Genomic profile at diagnosis by targeted high throughput sequencing, and real-world clinical outcomes in patients diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at a tertiary care cancer center.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e19515-e19515
Author(s):  
Vivek Sulekha Radhakrishnan ◽  
Arunima Bhaduri ◽  
Neeraj Arora ◽  
Reena Nair ◽  
Shreya Bhattacharya ◽  
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e19515 Background: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a highly heterogeneous disease. High throughput sequencing (HTS) has led to the discovery of a number of recurrently mutated genes in AML & has provided a detailed molecular landscape of the disease. This information is now extensively utilised & interpreted in AML. Methods: Retrospective analysis of 47 patients with newly diagnosed AML for those who had both cytogenetic and targeted HTS information at diagnosis, [median age: 44y (12-80y); 24 females] & treated at Tata Medical Center, India between 2013-2019. HTS was performed using Illumina Trusight myeloid panel and/or Thermo Fisher Scientific Oncomine Myeloid panel, and mutation data from the common 28 genes were used. Patients were stratified by European Leukemia Net (ELN) 2010 and 2017 guidelines. Standard of care clinical outcome data was available for all patients. Results: 45 of 47 patients had mutations. The most frequently mutated gene was FLT3 (n = 13, 28.9%), followed by NPM1 (n = 8, 17.8%), and others [ IDH1, IDH2, TET2, CEBPA, and NRAS; n = 7, 15.6%). ELN-2010 classified 6 patients as Favourable (12.8%), 10 as Intermediate-I (21.3%), 25 as Intermediate-II (53.2%) and 6 as Adverse (12.8%) risk groups. One patient migrated to the adverse group from Intermediate-II when ELN-2017 was applied. ELN 2017 re-classification: Favorable (n = 6, 12.8%), intermediate (n = 34, 72.3%), and adverse risk groups (n = 7, 14.9%). Co-occurrence of driver gene mutations was found in NPM1 and FLT3 (8.2%) frequently. Patients with mutations in epigenetic modifiers ( ASXL1, IDH1, IDH2, DNMT3A) had high Variant Allele Frequency (VAF, 40-50%) while those with signaling pathway gene mutations ( NRAS, KRAS) had low VAF (9-25%). At a median follow up of 3.25 years, median overall survival in the three risk groups (favorable, intermediate, adverse) were 11.25 mons, 7 mons and 8 mons respectively, and relapse rates were 16%, 29% and 42% respectively. Conclusions: Early experience from a middle-income real-world setting suggests feasibility of integration of HTS information in practise, as additional prognostic/ predictive information. The pattern of a high VAF in epigenetic modifier gene mutations, potentially as a result of early acquisition during clonal development, needs further evaluation. This data set has helped us initiate a prospective multimodal omics study at our institution.

Author(s):  
Ming Liu ◽  
Fang Wang ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Xue Chen ◽  
Panxiang Cao ◽  
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Aim: This study aimed to investigate the regularity of gene mutations in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and in those that progressed to acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML). Patients & methods: High-throughput sequencing technology was used to detect gene mutations in 99 newly diagnosed patients with MDS or MDS/AML. Results: Gene mutations were detected in 88 patients. The mutation incidence in the MDS/AML group was significantly higher than that in the MDS group. Statistically significant differences were observed between the MDS with refractory anemia (MDS-RA) and MDS-RA with excess blasts groups and between the MDS/AML and MDS-RA groups. Conclusion: Our data demonstrate that there is a cumulative accumulation of gene mutations, especially in transcription factor genes, during disease progression in MDS and MDS/AML.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengchang He ◽  
Siyu Zhang ◽  
Dan Ma ◽  
Qin Fang ◽  
Liping Yang ◽  
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Abstract Background Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) can progress to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and conventional chemotherapy (decitabine) does not effectively inhibit tumor cells. Enhancer of zeste homologue 2 (EZH2) and Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) are two key factors in patients resistance and deterioration. Methods In total, 58 MDS patients were divided into four groups. We analyzed the difference in HO-1 and EZH2 expression among the groups by real-time PCR. After treatment with Hemin or Znpp IX, flow cytometry was used to detect apoptosis and assess the cell cycle distribution of tumor cells. Following injection of mice with very high-risk MDS cells, spleen and bone marrow samples were studied by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. MDS cells overexpressing EZH2 and HO-1 were analyzed by high-throughput sequencing. The effect of HO-1 on the pRB-E2F pathway was analyzed by Western blotting. The effects of decitabine on P15INK4B and TP53 in MDS cells after inhibiting HO-1 were detected by Western blotting. Results Real-time PCR results showed that EZH2 and HO-1 expression levels were higher in MDS patients than in normal donors. The levels of HO-1 and EZH2 were simultaneously increased in the high-risk and very high-risk groups. Linear correlation analysis and laser scanning confocal microscopy results indicated that EZH2 was related to HO-1. MDS cells that highly expressed EZH2 and HO-1 infiltrated the tissues of experimental mice. IHC results indicated that these phenomena were related to the pRB-E2F pathway. High-throughput sequencing indicated that the progression of MDS to AML was related to EZH2. Using the E2F inhibitor HLM006474 and the EZH2 inhibitor JQEZ5, we showed that HO-1 could regulate EZH2 expression. HO-1 could stimulate the transcription and activation of EZH2 through the pRB-E2F pathway in MDS patients during chemotherapy, which reduced TP53 and P15INK4B expression. Conclusions EZH2 was associated with HO-1 in high-risk and very high-risk MDS patients. HO-1 could influence MDS resistance and progression to AML.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Bănescu ◽  
Mihaela Iancu ◽  
Adrian P. Trifa ◽  
Marcela Cândea ◽  
Erzsebet Benedek Lazar ◽  
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Oxidative stress might contribute to the occurrence of cancers, including the hematological ones. Various genetic polymorphisms were shown to increase the quantity of reactive oxygen species, a phenomenon that is able to induce mutations and thus promote cancers. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the association betweenCATC262T,GPX1Pro198Leu,MnSODAla16Val,GSTM1, GSTT1,andGSTP1Ile105Val gene polymorphisms and acute myeloid leukemia risk, in a case-control study comprising 102 patients and 303 controls. No association was observed between AML and variant genotypes ofCAT, MnSOD, GSTM1, andGSTT1polymorphisms. Our data revealed a statistically significant difference regarding the frequencies ofGPX1Pro198Leu andGSTP1Ile105Val variant genotypes between AML patients and controls (p<0.001). Our results showed no association in the distribution of any of theCATC262T,GPX1Pro198Leu,GSTM1, GSTT1,andGSTP1polymorphisms regarding age, gender, FAB subtype, cytogenetic risk groups,FLT3andDNMT3gene mutations, and overall survival. Our data suggests that the presence of variant allele and genotype ofGPX1Pro198Leu andGSTP1Ile105Val gene polymorphisms may modulate the risk of developing AML.


