Project description:Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is among the most common malignancies, but little is known about the spatial intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) and the temporal clonal evolutionary processes in this cancer. Interestingly, the epigenetic profiling also showed strong evidence of spatial ITH, and the phyloepigenetic trees were extremely similar with the phylogenetic ones, indicating the interplay and co-dependency of genetic and epigenetic alterations in ESCC. We found that several genes were both mutated and hypermethylated at their promoters, such as ASXL1 and EPHA7. Our integrated investigations of the spatial ITH and the temporal clonal evolution might provide insights into developing biomarkers for early diagnosis of ESCC, as well as personalized therapeutic targets for treating this malignancy. DNA methylation profiles of 12 tumor regions and 2 matched normal esophageal epithelial tissues from three M-WES-examined ESCC cases (ESCC01, ESCC03 and ESCC05) were performed using Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450K platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA) at the Epigenome Center of University of Southern California.
Project description:Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is among the most common malignancies, but little is known about the spatial intratumor heterogeneity (ITH) and the temporal clonal evolutionary processes in this cancer. Interestingly, the epigenetic profiling also showed strong evidence of spatial ITH, and the phyloepigenetic trees were extremely similar with the phylogenetic ones, indicating the interplay and co-dependency of genetic and epigenetic alterations in ESCC. We found that several genes were both mutated and hypermethylated at their promoters, such as ASXL1 and EPHA7. Our integrated investigations of the spatial ITH and the temporal clonal evolution might provide insights into developing biomarkers for early diagnosis of ESCC, as well as personalized therapeutic targets for treating this malignancy.
Project description:Both genetic and epigenetic aberrations are linked by intricate crosstalk, and can either individually or in synergy lead to the development of cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that epigenetic changes such as alterations in DNA methylation play a crucial role in ESCC. We performed a Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip to examine the global methylation signature of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma of Chinese patients. DNA methylation profiles of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (4 samples), paired adjacent normal surrounding tissues (4 samples) and normal esophagus mucosa from healthy individuals (4 samples) were generated using Infinium methylation 450K BeadChips from Illumina (Illumina, San Diego, USA).
Project description:We classified samples and deciphered a key genes signature of intratumor heterogeneity by Principal Component Analysis and Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis. We provide a signature of key cancer-heterogeneity genes highly associated with the intratumor spatial gradient and show that it is enriched in genes with correlation between methylation and expression levels.
Project description:Both genetic and epigenetic aberrations are linked by intricate crosstalk, and can either individually or in synergy lead to the development of cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that epigenetic changes such as alterations in DNA methylation play a crucial role in ESCC. We performed a Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip to examine the global methylation signature of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma of Chinese patients.
Project description:Characterization of copy number alterations and unbalanced breakpoints in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines by array-based comparative genomic hybridization.
Project description:Characterization of copy number alterations and unbalanced breakpoints in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines by array-based comparative genomic hybridization. Six cell lines
Project description:Human esophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. More than 90% of esophageal cancer is esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). However, the etiological cause of ESCC remains unclear. By using gene expression microarray analysis, we aimed to find whether fungal infection is involved in ESCC development. We identified a wide spectrum of molecular signatures in a fungal infection and ESCC mouse model, including alterations involved in epigenetic regulation, cell cycle control, cell proliferation and survival signaling, and inflammation, which share many similarities with human ESCC.
