Circulating cell-free DNA methylation patterns indicate cellular sources of allograft injury after liver transplant.

ABSTRACT: Post-transplant complications reduce allograft and recipient survival. Current approaches for detecting allograft injury non-invasively are limited and do not differentiate between cellular mechanisms. Here, we monitor cellular damages after liver transplants from cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragments released from dying cells into the circulation. We analyzed 130 blood samples collected from 44 patients at different time points after transplant. Sequence-based methylation of cfDNA fragments were mapped to an atlas of cell-type-specific DNA methylation patterns derived from 476 methylomes of purified cells. For liver cell types, DNA methylation patterns and multi-omic data integration show distinct enrichment in open chromatin and functionally important regulatory regions. We find that multi-tis

SUBMITTER: McNamara ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12174327 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature