Speed of leukemia development and genetic diversity in xenograft models of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

ABSTRACT: T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) develops through accumulation of multiple genomic alterations within T-cell progenitors resulting in clonal heterogeneity among leukemic cells. Human T-ALL xeno-transplantation in immunodeficient mice is a gold standard approach to study leukemia biology and we recently uncovered that the leukemia development is more or less rapid depending on T-ALL sample. The resulting human leukemia may arise through genetic selection and we previously showed that human T-ALL development in immune-deficient mice is significantly enhanced upon CD7+/CD34+ leukemic cell transplantations. Here we investigated the genetic characteristics of CD7+/CD34+ and CD7+/CD34- cells from newly diagnosed human T-ALL and correlated it to the speed of leukemia development. We ob

SUBMITTER: Poglio S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5173081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature