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:<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:Cancer cell lines can provide robust and facile biological models for the generation and testing of hypothesis in the early stages of drug development and caner biology. Although clinical trials remain the ultimate scientific testing ground for anticancer therapies, the use of appropriate model systems to explore the molecular basis of drug activity and to identify predictive biomarkers during their development can have a profound effect on the design, cost and ultimate success of new cancer drug development. In order to capture the high degree of genomic diversity in cancer and to identify rare molecular subtypes, we have assembled a collection of >1000 cancer cell lines. These lines have been characterised using whole exome sequencing, genome wide analysis of copy number, mRNA gene expression profiling and DNA methylation analysis (http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cell_lines). To further characterise this panel of cell lines we have now compiled data for RNA sequencing. The current study represent data for ~450 of the cell lines in the panel, data for the remaining lines can be accessed via the CGHUB data browser hosted at UCSC. <br>This ArrayExpress record contains only meta-data. Raw data files have been archived at the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA, www.ebi.ac.uk/ega) by the consortium, with restricted access to protect sample donors' identity. The relevant accessions of the EGA data set is EGAD00001001357 under EGA study accession EGAS00001000828.
Project description:The study includes 14 patients with confirmed JMML and known somatic mutations (from exome data of paired tumoral and germline DNA). Bone marrow or peripheral blood mononucleated cells were injected in immundeficient mice to recapitulate the leukemia. Whole exome sequencing was performed in xenograft samples to control the persistance of patients' known mutations and look for new mutations acquired in xenograft sample.
Project description:We aimed to decipher APOBEC3A driven mutational differences in human PDX_PDAC tissues. 40 human PDX_PDAC tissues were grouped based on their APOBEC3A expression levels into APOBEC3A High and Low groups. Illumina whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed and downstream variant analysis was applied.
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).