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Epigenetics ; 15(4): 398-418, 2020 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31842685

RESUMO

Despite recent evidence that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) possesses roles in gene regulation distinct from 5-methylcytosine (5mC), relatively little is known regarding the functions of 5hmC in mammalian tissues. To address this issue, we utilized an approach combining both paired bisulfite (BS) and oxidative bisulfite (oxBS) DNA treatment, to resolve genome-wide patterns of 5hmC and 5mC in normal breast tissue from disease-free women. Although less abundant than 5mC, 5hmC was differentially distributed, and consistently enriched among breast-specific enhancers and transcriptionally active chromatin. In contrast, regulatory regions associated with transcriptional inactivity, such as heterochromatin and repressed Polycomb regions, were relatively depleted of 5hmC. Gene regions containing abundant 5hmC were significantly associated with lactate oxidation, immune cell function, and prolactin signaling pathways. Furthermore, genes containing abundant 5hmC were enriched among those actively transcribed in normal breast tissue. Finally, in independent data sets, normal breast tissue 5hmC was significantly enriched among CpG loci demonstrated to have altered methylation in pre-invasive breast cancer and invasive breast tumors. Primarily, our findings identify genomic loci containing abundant 5hmC in breast tissues and provide a genome-wide map of nucleotide-level 5hmC in normal breast tissue. Additionally, these data suggest 5hmC may participate in gene regulatory programs that are dysregulated during breast-related carcinogenesis.


Assuntos
Metilação de DNA , Epigenoma , Glândulas Mamárias Humanas/metabolismo , 5-Metilcitosina/análogos & derivados , 5-Metilcitosina/metabolismo , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Ilhas de CpG , Epigênese Genética , Feminino , Loci Gênicos , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Transcriptoma
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Breast Cancer Res ; 19(1): 81, 2017 Jul 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28693600

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The underlying biological mechanisms through which epidemiologically defined breast cancer risk factors contribute to disease risk remain poorly understood. Identification of the molecular changes associated with cancer risk factors in normal tissues may aid in determining the earliest events of carcinogenesis and informing cancer prevention strategies. METHODS: Here we investigated the impact cancer risk factors have on the normal breast epigenome by analyzing DNA methylation genome-wide (Infinium 450 K array) in cancer-free women from the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank (n = 100). We tested the relation of established breast cancer risk factors, age, body mass index, parity, and family history of disease, with DNA methylation adjusting for potential variation in cell-type proportions. RESULTS: We identified 787 cytosine-guanine dinucleotide (CpG) sites that demonstrated significant associations (Q value <0.01) with subject age. Notably, DNA methylation was not strongly associated with the other evaluated breast cancer risk factors. Age-related DNA methylation changes are primarily increases in methylation enriched at breast epithelial cell enhancer regions (P = 7.1E-20), and binding sites of chromatin remodelers (MYC and CTCF). We validated the age-related associations in two independent populations, using normal breast tissue samples (n = 18) and samples of normal tissue adjacent to tumor tissue (n = 97). The genomic regions classified as age-related were more likely to be regions altered in both pre-invasive (n = 40, P = 3.0E-03) and invasive breast tumors (n = 731, P = 1.1E-13). CONCLUSIONS: DNA methylation changes with age occur at regulatory regions, and are further exacerbated in cancer, suggesting that age influences breast cancer risk in part through its contribution to epigenetic dysregulation in normal breast tissue.


Assuntos
Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Metilação de DNA , Glândulas Mamárias Humanas/metabolismo , Sequências Reguladoras de Ácido Nucleico , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Biópsia , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Ilhas de CpG , Epigênese Genética , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Genômica/métodos , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Invasividade Neoplásica , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Fatores de Risco , Adulto Jovem
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Nat Commun ; 7: 13177, 2016 11 25.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27886174

RESUMO

Glioblastomas exhibit widespread molecular alterations including a highly distorted epigenome. Here, we resolve genome-wide 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in glioblastoma through parallel processing of DNA with bisulfite and oxidative bisulfite treatments. We apply a statistical algorithm to estimate 5-methylcytosine, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and unmethylated proportions from methylation array data. We show that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is depleted in glioblastoma compared with prefrontal cortex tissue. In addition, the genomic localization of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in glioblastoma is associated with features of dynamic cell-identity regulation such as tissue-specific transcription and super-enhancers. Annotation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine genomic distribution reveal significant associations with RNA regulatory processes, immune function, stem cell maintenance and binding sites of transcription factors that drive cellular proliferation. In addition, model-based clustering results indicate that patients with low-5-hydroxymethylcytosine patterns have significantly poorer overall survival. Our results demonstrate that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine patterns are strongly related with transcription, localizes to disease-critical genes and are associated with patient prognosis.


