Genome-wide DNA methylation in MDS/secondary AML and de novo AML

ABSTRACT: An increasing body of work reveals aberrant hypermethylation of genes occurring in and potentially contributing to the pathogenesis of myeloid malignancies. Several of these diseases, such as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), are responsive to DNA methyltransferase inhibitors. In order to determine the extent of promoter hypermethylation in such tumors we compared the distribution of DNA methylation of 14,000 promoters in MDS and secondary AML patients enrolled in a phase I trial of 5-azacytidine and the histone deacetylase inhibitor entinostat against de novo AML patients and normal CD34+ bone marrow cells. The MDS and secondary AML patients displayed more extensive aberrant DNA methylation involving thousands of genes than did the normal CD34+ bone marrow cells or de novo AML blasts. Ab

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Maria Figueroa 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-17328 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress