Project description:In this study, institutional IRB approval was obtained and peripheral blood and bone marrow samples on patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia were collected. On the samples, we performed chromatin immuno-precipitation and next generation sequencing to assess histone modifications and epigenetic changes associated with proliferative and dysplastic phenotypes.
Project description:We report the gene expression of human chronic myelomonocytic leukemia by performing whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing of peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Project description:We report the gene expression of human chronic myelomonocytic leukemia by performing whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing of bone marrow mononuclear cells of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Project description:We report the chromatin characteristics of human chronic myelomonocytic leukemia by performing chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing of histone modifications (ChIP-seq), immunoprecipitation sequencing of (hydroxy-)methylated residues (DIP-seq), and transposase accessibility sequencing (ATAC-seq) of bone marrow mononuclear cells of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Project description:Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a clonal hematopoietic disorder with heterogeneous clinical, morphological and genetic characteristics. Clonal cytogenetic abnormalities are found in 20-30% of patients with CMML. Patients with low risk cytogenetic features (normal karyotype and isolated loss of Y chromosome) account for approximately 80% of CMML patients and often fall into the low risk categories of CMML prognostic scores. SNP-A were performed in 82 CMML patients with low risk karyotypes and uninformative results for conventional G-banding cytogenetics (CC).
Project description:RNA-seq of bone marrow samples of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) patients and healthy donors to identify the molecular DNA repair pathways involved in CMML pathogenic
Project description:Chromosomal abnormalities are detected in 20-30% of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) and correlate with prognosis. Epigenetic abnormalities are frequent in CMML, including mutations in DNA methylation and histone-modifying enzymes, but the methylation profile is not well characterized in these patients. In this study we performed DNA methylation microarrays in 65 CMML patients and 10 healthy controls. Differential methylation analysis between patients and controls allowed us to identify abnormalities in DNA methylation including hypermethylated genes, large genome regions with aberrant DNA methylation and altered cellular pathways. Hierarchical cluster analysis identified two main clusters that associated with the clinical, biological and genetic features of patients. Group 1 was enriched in patients that presented with adverse clinical and biological characteristics and that had a poorer overall survival and progression free survival. In addition, significant differences in DNA methylation was observed between patients with low risk and intermediate/high risk karyotypes and between TET2 mutant and wild-type patients. These results demonstrate that DNA methylation is altered in CMML and is associated with distinct biological and clinical features. Furthermore, these results may provide a useful basis for identifying new therapeutic targets.
Project description:Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is an aggressive hematological malignancy with dismal outcomes, with the pCMML subtype in particular having median OS of <2 years and high rates of AML transformation (Patnaik et al., 2014). Given limited therapeutic options for affected patients, we carried out this study to define the genetic and epigenetic landscape of pCMML and identify therapies that could modify disease biology.