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Anticancer Res ; 44(9): 4057-4072, 2024 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39197913

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BACKGROUND/AIM: The predictive role of hematological markers in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (R/M SCCHN) treated with pembrolizumab remains unclear. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study to investigate the predictive impact of the pre-treatment hematological markers neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), CRP-albumin-lymphocyte (CALLY) index, and the modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS) on overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with R/M SCCHN treated with pembrolizumab. From December 2019 to February 2022, 119 and 28 patients were treated with pembrolizumab alone and pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, respectively. The optimal cut-off point of dichotomized hematological markers was calculated using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CIs) were estimated using Cox proportional hazard models with adjustment for potential confounders. RESULTS: In the pembrolizumab monotherapy group, patients with higher NLR, PLR, and mGPS and a lower CALLY index showed significantly shorter OS after adjustment for potential confounders. In addition, all hematological markers examined in this study tended to be associated with clinical response, such as overall response rate or disease control rate (DCR); in particular, a lower CALLY index and higher mGPS were significantly associated with poor DCR. In the pembrolizumab with chemotherapy group, these hematological markers had a similar association with OS but not with clinical response. CONCLUSION: Pre-treatment NLR, PLR, CALLY index, and mGPS might be predictive markers of survival in patients with R/M SCCHN treated with pembrolizumab.


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Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados , Biomarcadores Tumorais , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Cabeça e Pescoço , Humanos , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Cabeça e Pescoço/tratamento farmacológico , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Cabeça e Pescoço/sangue , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Cabeça e Pescoço/mortalidade , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Cabeça e Pescoço/patologia , Idoso , Estudos Retrospectivos , Biomarcadores Tumorais/sangue , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/tratamento farmacológico , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/sangue , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço/sangue , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço/patologia , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço/mortalidade , Antineoplásicos Imunológicos/uso terapêutico , Prognóstico , Adulto , Neutrófilos/patologia , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Linfócitos/patologia
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Methods Mol Biol ; 2812: 235-242, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39068366

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Identification of somatic indels remains a major challenge in cancer genomic analysis and is rarely attempted for tumor-only RNA-Seq due to the lack of matching normal data and the complexity of read alignment, which involves mapping of both splice junctions and indels. In this chapter, we introduce RNAIndel, a software tool designed for identifying somatic coding indels using tumor-only RNA-Seq. RNAIndel performs indel realignment and employs a machine learning model to estimate the probability of a coding indel being somatic, germline, or artifact. Its high accuracy has been validated in RNA-Seq generated from multiple tumor types.


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Mutação INDEL , Neoplasias , RNA-Seq , Software , Humanos , Neoplasias/genética , RNA-Seq/métodos , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Aprendizado de Máquina , Genômica/métodos , Análise de Sequência de RNA/métodos
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Res Sq ; 2023 Aug 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37645774

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Despite advances in the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma, approximately half of these patients die from the disease. Targeted therapy based on synthetic lethality associated with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) caused by germline mutations in homologous recombination repair genes has shown great efficacy in several adult solid tumors. Here we report the first successful treatment of a pediatric patient with refractory neuroblastoma and a germline pathogenic mutation in BARD1 using a PARP inhibitor, talazoparib, in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Allele-specific expression in RNA-seq indicates bi-allelic loss of BARD1 in tumor; however, the HRD score was below the threshold currently used for HRD classification in adult cancers. Our study demonstrates that the use of PARP inhibition in combination with DNA-damaging agents should be considered in children with BARD1-mutated neuroblastoma and cautions against the use of HRD score alone as a biomarker for this pediatric population.

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Cancer Discov ; 13(4): 844-857, 2023 04 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36751942

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We present the first comprehensive investigation of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in 2,860 long-term survivors of pediatric cancer with a median follow-up time of 23.5 years. Deep sequencing over 39 CH-related genes reveals mutations in 15% of the survivors, significantly higher than the 8.5% in 324 community controls. CH in survivors is associated with exposures to alkylating agents, radiation, and bleomycin. Therapy-related CH shows significant enrichment in STAT3, characterized as a CH gene specific to survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma, and TP53. Single-cell profiling of peripheral blood samples revealed STAT3 mutations predominantly present in T cells and contributed by SBS25, a mutational signature associated with procarbazine exposure. Serial sample tracking reveals that larger clone size is a predictor for future expansion of age-related CH clones, whereas therapy-related CH remains stable decades after treatment. These data depict the distinct dynamics of these CH subtypes and support the need for longitudinal monitoring to determine the potential contribution to late effects. SIGNIFICANCE: This first comprehensive CH analysis in long-term survivors of pediatric cancer presents the elevated prevalence and therapy exposures/diagnostic spectrum associated with CH. Due to the contrasting dynamics of clonal expansion for age-related versus therapy-related CH, longitudinal monitoring is recommended to ascertain the long-term effects of therapy-induced CH in pediatric cancer survivors. See related commentary by Collord and Behjati, p. 811. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 799.


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Hematopoiese Clonal , Doença de Hodgkin , Humanos , Criança , Hematopoese/genética , Mutação , Doença de Hodgkin/genética , Doença de Hodgkin/terapia , Sobreviventes
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Mol Cancer Res ; 21(4): 301-306, 2023 04 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36637394

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Myeloid sarcoma is a rare condition consisting of extramedullary myeloid blasts found in association with acute myeloid leukemia or, in the absence of bone marrow involvement. We identified an infant with isolated myeloid sarcoma whose bone marrow was negative for involvement by flow cytometry. Sequencing revealed the fusion oncogene CIC-NUTM2A and identified the sarcoma to be clonally evolved from the bone marrow, which carried the fusion despite the absence of pathology. Murine modeling confirmed the ability of the fusion to transform hematopoietic cells and identified receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling activation consistent with disruption of the CIC transcriptional repressor. These findings extend the definition of CIC-rearranged malignancies to include hematologic disease, provide insight into the mechanism of oncogenesis, and demonstrate the importance of molecular analysis and tracking of bone marrow involvement over the course of treatment in myeloid sarcoma, including patients that lack flow cytometric evidence of leukemia at diagnosis. IMPLICATIONS: This study illustrates molecular involvement of phenotypically normal bone marrow in myeloid sarcoma, which has significant implications in clinical care. Further, it extends the definition of CIC-rearrangements to include hematologic malignancies and shows evidence of RTK activation that may be exploited therapeutically in cancer(s) driven by these fusions.


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Leucemia Mieloide Aguda , Sarcoma Mieloide , Humanos , Animais , Camundongos , Sarcoma Mieloide/genética , Sarcoma Mieloide/diagnóstico , Sarcoma Mieloide/patologia , Medula Óssea/patologia , Fatores de Transcrição , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/patologia , Células Clonais/patologia
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Nat Genet ; 54(9): 1376-1389, 2022 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36050548

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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Here, using whole-genome, exome and transcriptome sequencing of 2,754 childhood patients with ALL, we find that, despite a generally low mutation burden, ALL cases harbor a median of four putative somatic driver alterations per sample, with 376 putative driver genes identified varying in prevalence across ALL subtypes. Most samples harbor at least one rare gene alteration, including 70 putative cancer driver genes associated with ubiquitination, SUMOylation, noncoding transcripts and other functions. In hyperdiploid B-ALL, chromosomal gains are acquired early and synchronously before ultraviolet-induced mutation. By contrast, ultraviolet-induced mutations precede chromosomal gains in B-ALL cases with intrachromosomal amplification of chromosome 21. We also demonstrate the prognostic significance of genetic alterations within subtypes. Intriguingly, DUX4- and KMT2A-rearranged subtypes separate into CEBPA/FLT3- or NFATC4-expressing subgroups with potential clinical implications. Together, these results deepen understanding of the ALL genomic landscape and associated outcomes.


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Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras , Criança , Aberrações Cromossômicas , Exoma/genética , Genômica , Humanos , Mutação , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/genética
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Blood Cancer Discov ; 3(3): 194-207, 2022 05 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35176137

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The genetics of relapsed pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has yet to be comprehensively defined. Here, we present the spectrum of genomic alterations in 136 relapsed pediatric AMLs. We identified recurrent exon 13 tandem duplications (TD) in upstream binding transcription factor (UBTF) in 9% of relapsed AML cases. UBTF-TD AMLs commonly have normal karyotype or trisomy 8 with cooccurring WT1 mutations or FLT3-ITD but not other known oncogenic fusions. These UBTF-TD events are stable during disease progression and are present in the founding clone. In addition, we observed that UBTF-TD AMLs account for approximately 4% of all de novo pediatric AMLs, are less common in adults, and are associated with poor outcomes and MRD positivity. Expression of UBTF-TD in primary hematopoietic cells is sufficient to enhance serial clonogenic activity and to drive a similar transcriptional program to UBTF-TD AMLs. Collectively, these clinical, genomic, and functional data establish UBTF-TD as a new recurrent mutation in AML. SIGNIFICANCE: We defined the spectrum of mutations in relapsed pediatric AML and identified UBTF-TDs as a new recurrent genetic alteration. These duplications are more common in children and define a group of AMLs with intermediate-risk cytogenetic abnormalities, FLT3-ITD and WT1 alterations, and are associated with poor outcomes. See related commentary by Hasserjian and Nardi, p. 173. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 171.


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Leucemia Mieloide Aguda , Adulto , Criança , Aberrações Cromossômicas , Éxons , Genômica , Humanos , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/genética , Mutação , Recidiva
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Bioinformatics ; 38(2): 549-551, 2022 01 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34431982

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SUMMARY: Small insertions and deletions (indels) in nucleotide sequence may be represented differently between mapping algorithms and variant callers, or in the flanking sequence context. Representational ambiguity is especially profound for complex indels, complicating comparisons between multiple mappings and call sets. Complex indels may additionally suffer from incomplete allele representation, potentially leading to critical misannotation of variant effect. We present indelPost, a Python library that harmonizes these ambiguities for simple and complex indels via realignment and read-based phasing. We demonstrate that indelPost enables accurate analysis of ambiguous data and can derive the correct complex indel alleles from the simple indel predictions provided by standard small variant detectors, with improved performance over a specialized tool for complex indel analysis. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: indelPost is freely available at: https://github.com/stjude/indelPost. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


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Algoritmos , Software , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Mutação INDEL , Biblioteca Gênica
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Nat Cancer ; 2(3): 284-299, 2021 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34151288

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T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematological malignancy, and novel therapeutics are much needed. Profiling patient leukemia' drug sensitivities ex vivo, we discovered that 44.4% of childhood and 16.7% of adult T-ALL cases exquisitely respond to dasatinib. Applying network-based systems pharmacology analyses to examine signal circuitry, we identified preTCR-LCK activation as the driver of dasatinib sensitivity, and T-ALL-specific LCK dependency was confirmed in genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screens. Dasatinib-sensitive T-ALLs exhibited high BCL-XL and low BCL2 activity and venetoclax resistance. Discordant sensitivity of T-ALL to dasatinib and venetoclax is strongly correlated with T-cell differentiation, particularly with the dynamic shift in LCK vs. BCL2 activation. Finally, single-cell analysis identified leukemia heterogeneity in LCK and BCL2 signaling and T-cell maturation stage, consistent with dasatinib response. In conclusion, our results indicate that developmental arrest in T-ALL drives differential activation of preTCR-LCK and BCL2 signaling in this leukemia, providing unique opportunities for targeted therapy.


