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ArticleAdvances in hematology2009

Screening for residual disease in pediatric burkitt lymphoma using consensus primer pools.

Melissa Agsalda, Ian Kusao, David Troelstrup, Bruce Shiramizu

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Article in Advances in hematology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Burkitt lymphoma in adolescents and young adults: management challenges.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa AgsaldaDepartment of Cell & Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96816, USA.
Ian Kusao
David Troelstrup
Bruce Shiramizu
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · US

Funding

Real-time Minimal Residual Disease assay of Pediatric B-Cell Non-Hodgkin LymphomaR21CA121955 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · PI SHIRAMIZU, BRUCE T. · 2006 to 2007
$207k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA121955
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessing molecular persistent or minimal residual disease (PD/MRD) in childhood Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is challenging because access to original tumor is usually needed to design patient-specific primers (PSPs). Because BL is characterized by rearranged immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgV(H)) genes, IgV(H) primer pools from IgV(H1)-IgV(H7) regions were tested to detect PD/MRD, thus eliminating the need for original tumor. The focus of the current study was to assess the feasibility of using IgV(H) primer pools to detect disease in clinical specimens. Fourteen children diagnosed with B-NHL had follow-up repository specimens available to assess PD/MRD. Of the 14 patients, 12 were PD/MRD negative after 2 months of therapy and remained in remission at the end of therapy; 2/14 patients were PD/MRD positive at 2-3 months and later relapsed. PSP-based assays from these 14 patients showed 100% concordance with the current assay. This feasibility study warrants further investigation to assess PD/MRD using IgV(H) primer pools, which could have clinical significance as a real-time assessment tool to monitor pediatric BL and possibly other B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma therapy.

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