Yamato Genki, Yamaguchi Hiroki, Handa Hiroshi, Shiba Norio, Kawamura Machiko, Wakita Satoshi, Inokuchi Koiti, Hara Yusuke, Ohki Kentaro, Okubo Jun, Park Myoung-Ja, Sotomatsu Manabu, Arakawa Hirokazu, Hayashi Yasuhide
Department of Hematology/Oncology, Gunma Children's Medical Center, Gunma, Japan.
Department of Pediatrics, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2017 Nov;56(11):800-809. doi: 10.1002/gcc.22483. Epub 2017 Aug 11.
High PRDM16 (also known as MEL1) expression is a representative marker of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with NUP98-NSD1 and is a significant predictive marker for poor prognosis in pediatric AML. However, the clinical features of adult AML with PRDM16 expression remain unclear. PRDM16 is highly homologous to MDS1/EVI1, which is an alternatively spliced transcript of MECOM (also known as EVI1). We investigated PRDM16 expression in 151 AML patients, with 47 (31%) exhibiting high PRDM16 expression (PRDM16/ABL1 ratio ≥ 0.010). High PRDM16 expression significantly correlated with DNMT3A (43% vs. 15%, P < 0.001) and NPM1 (43% vs. 21%, P = 0.010) mutations and partial tandem duplication of KMT2A (22% vs. 1%, P < 0.001). Remarkably, high-PRDM16-expression patients were frequent in the noncomplete remission group (48% vs. 21%, P = 0.002). Overall survival (OS) was significantly worse in high-PRDM16-expression patients than in low-PRDM16-expression patients (5-year OS, 18% vs. 34%; P = 0.002). This trend was observed more clearly among patients aged <65 years (5-year OS, 21% vs. 50%; P = 0.001), particularly in FLT3-ITD-negative patients in the intermediate cytogenetic risk group (5-year OS, 25% vs. 59%; P = 0.009). These results suggest that high PRDM16 expression is a significant predictive marker for poor prognosis in adult AML patients, similar to pediatric AML patients.
高PRDM16(也称为MEL1)表达是伴有NUP98 - NSD1的急性髓系白血病(AML)的代表性标志物,并且是小儿AML预后不良的重要预测标志物。然而,具有PRDM16表达的成人AML的临床特征仍不清楚。PRDM16与MDS1/EVI1高度同源,MDS1/EVI1是MECOM(也称为EVI1)的可变剪接转录本。我们调查了151例AML患者的PRDM16表达情况,其中47例(31%)表现出高PRDM16表达(PRDM16/ABL1比值≥0.010)。高PRDM16表达与DNMT3A(43%对15%,P<0.001)和NPM1(43%对21%,P = 0.010)突变以及KMT2A的部分串联重复(22%对1%,P<0.001)显著相关。值得注意的是,高PRDM16表达患者在未完全缓解组中更为常见(48%对21%,P = 0.002)。高PRDM16表达患者的总生存期(OS)明显差于低PRDM16表达患者(五年OS,18%对34%;P = 0.002)。在年龄<65岁的患者中这种趋势更为明显(五年OS,21%对50%;P = 0.001),特别是在中等细胞遗传学风险组的FLT3 - ITD阴性患者中(五年OS,25%对59%;P = 0.009)。这些结果表明,高PRDM16表达与小儿AML患者类似,是成人AML患者预后不良的重要预测标志物。