Epigenetic alteration: new insights moving from tissue to plasma – the example of PCDH10 promoter methylation in colorectal cancer
Background: Tumour-released DNA in blood represents a promising biomarker for cancer detection. Although epigenetic alterations such as aberrant promoter methylation represent an appealing perspective, the discordance existing between frequencies of alterations found in DNA extracted from tumour tis...
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Veröffentlicht in: | British journal of cancer 2013-08, Vol.109 (3), p.807-813 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background:
Tumour-released DNA in blood represents a promising biomarker for cancer detection. Although epigenetic alterations such as aberrant promoter methylation represent an appealing perspective, the discordance existing between frequencies of alterations found in DNA extracted from tumour tissue and cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has challenged their practical clinical application. With the aim to explain this bias of agreement, we investigated whether
protocadherin 10
(
PCDH10
) promoter methylation in tissue was associated with methylation pattern in matched cfDNA isolated from plasma of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), and whether the strength of concordance may depend on levels of cfDNA, integrity index, as well as on different clinical–pathological features.
Methods:
A quantitative methylation-specific PCR was used to analyse a selected CpG site in the
PCDH10
promoter of 67 tumour tissues, paired normal mucosae, and matched plasma samples. The cfDNA integrity index and cfDNA concentration were assessed using a real-time PCR assay.
Results:
The
PCDH10
promoter methylation was detected in 63 out of 67 (94.0%) surgically resected colorectal tumours and in 42 out of 67 (62.7%) plasma samples. The median methylation rate in tumour tissues and plasma samples was 43.5% (6.3–97.8%) and 5.9% (0–80.9%), respectively. There was a significant correlation between
PCDH10
methylation in cfDNA and tumour tissue in patients with early CRC (
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ISSN: | 0007-0920 1532-1827 |
DOI: | 10.1038/bjc.2013.351 |