scholarly journals Two rare cases of acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) and 1q duplication: case presentation and literature review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Liu ◽  
Yuan Ren ◽  
Xianfu Wang ◽  
Xianglan Lu ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex hematological disease characterized by genetic and clinical heterogeneity. The identification and understanding of chromosomal abnormalities are important for the diagnosis and management of AML patients. Compared to recurrent chromosomal translocations in AML, t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) can be found in any age group, but is very rare and typically associated with poor prognosis. Methods: Conventional cytogenetic studies were performed among 1,824 AML patients from our oncology database in the last 20 years. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was carried out to demonstrate the translocation fusion. Array comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) was carried out to further characterize the duplication of chromosomes.Results: We identified three AML patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) by chromosome analysis. Two of the three patients with additional 1q duplication were detected by FISH and aCGH. aCGH characterized a 46.7 Mb and 49.9 Mb gain of chromosome 1 at bands q32.1q44 in these two patients, respectively. One patient achieved a complete remission (CR) but relapsed three months later. The other patient never experienced a CR and died two years after diagnosis. Conclusion: 1q duplication were detected in two of three AML patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3), suggesting that 1q duplication can be a recurrent event in AML patients with t(8;16). In concert with the findings of previous studies of similar patients, our work suggests that 1q duplication may also be an unfavorable prognostic factor of the disease.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Liu ◽  
Yuan Ren ◽  
Xianfu Wang ◽  
Xianglan Lu ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex hematological disease characterized by genetic and clinical heterogeneity. The identification and understanding of chromosomal abnormalities are important for the diagnosis and management of AML patients. Compared with recurrent chromosomal translocations in AML, t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) can be found in any age group but is very rare and typically associated with poor prognosis.Methods: Conventional cytogenetic studies were performed among 1,824 AML patients recorded in our oncology database over the last 20 years. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was carried out to detect the translocation fusion. Array comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) was carried out to further characterize the duplication of chromosomes.Results: We identified three AML patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) by chromosome analysis. Two of the three patients, who harbored an additional 1q duplication, were detected by FISH and aCGH. aCGH characterized a 46.7 Mb and 49.9 Mb gain in chromosome 1 at band q32.1q44 separately in these two patients. One patient achieved complete remission (CR) but relapsed three months later. The other patient never experienced CR and died two years after diagnosis.Conclusion: A 1q duplication was detected in two of three AML patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3), suggesting that 1q duplication can be a recurrent event in AML patients with t(8;16). In concert with the findings of previous studies on similar patients, our work suggests that 1q duplication may also be an unfavorable prognostic factor of the disease.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Liu ◽  
Yuan Ren ◽  
Xianfu Wang ◽  
Xianglan Lu ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex hematological disease characterized by genetic and clinical heterogeneity. The identification and understanding of chromosomal abnormalities are important for the diagnosis and management of AML patients. Compared to recurrent chromosomal translocations in AML, t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) can be found in any age group, but is very rare and typically associated with poor prognosis. Methods: Cytogenetic studies were performed among 1,824 AML patients from our oncology database in the last 20 years by karyotype analysis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to further confirm the chromosomal translocation fusion. Array comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) was carried out to characterize the additional chromosomal segments in patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3). Results: Three patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) were identified. One patient was pure t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3), and the other two had an additional chromosomal anomaly of 1q duplication. Interestingly, the molecular size and position of this 1q duplication were similar in both patients, showing as 46.7 Mb and 49.9 Mb, respectively. Conclusion: 1q duplication is a recurrent event in AML patients with t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3), indicating it could also play a role of an unfavorable prognostic factor.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismael F. Alarbeed ◽  
Abdulsamad Wafa ◽  
Faten Moassass ◽  
Bassel Al-Halabi ◽  
Walid Al-Achkar ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Approximately 30% of adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) acquire within fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 gene (FLT3) internal tandem duplications (FLT3/ITDs) in their juxtamembrane domain (JMD). FLT3/ITDs range in size from three to hundreds of nucleotides, and confer an adverse prognosis. Studies on a possible relationship between of FLT3/ITDs length and clinical outcomes in those AML patients were inconclusive, yet. Case presentation Here we report a 54-year-old Arab male diagnosed with AML who had two FLT3-ITD mutations in addition to NPM1 mutation. Cytogenetic approaches (banding cytogenetics) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using specific probes to detect translocations t(8;21), t(15;17), t(16;16), t(12;21), and deletion del(13q)) were applied to exclude chromosomal abnormalities. Molecular genetic approaches (polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the Sanger sequencing) identified a yet unreported combination of two new mutations in FLT3-ITDs. The first mutation induced a frameshift in JMD, and the second led to a homozygous substitution of c.1836T>A (p.F612L) also in JMD. Additionally a NPM1 type A mutation was detected. The first chemotherapeutic treatment was successful, but 1 month after the initial diagnosis, the patient experienced a relapse and unfortunately died. Conclusions To the best of our knowledge, a combination of two FLT3-ITD mutations in JMD together with an NPM1 type A mutation were not previously reported in adult AML. Further studies are necessary to prove or rule out whether the size of these FLT3-ITDs mutations and potential other double mutations in FLT3-ITD are correlated with the observed adverse outcome.


Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 4504-4504
Author(s):  
Jianyong Li ◽  
Jinlan Pan ◽  
Bing Xiao ◽  
Li Ma ◽  
Hairong Qiu ◽  
...  

Abstract The complex chromosome abnormalities (CCAs) were one of the most important poor prognostic risk factors in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Chromosome analysis using classical cytogenetic banding techniques fails to completely resolve complex karyotypes and cryptic translocations. The technique of multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization (M-FISH) allow for the simultaneous visualization of all chromosomes of a metaphase in a single hybridization step and thereby enable to comprehensively analyze complex karyotypes and the identification of new and cryptic translocations. To investigate the value of M-FISH in the detection of complex karyotypic abnormalities of AML and MDS. M-FISH was used in combination with interphase-FISH to study 24 cases of AML and MDS with CCAs showed by R-banding of conventional cytogenetics (CC). In 14 cases of AML with CCAs, 4 gains of whole chromosome and 4 losses of whole chromosome were confirmed by M-FISH, while 12 losses of whole chromosome were revised as derivative chromosomes resulted from various structural aberrations. 26 derivative chromosomes and 19 marker chromosomes were characterized precisely by M-FISH. Most of them were unbalanced translocations, including 2 complex t(8;21), which have not been previously described:t(8;21), der(8) t(8;21) (8pter→8q22::21q22→21qter), der(21) t(8;21;8) (8qter→ 8q22::21p13→ 21q22::8q22→ 8qter) and t(21;8;18;1), der(8) t(8;21) (8pter→ 8q22::21q22→ 21qter), der(21) t(21;8;18;1) (21p13→ 21q22::8q22→ 8q24::18?::1q?q?). In 10 cases of MDS, 37 kinds of structural rearrangements were detected by M-FISH including insertion, deletion, translocation and derivative chromosomes, and among them 34 kinds were unbalanced rearrangements, only 3 were balanced rearrangements including t(6;22)(q21;q12), t(9;19)(q13;p13) and t(3;5)( ?;?), 7 abnormalities were never reported before. The CCAs invloved nearly all chromosomes, of which the chromosome 17, 5 and 7 were invloved more frequent than the rest. Chromosomes 5, 17, 7 were involved in 15 cases (62.5%), 12 cases (50%) and 6 cases (25%) respecrively. We conclude that M-FISH could refine CCAs of AML and MDS patients, find or correct the missed or misidentified aberrations by CC analysis. Our findings confirm that M-FISH is a powerful tool to characterize complex karyotypes in AML and MDS.


Author(s):  
Martha I. Dávila-Rodríguez ◽  
Elva I. Cortés-Gutiérrez ◽  
Roberto Hernández-Valdés ◽  
Karla Guzmán-Cortés ◽  
Rosa E. De León-Cantú ◽  
...  

The purpose of this study was to evaluate DNA damage in the whole genome of peripheral blood leukocytes from patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) compared with a control group using DNA breakage detection-fluorescent in situ hybridization (DBD-FISH). Our results suggest that the DNA damage detected in patients with newly diagnosed AML was similar to that observed for the controls; this might be explained by the stimulation of a repair pathway by the pathogenesis itself. These findings indicate that inhibiting the repair pathway could be proposed to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy.


Author(s):  
Salil N. Vaniawala ◽  
Monika V. Patel ◽  
Pratik D. Chavda ◽  
Shivangi H. Zaveri ◽  
Pankaj K. Gadhia

Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disorder that results from a block in the differentiation of haematopoietic progenitor cells along with uncontrolled proliferation. Trisomy 8 is the most common recurring numerical chromosomal aberrations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). It occurs either as a sole anomaly or together with other additional chromosomal aberrations. The prognostic significance of trisomy 8 in presence of other additional chromosomal abnormality depends on clonal cytogenetic changes. The patients with trisomy 8 had shorter survival with significantly increased risk with other chromosomal abnormality.Methods: Total 139 patients were screened between January 2016 to November 2016 who were suspected of AML cases. Bone marrow cultures were set up using conventional cytogenetic methods. Chromosomal preparation was made and subjected to GTG banding technique. Banded metaphases were analysed and karyotyped for further analysis.Results: Cytogenetic evaluation of karyotyped of 139 suspected AML patients showed 52 with t(8;21)(q22;q22), 36 with t(15;17)(q22;q12), and 11 with inv(16)(p13;q22). The rest 40 cases found with additional chromosomal abnormalities, of which 16 were sole trisomy 8 and 24 cases were found with other chromosomal abnormalities In addition, only one person found with t(8;21) and trisomy 8, while  three person having t(15;17) with trisomy 8.Conclusions: AML is considered to be one of the most important cytogenetic prognostic determinants. Recurrent chromosomal translocation with trisomy 8 varying 1.9% for t(8;21) and 8.3% for t(15;17). In the present study trisomy 8 in AML with known favourable anomalies is very small. Therefore, it cannot be taken as a prognostic marker.


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