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• The earliest stages of neoplastic transformation in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis

  The succession of somatic genetic events associated with the conversion of a normal colorectal epithelial cell into a colorectal carcinoma constitutes a paradigmatic model of cancer development. Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) is caused by constitutional inactivating mutations in APC, the central gatekeeper gene of colorectal cancer, and is associated with a substantially increased lifetime-risk of colorectal cancer. To investigate the earliest stages of neoplastic change due to APC inactivation, we microdissected and individually whole genome sequenced 279 histologically normal and abnormal colorectal crypts from 15 individuals with FAP. Histologically normal crypts generally exhibited similar mutation burdens and mutational signatures to normal crypts from wild-type individuals of the same age, with 1/110 carrying a somatic inactivating APC mutation. By contrast, 9/18 aberrant crypt foci carried somatic APC mutations and exhibited modestly increased burdens of some mutational signatures found in normal crypts. 12/13 diminutive adenomatous polyps (less than 5mm diameter) showed somatic APC mutations and carried substantially increased mutation loads of most mutational signatures present in normal crypts. Phylogenetic trees of crypts from aberrant crypt foci and adenomatous polyps revealed that some had acquired their initiating somatic APC mutations decades previously during the first few years of life. The results catalogue the changes in somatic mutation rates, mutational processes and “driver” mutations in cancer genes during the earliest stages of colorectal neoplastic transformation initiated by APC inactivation and highlight the long periods of clonal evolution required for a cancer to develop.

  Dataset EGAD00001015471

• Single-Cell DNA Methylation Profiling via scTAMseq

  This dataset comprises single-cell DNA methylation and nuclear genotyping profiles of 7 total bone marrow aspirates (donors A.1-A.7) and 5 CD34+-enriched bone marrow samples (donors B.1-B.5) generated using the scTAMseq protocol. Sequencing was performed on the Mission Bio Tapestri platform, targeting a panel of 448 CpGs to assess epigenetic patterns and We also included 147 genomic regions commonly mutated in clonal hematopoiesis and 20 regions targeting chromosome Y. Samples B.1 & B.5, B.2 & B.4 and A.2 & A.5 were, in pairs, multiplexed into single tapestri lanes.

  Dataset EGAD00001015498