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ArticleBlood cancer discovery2022

Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies UBTF Tandem Duplications as a Recurrent Lesion in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Masayuki Umeda, Jing Ma, Benjamin J Huang, Kohei Hagiwara, Tamara Westover, Sherif Abdelhamed, Juan M Barajas, Melvin E Thomas, Michael P Walsh, Guangchun Song and 38 more

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5 · Who and what money

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48 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Masayuki Umeda *Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jing Ma *Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Benjamin J HuangDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, California.ORCID 0000-0001-6996-0833
Kohei HagiwaraDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Tamara WestoverDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Sherif AbdelhamedDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-3319-2403
Juan M BarajasDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-0664-5243
Melvin E ThomasDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0001-5813-1036
Michael P WalshDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Guangchun SongDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0001-9626-2598
Liqing TianDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0001-9921-0603
Yanling LiuDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Xiaolong ChenDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0001-8283-0582
Pandurang KolekarDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0003-0044-0076
Quang TranDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Scott G FoyDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jamie L MaciaszekDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-9217-5638
Andrew B KleistDepartment of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Amanda R LeontiClinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
Bengsheng JuDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
John EastonDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Huiyun WuDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Virginia ValentineCytogenetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Marcus B ValentineCytogenetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Yen-Chun LiuDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Rhonda E RiesClinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.ORCID 0000-0002-3702-7923
Jenny L SmithClinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.ORCID 0000-0003-0402-2779
Evan ParganasDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Ilaria IacobucciDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0003-2008-1365
Ryan HiltenbrandDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jonathan MillerDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jason R MyersCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-0341-0860
Evadnie RampersaudCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0001-5195-5366
Delaram RahbariniaDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Michael RuschDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-5363-1848
Gang WuCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Hiroto InabaDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0003-0605-7342
Yi-Cheng WangChildren's Oncology Group, Monrovia, California.
Todd A AlonzoDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
James R DowningDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Charles G MullighanDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-1871-1850
Stanley PoundsDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
M Madan BabuDepartment of Structural Biology and the Center for Data Driven Discovery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jinghui ZhangDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0003-3350-9682
Jeffrey E RubnitzDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0001-9885-3527
Soheil MeshinchiClinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
Xiaotu MaDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0002-6233-2145
Jeffery M KlcoDepartment of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.ORCID 0000-0003-2961-6960
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USFred Hutch Cancer Center · USChildren's Oncology Group · CHMedical College of Wisconsin · USUCSF Benioff Children's Hospital · USUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

NCTN BIQSFP ANBL1531 (NRT)U10CA180886 · NCI · PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE · PI Douglas S. Hawkins · 2014 to 2026
$390.6M
COG FOREIGN ACCRUALU10CA098543 · NCI · NATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION · PI ADAMSON, PETER C. · 2003 to 2013
$335.5M
Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Shondra Michelle Miller · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
COG SDMC - Statistics CoreU10CA180899 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI TODD A ALONZO · 2014 to 2026
$132.8M
Biology/prognostic implications of Flt3 mutations in AMLR01CA114563 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI MESHINCHI, SOHEIL · 2005 to 2016
$4.4M
Childhood Hematological Malignancies Training ProgramT32CA236748 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Charles G Mullighan · 2019 to 2026
$2.0M
Co-targeting BET Bromodomain Proteins and Aberrant Signaling in AML.K08CA256489 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HUANG, BENJAMIN · 2021 to 2025
$1.2M
Functional evaluation of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP)F32HL154636 · NHLBI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI BARAJAS, JUAN M. · 2020 to 2021
$130k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genetics of relapsed pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has yet to be comprehensively defined. Here, we present the spectrum of genomic alterations in 136 relapsed pediatric AMLs. We identified recurrent exon 13 tandem duplications (TD) in upstream binding transcription factor (UBTF) in 9% of relapsed AML cases. UBTF-TD AMLs commonly have normal karyotype or trisomy 8 with cooccurring WT1 mutations or FLT3-ITD but not other known oncogenic fusions. These UBTF-TD events are stable during disease progression and are present in the founding clone. In addition, we observed that UBTF-TD AMLs account for approximately 4% of all de novo pediatric AMLs, are less common in adults, and are associated with poor outcomes and MRD positivity. Expression of UBTF-TD in primary hematopoietic cells is sufficient to enhance serial clonogenic activity and to drive a similar transcriptional program to UBTF-TD AMLs. Collectively, these clinical, genomic, and functional data establish UBTF-TD as a new recurrent mutation in AML. SIGNIFICANCE: We defined the spectrum of mutations in relapsed pediatric AML and identified UBTF-TDs as a new recurrent genetic alteration. These duplications are more common in children and define a group of AMLs with intermediate-risk cytogenetic abnormalities, FLT3-ITD and WT1 alterations, and are associated with poor outcomes. See related commentary by Hasserjian and Nardi, p. 173. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 171.

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Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteAdultChildChromosome AberrationsExonsGenomicsHumansMutationRecurrence

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PMID35176137
PMCPMC9780084
OpenAlexW4213144241

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