Project description:Gene expression profiling in leukemia cases may predict the clinical outcome of the patients and may improve the treatment for specific leukemia subtypes. The goal is to compare the differences in gene expression pattern between T-ALL and B-ALL subtypes in Malaysian childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients.
Project description:Proteogenomic analysis and genomic profiling, RNA-sequencing, and mass spectrometry-based analysis of High hyperdiploid childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Project description:Gene Expression Classifiers for Minimal Residual Disease and Relapse Free Survival Improve Outcome Prediction and Risk Classification in Children with High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group Study willm-00140 Assay Type: Gene Expression Provider: Affymetrix Array Designs: HG-U133_Plus_2 Organism: Homo sapiens (ncbitax) Tissue Sites: Blood, Bone marrow Material Types: Peripheral Blood, Bone Marrow Disease States: Childhood Precursor B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Project description:Proteogenomic analysis and genomic profiling, RNA-sequencing, and mass spectrometry-based analysis of High hyperdiploid childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Project description:Current management of childhood leukemia is tailored based on disease risk determined by clinical features at presentation. Whether properties of the host immune response impact disease risk and outcome is not known. Here we combine mass cytometry, single cell genomics and functional studies to characterize the bone marrow immune environment in children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and acute myelogenous leukemia at presentation. T cells in leukemia marrow demonstrate evidence of chronic immune activation and exhaustion/dysfunction, with attrition of naïve T cells and TCF1+ stem-like memory T cells and accumulation of terminally-differentiated effector T cells. Marrow-infiltrating natural killer cells also exhibit evidence of dysfunction, particularly in myeloid leukemia. Properties of immune cells identified distinct immune phenotype-based clusters correlating with disease risk in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. High-risk immune signatures were associated with expression of stem-like genes on tumor cells. These data provide a comprehensive assessment of the immune landscape of childhood leukemias and identify targets potentially amenable to therapeutic intervention. These studies also suggest that properties of the host response with depletion of naïve T cells and accumulation of terminal-effector T cells may contribute to the biologic basis of disease risk. Properties of immune microenvironment identified here may also impact optimal application of immune therapies, including T cell-redirection approaches in childhood leukemia.
Project description:Very long intergenic non-coding RNAs (vlincRNAs) are a novel class of long transcripts (~50 kb to 1 Mb) with cell type- or cancer-specific expression. We report the discovery and characterization of 256 vlincRNAs from a cohort of 64 primary childhood pre-B and pre-T acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) samples, of which 61% are novel and specifically expressed in cALL. Validation was performed in 35 pre-B and pre-T cALL primary samples. We show that their expression is cALL immunophenotype and molecular subtype-specific and correlated with epigenetic modifications on their promoters, much like protein-coding genes. While the biological functions of these vlincRNAs’s are still unknown, our results suggest they could play a role in cALL etiology or progression. Please note that the study consists of investigating very long intergenic non coding RNAs (vlincRNAs) in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The study primarily uses RNA-seq data (GSE89071) with the current additional epigenetic data that is specific to this study (chip-seq and wgb-seq).
