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- Title
Newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia in China (I): abnormal genetic patterns in 1346 childhood and adult cases and their comparison with the reports from Western countries.
- Authors
Chen, B; Wang, Y-Y; Shen, Y; Zhang, W-N; He, H-Y; Zhu, Y-M; Chen, H-M; Gu, C-H; Fan, X; Chen, J-M; Cao, Q; Yang, G; Jiang, C-L; Weng, X-Q; Zhang, X-X; Xiong, S-M; Shen, Z-X; Jiang, H; Gu, L-J; Chen, Z
- Abstract
It has been generally acknowledged that the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis evaluation of leukemia largely rely on an adequate identification of genetic abnormalities. A systemic analysis of genetic aberrations was performed in a cohort of 1346 patients with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in China. The pediatric patients had higher incidence of hyperdiploidy and t(12;21) (p13;q22)/ETV6-RUNX1 than adults (P<0.0001); in contrast, the occurrence of Ph and Ik6 variant of IKZF1 gene was much more frequent in adult patients (all P<0.0001). In B-ALL, the existence of Ik6 and that of BCR-ABL were statistically correlated (P<0.0001). In comparison with Western cohorts, the incidence of t(9;22) (q34;q11)/BCR-ABL (14.60%) in B-ALL and HOX11 expression in T-ALL (25.24%) seemed to be much higher in our group, while the incidence of t(12;21) (p13;q22)/ETV6-RUNX1 (15.34%) seemed to be lower in Chinese pediatric patients. The occurrence of hyperdiploidy was much lower either in pediatric (10.61% vs 20-38%) or adult patients (2.36% vs 6.77-12%) in our study than in Western reports. In addition, the frequencies of HOX11L2 in adult patients were much higher in our cohort than in Western countries (20.69% vs 4-11%). In general, it seems that Chinese ALL patients bear more adverse prognostic factors than their Western counterparts do.
- Subjects
CHINA; LYMPHOBLASTIC leukemia diagnosis; LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME abnormalities; GENE expression; WESTERN countries; PROGNOSIS
- Publication
Leukemia (08876924), 2012, Vol 26, Issue 7, p1608
- ISSN
0887-6924
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/leu.2012.26