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DNA methylation classification in diffuse glioma shows little spatial heterogeneity after adjusting for tumor purity [article]

Niels Verburg, Floris P Barthel, Kevin J Anderson, Kevin C Johnson, Maria Koopman, Maqsood Yaqub, Otto Hoekstra, Adriaan Lammertsma, Frederik Barkhof, Petra Pouwels, Jaap C Reijneveld, Annemieke Rozemuller (+8 others)
2020 bioRxiv   pre-print

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Intratumoral heterogeneity is a hallmark of diffuse gliomas. We used neuronavigation to acquire 133 image-guided and spatially-separated stereotactic biopsy samples from 16 adult patients with a diffuse glioma, which we characterized using DNA methylation arrays. Samples were obtained from regions with and without imaging abnormalities. Methylation profiles were analyzed to devise a three-dimensional reconstruction of genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity. Molecular aberrations indicated that
more » ... or was found outside imaging abnormalities, underlining the infiltrative nature of this tumor and the limitations of current routine imaging modalities. We demonstrate that tumor purity is highly variable between samples and largely explains apparent epigenetic spatial heterogeneity. Indeed, we observed that DNA methylation subtypes are highly conserved in space after adjusting for tumor purity. Genome-wide heterogeneity analysis showed equal or increased heterogeneity among normal tissue when compared to tumor. These findings were validated in a separate cohort of 61 multi-sector tumor and 64 normal samples. Our findings underscore the infiltrative nature of diffuse gliomas and suggest that heterogeneity in DNA methylation is innate to somatic cells and not a characteristic feature of this tumor type.
doi:10.1101/2020.03.28.012732 fatcat:gpztbbrmozazzhquueas637g5i
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Niels Verburg, Floris P Barthel, Kevin J Anderson, Kevin C Johnson, Maria Koopman, Maqsood Yaqub, Otto Hoekstra, Adriaan Lammertsma, Frederik Barkhof, Petra Pouwels, Jaap C Reijneveld, Annemieke Rozemuller, Ronald Boellaard, Michael D Taylor, Sunit Das, Joseph F Costello, W P Vandertop, Pieter Wesseling, Philip C De Witt Hamer, Roel GW Verhaak. "DNA methylation classification in diffuse glioma shows little spatial heterogeneity after adjusting for tumor purity." bioRxiv (2020)