Recurrent SPI1 (PU.1) fusions in high-risk pediatric T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Nature Genetics 49, 1274 (2017). doi:10.1038/ng.3900 Authors: Masafumi Seki, Shunsuke Kimura, Tomoya Isobe, Kenichi Yoshida, Hiroo Ueno, Yaeko Nakajima-Takagi, Changshan Wang, Lin Lin, Ayana Kon, Hiromichi Suzuki, Yusuke Shiozawa, Keisuke Kataoka, Yoichi Fujii, Yuichi Shiraishi, Kenichi Chiba, Hiroko Tanaka, Teppei Shimamura, Kyoko Masuda, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Kentaro Ohki, Motohiro Kato, Yuki Arakawa, Katsuyoshi Koh, Ryoji Hanada, Hiroshi Moritake, Masaharu Akiyama, Ryoji Kobayashi, Takao Deguchi, Yoshiko Hashii, Toshihiko Imamura, Atsushi Sato, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Akira Oka, Yasuhide Hayashi, Masatoshi Takagi, Atsushi Manabe, Akira Ohara, Keizo Horibe, Masashi Sanada, Atsushi Iwama, Hiroyuki Mano, Satoru Miyano, Seishi Ogawa & Junko Takita The outcome of treatment-refractory and/or relapsed pediatric T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is extremely poor, and the genetic basis for this is not well understood. Here we report comprehensive profiling of 121 cases of pediatric T-ALL using transcriptome and/or targeted capture sequencing, through which we identified new recurrent gene fusions involving SPI1 (STMN1-SPI1 and TCF7-SPI1). Cases positive for fusions involving SPI1 (encoding PU.1), accounting for 3.9% (7/181) of the examined pediatric T-ALL cases, showed a double-negative (DN; CD4−CD8−) or CD8+ single-positive (SP) phenotype and had uniformly poor overall survival. These cases represent a subset of pediatric T-ALL distinguishable from the kn...
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