Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Epigenetic Alterations of Repeated Relapses in Patient-matched Childhood Ependymomas

  • Sibo Zhao,
  • Jia Li,
  • Huiyuan Zhang,
  • Lin Qi,
  • Yuchen Du,
  • Mari Kogiso,
  • Frank K. Braun,
  • Sophie Xiao,
  • Yulun Huang,
  • Jianfang Li,
  • Wan-Yee Teo,
  • Holly Lindsay,
  • Patricia Baxter,
  • Jack M. F. Su,
  • Adekunle Adesina,
  • Miklós Laczik,
  • Paola Genevini,
  • Anne-Clemence Veillard,
  • Sol Schvartzman,
  • Geoffrey Berguet,
  • Shi-Rong Ding,
  • Liping Du,
  • Clifford Stephan,
  • Jianhua Yang,
  • Peter J. A. Davies,
  • Xinyan Lu,
  • Murali Chintagumpala,
  • Donald William Parsons,
  • Laszlo Perlaky,
  • Yun-Fei Xia,
  • Tsz-Kwong Man,
  • Yun Huang,
  • Deqiang Sun,
  • Xiao-Nan Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34514-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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While recurrence is frequent in ependymoma, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain to be explored. Here, the authors investigate epigenetic, genetic and tumorigenic changes in 30 patient-matched repeated relapses over 13 years and identify distinct patterns of DNA methylation.