Naito T, Nosho K, Ito M, Igarashi H, Mitsuhashi K, Yoshii S, Aoki H, Nomura M, Sukawa Y, Yamamoto E, Adachi Y, Takahashi H, Hosokawa M, Fujita M, Takenouchi T, Maruyama R, Suzuki H, Baba Y, Imai K, Yamamoto H, Ogino S, Shinomura Y. IGF2 differentially methylated region hypomethylation in relation to pathological and molecular features of serrated lesions. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20(29): 10050-10061 [PMID: 25110432 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i29.10050]
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Katsuhiko Nosho, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, S-1, W-16, Chou-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan. nosho@sapmed.ac.jp
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World J Gastroenterol. Aug 7, 2014; 20(29): 10050-10061 Published online Aug 7, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i29.10050
Table 1IGF2 differentially methylated region 0 hypomethylation in serrated lesions and non-serrated adenomas n (%)
Clinicopathological feature
Total n
IGF2 DMR0 methylation (quartile)
P value
Q1 (≥74.5)
Q2 (62.6-74.4)
Q3 (49.6-62.5)
Q4 ( ≤49.5)
All cases
536
134
130
131
141
Sex
Male
326 (61)
78 (58)
80 (62)
92 (70)
76 (54)
0.041
Female
210 (39)
56 (42)
50 (38)
39 (30)
65 (46)
Age (mean ± SD)
61.5 ± 12.2
59.9 ± 12.3
60.8 ± 12.0
63.1 ± 11.6
62.3 ± 13.0
0.150
Tumor size (mm) (mean ± SD)
14.3 ± 11.4
9.9 ± 4.0
13.4 ± 7.4
14.7 ± 11.1
19.1 ± 17.6
< 0.0001
Tumor location
Rectum
70 (13)
11 (8.5)
14 (11)
18 (14)
27 (20)
0.061
Distal colon
161 (31)
35 (27)
43 (33)
37 (29)
46 (33)
Proximal colon
296 (56)
84 (65)
72 (56)
75 (58)
65 (47)
Histological type
Hyperplastic polyp (HP)
115 (21)
33 (25)
25 (19)
23 (18)
34 (24)
< 0.0001
Sessile serrated adenoma (SSA) without cytological dysplasia
120 (22)
60 (45)
39 (30)
15 (11)
6 (4.3)
SSA with cytological dysplasia
10 (1.9)
1 (0.8)
3 (2.3)
6 (4.6)
0 (0)
Traditional serrated adenoma (TSA) without high-grade dysplasia (HGD)
91 (17)
22 (16)
21 (16)
23 (18)
25 (18)
TSA with HGD
15 (2.8)
2 (1.5)
2 (1.5)
2 (1.5)
9 (6.4)
Non-serrated adenoma (tubular or tubulovillous adenoma) without HGD
80 (15)
11 (8.2)
17 (13)
32 (24)
20 (14)
Non-serrated adenoma with HGD
105 (20)
5 (3.7)
23 (18)
30 (23)
47 (33)
Table 2 Clinical and molecular features of serrated lesions and non-serrated adenomas (tubular or tubulovillous adenoma) according to histological type n (%)
Clinical or molecular feature
Total n
Histological type
P value
Serrated lesion
Non-serrated adenoma
HP
SSA without cytological dysplasia
SSA with cytological dysplasia
TSA without high-grade dysplasia (HGD)
Tubular adenoma without HGD
Tubulovillous adenoma without HGD
All cases
416
115
120
10
91
77
3
Sex
Male
263 (63)
78 (68)
72 (60)
5 (50)
55 (60)
50 (65)
3 (100)
0.36
Female
153 (37)
37 (32)
48 (40)
5 (50)
36 (40)
27 (35)
0 (0)
Age (mean ± SD)
60.3 ± 11.8
57.5 ± 12.1
57.2 ± 11.6
74.1 ± 4.7
60.9 ± 12.3
66.6 ± 11.4
66.0 ± 8.9
< 0.0001
