期刊
ONCOTARGET
卷 8, 期 9, 页码 15349-15363出版社
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.14856
关键词
HNSCC; DTX1; expression; methylation; integration
资金
- NIDCR/NCI [P50CA019032]
- Head and Neck Cancer SPORE
- NIDCR/NIH Challenge Grant [RC1DE020324]
- NIDCR/NIH [R21DE025398, R01DE023347, K25CA141053, R01CA177669, R01DE013152]
- NIH/NLM [R01LM011000]
- [P30CA006973]
Over a half million new cases of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) are diagnosed annually worldwide, however, 5 year overall survival is only 50% for HNSCC patients. Recently, high throughput technologies have accelerated the genome-wide characterization of HNSCC. However, comprehensive pipelines with statistical algorithms that account for HNSCC biology and perform independent confirmatory and functional validation of candidates are needed to identify the most biologically relevant genes. We applied outlier statistics to high throughput gene expression data, and identified 76 top-scoring candidates with significant differential expression in tumors compared to normal tissues. We identified 15 epigenetically regulated candidates by focusing on a subset of the genes with a negative correlation between gene expression and promoter methylation. Differential expression and methylation of 3 selected candidates (BANK1, BIN2, and DTX1) were confirmed in an independent HNSCC cohorts from Johns Hopkins and TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas). We further performed functional evaluation of NOTCH regulator, DTX1, which was downregulated by promoter hypermethylation in tumors, and demonstrated that decreased expression of DTX1 in HNSCC tumors maybe associated with NOTCH pathway activation and increased migration potential.
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