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T-Cell Lymphoma Clonality by Copy Number Variation Analysis of T-Cell Receptor Genes.

ABSTRACT: T-cell lymphomas arise from a single neoplastic clone and exhibit identical patterns of deletions in T-cell receptor (TCR) genes. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) data represent a treasure trove of information for the development of novel clinical applications. However, the use of WGS to identify clonal T-cell proliferations has not been systematically studied. In this study, based on WGS data, we identified monoclonal rearrangements (MRs) of T-cell receptors (TCR) genes using a novel segmentation algorithm and copy number computation. We evaluated the feasibility of this technique as a marker of T-cell clonality using T-cell lymphomas (TCL, n = 44) and extranodal NK/T-cell lymphomas (ENKTLs, n = 20), and identified 98% of TCLs with one or more TCR gene MRs, against 91% detected using PCR. TCR MRs were absent in all ENKTLs and NK cell lines. Sensitivity-wise, this platform is sufficiently competent, with MRs detected in the majority of samples with tumor content under 25% and it can also distinguish monoallelic from biallelic MRs. Understanding the copy number landscape of TCR using WGS data may engender new diagnostic applications in hematolymphoid pathology, which can be readily adapted to the analysis of B-cell receptor loci for B-cell clonality determination.

SUBMITTER: Oon ML

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7832336 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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T-Cell Lymphoma Clonality by Copy Number Variation Analysis of T-Cell Receptor Genes.

Oon Ming Liang ML Lim Jing Quan JQ Lee Bernett B Leong Sai Mun SM Soon Gwyneth Shook-Ting GS Wong Zi Wei ZW Lim Evelyn Huizi EH Li Zhenhua Z Yeoh Allen Eng Juh AEJ Chen Shangying S Ban Kenneth Hon Kim KHK Chung Tae-Hoon TH Tan Soo-Yong SY Chuang Shih-Sung SS Kato Seiichi S Nakamura Shigeo S Takahashi Emiko E Ho Yong-Howe YH Khoury Joseph D JD Au-Yeung Rex K H RKH Cheng Chee-Leong CL Lim Soon-Thye ST Chng Wee-Joo WJ Tripodo Claudio C Rotzschke Olaf O Ong Choon Kiat CK Ng Siok-Bian SB

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T-cell lymphomas arise from a single neoplastic clone and exhibit identical patterns of deletions in T-cell receptor (TCR) genes. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) data represent a treasure trove of information for the development of novel clinical applications. However, the use of WGS to identify clonal T-cell proliferations has not been systematically studied. In this study, based on WGS data, we identified monoclonal rearrangements (MRs) of T-cell receptors (TCR) genes using a novel segmentation ...[more]

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T-Cell Lymphoma Clonality by Copy Number Variation Analysis of T-Cell Receptor Genes.

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T-Cell Lymphoma Clonality by Copy Number Variation Analysis of T-Cell Receptor Genes.

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