Lecture 04 - Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell

Clinical and Research Genomics Epigenomes, DNA Modifications,
and Chromatin Dynamics
•  Aberrant DNA methylation and Cancer: (Li)
•  DNA modifications and their detection, Pacbio,
RRBS, MeDIP, mC, hmC (Zhu)
•  Chromatin changes and methods: ChIP-Seq, HiC, CCC (Elemento)
Aberrant DNA Methylation in
Cancer
Sheng Li, PhD Instructor of Bioinforma<cs Department of Neurological Surgery Weill Cornell Medical College Aberrant DNA methylation in
cancer
•  DNA methylation dynamics
•  DNA methylation is hallmark of cancer
•  DNA methylation sequencing and public
resources of epigenetic data
hBp://www.ks.uiuc.edu/ Aberrant DNA methylation in
cancer
•  DNA methylation dynamics
•  DNA methylation is hallmark of cancer
•  DNA methylation sequencing and public
resources of epigenetic data
hBp://www.ks.uiuc.edu/ Epigenetic codes
DNA: gene<c code (ATCG) Epigene<c code: •  Can be inherited. •  Can be transmiBed by mother to daughter cells. •  Is important to cellular process and regula<on. •  Has plas<city. www.promega.com/ Genomic distribution of methylated cytosine in a
typical vertebrate genome
CpG islands (CGIs), which oSen overlap with promoter regions, generally remain unmethylated, whereas CG-­‐
poor promoters are methylated when not ac<ve. Schubeler, Nature, 2015 CTCF occupancy
linked to DNA
methylation
plasticity
•  11-­‐zinc finger protein •  Transcrip<onal repressor •  Regula<ng the structure chroma<n Wang, Genome research, 2012 CTCF occupancy
linked to DNA
methylation
plasticity
•  11-­‐zinc finger protein •  Transcrip<onal repressor •  Regula<ng the structure chroma<n Wang, Genome research, 2012 CTCF occupancy
linked to DNA
methylation
plasticity
•  11-­‐zinc finger protein •  Transcrip<onal repressor •  Regula<ng the structure chroma<n Wang, Genome research, 2012 Writers and erasers in DNA methylation
IDH1/2 Schubeler, Nature, 2015 Li, 2013 Writers and erasers in DNA methylation
IDH1/2 Schubeler, Nature, 2015 Li, 2013 Aberrant DNA methylation in
cancer
•  DNA methylation dynamics
•  DNA methylation is hallmark of cancer
•  DNA methylation sequencing and public
resources of epigenetic data
Methylation changes are a hallmark of
cancer
Nephew and Huang, 2003 Aberrant DNA methylation in
cancer
•  DNA methylation levels
•  Epigenetic heterogeneity
DNA methylation fingerprint is very different in each
cancer
excluding CpG sites with <ssue-­‐specific methyla<on Fernandez et al, Genome Research, 2012 DNA methylation fingerprint is very different in each
cancer
Fernandez et al, Genome Research, 2012 Single somatic mutation causes focal
hypomethylation in leukemia
Focal Hypomethyla<on Phenotype Associated with DNMT3A R882 Muta<ons Russler-­‐Germain DA, Cancer Cell, 2014 DNA methylation profiling as a
diagnostic tool
Glioblastoma: CIMP+ group have beBer clinical outcome CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) that defines a
distinct subgroup of glioblastoma
Noushmehr, Cancer cell, 2010 Ependymoma: CIMP+ renders worse
clinical outcome
Transcriptome defined group A and B WiB, Cancer cell, 2011 Group A with worse clinical outcome is CIMP+ Mack, Nature, 2014 DNA methylation contributes to
heterogeneity in cancer
Increased methylation variance of common
CpGs sites across human cancer types
Using the CpGs that showed the largest increase in variability, performed hierarchical clustering on the normal samples. Hansen 2011 High variability regions of gene expression associated with blocks
Hansen 2011 Intra-tumor epigenetic heterogeneity
measured by locally disordered reads
CLLs consistently displayed higher intrasample variability of DNA methyla<on paBerns across the genome, which appears to arise from stochas<cally disordered methyla<on in malignant cells Landau, Cancer cell, 2014 Transcriptome heterogeneity is associated with
promoter methylation heterogeneity
Landau, Cancer cell, 2014 Locally Disordered Methylation Is
Associated with Adverse Clinical Outcome
Landau, Cancer cell, 2014 Aberrant DNA methylation in
cancer
•  DNA methylation dynamics
•  DNA methylation is hallmark of cancer
•  DNA methylation sequencing and
public resources of epigenetic data
Various approaches for DNA
methylation quantification
DNA methylation
quantification
Single
base
resolution
Whole Genome
Bisulfite
Sequencing(WGBS)
Reduced Representaation
bisulfite sequening
(RRBS)
Roche
non single
base
resolution
Infinium
450K
BeadChip
MethylCapture
Agilent
HELP
array
Antibody
based
sequencing
MeDIPSeq
MethylCap
Single base resolution methylated
cytosine sequencing approaches
hBp://support.illumina.com/ Single base resolution methylated
cytosine sequencing approaches
Extracted
DNA
Whole
genome
hBp://support.illumina.com/ Enriched for high CpG
density regions including
CpG island/shores
Enriched
assay
WGBS
RRBS
Methyl-capture
seq
27 M CpGs
$5000/
sample
3 M CpGs
$800/
sample
3-5 M CpGs
$1800/
sample
eRRBS (Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite
Sequencing)
RRBS
MspI diges<on Less star<ng material 1000ng -­‐>5ng eRRBS
Size selec<on (40-­‐220 bp) Size selec<on (70-­‐320 bp) bisulfate treatment PCR and sequence Akalin, GarreB-­‐Bakelman, 2012 Public resources
hBp://cancergenome.nih.gov Epigenome roadmap
Tissues and cell types profiled in the
Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium
Kundaje, Nature, 2015 Comprehensive epigenetic profiling
Kundaje, Nature, 2015 hBp://egg2.wustl.edu/roadmap/
web_portal/ Kundaje, Nature, 2015 Summary
•  DNA methylation dynamics
•  DNA methylation is hallmark of cancer
•  DNA methylation sequencing and public
resources of epigenetic data
Questions?