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The proliferative history shapes the DNA methylome of B-cell tumors and predicts clinical outcome

We report a systematic analysis of the biological and clinical implications of DNA methylation variability in five categories of B-cell tumors derived from B cells spanning the entire maturation spectrum. We used 2056 primary samples including training and validation series and show that 88% of the human DNA methylome is dynamically modulated under normal and neoplastic conditions. B-cell tumors display both epigenetic imprints of their cellular origin and de novo, disease-specific epigenetic alterations that in part are related to differential transcription factor binding. These differential methylation patterns were used by a machine-learning approach to create a diagnostic algorithm that accurately classifies 14 B-cell tumor entities and subtypes with different clinical management. Beyond this, we identified extensive patient-specific epigenetic variability targeting constitutively silenced chromatin regions, a phenomenon we could relate to the proliferative history of normal and neoplastic B cells. We observed that, depending on the maturation stage of the tumor cell of origin, mitotic activity leaves different imprints into the DNA methylome. Subsequently, we constructed a novel DNA methylation-based mitotic clock called epiCMIT (epigenetically-determined Cumulative MIToses), whose lapse magnitude represents a strong independent prognostic variable within specific B-cell tumor subtypes and is associated with particular driver genetic alterations. Our findings reveal DNA methylation as a holistic tracker of B-cell tumor developmental history, with implications in the differential diagnosis and prediction of the outcome of the patients.