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SPG20 has been shown to be hypermethylated in colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. In this study, we analyze the methylation status and the gene expression of SPG20 in different tumors of various histological origins. Methods. We analyzed the data generated through Infinium Human Methylation 450 BeadChip arrays and RNA-seq approaches extrapolated from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. The statistics were performed with R 4.0.4. Results. We aimed to assess whether the hypermethylation of this target gene was a common characteristic among different tumors and if there was a correlation between the m-values and the gene expression in paired tumor versus solid tissue normal. Overall, our analysis highlighted that SPG20 open sea upstream the TSS is altogether hypermethylated, and the tumor tissues display a higher methylation heterogeneity compared to the solid tissue normal. The gene expression evidences a reproducible, higher gene expression in normal tissues. Conclusion. Our research, based on data mining from TCGA, evidences that colon and liver tumors display a consistent methylation heterogeneity compared to their normal counterparts. This parallels a downregulation of SPG20 gene expression in tumor samples and suggests a role for this multifunctional protein in the control of tumor progression.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/genes13050861","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]],"date-time":"2022-05-12T05:10:32Z","timestamp":1652332232000},"page":"861","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Methylation Heterogeneity and Gene Expression of SPG20 in Solid Tumors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Vincenza Ylenia","family":"Cusenza","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Translational Research, Azienda Unit\u00e0 Sanitaria Locale\u2014IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8225-2938","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luca","family":"Braglia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research and Statistics Infrastructure, Azienda Unit\u00e0 Sanitaria Locale\u2014IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1822-745X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raffaele","family":"Frazzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Translational Research, Azienda Unit\u00e0 Sanitaria Locale\u2014IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"679","DOI":"10.1038\/nrg3270","article-title":"DNA methylation profiling in the clinic: Applications and challenges","volume":"13","author":"Heyn","year":"2012","journal-title":"Nat. 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