dc.contributor.author | Khan, Shabuddin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-06T12:27:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-06T12:27:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-04-01 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017-07-06T12:26:51.457Z | |
dc.identifier.citation | Khan, S. 2017. ON THE PROGRESSION OF BARRETT’S OESOPHAGUS TO BARRETT’S ADENOCARCINOMA. Queen Mary University of London | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/24738 | |
dc.description | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Barrett’s oesophagus(BO) is the major precursor of oesophageal adenocarcinoma
(OA) and we do not understand the dynamics of the evolution of BO in order to
identify patients at high risk of cancer. Studies have proposed that BO is a
monoclonal lesion, however recent work has shown that there are multiple
independent clones present. Project 1: Determines the evolution of polyclonal
dysplasia through sequencing and mapping clones onto tissue sections. I show
that several cases are polyclonal but in each case only one clone progresses to
cancer, suggesting oesophageal cancers are monoclonal outgrows from
polyclonal Barrett’s dysplasia. Project 2: Aims to understand the clonal
relationship between cells in glands displaying basal crypt dysplasia-like atypia
(BCDA), as it is unclear whether those cells in the upper part of the gland arise
from the same stem cell that generates the gland bases. Glands displaying BCDA
show a common mutation between the dysplastic base and non-dysplastic
surface suggesting a common cell of origin. Project 3: 50% of patients who
undergo oesophagectomy for OA develop post-oesophagectomy Barrett’s (neo-
BO) within 3-5 years possibly due to a field effect, wherein pre-neoplastic cells
remain post-resection in histologically normal areas of epithelium predisposing
the patient to cancer recurrence. Here I show that no genetic link between the
neo-BO and the cancer is present. Immunohistochemical analysis shows that neo-
Barrett’s glands are gastric in nature. Project 4: The stem cell dynamics and clonal
expansion rates of BO are unknown. Here I employed diversity analysis of
methylation patterns of CpG islands in the promoter regions of non-expressed
genes as a molecular clock. My data suggests that 3-4 stem cells are found in each
Barrett’s gland. Methylation patterns within a gland were less diverse compared
to adjacent and distant glands, suggesting BO is characterized by long periods of
stasis followed by bursts of clonal expansions. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Barts and the London Charity grant. Grant number – DDCG1B6R, 2010. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Queen Mary University of London | en_US |
dc.rights | The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author | |
dc.subject | Tumour Biology | en_US |
dc.subject | Barrett’s oesophagus | en_US |
dc.subject | oesophageal adenocarcinoma | en_US |
dc.title | ON THE PROGRESSION OF BARRETT’S OESOPHAGUS TO BARRETT’S ADENOCARCINOMA | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |