Project description:We have used Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array profiling to profile paediatric high grade gliomas and diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas. The 450K methylation array is being used to separate brain tumour samples on the basis of their methylation profiles which represent the cell of origin the time and place in which tumours arise. Methylation arrays provide data for an integrated molecular diagnosis of brain tumours and define specific molecular subgroups and subtypes of high grade gliomas carrying distinct driver mutations and patterns of somatic alterations. These data form part of an integrated meta-analysis of high grade gliomas in children combining DNA copy number, methylation and high throughput sequencing datasets.
Project description:The data contains Illumina 450k array methylation files from 380 patients with diffuse IDH wild-type glioma from the EORTC-26101 trial
Project description:The data contains Illumina 450k/EPIC array methylation files from 18 patients with diffuse IDH wild-type glioma from the Heidelberg Neuro-Oncology center
Project description:Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is a fatal brain cancer that arises in the brainstem of children with no effective treatment and near 100% fatality. The failure of most therapies can be attributed to the delicate location of these tumors and choosing therapies based on assumptions that DIPGs are molecularly similar to adult disease. Recent studies have unraveled the unique genetic make-up of this brain cancer with nearly 80% harboring a K27M-H3.3 or K27M-H3.1 mutation. However, DIPGs are still thought of as one disease with limited understanding of the genetic drivers of these tumors. To understand what drives DIPGs we integrated whole-genome-sequencing with methylation, expression and copy-number profiling, discovering that DIPGs are three molecularly distinct subgroups (H3-K27M, Silent, MYCN) and uncovering a novel recurrent activating mutation in the activin receptor ACVR1, in 20% of DIPGs. Mutations in ACVR1 were constitutively activating, leading to SMAD phosphorylation and increased expression of downstream activin signaling targets ID1 and ID2. Our results highlight distinct molecular subgroups and novel therapeutic targets for this incurable pediatric cancer. Illumina Infinium 450K arrays were performed according to the manufacturer's directions on bisulfite converted gDNA extracted from fresh frozen biopsy and autopsy brain tissue from DIPG patients. CpG methylation profiling on Illumina Infinium 450K arrays was performed for 28 paediatric DIPG samples.
Project description:We studied the effect of BMI1 inhibition in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cells (DIPG). We reported the application of chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing for high-thoughput profiling of BMI1 and H2AK119ub in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cells (DIPG) in response to BMI1 inhibition. We also performed bulk RNA sequencing of DIPG cells in response to pharmacological inhibition or knockdown of BMI1.
