TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of gene expression-based prognostic markers in the hematopoietic stem cells of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes
AU - Pellagatti, Andrea
AU - Benner, Axel
AU - Mills, Ken I.
AU - Cazzola, Mario
AU - Giagounidis, Aristoteles
AU - Perry, Janet
AU - Malcovati, Luca
AU - Della Porta, Matteo G.
AU - Jädersten, Martin
AU - Verma, Amit
AU - McDonald, Emma Jane
AU - Killick, Sally
AU - Hellström-Lindberg, Eva
AU - Bullinger, Lars
AU - Wainscoat, James S.
AU - Boultwood, Jacqueline
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research of the United Kingdom; by the National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Programme (financial support for patient sample collection); by grants from Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Special Program Molecular Clinical Oncology 5x1000, Project No. 1005) and Fondazione Cariplo to M.C., and from Fondazione Berlucchi to M.G.D.P. (for studies performed at Department of Hematology Oncology, Fondazione Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Policlinico San Matteo, and Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy); in part by European Program for Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action No. BM0801 WG1 (work is based on joint research activities under COST framework); and in part by German Research Foundation (Heisenbergstipendium BU 1339/ 3-1; L.B.).
PY - 2013/10/1
Y1 - 2013/10/1
N2 - Purpose: The diagnosis of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is largely dependent on morphologic examination of bone marrow aspirates. Several criteria that form the basis of the classifications and scoring systems most commonly used in clinical practice are affected by operator-dependent variation. To identify standardized molecular markers that would allow prediction of prognosis, we have used gene expression profiling (GEP) data on CD34+ cells from patients with MDS to determine the relationship between gene expression levels and prognosis. Patients and Methods: GEP data on CD34+ cells from 125 patients with MDS with a minimum 12-month follow-up since date of bone marrow sample collection were included in this study. Supervised principal components and lasso penalized Cox proportional hazards regression (Coxnet) were used for the analysis. Results: We identified several genes, the expression of which was significantly associated with survival of patients with MDS, including LEF1, CDH1, WT1, and MN1. The Coxnet predictor, based on expression data on 20 genes, outperformed other predictors, including one that additionally used clinical information. Our Coxnet gene signature based on CD34+ cells significantly identified a separation of patients with good or bad prognosis in an independent GEP data set based on unsorted bone marrow mononuclear cells, demonstrating that our signature is robust and may be applicable to bone marrow cells without the need to isolate CD34+ cells. Conclusion: We present a new, valuable GEP-based signature for assessing prognosis in MDS. GEP-based signatures correlating with clinical outcome may significantly contribute to a refined risk classification of MDS.
AB - Purpose: The diagnosis of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is largely dependent on morphologic examination of bone marrow aspirates. Several criteria that form the basis of the classifications and scoring systems most commonly used in clinical practice are affected by operator-dependent variation. To identify standardized molecular markers that would allow prediction of prognosis, we have used gene expression profiling (GEP) data on CD34+ cells from patients with MDS to determine the relationship between gene expression levels and prognosis. Patients and Methods: GEP data on CD34+ cells from 125 patients with MDS with a minimum 12-month follow-up since date of bone marrow sample collection were included in this study. Supervised principal components and lasso penalized Cox proportional hazards regression (Coxnet) were used for the analysis. Results: We identified several genes, the expression of which was significantly associated with survival of patients with MDS, including LEF1, CDH1, WT1, and MN1. The Coxnet predictor, based on expression data on 20 genes, outperformed other predictors, including one that additionally used clinical information. Our Coxnet gene signature based on CD34+ cells significantly identified a separation of patients with good or bad prognosis in an independent GEP data set based on unsorted bone marrow mononuclear cells, demonstrating that our signature is robust and may be applicable to bone marrow cells without the need to isolate CD34+ cells. Conclusion: We present a new, valuable GEP-based signature for assessing prognosis in MDS. GEP-based signatures correlating with clinical outcome may significantly contribute to a refined risk classification of MDS.
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U2 - 10.1200/JCO.2012.45.5626
DO - 10.1200/JCO.2012.45.5626
M3 - Article
C2 - 24002510
AN - SCOPUS:84891315355
VL - 31
SP - 3557
EP - 3564
JO - Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 0732-183X
IS - 28
ER -