Multi-omics profiling of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Description: Given the importance of histone modifications to lineage plasticity in cancer, intra-leukemic epigenetic heterogeneity may extend to histone modifications, likely promoting lineage plasticity by enabling permissive chromatin states. To address this question, we complemented DNA methylation analysis with a chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) compendium of histone post-translational modifications (H3K4me3, H3K27ac, H3K4me1, H3K27me3, H3K9me3 and H3K36me3) and transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) in a cohort of primary CLL and healthy B lymphocytes samples (CLL IGHV unmutated, n = 12; CLL IGHV mutated, n = 10; peripheral blood NBCs [CD23+CD19+CD27−IgD+], peripheral blood memory B cells [GCBs; CD23+CD19+CD27+IgD-], peripheral blood CD20+ cells). 22 primary CLL and 13 healthy donor B lymphocyte samples.