Non-invasive diagnosis and surveillance of bladder cancer with driver and passenger DNA methylation in a prospective cohort study

© 2022 The Authors. Clinical and Translational Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Shanghai Institute of Clinical Bioinformatics..

BACKGROUND: State-of-art non-invasive diagnosis processes for bladder cancer (BLCA) harbour shortcomings such as low sensitivity and specificity, unable to distinguish between high- (HG) and low-grade (LG) tumours, as well as inability to differentiate muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). This study investigates a comprehensive characterization of the entire DNA methylation (DNAm) landscape of BLCA to determine the relevant biomarkers for the non-invasive diagnosis of BLCA.

METHODS: A total of 304 samples from 224 donors were enrolled in this multi-centre, prospective cohort study. BLCA-specific DNAm signature discovery was carried out with genome-wide bisulfite sequencing in 32 tumour tissues and 12 normal urine samples. A targeted sequencing assay for BLCA-specific DNAm signatures was developed to categorize tumour tissue against normal urine, or MIBC against NMIBC. Independent validation was performed with targeted sequencing of 259 urine samples in a double-blinded manner to determine the clinical diagnosis and prognosis value of DNAm-based classification models. Functions of genomic region harbouring BLCA-specific DNAm signature were validated with biological assays. Concordances of pathology to urine tumour DNA (circulating tumour DNA [ctDNA]) methylation, genomic mutations or other state-of-the-art diagnosis methods were measured.

RESULTS: Genome-wide DNAm profile could accurately classify LG tumour from HG tumour (LG NMIBC vs. HG NMIBC: p = .038; LG NMIBC vs. HG MIBC, p = .00032; HG NMIBC vs. HG MIBC: p = .82; Student's t-test). Overall, the DNAm profile distinguishes MIBC from NMIBC and normal urine. Targeted-sequencing-based DNAm signature classifiers accurately classify LG NMIBC tissues from HG MIBC and could detect tumours in urine at a limit of detection of less than .5%. In tumour tissues, DNAm accurately classifies pathology, thus outperforming genomic mutation or RNA expression profiles. In the independent validation cohort, pre-surgery urine ctDNA methylation outperforms fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay to detect HG BLCA (n = 54) with 100% sensitivity (95% CI: 82.5%-100%) and LG BLCA (n = 26) with 62% sensitivity (95% CI: 51.3%-72.7%), both at 100% specificity (non-BLCA: n = 72; 95% CI: 84.1%-100%). Pre-surgery urine ctDNA methylation signature correlates with pathology and predicts recurrence and metastasis. Post-surgery urine ctDNA methylation (n = 61) accurately predicts recurrence-free survival within 180 days, with 100% accuracy.

CONCLUSION: With the discovery of BLCA-specific DNAm signatures, targeted sequencing of ctDNA methylation outperforms FISH and DNA mutation to detect tumours, predict recurrence and make prognoses.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Clinical and translational medicine - 12(2022), 8 vom: 24. Aug., Seite e1008

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xiao, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Ju, Lingao [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Kaiyu [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Wan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Minsheng [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Li, Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Hongjie [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Hang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Tongzu [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Yongwen [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Haoli [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Luyuan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Gang [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Xinyue [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Ye [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Zilin [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Zhonghua [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Liuying [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Zhongqiang [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Dongai [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Xianlong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xintong [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Zicheng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Dongmei [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Song [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Chundong [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xinghuan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers, Tumor
Bladder cancer
Circulating Tumor DNA
Diagnosis and prognosis
Journal Article
Methylation
Multicenter Study
Non-invasive screening
Prospective cohort study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Urine tumour DNA

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Date Completed 16.08.2022

Date Revised 05.11.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ctm2.1008

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344876500