Project description:Recent GWAS have identified several susceptibility loci for NHL. Despite these successes, much of the heritable variation in NHL risk remains to be explained. Common copy-number variants are important genomic sources of variability, and hence a potential source to explain part of this missing heritability. In this study, we carried out a CNV analysis using GWAS data from 681 NHL cases and 749 controls to explore the relationship between common structural variation and lymphoma susceptibility. Here we found a novel association with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) risk involving a partial duplication of the C-terminus region of the LOC283177 long non-coding RNA that was further validated by quantitative PCR. For chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), known somatic deletions were identified on chromosomes 13q14, 11q22-23, 14q32 and 22q11.22. Our study shows that GWAS data can be used to identify germline CNVs associated with disease risk for DLBCL and somatic CNVs for CLL/SLL. We performed a genome-wide CNV analysis of 681 NHL cases and 749 controls from the San Francisco Bay Area, genotyped using the Illumina HumanCNV370-Duo BeadChip array. Signal intensity data in the form of log R ratio (LRR) and B allele frequency (BAF) values were obtained directly from the Beadstudio software. Quality control filtering was used to exclude unreliable samples, resulting in a final dataset of 619 NHL cases (205 FL, 242 DLBCL, 172 CLL/SLL) and 730 controls.
Project description:Recent GWAS have identified several susceptibility loci for NHL. Despite these successes, much of the heritable variation in NHL risk remains to be explained. Common copy-number variants are important genomic sources of variability, and hence a potential source to explain part of this missing heritability. In this study, we carried out a CNV analysis using GWAS data from 681 NHL cases and 749 controls to explore the relationship between common structural variation and lymphoma susceptibility. Here we found a novel association with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) risk involving a partial duplication of the C-terminus region of the LOC283177 long non-coding RNA that was further validated by quantitative PCR. For chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), known somatic deletions were identified on chromosomes 13q14, 11q22-23, 14q32 and 22q11.22. Our study shows that GWAS data can be used to identify germline CNVs associated with disease risk for DLBCL and somatic CNVs for CLL/SLL.
Project description:To identify the differentially expressed miRs in the plasmas of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients, we screened NHL samples using microarrays. Experiments were performed with three pooled total RNA isolated from the plasmas of four patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), four patients with follicular lymphoma (FL), and eight control samples.
Project description:Fifty-eight retrospectively-ascertained local cases of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) were segregated into two large subgroups with divergent overall survival through expression profiling of 135 transcripts including 92 regulated downstream of TCF3 or recurrently mutated in DLBCL or Burkitt lymphoma
Project description:Clonal heterogeneity in lymphoid malignancies has been recently reported in adult T-Cell lymphoma/leukemia, peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified, and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Our analysis was extended to other types of lymphoma including marginal zone lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We examined the results of array comparative genomic hybridization analysis for 332 cases to determine if clonal heterogeneity existed in each case. Results showed that frequencies of clonal heterogeneity varied from 25% to 69% among different types of lymphoma. Multivariate analysis indicated that MCL and DLBCL with clonal heterogeneity showed a significantly poorer prognosis. Interestingly, 9p21.3 (CDKN2A/ 2B) loss and 17p13 (TP53, ATP1B2, SAT2, SHBG) loss were common regions among various types of lymphoma with clonal heterogeneity, suggesting at least in part that loss of these genes may play a role in clonal heterogeneity. We analyzed previously untreated 332 cases of lymphoma (comprising 29 cases of mantle cell lymphoma, 117 cases of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), 79 cases of Follicular lymphoma, 24 cases of Burkitt lymphoma, 31 cases of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma, and 51 peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS)).
Project description:Follicular lymphoma (FL) is one of the most common types of indolent B-cell lymphoma in Western countries. FL commonly transforms to more aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) at reported frequencies between 15 - 60%. We have used microarray comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH) at 1 Mb resolution to study copy number changes in paired tumor samples (primary FL and a subsequent tDLBCL) as well as de novo DLBCL cases to outline genetic mechanisms of transformation from follicular lymphoma to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.