Somatic Mutations and Clonal Hematopoiesis in Aplastic Anemia.
Somatic Mutations and Clonal Hematopoiesis in Aplastic Anemia.
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DOI:
10.1056/nejmoa1414799
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发表时间:
2015-07-02
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Ogawa S
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Yoshizato T;Dumitriu B;Hosokawa K;Makishima H;Yoshida K;Townsley D;Sato-Otsubo A;Sato Y;Liu D;Suzuki H;Wu CO;Shiraishi Y;Clemente MJ;Kataoka K;Shiozawa Y;Okuno Y;Chiba K;Tanaka H;Nagata Y;Katagiri T;Kon A;Sanada M;Scheinberg P;Miyano S;Maciejewski JP;Nakao S;Young NS;Ogawa S
In acquired aplastic anemia, the immune system destroys hematopoietic cells, leading to pancytopenia. Patients respond to immunosuppressive therapy but about 15 per cent develop myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), usually many months to years after diagnosis. Next generation sequencing and array-based karyotyping were performed using 668 blood samples from 439 aplastic anemia patients; serial samples were analyzed in 82. Somatic mutations in myeloid malignancy candidate genes were present in 1/3 of patients, in a limited number of genes and at low initial variant allele frequency. Clonal hematopoiesis was detected in 47% of patients, most frequently as acquired mutations. Mutation prevalence increased with age and mutations had an age-related signature. DNMT3A- and ASXL1-mutated clones tended to increase in size over time; BCOR/BCORL1 and PIGA-mutated clones decreased or remained stable. Mutations in PIGA and BCOR/BCORL1 correlated with better response to immunosuppressive therapy and better overall and progression-free survival; mutations in a subset of genes including DNMT3A and ASXL1 associated with worse outcomes. However, complex patterns of clonal dynamics were compatible with improvement after therapy and long survival in individual cases. Clonal hematopoiesis was prevalent in aplastic anemia. Some mutations were related to clinical outcomes. A highly biased set of mutations is evidence of Darwinian selection in the failed bone marrow environment. The pattern of somatic clones in individual patients over time was variable and frequently unpredictable.