Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Mutation allele burden remains unchanged in chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia responding to hypomethylating agents

  • Jane Merlevede,
  • Nathalie Droin,
  • Tingting Qin,
  • Kristen Meldi,
  • Kenichi Yoshida,
  • Margot Morabito,
  • Emilie Chautard,
  • Didier Auboeuf,
  • Pierre Fenaux,
  • Thorsten Braun,
  • Raphael Itzykson,
  • Stéphane de Botton,
  • Bruno Quesnel,
  • Thérèse Commes,
  • Eric Jourdan,
  • William Vainchenker,
  • Olivier Bernard,
  • Noemie Pata-Merci,
  • Stéphanie Solier,
  • Velimir Gayevskiy,
  • Marcel E. Dinger,
  • Mark J. Cowley,
  • Dorothée Selimoglu-Buet,
  • Vincent Meyer,
  • François Artiguenave,
  • Jean-François Deleuze,
  • Claude Preudhomme,
  • Michael R. Stratton,
  • Ludmil B. Alexandrov,
  • Eric Padron,
  • Seishi Ogawa,
  • Serge Koscielny,
  • Maria Figueroa,
  • Eric Solary

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10767
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia is treated with agents that modify DNA methylation but whether they have direct cytotoxic effects is unclear. Here, the authors show that cells from treated patients show marked methylation changes without altered somatic mutation burden, suggesting that cytotoxicity is not a major factor in therapeutic efficacy.