Tumor size (mm)
10.5 ± 5.4
9.3 ± 3.7
11.6 ± 5.4
12.3 ± 6.4
9.7 ± 4.7
10.9 ± 7.2
15.7 ± 13.2
0.0069
(mean ± SD)
Tumor location
Rectum
42 (10)
15 (13)
0 (0)
0 (0)
16 (18)
10 (14)
1 (33)
< 0.0001
Distal colon
127 (31)
44 (39)
17 (14)
1 (10)
39 (44)
25 (34)
1 (33)
Proximal colon
239 (59)
54 (48)
103 (86)
9 (90)
34 (38)
38 (52)
1 (33)
BRAF mutation
Wild-type
183 (44)
59 (51)
16 (13)
2 (20)
28 (31)
75 (97)
3 (100)
< 0.0001
Mutant
231 (55)
56 (49)
104 (87)
8 (80)
61 (69)
2 (2.6)
0 (0)
KRAS mutation
Wild-type
357 (87)
92 (81)
117 (98)
10 (100)
74 (83)
62 (81)
2 (67)
< 0.0001
Mutant
55 (13)
21 (19)
3 (2.5)
0 (0)
15 (17)
15 (19)
1 (33)
PIK3CA mutation
Wild-type
406 (99)
113 (99)
117 (100)
10 (100)
89 (100)
74 (99)
3 (100)
0.67
Mutant
2 (0.5)
1 (0.9)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0 (0)
1 (1.3)
0 (0)
MSI status
MSS/MSI-low
408 (98)
113 (98)
119 (99)
6 (60)
90 (99)
77 (100)
3 (100)
0.0004
MSI-high
8 (1.9)
2 (1.7)
1 (0.8)
4 (40)
1 (1.1)
0 (0)
0 (0)
IGF2 DMR0
64.5 ± 17.2
61.9 ± 20.5
73.1 ± 12.3
69.0 ± 10.8
61.6 ± 19.6
58.9 ± 16.1
61.0 ± 7.1
< 0.0001
methylation level (mean ± SD)
LINE-1
58.7 ± 5.0
58.6 ± 3.4
58.1 ± 5.4
58.3 ± 8.4
58.8 ± 4.7
59.4 ± 6.0
60.9 ± 1.4
0.59
methylation level (mean ± SD)
Table 3 Clinical and molecular features of sessile serrated adenomas with cytological dysplasia, traditional serrated adenomas, non-serrated adenomas (tubular or tubulovillous adenoma), and colorectal carcinomas according to disease stage n (%)
Clinical or molecular feature
Histological type
P value
SSA with cytological dysplasia
Colorectal adenoma
Colorectal carcinoma
TSA without HGD
TSA with HGD
Non-serrated adenoma without HGD
Non-serrated adenoma with HGD
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III
Stage IV
All cases
10
91
15
80
105
171
217
292
114
Sex
Male
5 (50)
55 (60)
9 (60)
53 (66)
54 (51)
107 (63)
123 (57)
168 (58)
73 (64)
0.50
Female
5 (50)
36 (40)
6 (40)
27 (34)
51 (49)
64 (37)
94 (43)
124 (42)
41 (36)
Age (mean ± SD)
74.1 ± 4.7
60.9 ± 12.3
62.7 ± 13.6
66.6 ± 11.2
66.3 ± 10.5
65.1 ± 11.0
67.4 ± 11.5
66.6 ± 12.5
63.4 ± 9.5
0.0016
Tumor size (mm)
12.3 ± 6.4
9.7 ± 4.7
12.8 ± 4.3
11.0 ± 7.4
29.3 ± 17.3
26.3 ± 15.8
53.1 ± 23.5
50.5 ± 22.7
50.9 ± 19.6
< 0.0001
(mean ± SD)
Tumor location
Rectum
0 (0)
16 (18)
5 (33)
11 (14)
23 (22)
65 (38)
73 (34)
135 (46)
37 (33)
< 0.0001
Distal colon
1 (10)
39 (44)
7 (47)
26 (34)
27 (26)
44 (25)
64 (29)
59 (20)
42 (37)
Proximal colon
9 (90)
34 (38)
3 (20)
39 (51)
54 (52)
62 (36)
80 (37)
98 (34)
34 (30)
BRAF mutation
Wild-type
2 (20)
28 (31)
7 (47)
78 (98)
102 (98)
161 (95)
204 (94)
282 (97)
103 (95)
< 0.0001
Mutant
8 (80)
61 (69)
8 (53)
2 (2.5)
2 (1.9)
9 (5.3)
13 (6.0)
9 (3.0)
6 (5.5)
KRAS mutation
Wild-type
10 (100)
74 (83)
11 (73)
64 (80)
48 (46)
108 (64)
145 (69)
202 (70)
84 (74)
< 0.0001
Mutant
0 (0)
15 (17)
4 (27)
16 (20)
57 (54)
62 (36)
66 (31)
88 (30)
29 (26)
PIK3CA mutation
Wild-type
10 (100)
89 (100)
14 (93)
77 (99)
99 (94)
161 (94)
194 (89)
249 (85)
