Nature Communications (May 2018)

Dual origin of relapses in retinoic-acid resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia

  • Jacqueline Lehmann-Che,
  • Cécile Bally,
  • Eric Letouzé,
  • Caroline Berthier,
  • Hao Yuan,
  • Florence Jollivet,
  • Lionel Ades,
  • Bruno Cassinat,
  • Pierre Hirsch,
  • Arnaud Pigneux,
  • Marie-Joelle Mozziconacci,
  • Scott Kogan,
  • Pierre Fenaux,
  • Hugues de Thé

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04384-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Historical acute promyelocytic leukemia patients treated with retinoic acid and chemotherapy sometimes did relapse. Here the authors performed exome sequencing on 64 patient's samples from diagnosis/relapse/remission and show relapse associates either with cooperating oncogenes at diagnosis, or with unexpected persistence of ancestral pre-leukemic clones.