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Smoking is Associated with Hypermethylation of the APC 1A Promoter in Colorectal Cancer: the ColoCare Study

Barrow, Timothy, Klett, H, Toth, R, Boehm, J, Gigic, B, Habermann, N, Scherer, D, Schrotz-King, P, Skender, S, Abbenhardt-Martin, C, Zielske, L, Schneider, M, Ulrich, A, Schirmacher, P, Herpel, E, Brenner, H, Busch, H, Boerries, M, Ulrich, CM and Michels, KB (2017) Smoking is Associated with Hypermethylation of the APC 1A Promoter in Colorectal Cancer: the ColoCare Study. Journal of Pathology, 243 (3). pp. 366-375. ISSN 0022-3417

Item Type: Article

Abstract

Smoking tobacco is a known risk factor for the development of colorectal cancer, and for mortality associated with the disease. While smoking has been reported to be associated with changes in DNA methylation in blood and in lung tumour tissues, there has been scant investigation of how epigenetic factors may be implicated in the increased risk of developing colorectal cancer. To identify epigenetic changes associated with smoking behaviours, we performed epigenome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in colorectal tumours from 36 never smokers, 47 former smokers and 13 active smokers, and adjacent mucosa from 49 never smokers, 64 former smokers and 18 active smokers. Our analyses identified 15 CpG sites within the APC 1A promoter that were significantly hypermethylated and 14 CpG loci within the NFATC1 gene body that were significantly hypomethylated (pLIS<1x10-5) in tumours of active smokers. The APC 1A promoter was hypermethylated in 7 of 36 tumours from never smokers (19%), 12 of 47 tumours from former smokers (26%), and 8 of 13 tumours from active smokers (62%). Promoter hypermethylation was positively associated with duration of smoking (Spearman rank correlation, =0.26, p=0.03) and was confined to tumours, with hypermethylation never observed in adjacent mucosa. Further analysis of adjacent mucosa revealed significant hypomethylation of four loci associated with the TNXB gene in tissue from active smokers. Our findings provide exploratory evidence for hypermethylation of the key tumour suppressor gene APC being implicated in smoking-associated colorectal carcinogenesis. Further work is required to establish the validity of our observations in independent cohorts.

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Depositing User: Timothy Barrow

Identifiers

Item ID: 8778
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1002/path.4955
ISSN: 0022-3417
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/8778

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ORCID for Timothy Barrow: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4551-3857

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Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2018 09:48
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2019 16:05

Contributors

Author: Timothy Barrow ORCID iD
Author: H Klett
Author: R Toth
Author: J Boehm
Author: B Gigic
Author: N Habermann
Author: D Scherer
Author: P Schrotz-King
Author: S Skender
Author: C Abbenhardt-Martin
Author: L Zielske
Author: M Schneider
Author: A Ulrich
Author: P Schirmacher
Author: E Herpel
Author: H Brenner
Author: H Busch
Author: M Boerries
Author: CM Ulrich
Author: KB Michels

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing
Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Nursing and Health Sciences

Subjects

Sciences > Biomedical Sciences

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