Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

DNA methylation-based epigenetic signatures predict somatic genomic alterations in gliomas

  • Jie Yang,
  • Qianghu Wang,
  • Ze-Yan Zhang,
  • Lihong Long,
  • Ravesanker Ezhilarasan,
  • Jerome M. Karp,
  • Aristotelis Tsirigos,
  • Matija Snuderl,
  • Benedikt Wiestler,
  • Wolfgang Wick,
  • Yinsen Miao,
  • Jason T. Huse,
  • Erik P. Sulman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31827-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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No clinical assay currently exists to classify glioma tumours based on gene expression. Here, the authors develop a DNA methylation-based classifier, Unified Diagnostic Pipeline (UniD) that identifies genomic alterations and gene expression subtypes of gliomas.