Project description:DNA methylation classification reference set (1077) and validation set (428) of 1505 sarcoma samples using Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChips or Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation850 BeadChips
Project description:Infinium® HumanMethylation450 BeadChip and EPIC arrays were run with the aim of using the methylation profiles (n=986 in total) for sarcoma subtype classification (Paper: Lyskjær et al, 2021, DNA methylation-based profiling of bone and soft tissue tumours: a validation study of the ‘DKFZ sarcoma Classifier’ ). 500ng of DNA from fresh frozen (FT) or formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumour samples were bisulfite converted using the Zymo EZ DNA methylation Gold kit (Zymo Research Corp. Irvine, USA) before hybridisation to the Infinium HumanMethylation450 or EPIC beadchip arrays (Illumina, San Diego, CA) by UCL Genomics. All bisulfite-converted FFPE samples were restored with the Infinium FFPE DNA Restore kit (Illumina).
Project description:We retrospectively identified adult patients who had received anti-PD-1 ICI therapy for recurrent sarcoma and performed DNA methylation profiling using Infinium MethylationEPIC microarrays. Response to anti-PD-1 ICI therapy was correlated with DNA methylation profiles.
Project description:DNA methylation profiling has become a powerful tool for neuro-oncology diagnostics. We investigated the value of using DNA methylation profiling to achieve molecular diagnosis in adult primary diffuse lower-grade gliomas according to WHO 2016 classification system of central nervous system tumors. We further evaluated the use of methylation profiling for improved molecular characterization of the tumors and identify prognostic differences beyond histological grade and molecular markers (IDH mutation and 1p/19q codeletion status).
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of Rhabdoid tumor of the kidney, Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors and non-neoplastic kidney. The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation 27 BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27000 CpGs . Samples included 3 Rhabdoid tumor of the kidney, 3 Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, 3 Ewing's sarcoma family of tumor and 3 non-neoplastic kidney. Bisulfite converted DNA from the 12 samples were hybridized to the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27 Beadchip.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of Rhabdoid tumor of the kidney, Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors and non-neoplastic kidney. The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation 27 BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27000 CpGs . Samples included 3 Rhabdoid tumor of the kidney, 3 Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, 3 Ewing's sarcoma family of tumor and 3 non-neoplastic kidney.
Project description:Accurate pathological diagnosis is crucial for optimal management of cancer patients. For a number of hematolymphoid tumor entities, standardization of the diagnostic process has been shown to be particularly challenging - with substantial inter-observer variability in the histopathological diagnosis of many tumor types. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling has been shown to contribute to accurate and precise tumor classification and diagnosis in several tumor types, including central nervous system neoplasms. We herein present the development of a comprehensive approach for DNA methylation-based hematolymphoid tumor classification across most entities and age groups and demonstrate its application in a clinical setting, defining 44 methylation classes comprising a good proportion of recognized hematolymphoid tumor types. In several cases, methylation signatures separated recognized tumor types into subclasses that showed statistically significant and distinct patient outcomes. We validate the classifier in independent samples that were not utilized in classifier development and show that the reliability of this method is highly accurate (concordance 97%) with a substantial impact on diagnostic precision in addition to standard methods. We show a relationship of methylation class match scores with tumor purity, finding that high-tumor-purity samples are more likely to receive a high-confidence match with our classifier. Finally, we show the impact of the classifier in clinical practice, where classifier results resulted in a change in diagnosis in specific hematolymphoid neoplasms. For broader accessibility, a free and user-friendly online portal for access to the hematolymphoid tumor methylation classifier will be available for external users.