- Gagliardi, Alessia;
- Porter, Vanessa L;
- Zong, Zusheng;
- Bowlby, Reanne;
- Titmuss, Emma;
- Namirembe, Constance;
- Griner, Nicholas B;
- Petrello, Hilary;
- Bowen, Jay;
- Chan, Simon K;
- Culibrk, Luka;
- Darragh, Teresa M;
- Stoler, Mark H;
- Wright, Thomas C;
- Gesuwan, Patee;
- Dyer, Maureen A;
- Ma, Yussanne;
- Mungall, Karen L;
- Jones, Steven JM;
- Nakisige, Carolyn;
- Novik, Karen;
- Orem, Jackson;
- Origa, Martin;
- Gastier-Foster, Julie M;
- Yarchoan, Robert;
- Casper, Corey;
- Mills, Gordon B;
- Rader, Janet S;
- Ojesina, Akinyemi I;
- Gerhard, Daniela S;
- Mungall, Andrew J;
- Marra, Marco A
Cervical cancer is the most common cancer affecting sub-Saharan African women and is prevalent among HIV-positive (HIV+) individuals. No comprehensive profiling of cancer genomes, transcriptomes or epigenomes has been performed in this population thus far. We characterized 118 tumors from Ugandan patients, of whom 72 were HIV+, and performed extended mutation analysis on an additional 89 tumors. We detected human papillomavirus (HPV)-clade-specific differences in tumor DNA methylation, promoter- and enhancer-associated histone marks, gene expression and pathway dysregulation. Changes in histone modification at HPV integration events were correlated with upregulation of nearby genes and endogenous retroviruses.