Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2-2017

Publication Title

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

Although serrated polyps were historically considered to pose little risk, it is now understood that progression down the serrated pathway could account for as many as 15%–35% of colorectal cancers. The sessile serrated adenoma/polyp (SSA/P) is the most prevalent pre-invasive serrated lesion. Our objective was to identify the CpG loci that are persistently hyper-methylated during serrated carcinogenesis, from the early SSA/P lesion through the later cancer phases of neoplasia development. We queried the loci hyper-methylated in serrated cancers within our rightsided SSA/Ps from the New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry, using the Illumina Infinium Human Methylation 450 k panel to comprehensively assess the DNA methylation status. We identified CpG loci and regions consistently hyper-methylated throughout the serrated carcinogenesis spectrum, in both our SSA/P specimens and in serrated cancers. Hyper-methylated CpG loci included the known the tumor suppressor gene RET (p = 5.72 x 10−10), as well as loci in differentially methylated regions for GSG1L, MIR4493, NTNG1, MCIDAS, ZNF568, and RERG. The hyper-methylated loci that we identified help characterize the biology of SSA/P development, and could be useful as therapeutic targets, or for future identification of patients who may benefit from shorter surveillance intervals.

DOI

10.3390/ijms18030535

Original Citation

Andrew AS, Baron JA, Butterly LF, Suriawinata AA, Tsongalis GJ, Robinson CM, Amos CI. Hyper-Methylated Loci Persisting from Sessile Serrated Polyps to Serrated Cancers. Int J Mol Sci. 2017 Mar 2;18(3):535. doi: 10.3390/ijms18030535. PMID: 28257124; PMCID: PMC5372551.

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