Clonal diversity of Ig and T-cell-receptor gene rearrangements identifies a subset of childhood B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with increased risk of relapse

Green, E. K., McConville, C. M., Powell, J. E., Mann, J. R., Darbyshire, P. J., Taylor, A. M. and Stankovic, T. 1998. Clonal diversity of Ig and T-cell-receptor gene rearrangements identifies a subset of childhood B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with increased risk of relapse. Blood 92 (3) , pp. 952-958.

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Abstract

Current prognostic indicators such as age, sex, and white blood cell count (WBC) fail to identify all children with more aggressive forms of B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and a proportion of patients without poor prognostic indicators still relapse. Results obtained from an analysis of 65 pediatic B-precursor ALL patients indicated that subclone formation leading to clonal diversity, as detected by Ig and T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements, may represent a very useful prognostic indicator, independent of age, sex, and WBC. Disease-free survival was significantly shorter in those patients showing clonal diversity at presentation. Furthermore, clonal diversity was detected not only in the majority of high-risk patients who relapsed but was also associated with a high probability of relapse in standard-risk patients. Sixty-five percent (13/20) of standard-risk patients who also showed clonal diversity subsequently relapsed, whereas the percentage of relapses among standard-risk patients without clonal diversity was much lower at 19% (7/36). Continued clonal evolution during disease progression is an important feature of aggressive B-precursor ALL. All 5 patients with clonal diversity who were followed up in our study showed a change in the pattern of clonality between presentation and relapse. This implies an important role for clonal diversity as a mechanism of disease progression through the process of clonal variation and clonal selection.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	American Society of Hematology
ISSN:	0006-4971
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2015 09:48
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81627

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