Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Genetic subtypes of smoldering multiple myeloma are associated with distinct pathogenic phenotypes and clinical outcomes

  • Mark Bustoros,
  • Shankara Anand,
  • Romanos Sklavenitis-Pistofidis,
  • Robert Redd,
  • Eileen M. Boyle,
  • Benny Zhitomirsky,
  • Andrew J. Dunford,
  • Yu-Tzu Tai,
  • Selina J. Chavda,
  • Cody Boehner,
  • Carl Jannes Neuse,
  • Mahshid Rahmat,
  • Ankit Dutta,
  • Tineke Casneuf,
  • Raluca Verona,
  • Efstathis Kastritis,
  • Lorenzo Trippa,
  • Chip Stewart,
  • Brian A. Walker,
  • Faith E. Davies,
  • Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos,
  • P. Leif Bergsagel,
  • Kwee Yong,
  • Gareth J. Morgan,
  • François Aguet,
  • Gad Getz,
  • Irene M. Ghobrial

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30694-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Existing clinical models cannot fully capture smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) heterogeneity. Here, integration of 42 genetic alterations from 214 SMM patients using an unsupervised binary matrix factorization clustering approach results in the identification of 6 distinct molecular and clinical subtypes.