Intratumor DNA methylation heterogeneity reflects clonal evolution in aggressive prostate cancer

David Brocks; Yassen Assenov; Sarah Minner; Olga Bogatyrova; Ronald Simon; Christina Koop; Christopher Oakes; Manuela Zucknick; Daniel Bernhard Lipka; Joachim Weischenfeldt; Lars Feuerbach; Richard Cowper-Sal Lari; Mathieu Lupien; Benedikt Brors; Jan Korbel; Thorsten Schlomm; Amos Tanay; Guido Sauter; Clarissa Gerhäuser; Christoph Plass; ICGC Early Onset Prostate Cancer Project

doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2014.06.053

Intratumor DNA methylation heterogeneity reflects clonal evolution in aggressive prostate cancer

David Brocks, Yassen Assenov, Sarah Minner, Olga Bogatyrova, Ronald Simon, Christina Koop, Christopher Oakes, Manuela Zucknick, Daniel Bernhard Lipka, Joachim Weischenfeldt, Lars Feuerbach, Richard Cowper-Sal Lari, Mathieu Lupien, Benedikt Brors, Jan Korbel, Thorsten Schlomm, Amos Tanay, Guido Sauter, Clarissa Gerhäuser, Christoph PlassICGC Early Onset Prostate Cancer Project

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Abstract

Despite much evidence on epigenetic abnormalities in cancer, it is currently unclear to what extent epigenetic alterations can be associated with tumors' clonal genetic origins. Here, we show that the prostate intratumor heterogeneity in DNA methylation and copy-number patterns can be explained by a unified evolutionary process. By assaying multiple topographically distinct tumor sites, premalignant lesions, and lymph node metastases within five cases of prostate cancer, we demonstrate that both DNA methylation and copy-number heterogeneity consistently reflect the life history of the tumors. Furthermore, we show cases of genetic or epigenetic convergent evolution and highlight the diversity in the evolutionary origins and aberration spectrum between tumor and metastatic subclones. Importantly, DNA methylation can complement genetic data by serving as a proxy for activity at regulatory domains, as we show through identification of high epigenetic heterogeneity at androgen-receptor-bound enhancers. Epigenome variation thereby expands on the current genome-centric view on tumor heterogeneity.

Original language	English
Journal	Cell Reports
Volume	8
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	798-806
Number of pages	9
ISSN	2211-1247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.06.053
Publication status	Published - 7 Aug 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Brocks, D., Assenov, Y., Minner, S., Bogatyrova, O., Simon, R., Koop, C., Oakes, C., Zucknick, M., Lipka, D. B., Weischenfeldt, J., Feuerbach, L., Cowper-Sal Lari, R., Lupien, M., Brors, B., Korbel, J., Schlomm, T., Tanay, A., Sauter, G., Gerhäuser, C., ... ICGC Early Onset Prostate Cancer Project (2014). Intratumor DNA methylation heterogeneity reflects clonal evolution in aggressive prostate cancer. Cell Reports, 8(3), 798-806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.06.053

Brocks, D, Assenov, Y, Minner, S, Bogatyrova, O, Simon, R, Koop, C, Oakes, C, Zucknick, M, Lipka, DB, Weischenfeldt, J, Feuerbach, L, Cowper-Sal Lari, R, Lupien, M, Brors, B, Korbel, J, Schlomm, T, Tanay, A, Sauter, G, Gerhäuser, C, Plass, C & ICGC Early Onset Prostate Cancer Project 2014, 'Intratumor DNA methylation heterogeneity reflects clonal evolution in aggressive prostate cancer', Cell Reports, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 798-806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.06.053

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