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CANCER LETTERS
Volume 268, Issue 1, Pages 56-62Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.03.033
Keywords
epigenetics; tumour suppressor; adenamatous polyposis coli; placenta; methylation
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- Leukaemia Foundation of Australia
- National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
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Methylation of the human APC gene promoter is associated with several different types of cancers and has also been documented in some pre-cancerous tissues. We have examined the methylation of APC gene promoters in human placenta and choriocarcinoma cells. This revealed a general hypomethylation of the APC-1b promoter and a pattern with monoallelic methylation of the APC-1a promoter in full term placental tissue. However, there was no evidence of a parent-of-origin effect, suggesting random post zygotic origin of methylation. Increased methylation of this promoter was observed in all choriocarcinoma-derived trophoblast cell lines, suggesting a trophoblastic origin of placental APC methylation and implicating APC hypermethylation in the development of this group of gestational tumours. Our demonstration of placental methylation of the APC-1a promoter represents the first observation of monoallelic methylation of this gene in early development, and provides further support for a role of canonical Wnt signalling in placental trophoblast invasiveness. This also implicates tumour suppressor gene silencing as an integral part of normal human placental development. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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