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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-2
pubmed:abstractText
Approximately 500,000 individuals diagnosed with bladder cancer in the U.S. require routine cystoscopic follow-up to monitor for disease recurrences or progression, resulting in over $2 billion in annual expenditures. Identification of new diagnostic and monitoring strategies are clearly needed, and markers related to DNA methylation alterations hold great promise due to their stability, objective measurement, and known associations with the disease and with its clinical features. To identify novel epigenetic markers of aggressive bladder cancer, we utilized a high-throughput DNA methylation bead-array in two distinct population-based series of incident bladder cancer (n = 73 and n = 264, respectively). We then validated the association between methylation of these candidate loci with tumor grade in a third population (n = 245) through bisulfite pyrosequencing of candidate loci. Array based analyses identified 5 loci for further confirmation with bisulfite pyrosequencing. We identified and confirmed that increased promoter methylation of HOXB2 is significantly and independently associated with invasive bladder cancer and methylation of HOXB2, KRT13 and FRZB together significantly predict high-grade non-invasive disease. Methylation of these genes may be useful as clinical markers of the disease and may point to genes and pathways worthy of additional examination as novel targets for therapeutic treatment.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1932-6203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
e12334
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Carcinoma, Transitional Cell, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-CpG Islands, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Gene Expression Profiling, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Genes, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Genetic Loci, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Homeodomain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Keratin-13, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Neoplasm Invasiveness, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20808801-Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of methylated genes associated with aggressive bladder cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural