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INTRODUCTION: Elderly acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients with poor-risk cytogenetics have a poor outcome with intensive chemotherapy (IC). While Venetoclax (VEN) has changed the outcomes of elderly unfit patients treatment, it is unknown whether it could be effective in poor-risk cytogenetics 60-75 years old patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We included 60-75-year-old AML patients eligible to allogenic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) treated with VEN (combined with azacitidine or with Cladribin and Aracytine) at Institut Paoli Calmettes, between 2020 and 2023 and compared this cohort with patients treated by IC between 2010 and 2019. RESULTS: Twenty six patients were treated with VEN (17 in combination with azacitidine and 9 with Cladribin and Aracytine) and 90 were treated with IC. Thirteen patients (50%) had a TP53 mutation. The median time for leucocyte and platelet counts recovery was 26 days (range 0-103) and 26 days (range, 0-63). The median duration of the first hospitalization was 32 days (ranges, 7-79). The composite response rate was 69% (CR = 50%, CRi = 4%, MLFS = 15%). Allo-SCT could be performed in 42% of cases. Median overall survival (OS) was 7.9 months (20.9 months in the group of patients who transitioned to allo-SCT). We found no difference with the historical cohort of patients treated with IC except a trend toward less lower and upper tract gastro-intestinal (GI) tract infections in the VEN group (respectively 8% vs 26%, p = .06; and 0% vs. 13% p = .06). CONCLUSION: VEN-based treatment was found to be effective in high risk AML can be considered as an alternative to IC in patients aged 60-75 with adverse cytogenetics.
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Translocation t(4;12)(q11-13;p13) is a recurrent but very rare chromosomal aberration in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) resulting in the non-constant expression of a CHIC2/ETV6 fusion transcript. We report clinico-biological features, molecular characteristics and outcomes of 21 cases of t(4;12) including 19 AML and two myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Median age at the time of t(4;12) was 78 years (range, 56-88). Multilineage dysplasia was described in 10 of 19 (53%) AML cases and CD7 and/or CD56 expression in 90%. FISH analyses identified ETV6 and CHIC2 region rearrangements in respectively 18 of 18 and 15 of 17 studied cases. The t(4;12) was the sole cytogenetic abnormality in 48% of cases. The most frequent associated mutated genes were ASXL1 (n = 8/16, 50%), IDH1/2 (n = 7/16, 44%), SRSF2 (n = 5/16, 31%) and RUNX1 (n = 4/16, 25%). Interestingly, concurrent FISH and molecular analyses showed that t(4;12) can be, but not always, a founding oncogenic event. Median OS was 7.8 months for the entire cohort. In the 16 of 21 patients (76%) who received antitumoral treatment, overall response and first complete remission rates were 37% and 31%, respectively. Median progression-free survival in responders was 13.7 months. Finally, t(4;12) cases harboured many characteristics of AML with myelodysplasia-related changes (multilineage dysplasia, MDS-related cytogenetic abnormalities, frequent ASXL1 mutations) and a poor prognosis.
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Cromossomos Humanos Par 12 , Cromossomos Humanos Par 4 , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/diagnóstico , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/genética , Translocação Genética , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Biomarcadores Tumorais , Aberrações Cromossômicas , Análise Citogenética , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/diagnóstico , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/etiologia , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/mortalidade , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/terapia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/diagnóstico , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/etiologia , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/mortalidade , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/terapia , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/mortalidade , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/terapia , PrognósticoRESUMO
Multiple cytogenetic subgroups have been described in adult Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-negative B-cell precursor (BCP) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often comprising small numbers of patients. In this study, we aimed to reassess the prognostic value of cytogenetic abnormalities in a large series of 617 adult patients with Ph-negative BCP-ALL (median age, 38 years), treated in the intensified Group for Research on Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (GRAALL)-2003/2005 trials. Combined data from karyotype, DNA index, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and polymerase chain reaction screening for relevant abnormalities were centrally reviewed and were informative in 542 cases (88%), allowing classification in 10 exclusive primary cytogenetic subgroups and in secondary subgroups, including complex and monosomal karyotypes. Prognostic analyses focused on cumulative incidence of failure (including primary refractoriness and relapse), event-free survival, and overall survival. Only 2 subgroups, namely t(4;11)/KMT2A-AFF1 and 14q32/IGH translocations, displayed a significantly worse outcome in this context, still observed after adjustment for age and after censoring patients who received allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) in first remission at SCT time. A worse outcome was also observed in patients with low hypodiploidy/near triploidy, but this was likely related to their higher age and worse tolerance to therapy. The other cytogenetic abnormalities, including complex and monosomal karyotypes, had no prognostic value in these intensive protocols designed for adult patients up to the age of 60 years.
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Aberrações Cromossômicas , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras B/diagnóstico , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras B/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Aberrações Cromossômicas/estatística & dados numéricos , Ensaios Clínicos como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Análise Citogenética , Feminino , Humanos , Cariotipagem , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Multicêntricos como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Cromossomo Filadélfia , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras B/epidemiologia , Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras B/terapia , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Prognóstico , Estudos Retrospectivos , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Acute myeloid leukemias secondary (sAML) to myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) have variable clinical courses and outcomes, but remain almost always fatal. Large cohorts of sAML to MPN are difficult to obtain and there is very little scientific literature or prospective trials for determining robust prognostic markers and efficient treatments. We analyzed event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) of 73 patients with MPN who progressed to sAML, based on their epidemiological characteristics, the preexisting MPN, the different treatments received, the different prognostic groups and the responses achieved according to the ELN, and their mutational status determined by next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS). For 24 patients, we were able to do a comparative NGS analysis at both MPN and sAML phase. After acute transformation EFS and OS were respectively of 2.9 months (range: 0-48.1) and 4.7 months (range: 0.1-58.8). No difference in EFS or OS regarding the previous MPN, the ELN2017 prognostic classification, the first-line therapy or the response was found. After univariate analysis, three genes, TP53, SRSF2 and TET2, impacted pejoratively sAML prognosis at sAML time. In multivariate analysis, TP53 (P = .0001), TET2 (P = .011) and SRSF2 (P = .018) remained independent prognostic factors. Time to sAML transformation was shorter in SRSF2-mutated patients (51.2 months, range: 14.7-98) than in SRSF2-unmutated patients (133.8 months, range: 12.6-411.2) (P < .001). Conventional clinical factors (age, karyotype, ELN2017 prognostic classification, treatments received, treatments response, Allo-SCT ) failed to predict the patients' outcome. Only the mutational status appeared relevant to predict patients' prognosis at sAML phase.
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Genes Neoplásicos , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/genética , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/patologia , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Aloenxertos , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Terapia Combinada , DNA de Neoplasias/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Dioxigenases , Feminino , Genes p53 , Transplante de Células-Tronco Hematopoéticas , Humanos , Cariotipagem , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/tratamento farmacológico , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/mortalidade , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/genética , Cuidados Paliativos , Lesões Pré-Cancerosas/genética , Prognóstico , Intervalo Livre de Progressão , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/genética , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Fatores de Processamento de Serina-Arginina/genética , Análise de SobrevidaRESUMO
To characterize the incidence, clinical features and genetics of ETV6-ABL1 leukemias, representing targetable kinase-activating lesions, we analyzed 44 new and published cases of ETV6-ABL1-positive hematologic malignancies [22 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (13 children, 9 adults) and 22 myeloid malignancies (18 myeloproliferative neoplasms, 4 acute myeloid leukemias)]. The presence of the ETV6-ABL1 fusion was ascertained by cytogenetics, fluorescence in-situ hybridization, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and RNA sequencing. Genomic and gene expression profiling was performed by single nucleotide polymorphism and expression arrays. Systematic screening of more than 4,500 cases revealed that in acute lymphoblastic leukemia ETV6-ABL1 is rare in childhood (0.17% cases) and slightly more common in adults (0.38%). There is no systematic screening of myeloproliferative neoplasms; however, the number of ETV6-ABL1-positive cases and the relative incidence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and myeloproliferative neoplasms suggest that in adulthood ETV6-ABL1 is more common in BCR-ABL1-negative chronic myeloid leukemia-like myeloproliferations than in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The genomic profile of ETV6-ABL1 acute lymphoblastic leukemia resembled that of BCR-ABL1 and BCR-ABL1-like cases with 80% of patients having concurrent CDKN2A/B and IKZF1 deletions. In the gene expression profiling all the ETV6-ABL1-positive samples clustered in close vicinity to BCR-ABL1 cases. All but one of the cases of ETV6-ABL1 acute lymphoblastic leukemia were classified as BCR-ABL1-like by a standardized assay. Over 60% of patients died, irrespectively of the disease or age subgroup examined. In conclusion, ETV6-ABL1 fusion occurs in both lymphoid and myeloid leukemias; the genomic profile and clinical behavior resemble BCR-ABL1-positive malignancies, including the unfavorable prognosis, particularly of acute leukemias. The poor outcome suggests that treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors should be considered for patients with this fusion.
