Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.
Department of Child Health and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, School of Medicine, University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.
Epigenetics. 2024 Dec;19(1):2360160. doi: 10.1080/15592294.2024.2360160. Epub 2024 May 31.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women and is often treated with chemotherapy. Although previous studies have demonstrated increasing biological age in patients who receive chemotherapy, evaluation of this association with DNA methylation-based markers of biological ageing may provide novel insight into the role of chemotherapy on the ageing process. We therefore sought to investigate the association between chemotherapy and markers of biological ageing as estimated from DNA methylation in women with breast cancer. DNA methylation profiling was performed on peripheral blood collected from 18 patients before and after the first cycle of chemotherapy using the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. Six markers of biological age acceleration were estimated from DNA methylation levels. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to evaluate the association between each metric of biological age acceleration and chemotherapy. After adjusting for chronological age and race, intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration ( = 0.041), extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration ( = 0.050), PhenoAge acceleration ( = 0.001), GrimAge acceleration ( < 0.001), and DunedinPACE ( = 0.006) were significantly higher and telomere length ( = 0.027) was significantly lower following the first cycle of chemotherapy compared to before treatment initiation. These results demonstrate greater biological ageing as estimated from DNA methylation following chemotherapy in women with breast cancer. Our findings illustrate that cytotoxic therapies may modulate the ageing process among breast cancer patients and may also have implications for age-related health conditions in cancer survivors.
乳腺癌是女性最常见的癌症,通常采用化疗进行治疗。尽管之前的研究已经证明接受化疗的患者的生物学年龄会增加,但评估这种与基于 DNA 甲基化的生物学老化标志物的关联可能为化疗对衰老过程的作用提供新的见解。因此,我们旨在研究乳腺癌女性接受化疗与 DNA 甲基化估计的生物学老化标志物之间的关联。使用 Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip 在 18 名患者接受化疗前和第一次化疗周期后从外周血中进行 DNA 甲基化谱分析。从 DNA 甲基化水平估计了 6 个生物学年龄加速的标志物。进行了多元线性回归分析,以评估每个生物学年龄加速指标与化疗之间的关联。在校正了年龄和种族后,内在表观遗传年龄加速( = 0.041)、外在表观遗传年龄加速( = 0.050)、PhenoAge 加速( = 0.001)、GrimAge 加速( < 0.001)和 DunedinPACE( = 0.006)在第一次化疗周期后明显更高,而端粒长度( = 0.027)明显更低,与治疗前相比。这些结果表明,与化疗前相比,乳腺癌女性接受化疗后,根据 DNA 甲基化估计的生物学年龄更大。我们的研究结果表明,细胞毒性疗法可能会调节乳腺癌患者的衰老过程,并且可能对癌症幸存者的与年龄相关的健康状况也有影响。
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