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CANCER PREVENTION RESEARCH
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 1348-1355Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-13-0104
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- Imperial Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
- Cancer Research UK program [C536/A13086]
- Office of the Higher Education Commission, through the Center of Excellence in SHeP-GMS, Khon Kaen University, Thailand [PD54201, NRU542015]
- Cancer Research UK [13086] Funding Source: researchfish
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Genetic abnormalities of cholangiocarcinoma have been widely studied; however, epigenomic changes related to cholangiocarcinogenesis have been less well characterized. We have profiled the DNA methylomes of 28 primary cholangiocarcinoma and six matched adjacent normal tissues using Infinium's Human-Methylation27 BeadChips with the aim of identifying gene sets aberrantly and epigenetically regulated in this tumor type. Using a linear model for microarray data, we identified 1610 differentially methylated autosomal CpG sites, with 809 hypermethylated (representing 603 genes) and 801 hypomethylated (representing 712 genes) in cholangiocarcinoma versus adjacent normal tissues (false-discovery rate <= 0.05). Gene ontology and gene set enrichment analyses identified gene sets significantly associated with hypermethylation at linked CpG sites in cholangiocarcinoma including homeobox genes and target genes of PRC2, EED, SUZ12, and histone H3 trimethylation at lysine 27. We confirmed frequent hypermethylation at the homeobox genes HOXA9 and HOXD9 by bisulfite pyrosequencing in a larger cohort of cholangiocarcinoma (n = 102). Our findings indicate a key role for hypermethylation of multiple CpG sites at genes associated with a stem cell-like phenotype as a common molecular aberration in cholangiocarcinoma. These data have implications for cholangiocarcinogenesis, as well as possible novel treatment options using histone methyltransferase inhibitors. (C) 2013 AACR.
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