Project description:Glioma study (gene expression and CGH): Brain tumours are the most common solid tumors in children and have the highest mortality rate of all solid pediatric tumours. Despite advances in multimodality therapy, children with high-grade gliomas invariably have an Overall Survival (OS) around 20% at 5 years. There is growing evidence that the biological knowledge and the histo-prognostic classifications used for the management of adult HGG may not fully apply to children. Interobserver variability and specificity of pediatric tumors with respect to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification have lead to a high rate of misclassification in multi-institutional studies. From 90 biopsies of children with HGG (High Grade Glioma), comprising 37 DIPG (Diffuse Infiltrating Pontine Glioma), 73 extracted RNA have been hybrized on Agilent 4x44K GE arrays and 71 extracted DNA have been hybrized on Agilent 44K and 4x44K CGH arrays. The dataset contains raw data files from Feature Extraction. Genomic data were jointly analysed with clinical and histological data comprising: date_of_diagnosis, date_of_last_news, WHO_grade, deceased_at_median_survival_time, deceased_at_2years, localization of the tumour in brain, gadolinium_T1_inf_T2. A specific analysis was performed on DIPG.
Project description:Overall paediatric high grade glioma (pHGG) has a poor prognosis, in part due to the lack of understanding of the underlying biology. We therefore used high resolution 244k oligo array comparative genomic hybridisation (oligo aCGH) (Agilent Technologies) to analyse DNA from 38 formalin-fixed paraffin embedded pHGG samples, including 13 DIPG (ten pre-treatment samples and three post-mortem). The pattern of gains and losses were distinct from those seen in HGG arising in adults. In particular we found 1q gain in 22% of our cohort compared to 9% in adults. Homozygous loss at 8p12 was seen in 6/38 (15%) of pHGG. This deletion has not been previously reported in adult or paediatric high grade gliomas. The minimal deleted region is of the gene ADAM3A and homozygous deletion of ADAM3A was confirmed by quantitative real time PCR (qPCR). This novel homozygous deletion of ADAM3A in pHGG merits further study. Loss of CDKN2A/CDKN2B was seen in 4/38 (10%) samples by oligo a CGH, confirmed by FISH on TMAs and was restricted to supratentorial tumours. Amplification of the 4q11-13 region was detected in 8% of cases and included PDGFRA and KIT, subsequent qPCR analysis was consistent with amplification of PDGFRA. MYCN amplification was seen in 2/38 samples (5%) and was shown to be significantly associated with anaplastic astrocytomas (p=0.03). Overall DIPG shared similar spectrum of changes to supratentorial HGG with some notable differences including high frequency of 17p loss and 14q loss and lack of CDKN2A/CDKN2B deletion. To our knowledge, this study examines the largest DIPG cohort to date using high-throughput genetic techniques. 38 high grade glioma samples including 13 DIPG (ten pre-treatment samples and three post-mortem) analysed by Agilent 244K array CGH. Samples BSG 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are the ten pre-treatment DIPG samples. Samples BSG 4, 12 and 13 are the three post-treatment DIPG samples.
Project description:This study involves characterization of four head and neck cancer cell lines -- NT8e, OT9, AW13516 and AW8507, established from Indian head and neck cancer patients, using SNP arrays, whole exome and whole transcriptome sequencing.
Project description:<p>Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is an extremely rare (~350 cases/year) and universally fatal childhood brain cancer. Standard clinical strategies such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy show only transient improvement in patient condition and result in negligible change in survival, DIPG remains at below 1% survival after 5 years. Prioritization of panobinostat through previous cooperative work resulted in a phase 1 clinical trial. Nonetheless, new therapies for DIPG must be identified to further dramatically change the statistics for DIPG.</p> <p>To identify novel therapy strategies for DIPG, we performed whole exome(16 new samples, 22 previously published samples, 38 in total with 26 matched normal) and RNA deep sequencing (17 new samples, 11 previously published samples) on a cohort of new patient samples. Sequencing results aid in the identification of recurrent mutations/variations and endotypic expression profiling to identify new therapeutic and treatment strategies for DIPG. </p>
Project description:BIOMEDE (NCT02233049) was a phase II, biopsy-driven clinical trial in DIPG patients with randomisation of stratification between dasatinib, erlotinib and everolimus. Methylation array profiling was carried out alongside drug screening in newly-established patient-derived models of DIPG in vitro and in vivo. Alongside exome, RNAseq, phospho-proteomics, these data highlight the MAPK pathway as a therapeutic target in DIPG, and show the importance of parallel resistance modelling and rational combinatorial treatment
Project description:Agilent whole exome hybridisation capture was performed on genomic DNA derived from Chondrosarcoma cancer and matched normal DNA from the same patients. Next Generation sequencing performed on the resulting exome libraries and mapped to build 37 of the human reference genome to facilitate the identification of novel cancer genes. Now we aim to re find and validate the findings of those exome libraries using bespoke pulldown methods and sequencing the products.
Project description:To study the chromatin accessibility across the genome of DIPG-VII, DIPG-IV, and DIPG-XIII cell lines, we performed ATACseq (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing).
Project description:Whole exome sequencing was performed on set of 48 DNA samples obtained from 16 EGFR mutated NSCLC patients whose tumors progressed following EGFR-TKI treatment. The DNA samples included baseline biopsy, rebiopsy and blood from the same patient. By comparing the variants in rebiopsy tumors and baseline tumors we aim to understand the genomic alterations responsible for the development of EGFR-TKI resistance in NSCLC patients.