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Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células T Precursoras , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Dasatinibe/farmacologia , Humanos , Farmacologia em Rede , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células T Precursoras/tratamento farmacológico , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-bcl-2/genética , Linfócitos T
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Leukemia ; 35(11): 3078-3091, 2021 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33714976

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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a hematopoietic malignancy comprised of molecular subtypes largely characterized by aneuploidy or recurring chromosomal rearrangements. Despite extensive information on the ALL transcriptome and methylome, there is limited understanding of the ALL chromatin landscape. We therefore mapped accessible chromatin in 24 primary ALL cell biospecimens comprising three common molecular subtypes (DUX4/ERG, ETV6-RUNX1 and hyperdiploid) from patients treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Our findings highlight extensive chromatin reprogramming in ALL, including the identification ALL subtype-specific chromatin landscapes that are additionally modulated by genetic variation. Chromatin accessibility differences between ALL and normal B-cells implicate the activation of B-cell repressed chromatin domains and detail the disruption of normal B-cell development in ALL. Among ALL subtypes, we uncovered roles for basic helix-loop-helix, homeodomain and activator protein 1 transcription factors in promoting subtype-specific chromatin accessibility and distinct gene regulatory networks. In addition to chromatin subtype-specificity, we further identified over 3500 DNA sequence variants that alter the ALL chromatin landscape and contribute to inter-individual variability in chromatin accessibility. Collectively, our data suggest that subtype-specific chromatin landscapes and gene regulatory networks impact ALL biology and contribute to transcriptomic differences among ALL subtypes.


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Cromatina/genética , Aberrações Cromossômicas , Metilação de DNA , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/classificação , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Cromatina/metabolismo , Epigenômica , Humanos , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/genética , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/patologia , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Transcriptoma
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Nat Commun ; 11(1): 5183, 2020 10 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33056981

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Neuroblastoma is a pediatric malignancy with heterogeneous clinical outcomes. To better understand neuroblastoma pathogenesis, here we analyze whole-genome, whole-exome and/or transcriptome data from 702 neuroblastoma samples. Forty percent of samples harbor at least one recurrent driver gene alteration and most aberrations, including MYCN, ATRX, and TERT alterations, differ in frequency by age. MYCN alterations occur at median 2.3 years of age, TERT at 3.8 years, and ATRX at 5.6 years. COSMIC mutational signature 18, previously associated with reactive oxygen species, is the most common cause of driver point mutations in neuroblastoma, including most ALK and Ras-activating variants. Signature 18 appears early and is continuous throughout disease evolution. Signature 18 is enriched in neuroblastomas with MYCN amplification, 17q gain, and increased expression of mitochondrial ribosome and electron transport-associated genes. Recurrent FGFR1 variants in six patients, and ALK N-terminal structural alterations in five samples, identify additional patients potentially amenable to precision therapy.


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Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Neuroblastoma/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Quinase do Linfoma Anaplásico/genética , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Estudos de Coortes , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Conjuntos de Dados como Assunto , Transporte de Elétrons/genética , Exoma/genética , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Ribossomos Mitocondriais , Mutação , Neuroblastoma/patologia , Receptor Tipo 1 de Fator de Crescimento de Fibroblastos/genética , Proteínas Ribossômicas/genética , Transcriptoma/genética , Sequenciamento Completo do Genoma , Adulto Jovem
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Nat Cancer ; 1(3): 329-344, 2020 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32885175

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Identification of genomic and epigenomic determinants of drug resistance provides important insights for improving cancer treatment. Using agnostic genome-wide interrogation of mRNA and miRNA expression, DNA methylation, SNPs, CNAs and SNVs/Indels in primary human acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells, we identified 463 genomic features associated with glucocorticoid resistance. Gene-level aggregation identified 118 overlapping genes, 15 of which were confirmed by genome-wide CRISPR screen. Collectively, this identified 30 of 38 (79%) known glucocorticoid-resistance genes/miRNAs and all 38 known resistance pathways, while revealing 14 genes not previously associated with glucocorticoid-resistance. Single cell RNAseq and network-based transcriptomic modelling corroborated the top previously undiscovered gene, CELSR2. Manipulation of CELSR2 recapitulated glucocorticoid resistance in human leukemia cell lines and revealed a synergistic drug combination (prednisolone and venetoclax) that mitigated resistance in mouse xenograft models. These findings illustrate the power of an integrative genomic strategy for elucidating genes and pathways conferring drug resistance in cancer cells.


