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Issue title: Early Detection of Cancer
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Park, Jonga; * | Brena, Romulo Martinb; c | Gruidl, Mikea | Zhou, Juna | Huang, Timb | Plass, Christophb | Tockman, Melvyn S.a
Affiliations: [a] Division of Cancer Prevention and Controls, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA | [b] Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Division of Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University, OH, USA | [c] Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics 420 West 12th Avenue, Medical Research Facility, Room 464A, Columbus, OH 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Jong Park, Division of Cancer Prevention and Controls, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, MRC3047A, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. Tel.: +1 813 745 1703; Fax: +1 813 903 6847; E-mail: parkj@moffitt.usf.edu.
Abstract: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer related mortality, accounting for almost one-third of cancer deaths in men and one-fourth of cancer deaths in women; 160,440 lung cancer deaths are expected in 2004. Survival from lung cancer depends mainly upon the stage at presentation. As localized tumors generally do not cause symptoms, the disease is usually diagnosed in symptomatic patients at advanced stages when the prognosis is poor. As a result, the overall 5-year lung cancer survival rate is only 15%. It is well known that epigenetic alterations such as DNA methylation of CpG dinucleotides located in CpG islands within the regulatory (promoter) regions of genes are associated with transcriptional silencing in cancer. Promoter hypermethylation of critical pathway genes could identify potential biomarkers for lung cancer risk. Our goal for this study is to identify novel hypermethylated genes in lung cancer. We have investigated the methylation profiles of DNA samples from 14 paired lung tumor and adjacent normal tissues resected from the same individuals using restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS). We could assess the DNA methylation status of an average of 2,012 CpG islands for each tumor. We identified 162 differentially methylated loci where CpG islands were hypermethylated in lung tumors but not in adjacent non-cancer tissues. Among 162 sites of differential DNA methylation, detected from at least one tumor/normal pair, 21 hypermethylated genes were identified that were not reported previously as hypermethylated in lung tumor tissue.
Keywords: lung cancer, Hypermethylation, restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS), CpG islands
DOI: 10.3233/CBM-2005-12-307
Journal: Cancer Biomarkers, vol. 1, no. 2-3, pp. 193-200, 2005
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