Biallelic inactivation of the NF1 tumour suppressor gene in juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia : Genetic evidence of driver function and implications for diagnostic workup

© 2023 The Authors. British Journal of Haematology published by British Society for Haematology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML) is characterized by gene variants that deregulate the RAS signalling pathway. Children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) carry a defective NF1 allele in the germline and are predisposed to JMML, which presumably requires somatic inactivation of the NF1 wild-type allele. Here we examined the two-hit concept in leukaemic cells of 25 patients with JMML and NF-1. Ten patients with JMML/NF-1 exhibited a NF1 loss-of-function variant in combination with uniparental disomy of the 17q arm. Five had NF1 microdeletions combined with a pathogenic NF1 variant and nine carried two compound-heterozygous NF1 variants. We also examined 16 patients without clinical signs of NF-1 and no variation in the JMML-associated driver genes PTPN11, KRAS, NRAS or CBL (JMML-5neg) and identified eight patients with NF1 variants. Three patients had microdeletions combined with hemizygous NF1 variants, three had compound-heterozygous NF1 variants and two had heterozygous NF1 variants. In addition, we found a high incidence of secondary ASXL1 and/or SETBP1 variants in both groups. We conclude that the clinical diagnosis of JMML/NF-1 reliably indicates a NF1-driven JMML subtype, and that careful NF1 analysis should be included in the genetic workup of JMML even in the absence of clinical evidence of NF-1.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:204

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British journal of haematology - 204(2024), 2 vom: 05. Feb., Seite 595-605

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ramamoorthy, Senthilkumar [VerfasserIn]
Lebrecht, Dirk [VerfasserIn]
Schanze, Denny [VerfasserIn]
Schanze, Ina [VerfasserIn]
Wieland, Ilse [VerfasserIn]
Andrieux, Geoffroy [VerfasserIn]
Metzger, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Hess, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Albert, Michael H [VerfasserIn]
Borkhardt, Arndt [VerfasserIn]
Bresters, Dorine [VerfasserIn]
Buechner, Jochen [VerfasserIn]
Catala, Albert [VerfasserIn]
De Haas, Valerie [VerfasserIn]
Dworzak, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Erlacher, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
Hasle, Henrik [VerfasserIn]
Jahnukainen, Kirsi [VerfasserIn]
Locatelli, Franco [VerfasserIn]
Masetti, Riccardo [VerfasserIn]
Stary, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Turkiewicz, Dominik [VerfasserIn]
Vinci, Luca [VerfasserIn]
Wlodarski, Marcin W [VerfasserIn]
Yoshimi, Ayami [VerfasserIn]
Boerries, Melanie [VerfasserIn]
Niemeyer, Charlotte M [VerfasserIn]
Zenker, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Flotho, Christian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

JMML
Journal Article
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia
NF1
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Neurofibromin
RAS signalling
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 08.02.2024

Date Revised 05.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bjh.19190

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364370270