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Methods for Cancer Epigenome Analysis

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Epigenetic Alterations in Oncogenesis

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((volume 754))

Abstract

Accurate detection of epimutations in tumor cells is crucial for ­understanding the molecular pathogenesis of cancer. Alterations in DNA methylation in cancer are functionally important and clinically relevant, but even this well-studied area is continually re-evaluated in light of unanticipated results, such as the strong association between aberrant DNA methylation in adult tumors and polycomb group profiles in embryonic stem cells, cancer-associated genetic mutations in epigenetic regulators such as DNMT3A and TET family genes, and the discovery of altered 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, a product of TET proteins acting on 5-methylcytosine, in human tumors with TET mutations. The abundance and distribution of covalent histone modifications in primary cancer tissues relative to normal cells is an important but largely uncharted area, although there is good evidence for a mechanistic role of cancer-specific alterations in histone modifications in tumor etiology, drug response, and tumor progression. Meanwhile, the discovery of new epigenetic marks continues, and there are many useful methods for epigenome analysis applicable to primary tumor samples, in addition to cancer cell lines. For DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation, next-generation sequencing allows increasingly inexpensive and quantitative whole-genome profiling. Similarly, the refinement and maturation of chromatin immunoprecipitation with next-generation sequencing (ChIP-seq) has made possible genome-wide mapping of histone modifications, open chromatin, and transcription factor binding sites. Computational tools have been developed apace with these epigenome methods to better enable accurate interpretation of the profiling data.

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Abbreviations

5MC:

5-methylcytosine

5HMC:

5-hydroxymethylcytosine

ChIP-seq:

Chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing

MBD:

Methyl binding domain

MeDIP:

Methyl DNA immunoprecipitation

MRE:

Methyl-sensitive restriction enzyme

RRBS:

Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

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