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Leucemia/genética , Proteínas de Fusão Oncogênica/genética , Proteínas Tirosina Quinases/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Processamento Alternativo , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Análise por Conglomerados , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Lactente , Leucemia/diagnóstico , Leucemia/mortalidade , Leucemia/terapia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fenótipo , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Transcriptoma , Translocação Genética , Adulto JovemAssuntos
Leucemia Mieloide Aguda , Doença Aguda , Criança , Humanos , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/genéticaRESUMO
Myelofibrosis is a myeloproliferative neoplasm that occurs de novo (primary myelofibrosis) or results from the progression of polycythemia vera or essential thrombocytemia (hereafter designated as secondary myelofibrosis or post-polycythemia vera/ essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis). To progress in the understanding of myelofibrosis and to find molecular prognostic markers we studied 104 samples of primary and secondary myelofibrosis at chronic (n=68) and acute phases (n=12) from 80 patients, by using array-comparative genomic hybridization and sequencing of 23 genes (ASXL1, BMI1, CBL, DNMT3A, EZH2, IDH1/2, JAK2, K/NRAS, LNK, MPL, NF1, PPP1R16B, PTPN11, RCOR1, SF3B1, SOCS2, SRSF2, SUZ12, TET2, TP53, TRPS1). We found copy number aberrations in 54% of samples, often involving genes with a known or potential role in leukemogenesis. We show that cases carrying a del(20q), del(17) or del(12p) evolve in acute myeloid leukemia (P=0.03). We found that 88% of the cases were mutated, mainly in signaling pathway (JAK2 69%, NF1 6%) and epigenetic genes (ASXL1 26%, TET2 14%, EZH2 8%). Overall survival was poor in patients with more than one mutation (P=0.001) and in patients with JAK2/ASXL1 mutations (P=0.02). Our study highlights the heterogeneity of myelofibrosis, and points to several interesting copy number aberrations and genes with diagnostic and prognostic impact.