103 (90)
< 0.0001
Mutant
0 (0)
0 (0)
1 (6.7)
1 (1.3)
6 (5.7)
10 (5.9)
23 (11)
43 (15)
11 (9.7)
MSI status
MSS/MSI-low
6 (60)
90 (99)
15 (100)
80 (100)
105 (100)
163 (95)
198 (91)
276 (95)
110 (96)
< 0.0001
MSI-high
4 (40)
1 (1.1)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0 (0)
8 (4.7)
19 (8.8)
16 (5.5)
4 (3.5)
IGF2 DMR0
69.0 ± 10.8
61.6 ± 19.6
50.2 ± 18.7
59.0 ± 15.8
52.0 ± 13.6
55.7 ± 15.8
53.4 ± 13.3
55.5 ± 12.9
53.1 ± 12.9
< 0.0001
methylation level (mean ± SD)
LINE-1
58.3 ± 8.4
58.8 ± 4.7
55.7 ± 5.4
59.5 ± 5.9
56.9 ± 5.5
55.8 ± 7.2
53.1 ± 6.2
55.1 ± 6.5
54.1 ± 7.6
< 0.0001
methylation level (mean ± SD)
Table 4 Clinicopathological and molecular features of fifteen traditional serrated adenomas with high-grade dysplasia
No.
Age/sex
Location
Size (mm)
KRAS mutation
BRAF mutation
PIK3CA mutation
MGMT methylation
MLH1 methylation
MSI status
LINE-1 methylation level
IGF2 DMR0 methylation level
IGF2 expression
1
75/M
Rectum
8
c.35G>A (p.G12D)
Wild
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
58
70
Weak
2
54/F
Sigmoid colon
20
c.35G>A (p.G12D)
Wild
Wild
(+)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
53.7
39.5
Strong
3
62/F
Transverse colon
15
c.38G>A (p.G13D)
Wild
Wild
(+)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
53.3
72.0
No expression
4
84/M
Rectum
5
c.35G>A (p.G12D)
Wild
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
65.0
26.5
Moderate
5
85/M
Sigmoid colon
12
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
58.0
45.5
Strong
6
48/M
Sigmoid colon
20
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
53.7
40.5
Moderate
7
69/M
Sigmoid colon
10
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
58.7
52.0
No expression
8
60/M
Descending colon
9
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
59.0
41.5
Moderate
9
34/M
Sigmoid colon
18
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(+)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
57.3
42.0
Strong
10
61/M
Rectum
10
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
56.7
29.0
Strong
11
52/F
Ascending colon
15
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(+)
(+)
MSS/MSI-low
57.0
57.0
Moderate
12
70/F
Rectum
13
Wild
c.1799T>A (p.V600E)
Wild
(+)
(+)
MSS/MSI-low
63.0
84.5
Weak
13
66/F
Ascending colon
12
Wild
Wild
c.1624G>A (p.E542K)
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
49.7
28.0
Moderate
14
52/M
Sigmoid colon
12
Wild
Wild
Wild
(-)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
48.0
44.5
Moderate
15
69/F
Rectum
13
Wild
Wild
Wild
(+)
(-)
MSS/MSI-low
44.3
80.0
Weak
Citation: Naito T, Nosho K, Ito M, Igarashi H, Mitsuhashi K, Yoshii S, Aoki H, Nomura M, Sukawa Y, Yamamoto E, Adachi Y, Takahashi H, Hosokawa M, Fujita M, Takenouchi T, Maruyama R, Suzuki H, Baba Y, Imai K, Yamamoto H, Ogino S, Shinomura Y. IGF2 differentially methylated region hypomethylation in relation to pathological and molecular features of serrated lesions. World J Gastroenterol 2014; 20(29): 10050-10061