Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Clonal dynamics towards the development of venetoclax resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

  • Carmen D. Herling,
  • Nima Abedpour,
  • Jonathan Weiss,
  • Anna Schmitt,
  • Ron Daniel Jachimowicz,
  • Olaf Merkel,
  • Maria Cartolano,
  • Sebastian Oberbeck,
  • Petra Mayer,
  • Valeska Berg,
  • Daniel Thomalla,
  • Nadine Kutsch,
  • Marius Stiefelhagen,
  • Paula Cramer,
  • Clemens-Martin Wendtner,
  • Thorsten Persigehl,
  • Andreas Saleh,
  • Janine Altmüller,
  • Peter Nürnberg,
  • Christian Pallasch,
  • Viktor Achter,
  • Ulrich Lang,
  • Barbara Eichhorst,
  • Roberta Castiglione,
  • Stephan C. Schäfer,
  • Reinhard Büttner,
  • Karl-Anton Kreuzer,
  • Hans Christian Reinhardt,
  • Michael Hallek,
  • Lukas P. Frenzel,
  • Martin Peifer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03170-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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BCL2-inhibitor venetoclax is used to treat relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Here, the authors show the clonal dynamics towards venetoclax resistance by performing whole-exome sequencing of 8 CLL patients undergoing venetoclax treatment.