2017-07-01
EGR2 mutations define a new clinically aggressive subgroup of chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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Leukemia , Volume 31 - Issue 7 p. 1547- 1554
Recurrent mutations within EGR2 were recently reported in advanced-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients and associated with a worse outcome. To study their prognostic impact, 2403 CLL patients were examined for mutations in the EGR2 hotspot region including a screening (n=1283) and two validation cohorts (UK CLL4 trial patients, n=366; CLL Research Consortium (CRC) patients, n=490). Targeted deep-sequencing of 27 known/postulated CLL driver genes was also performed in 38 EGR2-mutated patients to assess concurrent mutations. EGR2 mutations were detected in 91/2403 (3.8%) investigated cases, and associated with younger age at diagnosis, advanced clinical stage, high CD38 expression and unmutated IGHV genes. EGR2-mutated patients frequently carried ATM lesions (42%), TP53 aberrations (18%) and NOTCH1/FBXW7 mutations (16%). EGR2 mutations independently predicted shorter time-to-first-treatment (TTFT) and overall survival (OS) in the screening cohort; they were confirmed associated with reduced TTFT and OS in the CRC cohort and independently predicted short OS from randomization in the UK CLL4 cohort. A particularly dismal outcome was observed among EGR2-mutated patients who also carried TP53 aberrations. In summary, EGR2 mutations were independently associated with an unfavorable prognosis, comparable to CLL patients carrying TP53 aberrations, suggesting that EGR2-mutated patients represent a new patient subgroup with very poor outcome.
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doi.org/10.1038/leu.2016.359, hdl.handle.net/1765/108390 | |
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Organisation | Department of Immunology |
Young, E., Noerenberg, D. (D.), Mansouri, A., Ljungström, V., Frick, M. (M.), Sutton, L., … Damm, F. (2017). EGR2 mutations define a new clinically aggressive subgroup of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia, 31(7), 1547–1554. doi:10.1038/leu.2016.359 |