DNA methylation profiling identifies two distinct subgroups in breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression, mainly associated with HER2 amplification status

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DNA methylation profiling identifies two distinct subgroups in breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression, mainly associated with HER2 amplification status. / Jurmeister, Philipp; Weber, Karsten; Villegas, Sonia; Karn, Thomas; Untch, Michael; Thieme, Anne; Müller, Volkmar; Taube, Eliane; Fasching, Peter; Schmitt, Wolfgang D; Marmé, Frederik; Stickeler, Elmar; Sinn, Bruno V; Jank, Paul; Schem, Christian; Klauschen, Frederick; van Mackelenbergh, Marion; Denkert, Carsten; Loibl, Sibylle; Capper, David.

in: CLIN EPIGENETICS, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 1, 184, 03.10.2021.

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Jurmeister, P, Weber, K, Villegas, S, Karn, T, Untch, M, Thieme, A, Müller, V, Taube, E, Fasching, P, Schmitt, WD, Marmé, F, Stickeler, E, Sinn, BV, Jank, P, Schem, C, Klauschen, F, van Mackelenbergh, M, Denkert, C, Loibl, S & Capper, D 2021, 'DNA methylation profiling identifies two distinct subgroups in breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression, mainly associated with HER2 amplification status', CLIN EPIGENETICS, Jg. 13, Nr. 1, 184. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-021-01176-5

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Jurmeister, P., Weber, K., Villegas, S., Karn, T., Untch, M., Thieme, A., Müller, V., Taube, E., Fasching, P., Schmitt, W. D., Marmé, F., Stickeler, E., Sinn, B. V., Jank, P., Schem, C., Klauschen, F., van Mackelenbergh, M., Denkert, C., Loibl, S., & Capper, D. (2021). DNA methylation profiling identifies two distinct subgroups in breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression, mainly associated with HER2 amplification status. CLIN EPIGENETICS, 13(1), [184]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-021-01176-5

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title = "DNA methylation profiling identifies two distinct subgroups in breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression, mainly associated with HER2 amplification status",
abstract = "BACKGROUND: Current clinical guidelines suggest that breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression (LowHR) in 1-10% of tumor cells should be regarded as hormone receptor positive. However, clinical data show that these patients have worse outcome compared to patients with hormone receptor expression above 10%. We performed DNA methylation profiling on 23 LowHR breast cancer specimens, including 13 samples with HER2 amplification and compared our results with a reference breast cancer cohort from The Cancer Genome Atlas to clarify the status for this infrequent but important patient subgroup.RESULTS: In unsupervised clustering and dimensionality reduction, breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression that lacked HER2 amplification usually clustered with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) reference samples (8/10; {"}LowHR TNBC-like{"}). In contrast, most specimens with low hormone receptor expression and HER2 amplification grouped with hormone receptor positive cancers (11/13; {"}LowHR HRpos-like{"}). We observed highly similar DNA methylation patterns of LowHR TNBC-like samples and true TNBCs. Furthermore, the Ki67 proliferation index of LowHR TNBC-like samples and clinical outcome parameters were more similar to TNBCs and differed from LowHR HRpos-like cases.CONCLUSIONS: We here demonstrate that LowHR breast cancer comprises two epigenetically distinct groups. Our data strongly suggest that LowHR TNBC-like samples are molecularly, histologically and clinically closely related to TNBC, while LowHR HRpos-like specimens are closely related to hormone receptor positive tumors.",
author = "Philipp Jurmeister and Karsten Weber and Sonia Villegas and Thomas Karn and Michael Untch and Anne Thieme and Volkmar M{\"u}ller and Eliane Taube and Peter Fasching and Schmitt, {Wolfgang D} and Frederik Marm{\'e} and Elmar Stickeler and Sinn, {Bruno V} and Paul Jank and Christian Schem and Frederick Klauschen and {van Mackelenbergh}, Marion and Carsten Denkert and Sibylle Loibl and David Capper",
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year = "2021",
month = oct,
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doi = "10.1186/s13148-021-01176-5",
language = "English",
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T1 - DNA methylation profiling identifies two distinct subgroups in breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression, mainly associated with HER2 amplification status

