Nature Communications (May 2016)

Clonal evolution in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia developing resistance to BTK inhibition

  • Jan A. Burger,
  • Dan A. Landau,
  • Amaro Taylor-Weiner,
  • Ivana Bozic,
  • Huidan Zhang,
  • Kristopher Sarosiek,
  • Lili Wang,
  • Chip Stewart,
  • Jean Fan,
  • Julia Hoellenriegel,
  • Mariela Sivina,
  • Adrian M. Dubuc,
  • Cameron Fraser,
  • Yulong Han,
  • Shuqiang Li,
  • Kenneth J. Livak,
  • Lihua Zou,
  • Youzhong Wan,
  • Sergej Konoplev,
  • Carrie Sougnez,
  • Jennifer R. Brown,
  • Lynne V. Abruzzo,
  • Scott L. Carter,
  • Michael J. Keating,
  • Matthew S. Davids,
  • William G. Wierda,
  • Kristian Cibulskis,
  • Thorsten Zenz,
  • Lillian Werner,
  • Paola Dal Cin,
  • Peter Kharchencko,
  • Donna Neuberg,
  • Hagop Kantarjian,
  • Eric Lander,
  • Stacey Gabriel,
  • Susan O’Brien,
  • Anthony Letai,
  • David A. Weitz,
  • Martin A. Nowak,
  • Gad Getz,
  • Catherine J. Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11589
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib is used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, however some patients develop resistance to the drug. Here, the authors use genomic analyses to examine the clonal evolution of 5 patients that develop resistance to ibrutinib.