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Alikian M, Ellery P, Forbes M, Gerrard G, Kasperaviciute D, Sosinsky A, Mueller M, Whale AS, Milojkovic D, Apperley J, Huggett JF, Foroni L, Reid AG. Next-Generation Sequencing-Assisted DNA-Based Digital PCR for a Personalized Approach to the Detection and Quantification of Residual Disease in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients. J Mol Diagn 2016; 18:176-89. [PMID: 26857065 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2015] [Revised: 08/31/2015] [Accepted: 09/17/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Recent studies indicate that 40% of chronic myeloid leukemia patients who achieve sustained undetectable BCR-ABL1 transcripts on tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy remain disease-free after drug discontinuation. In contrast, 60% experience return of detectable disease and have to restart treatment, thus highlighting the need for an improved method of identifying patients with the lowest likelihood of relapse. Here we describe the validation of a personalized DNA-based digital PCR (dPCR) approach for quantifying very low levels of residual disease, which involves the rapid identification of t(9;22) fusion junctions using targeted next-generation sequencing coupled with the use of a dPCR platform. t(9;22) genomic breakpoints were successfully mapped in samples from 32 of 32 patients with early stage disease. Disease quantification by DNA-based dPCR was performed using the Fluidigm BioMark platform on 46 follow-up samples from 6 of the 32 patients, including 36 samples that were in deep molecular remission. dPCR detected persistent disease in 81% of molecular-remission samples, outperforming both RT-dPCR (25%) and DNA-based quantitative PCR (19%). We conclude that dPCR for BCR-ABL1 DNA is the most sensitive available method of residual-disease detection in chronic myeloid leukemia and may prove useful in the management of tyrosine kinase inhibitor withdrawal.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mary Alikian
- Imperial Molecular Pathology, Imperial Healthcare Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
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- Imperial Molecular Pathology, Imperial Healthcare Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Imperial Molecular Pathology, Imperial Healthcare Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Genome Informatics Facility, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Genome Informatics Facility, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Genome Informatics Facility, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Molecular & Cell Biology, LGC Limited, Queens Road, Teddington, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Haematology, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Institute Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Molecular & Cell Biology, LGC Limited, Queens Road, Teddington, United Kingdom
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- Imperial Molecular Pathology, Imperial Healthcare Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Imperial Molecular Pathology, Imperial Healthcare Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Follo MY, Finelli C, Mongiorgi S, Clissa C, Cocco L. Reply to F. Damm et al. J Clin Oncol 2010. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2010.28.8274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Matilde Y. Follo
- Cellular Signalling Laboratory, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology “L. e A. Seràgnoli,” University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Cellular Signalling Laboratory, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology “L. e A. Seràgnoli,” University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Cellular Signalling Laboratory, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Takahashi N, Miura I, Kobayashi Y, Kume M, Yoshioka T, Otane W, Ohtsubo K, Takahashi K, Kitabayashi A, Kawabata Y, Hirokawa M, Nishijima H, Ichinohasama R, Decoteau J, Miura AB, Sawada KI. Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Monitoring of BCR-ABL-Positive Neutrophils in Chronic-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients during the Primary Stage of Imatinib Mesylate Therapy. Int J Hematol 2005; 81:235-41. [PMID: 15814334 DOI: 10.1532/ijh97.04095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
We describe a method for monitoring chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients treated with imatinib that uses fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to detect BCR-ABL in peripheral blood (PB) granulocytes. First, we compared this method, termed Neutrophil-FISH, with interphase FISH (i-FISH) analysis of bone marrow (BM), i-FISH analysis of PB mononuclear cells, and conventional cytogenetic analysis (CCA) of BM in 30 consecutive CML patients. We found the percentage of BCR-ABL-positive neutrophils as determined by Neutrophil-FISH to correlate best with the percentage of Philadelphia chromosome-positive metaphases in the BM determined by CCA (y = 0.8818x + 5.7249; r(2) = 0.968). We then performed a serial Neutrophil-FISH study of 10 chronic-phase CML patients treated with imatinib and found that the technique could clearly separate imatinib responders from nonresponders within 12 weeks of drug administration. There was a significant difference in the percentages of BCR-ABL-positive neutrophils between responder (mean 3 SD, 18.2% 3 11.8%) and nonresponder (82.4% 3 5.1%) groups at 12 weeks (P < .0001, Student t test).Together with real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis, Neutrophil-FISH represents another useful method for monitoring CML patients during the primary myelosuppressive stage of imatinib therapy because it is a quick, simple, and reliable method for assessing cytogenetic response.
