Prediction of DNA methylation in the promoter of gene suppressor tumor

The epigenetics methylation of cytosine is the most common epigenetic form in DNA sequences. It is highly concentrated in the promoter regions of the genes, leading to an inactivation of tumor suppressors regardless of their initial function. In this work, we aim to identify the highly methylated re...

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Veröffentlicht in:Gene 2018-04, Vol.651, p.166-173
Hauptverfasser: Saif, Imane, Kasmi, Yassine, Allali, Karam, Ennaji, Moulay Mustapha
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Zusammenfassung:The epigenetics methylation of cytosine is the most common epigenetic form in DNA sequences. It is highly concentrated in the promoter regions of the genes, leading to an inactivation of tumor suppressors regardless of their initial function. In this work, we aim to identify the highly methylated regions; the cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) island located on the promoters and/or the first exon gene known for their key roles in the cell cycle, hence the need to study gene-gene interactions. The Frommer and hidden Markov model algorithms are used as computational methods to identify CpG islands with specificity and sensitivity up to 76% and 80%, respectively. The results obtained show, on the one hand, that the genes studied are suspected of developing hypermethylation in the promoter region of the gene involved in the case of a cancer. We then showed that the relative richness in CG results from a high level of methylation. On the other hand, we observe that the gene-gene interaction exhibits co-expression between the chosen genes. This let us to conclude that the hidden Markov model algorithm predicts more specific and valuable information about the hypermethylation in gene as a preventive and diagnostics tools for the personalized medicine; as that the tumor-suppresser-genes have relative co-expression and complementary relations which the hypermethylation affect in the samples studied in our work. •Computational study involving two methods in order to predict the CpG islands•Development of a Matlab interface for CpG islands prediction•The interaction between different genes is studied in the manuscript.•The promoter region is chosen as a transcription regulation region for the genes.
ISSN:0378-1119
1879-0038
DOI:10.1016/j.gene.2018.01.082