Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling

  • Christian Koelsche,
  • Daniel Schrimpf,
  • Damian Stichel,
  • Martin Sill,
  • Felix Sahm,
  • David E. Reuss,
  • Mirjam Blattner,
  • Barbara Worst,
  • Christoph E. Heilig,
  • Katja Beck,
  • Peter Horak,
  • Simon Kreutzfeldt,
  • Elke Paff,
  • Sebastian Stark,
  • Pascal Johann,
  • Florian Selt,
  • Jonas Ecker,
  • Dominik Sturm,
  • Kristian W. Pajtler,
  • Annekathrin Reinhardt,
  • Annika K. Wefers,
  • Philipp Sievers,
  • Azadeh Ebrahimi,
  • Abigail Suwala,
  • Francisco Fernández-Klett,
  • Belén Casalini,
  • Andrey Korshunov,
  • Volker Hovestadt,
  • Felix K. F. Kommoss,
  • Mark Kriegsmann,
  • Matthias Schick,
  • Melanie Bewerunge-Hudler,
  • Till Milde,
  • Olaf Witt,
  • Andreas E. Kulozik,
  • Marcel Kool,
  • Laura Romero-Pérez,
  • Thomas G. P. Grünewald,
  • Thomas Kirchner,
  • Wolfgang Wick,
  • Michael Platten,
  • Andreas Unterberg,
  • Matthias Uhl,
  • Amir Abdollahi,
  • Jürgen Debus,
  • Burkhard Lehner,
  • Christian Thomas,
  • Martin Hasselblatt,
  • Werner Paulus,
  • Christian Hartmann,
  • Ori Staszewski,
  • Marco Prinz,
  • Jürgen Hench,
  • Stephan Frank,
  • Yvonne M. H. Versleijen-Jonkers,
  • Marije E. Weidema,
  • Thomas Mentzel,
  • Klaus Griewank,
  • Enrique de Álava,
  • Juan Díaz Martín,
  • Miguel A. Idoate Gastearena,
  • Kenneth Tou-En Chang,
  • Sharon Yin Yee Low,
  • Adrian Cuevas-Bourdier,
  • Michel Mittelbronn,
  • Martin Mynarek,
  • Stefan Rutkowski,
  • Ulrich Schüller,
  • Viktor F. Mautner,
  • Jens Schittenhelm,
  • Jonathan Serrano,
  • Matija Snuderl,
  • Reinhard Büttner,
  • Thomas Klingebiel,
  • Rolf Buslei,
  • Manfred Gessler,
  • Pieter Wesseling,
  • Winand N. M. Dinjens,
  • Sebastian Brandner,
  • Zane Jaunmuktane,
  • Iben Lyskjær,
  • Peter Schirmacher,
  • Albrecht Stenzinger,
  • Benedikt Brors,
  • Hanno Glimm,
  • Christoph Heining,
  • Oscar M. Tirado,
  • Miguel Sáinz-Jaspeado,
  • Jaume Mora,
  • Javier Alonso,
  • Xavier Garcia del Muro,
  • Sebastian Moran,
  • Manel Esteller,
  • Jamal K. Benhamida,
  • Marc Ladanyi,
  • Eva Wardelmann,
  • Cristina Antonescu,
  • Adrienne Flanagan,
  • Uta Dirksen,
  • Peter Hohenberger,
  • Daniel Baumhoer,
  • Wolfgang Hartmann,
  • Christian Vokuhl,
  • Uta Flucke,
  • Iver Petersen,
  • Gunhild Mechtersheimer,
  • David Capper,
  • David T. W. Jones,
  • Stefan Fröhling,
  • Stefan M. Pfister,
  • Andreas von Deimling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20603-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Sarcomas are morphologically heterogeneous tumours rendering their classification challenging. Here the authors developed a classifier using DNA methylation data from several soft tissue and bone sarcoma subtypes, which has the potential to improve classification for research and clinical purposes.