Figure 2

MassARRAY analysis of methylation in primary gliomas. (A) The levels of promoter methylation in the hypermethylated genes identified by MeDIP-chip. MassARRAY assay were performed using gDNA from samples screened by microarray. Different colors of circles mark the position of CpG dinucleotides within the sequence (straight line) and the levels of methylation. Gray circles represent the unanalyzed CpG sites. The ruler on the top of each gene sequence indicates the base pair position within the sequence on the top and the positions of the CpG sites at the bottom. For all tested genes, significant hypermethylation in the promoter regions were observed in glioma samples compared with non-tumor controls. T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, and T6 were glioma samples; N1, N2, N3, and N5 were age- and gender-matched non-tumor brain samples. Glioma samples and non-tumor control samples were simultaneously analyzed. (B) The methylation levels of 8 selected genes identified by MeDIP-chip in non-tumor controls, primary glioma patients and glioma cell lines. DNA methylation was analyzed by MassARRAY assay. The name of each gene is shown in the upper part of each panel. N represents the number of cases studied for each gene and each group. Each panel represents the results of an individual gene indicated in the upper of each graph.