State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Hematology. 2022 Dec;27(1):518-522. doi: 10.1080/16078454.2022.2066825.
Resembling acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a unique subtype of APL who sharing clinical, morphological, and immunophenotypic features with typical APL, but lacking evidence of fusion gene and usually insensitive to arsenic trioxide (ATO) and all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). For years, rearrangement were found in resembling APL continually. The confirmed partner genes of rearrangement included , , , , and . These patients were a group of resembling APL with rare molecular genetic abnormality and unfavorable prognosis. They usually were resistant to ATO and ATRA but partially sensitive to anthracycline-based chemotherapy.
We reported a 25-year-old female patient with a novel fusion gene (RARG chr12:53606869: -; chr19: 8527413: + based on GRCh37/hg19 Assembly) through RNA-seq as resembling APL. The patient with was benefited from a combined chemotherapy homoharringtonine, cytarabine, and aclacinomycin (HAA) regimen with no relapse.
rearrangement resembling APL are various. The treatment should be switched from ATRA/ATO to AML combined chemotherapy regimen early.
类似于急性早幼粒细胞白血病(APL)的独特亚型,与典型 APL 具有相似的临床、形态学和免疫表型特征,但缺乏融合基因的证据,通常对三氧化二砷(ATO)和全反式维甲酸(ATRA)不敏感。多年来,一直发现类似于 APL 的重排。已确定的重排的伙伴基因包括、、、、和。这些患者是一组具有罕见分子遗传学异常和不良预后的类似于 APL 的患者。他们通常对 ATO 和 ATRA 耐药,但对蒽环类为基础的化疗部分敏感。
我们通过 RNA-seq 报道了一例 25 岁女性患者,其存在新的融合基因(RARG chr12:53606869: -; chr19: 8527413: +,基于 GRCh37/hg19 组装),符合类似于 APL。该患者接受了包含高三尖杉酯碱、阿糖胞苷和阿克拉霉素(HAA)的联合化疗方案,没有复发。
类似于 APL 的重排是多样的。治疗应尽早从 ATRA/ATO 转换为 AML 联合化疗方案。