The distribution of MLL breakpoints correlates with outcome in infant acute leukaemia.
Emerenciano M., Meyer C., Mansur MB., Marschalek R., Pombo-de-Oliveira MS., Brazilian Collaborative Study Group of Infant Acute Leukaemia None.
Acute leukaemia in early childhood - and mainly infant leukaemia (IL) - is characterized by acquired genetic alterations, most commonly by the presence of distinct MLL rearrangements (MLL-r). The aim of this study was to investigate possible correlations between clinical features and molecular analyses of a series of 545 childhood leukaemia (≤24 months of age) cases: 385 acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and 160 acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The location of the genomic breakpoints was determined in a subset of 30 MLL-r cases. The overall survival of the investigated cohort was 60·5%, as determined by the Kaplan-Meier method. Worse outcomes were associated with age at diagnosis ≤6 months (P
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Michelle Fernandes
Clinical Lecturer & MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow
