Biological significance of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in keloids.
To obtain biological insight into keloid pathogenesis and treatment using pathway analysis of genome-wide differentially methylated gene profiles between keloid and normal skin.



Prospective cohort.



Genome-wide profiling was previously done, with institutional review board approval, on six fresh keloid and six fresh normal skin tissue samples, using the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip kit. Statistically significant differentially methylated cytosine-phosphodiester bond-guanines (CpGs, n = 197) between keloid and normal tissue mapped to 152 genes. These genes were uploaded into Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) software to identify biological functions or regulatory networks interacting. The pathways (or "network") with an enrichment probability value ≤ .01 were subjected to a heuristic filter of keywords associated with keloid pathogenesis.



Of the 197 CpGs, 191 were found in the IPA database and mapped to 152 unique genes. The top 10 hypermethylated genes were ACTR3C, LRRC61, PAQR4, C1orf109, SLCO2B1, CMKLR1, AHDC1, FYCO1, CCDC34, and CACNB2. The top 10 hypomethylated genes were GALNT3, SCML4, PPP1R13L, ANKRD11, WIPF1, MX2, IFFO1, DENND1C, CFH, and GHDC. IPA identified nine pathways with enrichment probability values ≤ .01, of which five (histidine degradation V1, phospholipase C signaling, colorectal cancer metastasis signaling, P2Y purinergic receptor signaling, and Gαi signaling) were associated with keloid keywords and contained "keloid genes" (P < .05).



Genes differentially methylated between keloid and normal skin reside in known bionetwork pathways involved in critical biological functioning and signaling events in the cell. This information could be used to refine screening processes for biological significance to better understand keloid pathogenesis and to develop molecular-targeted therapy.



NA Laryngoscope, 127:70-78, 2017.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Lamont R
LR
Jones
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Joshua
J
Greene
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Kang Mei
KM
Chen
Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
George
G
Divine
Department of Pathology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Dhananjay
D
Chitale
Department of Pathology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Veena
V
Shah
Department of Public Health Sciences Center for Bioinformatics, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Indrani
I
Datta
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Maria J
MJ
Worsham
D018899:CpG Islands / Q000235:genetics*; D019175:DNA Methylation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007627:Keloid / Q000235:genetics*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012984:Software
Methylation; epigenetics; keloid; pathway analysis