Optical Genome and Epigenome Mapping of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Autor: Sapir Margalit, Zuzana Tulpová, Yael Michaeli, Tahir Detinis Zur, Jasline Deek, Sivan Louzoun-Zada, Gil Nifker, Assaf Grunwald, Yuval Scher, Leonie Schütz, Elmar Weinhold, Yehudit Gnatek, Dorit Omer, Benjamin Dekel, Eitan Friedman, Yuval Ebenstein
Rok vydání: 2022
DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.11.511152
Popis: Cancer cells display complex genomic aberrations that include large-scale genetic rearrangements and epigenetic modulation that are not easily characterized by short-read sequencing. We present a method for simultaneous profiling of long-range genetic/epigenetic changes in matched cancer samples. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of kidney cancer. Most ccRCC cases demonstrate somatic genomic alterations involving the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p), most often targeting the von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) gene. Aiming to identify somatic alterations that characterize early stage ccRCC, we performed comprehensive genetic, cytogenetic and epigenetic analyses comparing ccRCC tumor to adjacent non-tumorous tissue. Optical genome mapping identified genomic aberrations such as structural and copy number variations, complementing exome-sequencing results. Single-molecule methylome and hydroxymethylome mapping revealed multiple differential regions, some of them known to be associated with ccRCC pathogenesis. Among them, metabolic pathways were significantly enriched. Moreover, significant global epigenetic differences were detected between the tumor and the adjacent non-tumorous tissue, and a correlation between epigenetic signals and gene expression was found. This is the first reported comparison of a human tumor and a matched tissue by optical genome/epigenome mapping, revealing well-established and novel somatic aberrations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE