Author Manuscript Published OnlineFirst on January 24, 2017; DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-2641 Author manuscripts have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication but have not yet been edited. 1 Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling reveals methylation markers 2 associated with 3q gain for detection of cervical pre-cancer and cancer 3 4 Wina Verlaat1, Peter J.F. Snijders1, Putri W. Novianti1,2, Saskia M. Wilting1, Lise M.A. De Strooper1, 5 Geert Trooskens3,Johan Vandersmissen3, Wim Van Criekinge3, G. Bea A. Wisman4, Chris J.L.M. 6 Meijer1, Daniëlle A.M. Heideman1, Renske D.M. Steenbergen1 * 7 8 1Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 9 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The 10 Netherlands 11 3Department of Mathematical Modeling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, 12 Belgium. 13 4Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Cancer Research Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 14 University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 15 16 Running title: 17 Methylation markers at 3q for cervical pre(cancer) detection 18 19 Key words: 20 Methyl Binding Domain/MBD-Seq, epigenetics, copy number aberrations, cervical carcinogenesis, 21 biomarkers 22 23 Additional information: 24 * Corresponding author: 25 Renske D.M. Steenbergen, PhD, Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, PO Box 26 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam; The Netherlands, E-mail:
[email protected] 27 28 Financial support: 29 This study was sponsored by Eurostars E!6679 Cervix-care and the European Research Council (ERC 30 advanced 2012- AdG, proposal 322986; Mass-Care). The sources of funding did not have any 31 influence on the design of the study, collection, analysis and interpretation of the data and in writing 32 the manuscript.