AU - Jurmeister, Philipp

AU - Weber, Karsten

AU - Villegas, Sonia

AU - Karn, Thomas

AU - Untch, Michael

AU - Thieme, Anne

AU - Müller, Volkmar

AU - Taube, Eliane

AU - Fasching, Peter

AU - Schmitt, Wolfgang D

AU - Marmé, Frederik

AU - Stickeler, Elmar

AU - Sinn, Bruno V

AU - Jank, Paul

AU - Schem, Christian

AU - Klauschen, Frederick

AU - van Mackelenbergh, Marion

AU - Denkert, Carsten

AU - Loibl, Sibylle

AU - Capper, David

N1 - © 2021. The Author(s).

PY - 2021/10/3

Y1 - 2021/10/3

N2 - BACKGROUND: Current clinical guidelines suggest that breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression (LowHR) in 1-10% of tumor cells should be regarded as hormone receptor positive. However, clinical data show that these patients have worse outcome compared to patients with hormone receptor expression above 10%. We performed DNA methylation profiling on 23 LowHR breast cancer specimens, including 13 samples with HER2 amplification and compared our results with a reference breast cancer cohort from The Cancer Genome Atlas to clarify the status for this infrequent but important patient subgroup.RESULTS: In unsupervised clustering and dimensionality reduction, breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression that lacked HER2 amplification usually clustered with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) reference samples (8/10; "LowHR TNBC-like"). In contrast, most specimens with low hormone receptor expression and HER2 amplification grouped with hormone receptor positive cancers (11/13; "LowHR HRpos-like"). We observed highly similar DNA methylation patterns of LowHR TNBC-like samples and true TNBCs. Furthermore, the Ki67 proliferation index of LowHR TNBC-like samples and clinical outcome parameters were more similar to TNBCs and differed from LowHR HRpos-like cases.CONCLUSIONS: We here demonstrate that LowHR breast cancer comprises two epigenetically distinct groups. Our data strongly suggest that LowHR TNBC-like samples are molecularly, histologically and clinically closely related to TNBC, while LowHR HRpos-like specimens are closely related to hormone receptor positive tumors.

AB - BACKGROUND: Current clinical guidelines suggest that breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression (LowHR) in 1-10% of tumor cells should be regarded as hormone receptor positive. However, clinical data show that these patients have worse outcome compared to patients with hormone receptor expression above 10%. We performed DNA methylation profiling on 23 LowHR breast cancer specimens, including 13 samples with HER2 amplification and compared our results with a reference breast cancer cohort from The Cancer Genome Atlas to clarify the status for this infrequent but important patient subgroup.RESULTS: In unsupervised clustering and dimensionality reduction, breast cancers with low hormone receptor expression that lacked HER2 amplification usually clustered with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) reference samples (8/10; "LowHR TNBC-like"). In contrast, most specimens with low hormone receptor expression and HER2 amplification grouped with hormone receptor positive cancers (11/13; "LowHR HRpos-like"). We observed highly similar DNA methylation patterns of LowHR TNBC-like samples and true TNBCs. Furthermore, the Ki67 proliferation index of LowHR TNBC-like samples and clinical outcome parameters were more similar to TNBCs and differed from LowHR HRpos-like cases.CONCLUSIONS: We here demonstrate that LowHR breast cancer comprises two epigenetically distinct groups. Our data strongly suggest that LowHR TNBC-like samples are molecularly, histologically and clinically closely related to TNBC, while LowHR HRpos-like specimens are closely related to hormone receptor positive tumors.

U2 - 10.1186/s13148-021-01176-5

DO - 10.1186/s13148-021-01176-5

M3 - SCORING: Journal article

C2 - 34602069

VL - 13

JO - CLIN EPIGENETICS

JF - CLIN EPIGENETICS

SN - 1868-7075

IS - 1

M1 - 184

ER -