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ReviewClinical epigenetics2025

DNA methylation in melanoma immunotherapy: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.

Maya G Deshmukh, Veronica T Brooks, Simon F Roy, Simon Milette, Marcus Bosenberg, Goran Micevic

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Review in Clinical epigenetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Maya G DeshmukhMedical Scientist Training Program (MD-PhD), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Veronica T BrooksDepartment of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Simon F RoyDepartment of Dermatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Simon MiletteDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Marcus BosenbergDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Goran MicevicDepartment of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. goran.micevic@yale.edu.

Funding

Yale Pathology Tissue Services Shared ResourceP30CA016359 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Eric P. Winer · 1985 to 2026
$85.0M
Yale SPORE in Skin CancerP50CA121974 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DAVID F STERN · 2006 to 2026
$43.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016359NCI NIH HHS P50 CA121974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abnormal DNA methylation is a hallmark of cancer and a nearly universal feature of melanoma. DNA methylation plays well-appreciated melanoma cell-intrinsic roles, including silencing tumor-suppressor genes, regulating genomic stability, deregulating expression of oncogenes to potentiate proliferative signaling and tumor migration. With the recent success of immunological therapies for melanoma, important roles for DNA methylation are also emerging at the interface between melanoma and immune cells with the potential to regulate the anti-tumor immune response. These newly recognized roles for DNA methylation in controlling melanoma cell immunogenicity, expression of MHC and immune checkpoint molecules as well as T cell phenotypes in the tumor microenvironment raise the possibility of using DNA methylation to develop improved therapies and methylation-based biomarkers. In addition to reviewing the "immune dimension" of DNA methylation, we summarize recent developments with potential clinical applications in melanoma, such as targeted DNA methylation editing, single-cell methylation approaches, and measurement of circulating methylated DNA. An improved understanding of the immune roles of DNA methylation presents an exciting opportunity for continued improvement of care and outcomes for patients with melanoma.

Indexed as

DNA MethylationImmunotherapyMelanomaBiomarkers, TumorEpigenesis, GeneticHumansTumor MicroenvironmentBiomarkers, Tumor

Identifiers

PMID40307913
PMCPMC12044936

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