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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on December 19, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-07-2287. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: 2002-07-2287v1 101/8/3294    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Liu, E. Articles by Prchal, J. T. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Liu, E. Articles by Prchal, J. T. Related Collections Clinical Trials and Observations Hematopoiesis Neoplasia Red Cells Related Letter in Blood Online Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  Blood, 15 April 2003, Vol. 101, No. 8, pp. 3294-3301 RED CELLS Discrimination of polycythemias and thrombocytoses by novel, simple, accurate clonality assays and comparison with PRV-1 expression and BFU-E response to erythropoietin Enli Liu, Jaroslav Jelinek, Yves D. Pastore, Yongli Guan, Jaroslav F. Prchal, and Josef T. Prchal From the Departments of Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Department of Hematology/Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Essential thrombocythemia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV) are clonal myeloproliferative disorders that are often difficult to distinguish from other causes of elevated blood cell counts. Assays that could reliably detect clonal hematopoiesis would therefore be extremely valuable for diagnosis. We previously reported 3 X-chromosome transcription-based clonality assays (TCAs) involving the G6PD, IDS, and MPP1 genes, which together were informative in about 65% of female subjects. To increase our ability to detect clonality, we developed simple TCA for detecting the transcripts of 2 additional X-chromosome genes: Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) and 4-and-a-half LIM domain 1 (FHL1). The combination of TCA established the presence or absence of clonal hematopoiesis in about 90% of female subjects. We show that both genes are subject to X-chromosome inactivation and are polymorphic in all major US ethnic groups. The 5 TCAs were used to examine clonality in 46 female patients along with assays for erythropoietin-independent erythroid colonies (EECs) and granulocyte PRV-1 mRNA levels to discriminate polycythemias and thrombocytoses. Of these, all 19 patients with familial polycythemia or thrombocytosis had polyclonal hematopoiesis, whereas 22 of 26 patients with clinical evidence of myeloproliferative disorder and 1 patient with clinically obscure polycythemia were clonal. Interestingly, interferon  therapy in 2 patients with PV was associated with reversion of clonal to polyclonal hematopoiesis. EECs were observed in 14 of 14 patients with PV and 4 of 12 with ET, and increased granulocyte PRV-1 mRNA levels were found in 9 of 13 patients with PV and 2 of 12 with ET. Thus, these novel clonality assays are useful in the diagnosis and follow-up of polycythemic conditions and disorders with increased platelet levels. © 2003 by The American Society of Hematology.   CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? 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