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Mielofibrose Primária/genética , Mielofibrose Primária/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/genética , Deleção Cromossômica , Hibridização Genômica Comparativa , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA , Progressão da Doença , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , Mielofibrose Primária/diagnóstico , Mielofibrose Primária/mortalidade , Prognóstico , Análise de Sequência de DNAAssuntos
Cromossomos Humanos X/genética , Isocromossomos , Leucemia Mieloide/genética , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/genética , Distribuição por Idade , Idoso , Medula Óssea/patologia , Cromossomos Humanos X/ultraestrutura , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Dioxigenases , Feminino , Seguimentos , Genes Neoplásicos , Humanos , Leucemia Mieloide/epidemiologia , Leucemia Mieloide/patologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/epidemiologia , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/patologia , Proteínas de Neoplasias/genética , Segunda Neoplasia Primária/genética , Segunda Neoplasia Primária/patologia , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/genética , Distribuição por SexoRESUMO
Patients with Core-Binding Factor (CBF) and NPM1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) can be monitored by quantitative PCR after having achieved first complete remission (CR) to detect morphologic relapse and drive preemptive therapy. How to best manage these patients is unknown. We retrospectively analyzed 303 patients with CBF and NPM1-mutated AML, aged 18-60 years, without allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in first CR, with molecular monitoring after first-line intensive therapy. Among these patients, 153 (51%) never relapsed, 95 (31%) had molecular relapse (53 received preemptive therapy and 42 progressed to morphologic relapse at salvage therapy), and 55 (18%) had upfront morphologic relapse. Patients who received preemptive therapy had higher OS than those who received salvage therapy after having progressed from molecular to morphologic relapse and those with upfront morphologic relapse (three-year OS: 78% vs. 51% vs. 51%, respectively, P = 0.01). Preemptive therapy included upfront allogeneic HCT (n = 19), intensive chemotherapy (n = 21), and non-intensive therapy (n = 13; three-year OS: 92% vs. 79% vs. 58%, respectively, P = 0.09). Although not definitive due to the non-randomized allocation of patients to different treatment strategies at relapse, our study suggests that molecular monitoring should be considered during follow-up to start preemptive therapy before overt morphologic relapse.
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Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is similar to but a separate entity from both myeloproliferative neoplasms and myelodysplastic syndromes, and shows either myeloproliferative or myelodysplastic features. We ask whether this distinction may have a molecular basis. We established the gene expression profiles of 39 samples of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (including 12 CD34-positive) and 32 CD34-positive samples of myelodysplastic syndromes by using Affymetrix microarrays, and studied the status of 18 genes by Sanger sequencing and array-comparative genomic hybridization in 53 samples. Analysis of 12 mRNAS from chronic myelomonocytic leukemia established a gene expression signature of 122 probe sets differentially expressed between proliferative and dysplastic cases of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. As compared to proliferative cases, dysplastic cases over-expressed genes involved in red blood cell biology. When applied to 32 myelodysplastic syndromes, this gene expression signature was able to discriminate refractory anemias with ring sideroblasts from refractory anemias with excess of blasts. By comparing mRNAS from these two forms of myelodysplastic syndromes we derived a second gene expression signature. This signature separated the myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative forms of chronic myelomonocytic leukemias. These results were validated using two independent gene expression data sets. We found that myelodysplastic chronic myelomonocytic leukemias are characterized by mutations in transcription/epigenetic regulators (ASXL1, RUNX1, TET2) and splicing genes (SRSF2) and the absence of mutations in signaling genes. Myelodysplastic chronic myelomonocytic leukemias and refractory anemias with ring sideroblasts share a common expression program suggesting they are part of a continuum, which is not totally explained by their similar but not, however, identical mutation spectrum.
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Anemia Refratária/genética , Anemia Sideroblástica/genética , Leucemia Mielomonocítica Crônica/genética , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/genética , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Anemia Refratária/diagnóstico , Anemia Refratária/metabolismo , Anemia Sideroblástica/diagnóstico , Anemia Sideroblástica/metabolismo , Antígenos CD34/metabolismo , Análise por Conglomerados , Hibridização Genômica Comparativa , Subunidade alfa 2 de Fator de Ligação ao Core/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Dioxigenases , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Leucemia Mielomonocítica Crônica/diagnóstico , Leucemia Mielomonocítica Crônica/metabolismo , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/diagnóstico , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/metabolismo , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/genética , Proteínas Repressoras/genética , Ribonucleoproteínas/genética , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Fatores de Processamento de Serina-ArgininaRESUMO
Waldenström's macroglobulinemia is a disease of mature B cells, the genetic basis of which is poorly understood. Few recurrent chromosomal abnormalities have been reported, and their prognostic value is not known. We conducted a prospective cytogenetic study of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and examined the prognostic value of chromosomal aberrations in an international randomized trial. The main aberrations were 6q deletions (30%), trisomy 18 (15%), 13q deletions (13%), 17p (TP53) deletions (8%), trisomy 4 (8%), and 11q (ATM) deletions (7%). There was a significant association between trisomy of chromosome 4 and trisomy of chromosome 18. Translocations involving the IGH genes were rare (<5%). Deletion of 6q and 11q, and trisomy 4, were significantly associated with adverse clinical and biological parameters. Patients with TP53 deletion had short progression-free survival and short disease-free survival. Although rare (<5%), trisomy 12 was associated with short progression-free survival. In conclusion, the cytogenetic profile of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia appears to differ from that of other B-cell lymphomas. Chromosomal abnormalities may help with diagnosis and prognostication, in conjunction with other clinical and biological characteristics.
