%0 Journal Article %A Koelsche, Christian %A Schrimpf, Daniel %A Stichel, Damian %A Sill, Martin %A Sahm, Felix %A Reuss, David E %A Blattner, Mirjam %A Worst, Barbara %A Heilig, Christoph E %A Beck, Katja %A Horak, Peter %A Kreutzfeldt, Simon %A Paff, Elke %A Stark, Sebastian %A Johann, Pascal %A Selt, Florian %A Ecker, Jonas %A Sturm, Dominik %A Pajtler, Kristian W %A Reinhardt, Annekathrin %A Wefers, Annika K %A Sievers, Philipp %A Ebrahimi, Azadeh %A Suwala, Abigail %A Fernandez-Klett, Francisco %A Casalini, Belen %A Korshunov, Andrey %A Hovestadt, Volker %A Kommoss, Felix K F %A Kriegsmann, Mark %A Schick, Matthias %A Bewerunge-Hudler, Melanie %A Milde, Till %A Witt, Olaf %A Kulozik, Andreas E %A Kool, Marcel %A Romero-Perez, Laura %A Grünewald, Thomas G P %A Kirchner, Thomas %A Wick, Wolfgang %A Platten, Michael %A Unterberg, Andreas %A Uhl, Matthias %A Abdollahi, Amir %A Debus, Jürgen %A Lehner, Burkhard %A Thomas, Christian %A Hasselblatt, Martin %A Paulus, Werner %A Hartmann, Christian %A Staszewski, Ori %A Prinz, Marco %A Hench, Jürgen %A Frank, Stephan %A Versleijen-Jonkers, Yvonne M H %A Weidema, Marije E %A Mentzel, Thomas %A Griewank, Klaus %A de Alava, Enrique %A Martin, Juan Diaz %A Gastearena, Miguel A Idoate %A Chang, Kenneth Tou-En %A Low, Sharon Yin Yee %A Cuevas-Bourdier, Adrian %A Mittelbronn, Michel %A Mynarek, Martin %A Rutkowski, Stefan %A Schüller, Ulrich %A Mautner, Viktor F %A Schittenhelm, Jens %A Serrano, Jonathan %A Snuderl, Matija %A Büttner, Reinhard %A Klingebiel, Thomas %A Buslei, Rolf %A Gessler, Manfred %A Wesseling, Pieter %A Dinjens, Winand N M %A Brandner, Sebastian %A Jaunmuktane, Zane %A Lyskjær, Iben %A Schirmacher, Peter %A Stenzinger, Albrecht %A Brors, Benedikt %A Glimm, Hanno %A Heining, Christoph %A Tirado, Oscar M %A Sainz-Jaspeado, Miguel %A Mora, Jaume %A Alonso, Javier %A Del Muro, Xavier Garcia %A Moran, Sebastian %A Esteller, Manel %A Benhamida, Jamal K %A Ladanyi, Marc %A Wardelmann, Eva %A Antonescu, Cristina %A Flanagan, Adrienne %A Dirksen, Uta %A Hohenberger, Peter %A Baumhoer, Daniel %A Hartmann, Wolfgang %A Vokuhl, Christian %A Flucke, Uta %A Petersen, Iver %A Mechtersheimer, Gunhild %A Capper, David %A Jones, David T W %A Fröhling, Stefan %A Pfister, Stefan M %A von Deimling, Andreas %T Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling. %D 2021 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/17019 %X Sarcomas are malignant soft tissue and bone tumours affecting adults, adolescents and children. They represent a morphologically heterogeneous class of tumours and some entities lack defining histopathological features. Therefore, the diagnosis of sarcomas is burdened with a high inter-observer variability and misclassification rate. Here, we demonstrate classification of soft tissue and bone tumours using a machine learning classifier algorithm based on array-generated DNA methylation data. This sarcoma classifier is trained using a dataset of 1077 methylation profiles from comprehensively pre-characterized cases comprising 62 tumour methylation classes constituting a broad range of soft tissue and bone sarcoma subtypes across the entire age spectrum. The performance is validated in a cohort of 428 sarcomatous tumours, of which 322 cases were classified by the sarcoma classifier. Our results demonstrate the potential of the DNA methylation-based sarcoma classification for research and future diagnostic applications. %K Bone Neoplasms %K Reproducibility of Results %K Sensitivity and Specificity %K Soft Tissue Neoplasms %~