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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 31, Pages 5078-5087Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.17.5554
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- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD [CA101140, CA77658, CA31946, CA09512, CA16058, CA98933, CA90469, CA96887, CA33601, CA089341]
- Ohio State University
- Coleman Leukemia Research Foundation
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Purpose To evaluate the prognostic significance of CEBPA mutations in the context of established molecular markers in cytogenetically normal (CN) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and gain biologic insights into leukemogenesis of the CN-AML molecular high-risk subset (FLT3 internal tandem duplication [ITD] positive and/or NPM1 wild type) that has a significantly higher incidence of CEBPA mutations than the molecular low-risk subset (FLT3-ITD negative and NPM1 mutated). Patients and Methods One hundred seventy-five adults age less than 60 years with untreated primary CN-AML were screened before treatment for CEBPA, FLT3, MLL, WT1, and NPM1 mutations and BAALC and ERG expression levels. Gene and microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles were obtained for the CN-AML molecular high-risk patients. Results CEBPA mutations predicted better event-free (P = .007), disease-free (P = .014), and overall survival (P = .001) independently of other molecular and clinical prognosticators. Among patients with CEBPA mutations, 91% were in the CN-AML molecular high-risk group. Within this group, CEBPA mutations predicted better event-free (P < .001), disease-free (P = .004), and overall survival (P = .009) independently of other molecular and clinical characteristics and were associated with unique gene and miRNA expression profiles. The major features of these profiles were upregulation of genes (eg, GATA1, ZFPM1, EPOR, and GFI1B) and miRNAs (ie, the miR-181 family) involved in erythroid differentiation and downregulation of homeobox genes. Conclusion Pretreatment testing for CEBPA mutations identifies CN-AML patients with different outcomes, particularly in the molecular high-risk group, thus improving molecular risk-based classification of this large cytogenetic subset of AML. The gene and miRNA expression profiling provided insights into leukemogenesis of the CN-AML molecular high-risk group, indicating that CEBPA mutations are associated with partial erythroid differentiation. J Clin Oncol 26: 5078-5087. (C) 2008 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
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