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Blood, 15 March 2004, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 2316-2324.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on November 13, 2003; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-09-3074.

Submitted September 8, 2003
Accepted November 5, 2003
High incidence of somatic mutations in the AML1/RUNX1 gene in myelodysplastic syndrome and low blast percentage myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia
Hironori Harada*, Yuka Harada, Hiromasa Niimi, Taiichi Kyo, Akiro Kimura, and Toshiya Inaba
Department of Molecular Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Department of Hematology/Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
* Corresponding author; email: herf1{at}hiroshima-u.ac.jp.
A high incidence of somatically acquired point mutations in the AML1/RUNX1 gene has been reported in poorly differentiated acute myeloid leukemia (AML, M0) and in radiation-associated and therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or AML. Vast majority of AML1 mutations identified in these diseases were localized in the amino (N)-terminal region, especially in the DNA-binding Runt homology domain. In this report, we show that AML1 point mutations were found 26 (23.6%) of 110 patients with refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB), RAEB in transformation (RAEBt) and AML following MDS (defined these three disease categories as MDS/AML). Among them, 9 (8.2%) mutations occurred in the carboxy (C)-terminal region, which were exclusively found in MDS/AML and were strongly correlated with sporadic MDS/AML. All MDS/AML patients with an AML1 mutation expressed wild type AML1 protein and had a significantly worse prognosis than those without AML1 mutations. Most AML1 mutants lost trans-activation potential, regardless of their DNA binding potential. These data suggested that AML1 point mutation is one of the major driving force of MDS/AML, and these mutations may represent a distinct clinicopathologic-genetic entity.

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