Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Integrative genomic analysis of adult mixed phenotype acute leukemia delineates lineage associated molecular subtypes

  • Koichi Takahashi,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Kiyomi Morita,
  • Yuanqing Yan,
  • Peter Hu,
  • Pei Zhao,
  • Abdallah Abou Zhar,
  • Chang Jiun Wu,
  • Curtis Gumbs,
  • Latasha Little,
  • Samantha Tippen,
  • Rebecca Thornton,
  • Marcus Coyle,
  • Marisela Mendoza,
  • Erika Thompson,
  • Jianhua Zhang,
  • Courtney D. DiNardo,
  • Nitin Jain,
  • Farhad Ravandi,
  • Jorge E. Cortes,
  • Guillermo Garcia-Manero,
  • Steven Kornblau,
  • Michael Andreeff,
  • Elias Jabbour,
  • Carlos Bueso-Ramos,
  • Akifumi Takaori-Kondo,
  • Marina Konopleva,
  • Keyur Patel,
  • Hagop Kantarjian,
  • P. Andrew Futreal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04924-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is a rare leukemia that presents both myeloid and lymphoid markers on blasts. Here the authors perform genomic analysis to show MPAL involves genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity and is genetically distinct from AML, B-ALL, and T-ALL.