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MESH Headings
- Antineoplastic Agents/administration & dosage
- Benzamides
- Female
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/biosynthesis
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- In Situ Hybridization/methods
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/physiopathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase/physiopathology
- Male
- Monitoring, Physiologic/methods
- Neutrophils/metabolism
- Neutrophils/pathology
- Piperazines/administration & dosage
- Pyrimidines/administration & dosage
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Affiliation(s)
- Naoto Takahashi
- University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine, Pathology Department and Saskatchewan Cancer Centre, Saskatoon, Canada
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Tefferi A, Dewald GW, Litzow ML, Cortes J, Mauro MJ, Talpaz M, Kantarjian HM. Chronic myeloid leukemia: current application of cytogenetics and molecular testing for diagnosis and treatment. Mayo Clin Proc 2005; 80:390-402. [PMID: 15757021 DOI: 10.4065/80.3.390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Chronic myeloid leukemia provides an illustrative disease model for both molecular pathogenesis of cancer and rational drug therapy. Chronic myeloid leukemia is a clonal stem cell disease caused by an acquired somatic mutation that fuses, through chromosomal translocation, the abl and bcr genes on chromosomes 9 and 22, respectively. The bcr/abl gene product is an oncogenic protein that localizes to the cytoskeleton and displays an up-regulated tyrosine kinase activity that leads to the recruitment of downstream effectors of cell proliferation and cell survival and consequently cell transformation. Such molecular information on pathogenesis has facilitated accurate diagnosis, the development of pathogenesis-targeted drug therapy, and most recently the application of molecular techniques for monitoring minimal residual disease after successful therapy. These issues are discussed within the context of clinical practice.
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MESH Headings
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/therapeutic use
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Benzamides
- Cytarabine/therapeutic use
- Genes, abl/genetics
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Interferon-alpha/therapeutic use
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/diagnosis
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Neoplasm, Residual/diagnosis
- Philadelphia Chromosome
- Piperazines/therapeutic use
- Prognosis
- Pyrimidines/therapeutic use
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Stem Cell Transplantation
- Treatment Outcome
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- Ayalew Tefferi
- Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn 55905, USA
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Oehler VG, Radich JP. Monitoring bcr-abl by polymerase chain reaction in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Curr Oncol Rep 2003; 5:426-35. [PMID: 12895396 DOI: 10.1007/s11912-003-0030-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The elucidation of the molecular biology of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has provided a paradigm for understanding leukemogenesis, targeted drug development, and disease monitoring at the molecular level. Minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring by fluorescence in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become an important tool in predicting relapse after allogeneic transplant, allowing for early intervention strategies such as donor lymphocyte infusion. MRD monitoring is important for assessment of disease status in patients who obtain a complete cytogenetic remission, and this approach is likely to play an important role in following patients to determine who will relapse on imatinib mesylate therapy. This review focuses primarily on MRD monitoring by PCR.
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- Vivian G Oehler
- Clinical Research Division, Program in Genetics and Genomics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, D4-100, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Paschka P, Müller MC, Merx K, Kreil S, Schoch C, Lahaye T, Weisser A, Petzold A, König H, Berger U, Gschaidmeier H, Hehlmann R, Hochhaus A. Molecular monitoring of response to imatinib (Glivec) in CML patients pretreated with interferon alpha. Low levels of residual disease are associated with continuous remission. Leukemia 2003; 17:1687-94. [PMID: 12970765 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2403033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A significant proportion of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients achieve a major cytogenetic remission (MCR) to imatinib therapy after failing interferon (IFN) alpha-based protocols. We sought to determine levels of residual disease in patients with MCR using various molecular methods and to establish a relation between residual BCR-ABL transcript levels and rate of relapse in complete cytogenetic remission (CCR). Response was measured by conventional cytogenetic analysis, hypermetaphase and interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (HM-FISH, IP-FISH) of bone marrow (BM) cells, qualitative nested and quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for BCR-ABL transcripts. We investigated 323 peripheral blood (PB) and BM samples from 48 CML patients who achieved a complete (Ph+ 0%; n=41) or partial (Ph+ 1-34%; n=7) cytogenetic remission after 3-20 months of imatinib therapy. Prior to imatinib, 35 patients were in chronic phase (CP), eight in accelerated phase (AP), four in myeloid and one in lymphoid blast crisis. HM-FISH results correlated with ratios BCR-ABL/ABL in PB and BM. In patients with CCR, residual disease was detectable by HM-FISH (31%), IP-FISH (18%), and RT-PCR (100%). During follow-up, BCR-ABL became undetectable in two patients (one CP, one AP) by both nested and quantitative RT-PCR. CCR is ongoing in 30 evaluable patients, 11 patients have relapsed. At the time of best response, median ratios BCR-ABL/ABL were 2.1% (range 0.82-7.8) in patients with subsequent relapse and 0.075% (range 0-3.9) in patients with ongoing remission (P=0.0011). All 16 CP patients, who achieved ratios BCR-ABL/ABL <0.1% as best molecular response are in continuous remission, while 6/13 patients (46%) with ratios >/=0.1% have relapsed (P=0.0036). We conclude that: (i) in patients with CCR to imatinib, HM-FISH and RT-PCR usually reveal residual BCR-ABL+ cells; (ii) RT-PCR results derived from PB and BM are comparable in CP CML; and (iii) low levels of residual disease with ratios BCR-ABL/ABL &<0.1% are associated with continuous remission.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Benzamides
- Bone Marrow/metabolism
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Female
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/genetics
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/metabolism
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Interferon-alpha/therapeutic use
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/drug therapy
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/genetics
- Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology
- Neoplasm, Residual/diagnosis
- Piperazines/therapeutic use
- Prognosis
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Pyrimidines/therapeutic use
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Remission Induction
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Survival Rate
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Affiliation(s)
- P Paschka
- III. Medizinische Klinik, Fakultät für Klinische Medizin Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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