Project description:In order to identify methylation changes in prostate cancer, we performed a genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation using Agilent human CpG island arrays. We then chose specific genes to validate methylation both in the same cases as were hybridized to the array (using quantitative EpiTYPER analysis) and in an independent series of prostate cancer samples (using MethyLight quantitative methylation specific PCR). We specifically chose low grade (Gleason score 6 cases) and high grade (Gleason score 8 cases) to discover methylated genes/loci that may be involved in the progression to a higher grade of prostate cancer.
Project description:To identify which lncRNAs are differentially expressed in prostate cancer, the total RNA from prostate cancer cell lines (PC3, LNCaP), normal epithelial prostatic cells and the pool of 10 prostate tumor tissues and 10 adjacent normal prostate tissues were screened using SurePrint G3 human lncRNA microarrays (Agilent). The SurePrint G3 Human Gene array contains 16,472 lincRNAs and 34,127 mRNA genes.