Comparison of Measurable Residual Disease in Pediatric B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia Using Multiparametric Flow Cytometry and Next-Generation Sequencing

Measurable residual disease (MRD) testing, a standard procedure in B-lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) diagnostics, is assessed using multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC) and next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements. We evaluated the concordance between eight-color, two-tube MFC-MRD the LymphoTrack NGS-MRD assays using 139 follow-up samples from 54 pediatric patients with B-ALL. We also assessed the effect of hemodilution in MFC-MRD assays. The MRD-concordance rate was 79.9% (N=111), with 25 (18.0%) and 3 (2.2%) samples testing positive only by NGS-MRD (MFC-NGS+MRD) and MFC-MRD (MFC+NGS-MRD), respectively. We found a significant correlation in MRD values from total nucleated cells between the two methods (r=0.736 [0.647-0.806], P<0.001). The median MRD value of MFC-NGS+MRD samples was estimated to be 0.0012% (0.0001%-0.0263%) using the NGS-MRD assays. Notably, 14.3% of MFC-NGS+MRD samples showed NGS-MRD values below the limit of detection in the MFC-MRD assays. The percentages of hematogones detected in MFC-MRD assays significantly differed between the discordant and concordant cases (P<0.001). MFC and NGS-MRD assays showed relatively high concordance and correlation in MRD assessment, whereas the NGS-MRD assay detected MRD more frequently than the MFC-MRD assay in pediatric B-ALL. Evaluating the hematogone percentages can aid in assessing the impact of sample hemodilution.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:44

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Annals of laboratory medicine - 44(2024), 4 vom: 01. März, Seite 354-358

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hwang, Sang Mee [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Inseong [VerfasserIn]
Kwon, Seok Ryun [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jee-Soo [VerfasserIn]
Seong, Moon-Woo [VerfasserIn]

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Flow cytometry
High-throughput nucleotide sequencing
Journal Article
Lymphoblastic leukemia
Measurable residual disease
Minimal residual disease
Neoplasm

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Date Completed 26.03.2024

Date Revised 27.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3343/alm.2023.0412

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367284251