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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY
Volume 89, Issue 4, Pages 350-355Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2012.01838.x
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diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; CD20; deletion
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- High-Technology Research Center Project from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
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In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), a CD20-negative relapse is clinically significant because it is associated with chemo-refractory phenotypes and loss of a therapeutic target. The alteration of the CD20 gene is reported as infrequent in CD20-negative relapse in B-cell lymphoma. We established a DLBCL cell line with loss of CD20 expression (SD07) from a patient at CD20-negative relapse. She was initially diagnosed with CD20-positive DLBCL and received repeated immuno-chemotherapy that included rituximab. SD07, which has an immunoglobulin ? rearrangement identical to that of lymphoma cells at CD20-negative relapse, showed homozygous deletion of the CD20 gene with loss of the copy number of 11q12. SD07 is the first case in which it is proven that the loss of CD20 expression in relapsed DLBCL is the result of deletion of the CD20 gene. Deletion of the CD20 gene is a molecular mechanism of CD20-negative relapse in a subset of DLBCL.
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