Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the third most common cancer in the US, with 15% of cases displaying Microsatellite Instability (MSI) secondary to Lynch Syndrome (LS) or somatic hypermethylation of the MLH1 promoter. A cohort of rhesus macaques from our institution developed spontaneous mismatch repair deficient (MMRd) CRC with a notable fraction harboring a pathogenic germline mutation in MLH1. DNA methylation and transcriptome analysis was used to evaluate the rhesus macaque as a model organism to study carcinogenesis, develop immunotherapies and vaccines, and implement chemoprevention approaches pertinent to sporadic MSI-H and LS CRC in humans.
NIH grant(s):
Grant ID: 5 P30 CA016672-44 Grant title: Cancer Center Support Grant Affiliation: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Grantor: NCI
Overall design
We performed RNA-Seq in 21 colorectal tumors and twenty matched normal mucosa samples
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