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Aberrações Cromossômicas , Macroglobulinemia de Waldenstrom/genética , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Clorambucila/uso terapêutico , Deleção Cromossômica , Cromossomos Humanos Par 11/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 13/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 17/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 18/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 4/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 6/genética , Feminino , Humanos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Cariótipo , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Prognóstico , Estudos Prospectivos , Trissomia , Vidarabina/análogos & derivados , Vidarabina/uso terapêutico , Macroglobulinemia de Waldenstrom/tratamento farmacológico , Macroglobulinemia de Waldenstrom/patologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Until now, FISH has been the gold standard technique to identify HER2 amplification status in ambiguous cases of breast cancer. Alternative techniques have been developed to increase the capacities of investigating HER2 amplification status. The aims of this multicenter study in a large series of breast cancer patients were to prospectively compare the level of performance of CISH, SISH, and qPCR alternative techniques on paraffin-embedded core biopsies with "gold standard FISH" for evaluation of HER2 amplification status. METHODS: This study was performed on 840 cases scored by immunohistochemistry (IHC): 0=317 (38%), 1+=183 (22%), 2+=109 (13%), 3+=231 (27%). Each of the 15 French centers participating in the study analyzed 56 breast carcinoma cases diagnosed on fixed paraffin-embedded core biopsies. HER2 amplification status was determined by commercially available FISH used as the reference technique with determination of the HER2/CEN17 ratio or HER2 copy number status. The alternative techniques performed on the same cases were commercially available SISH or CISH and a common qPCR method especially designed for the study including a set of 10 primer pairs: 2 for HER2 (exons 8 and 26), 5 to evaluate chromosome 17 polysomy TAOK1, UTP6, MRM1, MKS1, SSTR2 and 3 for diploidy control TSN, LAP3 and ADAMTS16. RESULTS: The concordance between IHC and FISH was 96% to 95% based on the HER2/CEN17 ratio (n=766) or HER2 copy number (n=840), respectively. The concordance of the alternative techniques with FISH was excellent: 97% and 98% for SISH (498 and 587 cases), 98% and 75% for CISH (108 and 204 cases) and 95% and 93% (699 and 773 cases) for qPCR based on the HER2/CEN17 ratio or HER2 copy number, respectively. Similarly, sensitivity ranged from 99% to 95% for SISH, 100% to 99% for CISH and 89% to 80% for qPCR. The concordance with FISH (ratio) in the 2+ cases was 89% for SISH, 100% for CISH and 93% for qPCR. CONCLUSION: These alternative techniques showed an excellent concordance with FISH in core biopsies allowing their use in routine clinical practice. This newly designed qPCR on paraffin-embedded core biopsies deserves special attention, as it is reliable, easy to perform and less expensive than ISH tests.
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Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Genes erbB-2/genética , Hibridização In Situ/métodos , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase em Tempo Real/métodos , Biópsia com Agulha de Grande Calibre , Feminino , Amplificação de Genes , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Valor Preditivo dos TestesRESUMO
Since the discovery of the JAK2V617F tyrosine kinase-activating mutation several genes have been found mutated in nonchronic myeloid leukemia (CML) myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), which mainly comprise three subtypes of "classic" MPNs; polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and myelofibrosis (MF). We searched for mutations in ASXL1, CBL, DNMT3A, IDH1, IDH2, JAK2, MPL, NF1, SF3B1, SUZ12, and TET2 genes in 149 non-CML MPNs, including 127 "classic" MPNs cases. JAK2 was mutated in 100% PV, 66% ET and 68% MF. We found a high incidence of ASXL1 mutation in MF patients (20%) and a low incidence in PV (7%) and ET (4%) patients. Mutations in the other genes were rare (CBL, DNMT3A, IDH2, MPL, SF3B1, SUZ12, NF1) or absent (IDH1).