Assuntos
Neoplasias Encefálicas/diagnóstico , DNA de Neoplasias/genética , Elementos Facilitadores Genéticos , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Glioblastoma/diagnóstico , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , 5-Metilcitosina/análogos & derivados , 5-Metilcitosina/metabolismo , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Neoplasias Encefálicas/genética , Neoplasias Encefálicas/mortalidade , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patologia , Metilação de DNA , DNA de Neoplasias/metabolismo , Feminino , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Glioblastoma/genética , Glioblastoma/mortalidade , Glioblastoma/patologia , Humanos , Isocitrato Desidrogenase/genética , Isocitrato Desidrogenase/metabolismo , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Córtex Pré-Frontal/metabolismo , Córtex Pré-Frontal/patologia , Análise de Sobrevida , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo
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J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab ; 29(2): 185-91, 2016 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26488602

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Delayed discussion about infertility with individuals affected by Turner syndrome (TS) has been found to result in psychological and social harm. The aim of this study was to identify barriers experienced when discussing infertility and determine resource types that may facilitate this conversation. METHODS: An electronic survey, given to caregivers of girls with TS diagnosed at <5 years. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Fifty percent of parents surveyed had spoken to their daughter about their possible infertility. Parents who had not yet discussed infertility with their daughter had younger daughters and reported more barriers in having the conversation. Although most individuals did not use resources to facilitate the conversation, they did express interest in additional resources.


Assuntos
Barreiras de Comunicação , Infertilidade Feminina/fisiopatologia , Síndrome de Turner/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Humanos
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J Genet Couns ; 23(5): 734-41, 2014 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24777551

RESUMO

Uniparental disomy is a genetic cause of disease that may result in the inheritance of an autosomal recessive condition. A child with developmental delay and hypotonia was seen and found to have severely abnormal myelination. Lysosomal enzyme testing identified an isolated deficiency of beta-galactosidase. Subsequently, homozygous missense mutations in the galactosidase, beta 1 (GLB1) gene on chromosome 3 were found. Parental testing confirmed inheritance of two copies of the same mutated maternal GLB1 gene, and no paternal copy. SNP analysis was also done to confirm paternity. The patient was ultimately diagnosed with autosomal recessive GM1 gangliosidosis caused by maternal uniparental isodisomy. We provide a review of this patient and others in which uniparental disomy (UPD) of a non-imprinted chromosome unexpectedly caused an autosomal recessive condition. This is the first case of GM1 gangliosidosis reported in the literature to have been caused by UPD. It is important for genetic counselors and other health care providers to be aware of the possibility of autosomal recessive disease caused by UPD. UPD as a cause of autosomal recessive disease drastically changes the recurrence risk for families, and discussions surrounding UPD can be complex. Working with families to understand UPD when it occurs requires a secure and trusting counselor-family relationship.


Assuntos
Gangliosidose GM1/genética , Dissomia Uniparental , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único
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J Exp Child Psychol ; 111(4): 681-94, 2012 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22153911

RESUMO

Children build up knowledge about the world and also remember individual episodes. How individual episodes during which children learn new things become integrated with one another to form general knowledge is only beginning to be explored. Integration between separate episodes is called on in educational contexts and in everyday life as a major means of extending knowledge and organizing information. Bauer and San Souci (2010) provided an initial demonstration that 6-year-olds extend their knowledge by integrating between separate but related episodes; the episodes shared a high level of surface similarity. Experiments 1A and 1B of the current research were tests of integration under low and high levels of surface similarity, respectively. In Experiment 1A, when surface similarity of the episodes was low, 6-year-olds integrated between passages of text, yet their performance was not as robust as observed previously. In Experiment 1B, when surface similarity of the episodes was high, a replication of Bauer and San Souci's results was observed. In Experiment 2, we tested whether a "hint" to consult the information learned in the passages improved performance even when surface level similarity was low. The hint had a strong facilitating effect. Possible mechanisms of integration between separate yet related episodes are discussed.


Assuntos
Aprendizagem/fisiologia , Memória Episódica , Criança , Formação de Conceito/fisiologia , Sinais (Psicologia) , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Rememoração Mental/fisiologia , Reconhecimento Psicológico/fisiologia , Análise e Desempenho de Tarefas
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Chem Commun (Camb) ; 46(16): 2736-8, 2010 Apr 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20369166

RESUMO

In this study we have found that cerium oxide nanoparticles exhibit catalase mimetic activity. Surprisingly, the catalase mimetic activity correlates with a reduced level of cerium in the +3 state, in contrast to the relationship between surface charge and superoxide scavenging properties.


Assuntos
Biomimética , Catalase/química , Cério/química , Sequestradores de Radicais Livres/química , Nanopartículas/química , Oxirredução
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