially methylated regions (DMRs), a hallmark of imprinted genes. Using genome-wide methylation profiling, candidate DMRs were selected by identifying CpGs with putative allelic differential methylation in normal biparental tissues. In parallel, we looked for parent of origin-specific DNA methylation patterns in paternally derived human androgenetic complete hydatidiform mole (AnCHM), and maternally derived mature cystic ovarian teratoma (MCT). Using this approach, we found known DMRs associated with imprinted genomic regions as well as new DMRs for known imprinted genes, NAP1L5 and ZNF597. Most importantly, novel candidate imprinted genes were identified. The paternally methylated DMR for one candidate, AXL, a receptor tyrosine kinase, was validated by methylation analyses in humans. Further validation in mouse embryos showed that Axl was expressed preferentially from the maternal allele in a DNA methylation–dependent manner. We have analyzed 3 androgenetic complete hydatidiform mole (AnCHM), 16 white blood cell (WBC), 1 mature cystic ovarian teratoma (MCT), 5 placenta, and 1 lymphoblastoid cell line paternal UPD4 sample
Project description:A complete hydatidiform mole (CHM) is a common disease known to develop post-molar gestational trophoblast neoplasia (GTN). However, the details of the molecular biological mechanisms underlying the progression to post-molar GTN from hydatidiform moles are still largely unknown. In this study, we performed RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) using archival fresh frozen tissues of patients with CHM and compared the gene expression profiles of patients who achieved spontaneous remission and those who developed post-molar GTN after the evacuation.
Project description:The trophoblastic disease is a general term for diseases that cause abnormal growth of trophoblasts, the most frequent form of which is called hydatidiform mole (CHM). CHM cell lines (Hmol1-3B and Hmol1-2C) were established in our laboratory (Yamamoto E, et al. Int J Mol Med. 2017 Sep; 40(3): 614–622). In this study, XBP1 was overexpressed, and RNA sequencing was performed to investigate the role of XBP1 in CHM.
Project description:Patients with molar pregnancy are at risk of developing persistent trophoblastic disease (PTD). Previous study indicated that PTD risk was not related to evacuation time of hydatidiform mole (HM), leading to our hypothesis that HM might be pre-programmed before evacuation to determine the PTD risk. Considering the similarity between PTD and tumorigenesis, we investigated the methylation alterations in PTD conceptus using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS), in order to identify potential predictors for PTD.
Project description:Copy number variations (CNVs) constitute the largest portion of the human genome variation. We determined a genome-wide high resolution SNP/CNV haplotype structure of Asians, by analyzing a collection of complete hydatidiform moles (CHMs) of Japanese, using high-density DNA arrays. CHMs are tissues carrying duplicated haploid genomes derived from single sperms, and are suitable material for the detection of CNVs, because they are expected to reveal greater signal to noise ratio in hybridization experiments. Also, the absence of heterozygosity ensures straightforward CNV interpretation without being bothered by overlapping CNV segments. We genotyped 100 CHM genomes using Affymetrix SNP 6.0 and Illumina 1M-duo, created a definitive haplotype map including 1.7 million SNPs and 2339 CNV region (CNVR) that is presented as D-HaploDB Phase 4.1. Illumina Human1M-Duov3 BeadChip analyses were performed according to the manufacturer's directions on DNA extracted from 97 complete hydatidiform moles (CHMs) tissues collected throughout Japan.
Project description:We reported a kind of new haploid embryonic stem cell, human haploid androgenetic embryonic stem cell, which kept the sperm characteristic epigenetic modification patterns for imprinting genes. In this study, two human haploid androgenetic embryonic stem cell lines (ha-AGHESC) and two human haploid parthenogenetic embryonic stem cell lines (ha-PGHESC) with somatic control and diploid HESC control, were processed with RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) and whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS). We showed that the reconstructed semi-clone HESCs were similar to the diploid HESC in transcriptome and the methylome especially related to the known human imprinting genes. The raw data of WGBS and bulk RNA-seq are deposited at Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) of Human with accession number HRA004100.
Project description:Androgenetic induced pluripotent stem cells (AgHiPSCs) were generated from androgenetic fibroblasts derived from a complete hydatidiform mole. AgHiPSCs can be used in regenerative medicine, for analysis of genomic imprinting, to study imprinting-related development, and for disease modeling in humans. To investigate the pluripotency state of AgHiPSCs, we analyzed their cellular and molecular characteristics (morphology, RT-PCR, qPCR, immunochemistry, and differentiation capacity in vitro and in vivo). We tested the DNA methylation status of imprinted genes using bisulfite sequencing and demonstrated the androgenetic identity of AgHiPSCs.