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Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Janus Quinase 2/genética , Transtornos Mieloproliferativos/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/genética , Proteínas Repressoras/genética , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , DNA (Citosina-5-)-Metiltransferases/genética , DNA Metiltransferase 3A , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Dioxigenases , Feminino , Humanos , Isocitrato Desidrogenase/genética , Estimativa de Kaplan-Meier , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Proteínas de Neoplasias , Neurofibromina 1/genética , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Fosfoproteínas/genética , Complexo Repressor Polycomb 2 , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-cbl/genética , Fatores de Processamento de RNA , Receptores de Trombopoetina/genética , Ribonucleoproteína Nuclear Pequena U2/genética , Fatores de TranscriçãoRESUMO
TP53 mutations are frequent in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with complex karyotype that include del(5q) and are often associated with deletion of 17p. They have also recently been observed in MDS with isolated del(5q). We assessed the incidence of 17p deletion detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and of TP53 mutations detected by direct sequencing and their correlation and prognostic value in 26 MDS and 17 AML with del(5q). In the 20 cases with isolated del(5q) or one additional abnormality, no 17p deletion was found and 3 of the 18 cases analyzed (17%) had TP53 mutation. In the 23 patients with complex karyotype, 17p deletion was suspected by conventional cytogenetics in 15 cases and confirmed by FISH in 10 of them, while TP53 mutation was found in 8 of the 15 patients tested (53%), only five of whom had 17p deletion. In the whole patient series, TP53 mutations were associated with shorter survival (P = 0.07). We confirm the existence of TP53 mutations in 17% of MDS with isolated del(5q). In patients with del(5q) and complex karyotype, FISH and direct sequencing are complementary techniques to analyze TP53 abnormalities. Our findings also suggest that sequencing of the TP53 gene should be included in the study of patients with del(5q) as a single abnormality or in complex karyotype before lenalidomide treatment.
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Deleção Cromossômica , Cromossomos Humanos Par 5/genética , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/genética , Mutação , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/genética , Proteína Supressora de Tumor p53/genética , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Cariotipagem , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
Acute erythroid leukemia (AEL) is a rare (2%-5%) form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Molecular alterations found in AEL resemble those of other AMLs. We report a classification of AELs in three major classes, with different prognosis and some specific features such as a tendency to mutual exclusion of mutations in epigenetic regulators and signaling genes.
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PAX5 is the main target of somatic mutations in acute B lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). We analyzed 153 adult and child B-ALL harboring karyotypic abnormalities at chromosome 9p, to determine the frequency and the nature of PAX5 alterations. We found PAX5 internal rearrangements in 21% of the cases. To isolate fusion partners, we used classic and innovative techniques (rolling circle amplification-rapid amplification of cDNA ends) and single nucleotide polymorphism-comparative genomic hybridization arrays. Recurrent and novel fusion partners were identified, including NCoR1, DACH2, GOLGA6, and TAOK1 genes showing the high variability of the partners. We noted that half the fusion genes can give rise to truncated PAX5 proteins. Furthermore, malignant cells carrying PAX5 fusion genes displayed a simple karyotype. These data strongly suggest that PAX5 fusion genes are early players in leukemogenesis. In addition, PAX5 deletion was observed in 60% of B-ALL with 9p alterations. Contrary to cases with PAX5 fusions, deletions were associated with complex karyotypes and common recurrent translocations. This supports the hypothesis of the secondary nature of the deletion. Our data shed more light on the high variability of PAX5 alterations in B-ALL. Therefore, it is probable that gene fusions occur early, whereas deletions should be regarded as a late/secondary event.