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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Helen Blair, Professor Christine Harrison FRCPath FMedSci, Dr Lisa Russell
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Springer Nature, 2019.
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Deregulated expression of the type I cytokine receptor, CRLF2, is observed in 5-15% of precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL). We have previously reported the genomic landscape of patients with CRLF2 rearrangements (CRLF2-r) using both whole genome and exome sequencing, which identified a number of potential clonal and sub-clonal genomic alterations. In this study, we aimed to assess when the CRLF2-r; IGH-CRLF2 or P2RY8-CRLF2, arose during the evolution of both Down syndrome-ALL (DS-ALL) and non-DS-ALL. Using fluorescence in situ hybridisation, we were able to track up to four structural variants in single cells from 47 CRLF2-r B-ALL patients, which in association with our multiplex single cell analysis of a further four patients, permitted simultaneous tracking of copy number alterations, structural and single nucleotide variants within individual cells. We observed CRLF2-r arising as both early and late events in DS and non-DS-ALL patients. Parallel evolution of discrete clones was observed in the development of CRLF2-r B-ALL, either involving the CRLF2-r or one of the other tracked abnormalities. In depth single cell analysis identified both linear and branching evolution with early clones harbouring a multitude of abnormalities, including the CRLF2-r in DS-ALL patients.
Author(s): Potter N, Jones L, Blair H, Strehl S, Harrison CJ, Greaves M, Kearney L, Russell LJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Leukemia
Year: 2019
Volume: 33
Pages: 893-904
Online publication date: 28/11/2018
Acceptance date: 24/09/2018
Date deposited: 27/09/2018
ISSN (print): 0887-6924
ISSN (electronic): 1476-5551
Publisher: Springer Nature
URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-018-0297-4
DOI: 10.1038/s41375-018-0297-4
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