bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/395467; this version posted August 25, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Title: DNMT inhibitors increase methylation at subset of CpGs in colon, bladder, lymphoma, 2 breast, and ovarian, cancer genome 3 Running title: Decitabine/azacytidine increases DNA methylation 4 Anil K Giri1, Tero Aittokallio1,2 5 1Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 6 2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 7 Correspondence to 8 Dr. Anil K Giri 9 Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 10 Email:
[email protected] 11 Financial disclosure: This work was funded by the Academy of Finland (grants 269862, 292611, 12 310507 and 313267), Cancer Society of Finland, and the Sigrid Juselius Foundation. 13 Ethical disclosure: This study is an independent analysis of existing data available in the public 14 domain and does not involve any animal or human samples that have been collected by the authors 15 themselves. 16 Author contribution: AKG conceptualized, analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. TA 17 critically revised and edited the manuscript. The authors report no conflict of interest. 18 19 Word count: 20 Figure number: 5 21 Table number: 1 22 23 Abstract 24 Background: DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DNMTi) decitabine and azacytidine are approved 25 therapies for acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.