1. Clinical features and prognostic impact of PRDM16 expression in adult acute myeloid leukemia.
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Yamato G, Yamaguchi H, Handa H, Shiba N, Kawamura M, Wakita S, Inokuchi K, Hara Y, Ohki K, Okubo J, Park MJ, Sotomatsu M, Arakawa H, and Hayashi Y
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers, Tumor metabolism, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases genetics, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases metabolism, DNA Methyltransferase 3A, DNA-Binding Proteins metabolism, Female, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase genetics, Humans, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute pathology, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein genetics, Nuclear Proteins genetics, Nuclear Proteins metabolism, Nucleophosmin, Transcription Factors metabolism, fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 genetics, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, DNA-Binding Proteins genetics, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute genetics, Transcription Factors genetics
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High PRDM16 (also known as MEL1) expression is a representative marker of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with NUP98-NSD1 and is a significant predictive marker for poor prognosis in pediatric AML. However, the clinical features of adult AML with PRDM16 expression remain unclear. PRDM16 is highly homologous to MDS1/EVI1, which is an alternatively spliced transcript of MECOM (also known as EVI1). We investigated PRDM16 expression in 151 AML patients, with 47 (31%) exhibiting high PRDM16 expression (PRDM16/ABL1 ratio ≥ 0.010). High PRDM16 expression significantly correlated with DNMT3A (43% vs. 15%, P < 0.001) and NPM1 (43% vs. 21%, P = 0.010) mutations and partial tandem duplication of KMT2A (22% vs. 1%, P < 0.001). Remarkably, high-PRDM16-expression patients were frequent in the noncomplete remission group (48% vs. 21%, P = 0.002). Overall survival (OS) was significantly worse in high-PRDM16-expression patients than in low-PRDM16-expression patients (5-year OS, 18% vs. 34%; P = 0.002). This trend was observed more clearly among patients aged <65 years (5-year OS, 21% vs. 50%; P = 0.001), particularly in FLT3-ITD-negative patients in the intermediate cytogenetic risk group (5-year OS, 25% vs. 59%; P = 0.009). These results suggest that high PRDM16 expression is a significant predictive marker for poor prognosis in adult AML patients, similar to pediatric AML patients., (© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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- 2017
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