Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 21 pp 21037—21056
DNA methylation-based age estimation in pediatric healthy tissues and brain tumors
Figure 4. Horvath methylation clock estimates of pediatric brain tumor samples in comparison to healthy blood and brain, and reactive tumor microenvironment. (A) Horvath methylation age vs chronological age in pediatric brain tumors (n = 1112), healthy blood (n= 188) and brain tissue (n = 45) from children and reactive tumor microenvironment (RTM; n = 14) displaying an accelerated methylation age in a majority of the brain tumor samples. (B) The methylation age is significantly increased compared to normal brain tissue, in both RTM (adj. p = 1.1e-05) and four types of pediatric brain tumors; ATRT (adj. p = 1.3e-13), ependymoma (EPN; adj. p = <2e-16), glioma (adj. p = <2e-16) and medulloblastoma (MB; adj. p = <2e-16).