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Epigenetic modifiers DNMT3A and BCOR are recurrently mutated in CYLD cutaneous syndrome.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Davies, Helen R 
Hodgson, Kirsty 
Schwalbe, Edward 
Coxhead, Jonathan 
Sinclair, Naomi 

Abstract

Patients with CYLD cutaneous syndrome (CCS; syn. Brooke-Spiegler syndrome) carry germline mutations in the tumor suppressor CYLD and develop multiple skin tumors with diverse histophenotypes. Here, we comprehensively profile the genomic landscape of 42 benign and malignant tumors across 13 individuals from four multigenerational families and discover recurrent mutations in epigenetic modifiers DNMT3A and BCOR in 29% of benign tumors. Multi-level and microdissected sampling strikingly reveal that many clones with different DNMT3A mutations exist in these benign tumors, suggesting that intra-tumor heterogeneity is common. Integrated genomic, methylation and transcriptomic profiling in selected tumors suggest that isoform-specific DNMT3A2 mutations are associated with dysregulated methylation. Phylogenetic and mutational signature analyses confirm cylindroma pulmonary metastases from primary skin tumors. These findings contribute to existing paradigms of cutaneous tumorigenesis and metastasis.

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Keywords

DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases, DNA Methylation, DNA Methyltransferase 3A, DNA Mutational Analysis, Deubiquitinating Enzyme CYLD, Epigenesis, Genetic, Female, Gene Expression Profiling, Humans, Male, Mutation, Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary, Pedigree, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Repressor Proteins, Retrospective Studies, Skin Neoplasms, Exome Sequencing

Journal Title

Nat Commun

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Journal ISSN

2041-1723
2041-1723

Volume Title

10

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Cancer Research UK (23916)
Wellcome Trust (101126/Z/13/Z)
N.R.’s work was supported by a Wellcome Trust funded Intermediate Clinical Fellowship-WT097163MA. N.R.’s research is also supported by the Newcastle NIHR Biomedical Research Center (BRC) and the Newcastle MRC/EPSRC Molecular Pathology Node. K.H. is supported by a Ph.D. studentship from the British Skin Foundation. H.R.D. is funded by a CRUK Grand Challenge Award (C60100/A25274) and S.N.-Z. is funded by a CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist Award (C60100/A23916). S.N.-Z.’s research is also funded by a Wellcome-Beit Award, Wellcome Strategic Award (101126/Z/13/Z), CRUK Grand Challenge Award (C60100/A25274), and Josef Steiner Award 2019.