The signature of liver cancer in immune cells DNA methylation

Background The idea that changes to the host immune system are critical for cancer progression was proposed a century ago and recently regained experimental support. Results Herein, the hypothesis that hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) leaves a molecular signature in the host peripheral immune system was tested by profiling DNA methylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and T cells from a discovery cohort (n = 69) of healthy controls, chronic hepatitis, and HCC using Illumina 450K platform and was validated in two validation sets (n = 80 and n = 48) using pyrosequencing. Conclusions The study reveals a broad signature of hepatocellular carcinoma in PBMC and T cells DNA methylation which discriminates early HCC stage from chronic hepatitis B and C and healthy controls, intensifies with progression of HCC, and is highly enriched in immune function-related genes such as PD-1, a current cancer immunotherapy target. These data also support the feasibility of using these profiles for early detection of HCC..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Clinical epigenetics - 10(2018), 1 vom: 18. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Yonghong [VerfasserIn]
Petropoulos, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jinhua [VerfasserIn]
Cheishvili, David [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Rudy [VerfasserIn]
Dymov, Sergiy [VerfasserIn]
Li, Kang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Szyf, Moshe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

DNA methylation
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Immune functions
Peripheral white blood cells

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© The Author(s). 2018

doi:

10.1186/s13148-017-0436-1

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SPR030675820