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MicroRNAs , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras , Animais , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos/genética , Genômica , Glucocorticoides/farmacologia , Humanos , Camundongos , MicroRNAs/genética , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/tratamento farmacológico
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Bioinformatics ; 36(5): 1382-1390, 2020 03 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31593214

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MOTIVATION: Reliable identification of expressed somatic insertions/deletions (indels) is an unmet need due to artifacts generated in PCR-based RNA-Seq library preparation and the lack of normal RNA-Seq data, presenting analytical challenges for discovery of somatic indels in tumor transcriptome. RESULTS: We present RNAIndel, a tool for predicting somatic, germline and artifact indels from tumor RNA-Seq data. RNAIndel leverages features derived from indel sequence context and biological effect in a machine-learning framework. Except for tumor samples with microsatellite instability, RNAIndel robustly predicts 88-100% of somatic indels in five diverse test datasets of pediatric and adult cancers, even recovering subclonal (VAF range 0.01-0.15) driver indels missed by targeted deep-sequencing, outperforming the current best-practice for RNA-Seq variant calling which had 57% sensitivity but with 14 times more false positives. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: RNAIndel is freely available at https://github.com/stjude/RNAIndel. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


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Neoplasias/genética , RNA-Seq , Criança , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Humanos , Mutação INDEL , Software , Sequenciamento do Exoma
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Blood ; 135(1): 41-55, 2020 01 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31697823

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To study the mechanisms of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we performed whole-genome sequencing of 103 diagnosis-relapse-germline trios and ultra-deep sequencing of 208 serial samples in 16 patients. Relapse-specific somatic alterations were enriched in 12 genes (NR3C1, NR3C2, TP53, NT5C2, FPGS, CREBBP, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2, WHSC1, PRPS1, and PRPS2) involved in drug response. Their prevalence was 17% in very early relapse (<9 months from diagnosis), 65% in early relapse (9-36 months), and 32% in late relapse (>36 months) groups. Convergent evolution, in which multiple subclones harbor mutations in the same drug resistance gene, was observed in 6 relapses and confirmed by single-cell sequencing in 1 case. Mathematical modeling and mutational signature analysis indicated that early relapse resistance acquisition was frequently a 2-step process in which a persistent clone survived initial therapy and later acquired bona fide resistance mutations during therapy. In contrast, very early relapses arose from preexisting resistant clone(s). Two novel relapse-specific mutational signatures, one of which was caused by thiopurine treatment based on in vitro drug exposure experiments, were identified in early and late relapses but were absent from 2540 pan-cancer diagnosis samples and 129 non-ALL relapses. The novel signatures were detected in 27% of relapsed ALLs and were responsible for 46% of acquired resistance mutations in NT5C2, PRPS1, NR3C1, and TP53. These results suggest that chemotherapy-induced drug resistance mutations facilitate a subset of pediatric ALL relapses.


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Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Metotrexato/uso terapêutico , Mutagênese/efeitos dos fármacos , Mutação , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/genética , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/patologia , 5'-Nucleotidase/genética , Antimetabólitos Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Criança , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Feminino , Seguimentos , Genômica , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Humanos , Masculino , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras/tratamento farmacológico , Prognóstico , Receptores de Glucocorticoides/genética , Taxa de Sobrevida , Proteína Supressora de Tumor p53/genética
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