Abstract
Aim: To determine whether methylation differences between mostly fatal TCF3-HLF and curable TCF3-PBX1 pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia subtypes can be associated with differential gene expression and remission. Materials & methods: Five (extremely rare) TCF3-HLF versus five (very similar) TCF3-PBX1 patients were sampled before and after remission and analyzed using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing and RNA-sequencing. Results: We identified 7000 differentially methylated CpG sites between subtypes, of which 78% had lower methylation levels in TCF3-HLF. Gene expression was negatively correlated with CpG sites in 23 genes. KBTBD11 clearly differed in methylation and expression between subtypes and before and after remission in TCF3-HLF samples. Conclusion: KBTBD11 hypomethylation may be a promising potential target for further experimental validation especially for the TCF3-HLF subtype.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 133-147 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Epigenomics |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Genetics
- Cancer Research
Keywords
- ALL
- DNA methylation
- epigenetics
- epigenomics
- leukemia
- next-generation sequencing
- NGS
- RNA-Seq
- RRBS
- transcriptomics