Diagnosis-relapse in ALL

ABSTRACT: Almost a quarter of pediatric patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) suffer from relapses. The biological mechanisms underlying therapy response and development of relapses have remained unclear. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, we have analyzed 41 matched diagnosis relapse pairs of ALL patients using genomeâ??wide expression arrays (82 arrays) on purified leukemic cells. In roughly half of the patients very few differences between diagnosis and relapse samples were found (â??stable groupâ??), suggesting that mostly extra-leukemic factors (e.g., drug distribution, drug metabolism, compliance) contributed to the relapse. Therefore, we focused our further analysis on 20 samples with clear differences in gene expression (â??skewed groupâ??), reasoning that these

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Dick de Ridder 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-18497 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress