TY - JOUR
T1 - Gene promoter methylation assayed in exhaled breath, with differences in smokers and lung cancer patients
AU - Han, Weiguo
AU - Wang, Tao
AU - Reilly, Andrew A.
AU - Keller, Steven M.
AU - Spivack, Simon D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Xiang-Lin Tan, MD, PhD, for help with subject characterization; Shengli Xiong, for the mouthwash tBGS maps and general laboratory support; the research nurses at Albany Medical Center, Kathy Mokhiber, Paula Malone, and Angela Sheehan, and M Katherine Fernandez at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore, for exceptional efforts, along with medical and surgical colleagues at Albany Medical Center and at Montefiore Medical Center for allowing us to enroll their patients. And to the volunteer subjects and patients themselves, for important acts of altruism in agreeing to participate in the study. The P60 grant of Bronx CREED for Spanish translation services, NIH National Center for Minority Health & Health Disparities, Grant No. P60 MD000514. NIH National Cancer Institute, Grant No. 1R03CA132145-01A1 and 1R21CA121068.
PY - 2009/9/25
Y1 - 2009/9/25
N2 - Background: There is a need for new, noninvasive risk assessment tools for use in lung cancer population screening and prevention programs.Methods: To investigate the technical feasibility of determining DNA methylation in exhaled breath condensate, we applied our previously-developed method for tag-adapted bisulfite genomic DNA sequencing (tBGS) for mapping of DNA methylation, and adapted it to exhaled breath condensate (EBC) from lung cancer cases and non-cancer controls. Promoter methylation patterns were analyzed in DAPK, RASSF1A and PAX5β promoters in EBC samples from 54 individuals, comprised of 37 controls [current- (n = 19), former- (n = 10), and never-smokers (n = 8)] and 17 lung cancer cases [current- (n = 5), former- (n = 11), and never-smokers (n = 1)].Results: We found: (1) Wide inter-individual variability in methylation density and spatial distribution for DAPK, PAX5β and RASSF1A. (2) Methylation patterns from paired exhaled breath condensate and mouth rinse specimens were completely divergent. (3) For smoking status, the methylation density of RASSF1A was statistically different (p = 0.0285); pair-wise comparisons showed that the former smokers had higher methylation density versus never smokers and current smokers (p = 0.019 and p = 0.031). For DAPK and PAX5β, there was no such significant smoking-related difference. Underlying lung disease did not impact on methylation density for this geneset. (4) In case-control comparisons, CpG at -63 of DAPK promoter and +52 of PAX5β promoter were significantly associated with lung cancer status (p = 0.0042 and 0.0093, respectively). After adjusting for multiple testing, both loci were of borderline significance (padj = 0.054 and 0.031). (5) The DAPK gene had a regional methylation pattern with two blocks (1)~-215~-113 and (2) -84 ~+26); while similar in block 1, there was a significant case-control difference in methylation density in block 2 (p = 0.045); (6)Tumor stage and histology did not impact on the methylation density among the cases. (7) The results of qMSP applied to EBC correlated with the corresponding tBGS sequencing map loci.Conclusion: Our results show that DNA methylation in exhaled breath condensate is detectable and is likely of lung origin. Suggestive correlations with smoking and lung cancer case-control status depend on individual gene and CpG site examined.
AB - Background: There is a need for new, noninvasive risk assessment tools for use in lung cancer population screening and prevention programs.Methods: To investigate the technical feasibility of determining DNA methylation in exhaled breath condensate, we applied our previously-developed method for tag-adapted bisulfite genomic DNA sequencing (tBGS) for mapping of DNA methylation, and adapted it to exhaled breath condensate (EBC) from lung cancer cases and non-cancer controls. Promoter methylation patterns were analyzed in DAPK, RASSF1A and PAX5β promoters in EBC samples from 54 individuals, comprised of 37 controls [current- (n = 19), former- (n = 10), and never-smokers (n = 8)] and 17 lung cancer cases [current- (n = 5), former- (n = 11), and never-smokers (n = 1)].Results: We found: (1) Wide inter-individual variability in methylation density and spatial distribution for DAPK, PAX5β and RASSF1A. (2) Methylation patterns from paired exhaled breath condensate and mouth rinse specimens were completely divergent. (3) For smoking status, the methylation density of RASSF1A was statistically different (p = 0.0285); pair-wise comparisons showed that the former smokers had higher methylation density versus never smokers and current smokers (p = 0.019 and p = 0.031). For DAPK and PAX5β, there was no such significant smoking-related difference. Underlying lung disease did not impact on methylation density for this geneset. (4) In case-control comparisons, CpG at -63 of DAPK promoter and +52 of PAX5β promoter were significantly associated with lung cancer status (p = 0.0042 and 0.0093, respectively). After adjusting for multiple testing, both loci were of borderline significance (padj = 0.054 and 0.031). (5) The DAPK gene had a regional methylation pattern with two blocks (1)~-215~-113 and (2) -84 ~+26); while similar in block 1, there was a significant case-control difference in methylation density in block 2 (p = 0.045); (6)Tumor stage and histology did not impact on the methylation density among the cases. (7) The results of qMSP applied to EBC correlated with the corresponding tBGS sequencing map loci.Conclusion: Our results show that DNA methylation in exhaled breath condensate is detectable and is likely of lung origin. Suggestive correlations with smoking and lung cancer case-control status depend on individual gene and CpG site examined.
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U2 - 10.1186/1465-9921-10-86
DO - 10.1186/1465-9921-10-86
M3 - Article
C2 - 19781081
AN - SCOPUS:77349104631
SN - 1465-9921
VL - 10
JO - Respiratory Research
JF - Respiratory Research
M1 - 86
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