2019 ◽  
Vol XIV (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Radzhabova ◽  
S.V. Voloshin ◽  
I.S. Martynkevich ◽  
A.A. Kuzyaeva ◽  
V.A. Shuvaev ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 204993612110365
Author(s):  
Kundan Mishra ◽  
Suman Kumar ◽  
Sandeep Ninawe ◽  
Rajat Bahl ◽  
Ashok Meshram ◽  
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Introduction: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the commonest leukemia in adults. Mortality in thew first 30-days ranges from 6% to 43%, while infections account for 30–66% of early deaths. We aim to present our experience of infections in newly-diagnosed AML. Method: This prospective, observational study, was undertaken at a tertiary care hospital in Northern India. Patients with confirmed AML (bone marrow morphology and flow cytometry) and who had developed febrile neutropenia (FN), were included. Result: A total of fifty-five patients were included in the study. The median age of the patients was 47.1 years (12–71) and 28 (50.9%) were males. Fever (33, 60%) was the commonest presentation at the time of diagnosis. One or more comorbid conditions were present in 20 patients (36.36%). Infection at presentation was detected in 17 patients (30.9%). The mean duration to develop febrile neutropenia since the start of therapy was 11.24 days. With each ten-thousand increase in white blood cell (WBC) count, the mean number of days of FN development decreased by 0.35 days ( p = 0.029). Clinical and/or radiological localization was possible in 23 patients (41.81%). Thirty-four blood samples (34/242, 14.04%) from 26 patients (26/55, 47.3%) isolated one or more organisms. Gram negative bacilli (GNB) were isolated in 24 (70.58%) samples. Burkholderia cepacia (8/34, 23.52%) was the commonest organism. The number of days required to develop febrile neutropenia was inversely associated with overall survival (OS). However, when compared, there was no statistically significant difference in OS between patients developing fever on day-10 and day-25 ( p = 0.063). Thirteen patients (23.63%) died during the study period. Discussion: Low percentage of blood culture positivity and high incidence of MDR organisms are a matter of concern. Days to develop febrile neutropenia were inversely associated with overall survival (OS), emphasizing the importance of preventive measures against infections. Conclusion: Infections continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality among AML patients.


Genes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cumbo ◽  
Minervini ◽  
Orsini ◽  
Anelli ◽  
Zagaria ◽  
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) clinical settings cannot do without molecular testing to confirm or rule out predictive biomarkers for prognostic stratification, in order to initiate or withhold targeted therapy. Next generation sequencing offers the advantage of the simultaneous investigation of numerous genes, but these methods remain expensive and time consuming. In this context, we present a nanopore-based assay for rapid (24 h) sequencing of six genes (NPM1, FLT3, CEBPA, TP53, IDH1 and IDH2) that are recurrently mutated in AML. The study included 22 AML patients at diagnosis; all data were compared with the results of S5 sequencing, and discordant variants were validated by Sanger sequencing. Nanopore approach showed substantial advantages in terms of speed and low cost. Furthermore, the ability to generate long reads allows a more accurate detection of longer FLT3 internal tandem duplications and phasing double CEBPA mutations. In conclusion, we propose a cheap, rapid workflow that can potentially enable all basic molecular biology laboratories to perform detailed targeted gene sequencing analysis in AML patients, in order to define their prognosis and the appropriate treatment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. S215
Author(s):  
Giusy Ceparano ◽  
Mariarita Sciumè ◽  
Sonia Fabris ◽  
Enrico Barozzi ◽  
Nicolò Rampi ◽  
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