Common and overlapping oncogenic pathways contribute to the evolution of acute myeloid leukemias.
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ABSTRACT: In this report we demonstrate that the ability to alter self-renewal in vitro and in vivo is a more generalized property of leukemia-associated oncogenes. We further demonstrate that disparate leukemia-associated oncogenes initiate early common and overlapping transformation and self-renewal gene expression programs to mediate these effects. Furthermore, elements of these programs can be detected in established leukemia stem cells from an animal model and across a large cohort of patients with differing acute myeloid leukemia (AML) subtypes, where they strongly predict for disease biology. Finally, individual genes from the programs are demonstrated to partially phenocopy the leukemia-associated oncogenes and themselves alter self-renewal in committed murine progenitors and generate AML when expressed in murine bone marrow. A total of 253 RNA samples derived from adult AML patients were provided by the German Austrian AML Study Group (AMLSG) [AMLSG trials AML HD98A (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00146120), and AML HD98B (Schlenk et al., 2009)]. Conventional cytogenetic banding, and FLT3, CEBPA and NPM1 mutational analysis were performed as previously described (Schlenk et al., N Engl J Med 2008). Detailed clinical, cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic information are also provided in Table S3 along with the publication. Following enrichment, all samples contained at least 80% leukemic cells. Gene expression profiling (GEP) was performed as previously described (Bullinger et al., N Engl J Med 2004). Separate filtering and batch centering were performed for the group of 253 Samples (relative to GSE16432). Filtered data presented as a supplementary file at the foot of this record.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Lars Bullinger
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-23143 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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