Somatically mutated Ig V(H)3-21 genes characterize a new subset of chronic lymphocytic leukemia |
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Authors: | Tobin Gerard Thunberg Ulf Johnson Anna Thörn Ingrid Söderberg Ola Hultdin Magnus Botling Johan Enblad Gunilla Sällström Jan Sundström Christer Roos Göran Rosenquist Richard |
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Affiliation: | Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden. |
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Abstract: | Recent studies on the immunoglobulin variable heavy chain (IgV(H)) genes have revealed that B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) consists of at least 2 clinical entities with either somatically mutated or unmutated V(H) genes. We have analyzed the V(H) gene mutation status and V(H) gene usage in 119 B-CLL cases and correlated them to overall survival. A novel finding was the preferential use of the V(H)3-21 gene in mutated cases, whereas biased V(H)1-69 gene usage was found in unmutated cases as previously reported. Interestingly, the subset of mutated cases using the V(H)3-21 gene displayed distinctive genotypic/phenotypic characteristics with shorter average length of the complementarity determining region 3 and clonal expression of lambda light chains. In addition, this mutated subset showed significantly shorter survival than other mutated cases and a similar clinical course to unmutated cases. We therefore suggest that B-CLL cases with mutated V(H)3-21 genes may constitute an additional entity of B-CLL. |
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