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Blood, 1 December 2008, Vol. 112, No. 12, pp. 4507-4511. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on August 8, 2008; DOI 10.1182/blood-2008-04-152967.
HEMATOPOIESIS AND STEM CELLS Abnormalities in the myeloid progenitor compartment in Down syndrome fetal liver precede acquisition of GATA1 mutations1 Department of Haematology and 2 Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London and Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London; and 3 MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and Department of Haematology, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
Down syndrome (DS) children have a high frequency of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) in early childhood. At least 2 in utero genetic events are required, although not sufficient, for DS-AMKL: trisomy 21 (T21) and N-terminal–truncating GATA1 mutations. To investigate the role of T21 in DS-AMKL, we compared second trimester hemopoiesis in DS without GATA1 mutations to gestation-matched normal controls. In all DS fetal livers (FLs), but not marrows, megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor frequency was increased (55.9% ± 4% vs 17.1% ± 3%, CD34+CD38+ cells; P < .001) with common myeloid progenitors (19.6% ± 2% vs 44.0% ± 7%) and granulocyte-monocyte (GM) progenitors (15.8% ± 4% vs 34.5% ± 9%) commensurately reduced. Clonogenicity of DS-FL versus normal FL CD34+ cells was markedly increased (78% ± 7% vs 15% ± 3%) affecting megakaryocyte-erythroid (
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