Project description:Posterior fossa subgroup A (PFA) ependymoma is a brain tumor of childhood with a high rate of recurrence. Here we have performed RNAseq on a longitudinal cohort of patient samples obtained at presentation and at recurrence(s), in order to identify the biological correlates of treatment failure and tumor evolution.
Project description:DNA methylation analysis was perfomed using Infinium EPIC Methylation BeadChip platform on 65 PFA ependymoma patient samples. Resulting .idat files were then uploaded to the molecularneuropathology.org classifier to obtain molecular subgroup and copy number variance. Idat files were batch normalized and background corrected using default settings of the R package ChAMP to obtain GpG methylation beta values for analysis of differentially methylated GpG regions.