1. Genetic dynamics in untreated CLL patients with either stable or progressive disease: a longitudinal study
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Ramassone, Alice, D’Argenio, Andrea, Veronese, Angelo, Basti, Alessio, Soliman, Shimaa Hassan AbdelAziz, Volinia, Stefano, Bassi, Cristian, Pagotto, Sara, Ferracin, Manuela, Lupini, Laura, Saccenti, Elena, Balatti, Veronica, Pepe, Felice, Rassenti, Laura Z, Innocenti, Idanna, Autore, Francesco, Marzetti, Laura, Mariani-Costantini, Renato, Kipps, Thomas J, Negrini, Massimo, Laurenti, Luca, and Visone, Rosa
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology ,Rare Diseases ,Cancer ,Hematology ,Clinical Research ,Lymphoma ,Aetiology ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,Biomarkers ,Tumor ,Chromosome Aberrations ,Clonal Evolution ,Disease Progression ,Humans ,Leukemia ,Lymphocytic ,Chronic ,B-Cell ,Longitudinal Studies ,Mutation ,Prognosis ,Survival Rate ,Chronic lymphocytic leukemia ,Copy number variation ,Nucleotide variation ,Clonal evolution ,Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology ,Oncology and Carcinogenesis ,Cardiovascular medicine and haematology ,Oncology and carcinogenesis - Abstract
Clonal evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) often follows chemotherapy and is associated with adverse outcome, but also occurs in untreated patients, in which case its predictive role is debated. We investigated whether the selection and expansion of CLL clone(s) precede an aggressive disease shift. We found that clonal evolution occurs in all CLL patients, irrespective of the clinical outcome, but is faster during disease progression. In particular, changes in the frequency of nucleotide variants (NVs) in specific CLL-related genes may represent an indicator of poor clinical outcome.
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- 2019