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12p Abnormalities and the TEL Gene (ETV6) in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
S.C. Raimondi,
S.A. Shurtleff,
J.R. Downing,
J. Rubnitz,
S. Mathew,
M. Hancock,
C-H. Pui,
G.K. Rivera,
G.C. Grosveld, and
F.G. Behm
From the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tumor Cell Biology, Hematology-Oncology, Biostatistics, and Genetics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis; and the Department of Pathology, and the Division of Hematology-Oncology, the Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee, Memphis, College of Medicine, Memphis, TN.
Although abnormalities involving the short arm of chromosome 12 (12p) are one of the most frequently observed rearrangements in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), little is known about the frequency of different structural abnormalities and their relationship to the status of the ETV6 (also named TEL) gene in this region. Of 815 children with newly diagnosed ALL, 94 (11.5%) had a total of 104 cytogenetic 12p abnormalities. Loss of genetic material was observed in 67 (64%) of these abnormalities. Cases with 12p alterations had a much lower frequency of hyperdiploidy greater than 50 (7%) than did the ALL population in general, but these cases had a similar distribution of immunophenotype and similar 5-year event-free survival (70% ± 5% SE v 64% ± 2%, P = .64). Rearrangement of the ETV6 gene was identified in 36 (56%) of 64 cases evaluated. The ETV6-CBFA2 (TEL-AML1) fusion transcript was found in 25 (66%) of 38 cases evaluated, and all but one of these showed ETV6 rearrangement. Importantly, ETV6 rearrangement was associated with a favorable prognosis (5-year event-free survival: 89% ± 6% v 60% ± 1%, P < .01). We conclude that most but not all 12p cytogenetic abnormalities in childhood ALL involve ETV6, and that rearrangement of ETV6 is associated with a favorable treatment outcome.
Blood, Vol. 90 No. 11 (December 1), 1997:
pp. 4559-4566
© 1997 by The American Society of Hematology.
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