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Blood, 15 December 2004, Vol. 104, No. 13, pp. 4173-4180. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on March 30, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-11-3944. This Article Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: 2003-11-3944v1 104/13/4173    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted 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 Asnafi, V. Articles by Macintyre, E. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Asnafi, V. Articles by Macintyre, E. Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Next Article  Submitted November 21, 2003 Accepted March 21, 2004 Age-related phenotypic and oncogenic differences in T-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias may reflect thymic atrophy Vahid Asnafi, Kheira Beldjord, Martha Libura, Patrick Villarese, Corinne Millien, Paola Ballerini, Emilienne Kuhlein, Marina Lafage-Pochitaloff, Eric Delabesse, Olivier Bernard, and Elizabeth Macintyre* Biological hematology, Necker-Enfants-Malades Hospital, Paris, France; INSERM EMIU210 and University of Paris V, Paris, France Biological hematology, Necker-Enfants-Malades Hospital, Paris, France Biological hematology, Armand-Trousseau Hospital, Paris, France Cytogenetic, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France Cytogenetic, Institut Paoli Calmette, Marseille, France INSERM EMIU210 and University of Paris V, Paris, France * Corresponding author; email: elizabeth.macintyre{at}nck.ap-hop-paris.fr. Post natal thymic involution occurs progressively throughout the first 3 decades of life. It predominantly affects T Cell Receptor (TCR) -lineage precursors, with a consequent proportional increase in multipotent thymic precursors. We show that T Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias (T-ALLs) demonstrate a similar shift with age from predominantly TCR expressing to an immature (IM0//) stage of maturation arrest. Half demonstrate HOX11, HOX11L2, SIL-TAL or CALM-AF10 deregulation, with each being associated with an, age independent, specific stage of maturation arrest. HOX11 and SIL-TAL represent -lineage oncogenes, whereas HOX11L2 expression indentifies an intermediate // lineage stage of maturation arrest. In keeping with preferential -lineage involution, the incidence of SIL-TAL and HOX11L2 deregulation decreased with age. In contrast, HOX11 deregulation became more frequent, suggesting longer latency. TAL1 deregulation is more frequent in -lineage T-ALL, when it is predominantly due to SIL-TAL rearrangements in children but to currently unknown mechanisms in adolescents and adults. LMO2 was more frequently co-expressed with LYL1, predominantly in IM0//) adult cases, than with TAL1. These age related changes in phenotype and oncogenic pathways probably reflect progressive changes in the thymic population at risk of malignant transformation. CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? This article has been cited by other articles: P. Ballerini, J. Landman-Parker, J. M. Cayuela, V. Asnafi, M. Labopin, V. Gandemer, Y. Perel, G. Michel, T. Leblanc, C. Schmitt, et al. Impact of genotype on survival of children with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated according to the French protocol FRALLE-93: the effect of TLX3/HOX11L2 gene expression on outcome Haematologica, November 1, 2008; 93(11): 1658 - 1665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] F. 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