Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Methylation profiling identifies two subclasses of squamous cell carcinoma related to distinct cells of origin

  • Manuel Rodríguez-Paredes,
  • Felix Bormann,
  • Günter Raddatz,
  • Julian Gutekunst,
  • Carlota Lucena-Porcel,
  • Florian Köhler,
  • Elisabeth Wurzer,
  • Katrin Schmidt,
  • Stefan Gallinat,
  • Horst Wenck,
  • Joachim Röwert-Huber,
  • Evgeniya Denisova,
  • Lars Feuerbach,
  • Jeongbin Park,
  • Benedikt Brors,
  • Esther Herpel,
  • Ingo Nindl,
  • Thomas G. Hofmann,
  • Marc Winnefeld,
  • Frank Lyko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03025-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is a skin cancer that normally progresses from UV-induced actinic keratosis (AK). Here, the authors investigate the epigenomics of cSCC and highlight two distinct subclasses of AK and cSCC originating from distinct keratinocyte differentiation stages.