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BLOOD
Volume 114, Issue 3, Pages 647-650Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-02-206722
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- National Institutes of Health [5P01CA68484, 1K08CA133103]
- Community Foundation of the National Capital Region
- Children's Oncology Group [CA98543, CA114766]
- William Lawrence Foundation
- American Society of Hematology-Amos Medical Faculty Development program
- University of Colorado
- Center for Applied Cancer Science
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To more comprehensively assess the pathogenic contribution of the PTEN-PI3K-AKT pathway to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), we examined diagnostic DNA samples from children with T-ALL using array comparative genomic hybridization and sequence analysis. Alterations of PTEN, PI3K, or AKT were identified in 47.7% of 44 cases. There was a striking clustering of PTEN mutations in exon 7 in 12 cases, all of which were predicted to truncate the C2 domain without disrupting the phosphatase domain of PTEN. Induction chemotherapy failed to induce remission in 3 of the 4 patients whose lymphoblasts harbored PTEN deletions at the time of diagnosis, compared with none of the 12 patients with mutations of PTEN exon 7 (P = .007), suggesting that PTEN deletion has more adverse therapeutic consequences than mutational disruptions that preserve the phosphatase domain. These findings add significant support to the rationale for the development of therapies targeting the PTEN-PI3K-AKT pathway in T-ALL. (Blood. 2009; 114: 647-650)
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