Thong Li Ying, McRae Allan F, Sirota Marina, Giudice Linda, Montgomery Grant W, Mortlock Sally
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Apr 16;26(8):3760. doi: 10.3390/ijms26083760.
Endometriosis is a chronic gynaecological disease characterised by endometrial-like tissue found external to the uterus. While several studies have reported strong evidence of a genetic contribution to the disease, studies on the environmental impact on endometriosis are limited. DNA methylation (DNAm) can be influenced by genetic and environmental factors and serves as a useful biological marker of the effects of genetic and environmental exposures on complex diseases. This study aims to develop a methylation risk score (MRS) for endometriosis to increase the power to detect DNAm signals associated with the disease and enhance our understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease. Endometrial methylation and genotype data from 318 controls and 590 cases were analysed. MRSs were developed using several different models. MRS performances were evaluated by splitting samples into training and test sets based on independent cohort institutions, and the area under the receiver-operator curve (AUC) was calculated. The maximum AUC obtained from the best-performing MRS is 0.6748, derived from 746 DNAm sites. The classification performance of MRS and polygenic risk score (PRS) combined was consistently higher than PRS alone. This study demonstrates that there are DNAm signals independent of common genetic variants associated with endometriosis.
子宫内膜异位症是一种慢性妇科疾病,其特征是在子宫外部发现类似子宫内膜的组织。虽然多项研究报告了基因对该疾病有显著影响的有力证据,但关于环境对子宫内膜异位症影响的研究却很有限。DNA甲基化(DNAm)会受到遗传和环境因素的影响,并且可作为遗传和环境暴露对复杂疾病影响的一种有用生物标志物。本研究旨在开发一种用于子宫内膜异位症的甲基化风险评分(MRS),以提高检测与该疾病相关的DNAm信号的能力,并增进我们对该疾病发病机制的理解。分析了来自318名对照和590名病例的子宫内膜甲基化和基因型数据。使用几种不同模型开发了MRS。通过根据独立队列机构将样本分为训练集和测试集来评估MRS的性能,并计算受试者工作特征曲线下面积(AUC)。从表现最佳的MRS获得的最大AUC为0.6748,来自746个DNAm位点。MRS与多基因风险评分(PRS)联合的分类性能始终高于单独的PRS。本研究表明,存在与子宫内膜异位症相关的独立于常见基因变异的DNAm信号。
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