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Duran-Ferrer M, Martín-Subero JI. Epigenomic Characterization of Lymphoid Neoplasms. Annu Rev Pathol 2024; 19:371-396. [PMID: 37832942 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pathmechdis-051122-100856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
Abstract
Lymphoid neoplasms represent a heterogeneous group of disease entities and subtypes with markedly different molecular and clinical features. Beyond genetic alterations, lymphoid tumors also show widespread epigenomic changes. These severely affect the levels and distribution of DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin accessibility, and three-dimensional genome interactions. DNA methylation stands out as a tracer of cell identity and memory, as B cell neoplasms show epigenetic imprints of their cellular origin and proliferative history, which can be quantified by an epigenetic mitotic clock. Chromatin-associated marks are informative to uncover altered regulatory regions and transcription factor networks contributing to the development of distinct lymphoid tumors. Tumor-intrinsic epigenetic and genetic aberrations cooperate and interact with microenvironmental cells to shape the transcriptome at different phases of lymphoma evolution, and intraclonal heterogeneity can now be characterized by single-cell profiling. Finally, epigenetics offers multiple clinical applications, including powerful diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers as well as therapeutic targets.
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Affiliation(s)
- Martí Duran-Ferrer
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain;
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain;
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Syrykh C, Pons-Brun B, Russiñol N, Playa-Albinyana H, Baumann T, Duran-Ferrer M, Kulis M, Carbó-Meix A, Mozas P, Alcoceba M, González M, Navarro-Bailón A, Colado E, Payer ÁR, Aymerich M, Terol MJ, Lu J, Knisbacher BA, Hahn CK, Ruiz-Gaspà S, Enjuanes A, Wu CJ, Getz G, Zenz T, López-Guillermo A, Martín-Subero JI, Colomer D, Delgado J, Campo E, Nadeu F. IGLV3-21R110 mutation has prognostic value in patients with treatment-naive chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood Adv 2023; 7:7384-7391. [PMID: 37505099 PMCID: PMC10726246 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023010132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Charlotte Syrykh
- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Pathology, Institut Universitaire du Cancer, CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Biología Molecular e Histocompatibilidad, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, University of Salamanca-Spanish National Research Council, Salamanca, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Biología Molecular e Histocompatibilidad, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, University of Salamanca-Spanish National Research Council, Salamanca, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Biología Molecular e Histocompatibilidad, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, University of Salamanca-Spanish National Research Council, Salamanca, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Hemoterapia, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Hemoterapia, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (INCLIVA), Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
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- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital and University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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Fernández-Garnacho EM, Nadeu F, Martín S, Mozas P, Rivero A, Delgado J, Giné E, López-Guillermo A, Duran-Ferrer M, Salaverria I, López C, Beà S, Demajo S, Jares P, Puente XS, Martín-Subero JI, Campo E, Hernández L. MALAT1 expression is associated with aggressive behavior in indolent B-cell neoplasms. Sci Rep 2023; 13:16839. [PMID: 37803049 PMCID: PMC10558466 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44174-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023] Open
Abstract
MALAT1 long non-coding RNA has oncogenic roles but has been poorly studied in indolent B-cell neoplasms. Here, MALAT1 expression was analyzed using RNA-seq, microarrays or qRT-PCR in primary samples from clinico-biological subtypes of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL, n = 266), paired Richter transformation (RT, n = 6) and follicular lymphoma (FL, n = 61). In peripheral blood (PB) CLL samples, high MALAT1 expression was associated with a significantly shorter time to treatment independently from other known prognostic factors. Coding genes expressed in association with MALAT1 in CLL were predominantly related to oncogenic pathways stimulated in the lymph node (LN) microenvironment. In RT paired samples, MALAT1 levels were lower, concordant with their acquired increased independency of external signals. Moreover, MALAT1 levels in paired PB/LN CLLs were similar, suggesting that the prognostic value of MALAT1 expression in PB is mirroring expression differences already present in LN. Similarly, high MALAT1 expression in FL predicted for a shorter progression-free survival, in association with expression pathways promoting FL pathogenesis. In summary, MALAT1 expression is related to pathophysiology and more aggressive clinical behavior of indolent B-cell neoplasms. Particularly in CLL, its levels could be a surrogate marker of the microenvironment stimulation and may contribute to refine the clinical management of these patients.
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- Elena María Fernández-Garnacho
- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lymphoid Neoplasm Program, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centre Esther Koplowitz (CEK), Rosselló 153, 08036, Barcelona, Spain.
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.
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Knisbacher BA, Lin Z, Hahn CK, Nadeu F, Duran-Ferrer M, Stevenson KE, Tausch E, Delgado J, Barbera-Mourelle A, Taylor-Weiner A, Bousquets-Muñoz P, Diaz-Navarro A, Dunford A, Anand S, Kretzmer H, Gutierrez-Abril J, López-Tamargo S, Fernandes SM, Sun C, Sivina M, Rassenti LZ, Schneider C, Li S, Parida L, Meissner A, Aguet F, Burger JA, Wiestner A, Kipps TJ, Brown JR, Hallek M, Stewart C, Neuberg DS, Martín-Subero JI, Puente XS, Stilgenbauer S, Wu CJ, Campo E, Getz G. Molecular map of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and its impact on outcome. Nat Genet 2022; 54:1664-1674. [PMID: 35927489 PMCID: PMC10084830 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01140-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
Recent advances in cancer characterization have consistently revealed marked heterogeneity, impeding the completion of integrated molecular and clinical maps for each malignancy. Here, we focus on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a B cell neoplasm with variable natural history that is conventionally categorized into two subtypes distinguished by extent of somatic mutations in the heavy-chain variable region of immunoglobulin genes (IGHV). To build the 'CLL map,' we integrated genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic data from 1,148 patients. We identified 202 candidate genetic drivers of CLL (109 new) and refined the characterization of IGHV subtypes, which revealed distinct genomic landscapes and leukemogenic trajectories. Discovery of new gene expression subtypes further subcategorized this neoplasm and proved to be independent prognostic factors. Clinical outcomes were associated with a combination of genetic, epigenetic and gene expression features, further advancing our prognostic paradigm. Overall, this work reveals fresh insights into CLL oncogenesis and prognostication.
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Genome Regulation, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Computational Oncology Service, Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Lymphoid Malignancies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Translational Immunogenomics Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genome Regulation, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Lymphoid Malignancies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine, Cologne, Germany
- Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf and German CLL Study Group, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Response in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Hematopathology Section, Laboratory of Pathology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Robbe P, Ridout KE, Vavoulis DV, Dréau H, Kinnersley B, Denny N, Chubb D, Appleby N, Cutts A, Cornish AJ, Lopez-Pascua L, Clifford R, Burns A, Stamatopoulos B, Cabes M, Alsolami R, Antoniou P, Oates M, Cavalieri D, Gibson J, Prabhu AV, Schwessinger R, Jennings D, James T, Maheswari U, Duran-Ferrer M, Carninci P, Knight SJL, Månsson R, Hughes J, Davies J, Ross M, Bentley D, Strefford JC, Devereux S, Pettitt AR, Hillmen P, Caulfield MJ, Houlston RS, Martín-Subero JI, Schuh A. Whole-genome sequencing of chronic lymphocytic leukemia identifies subgroups with distinct biological and clinical features. Nat Genet 2022; 54:1675-1689. [PMID: 36333502 PMCID: PMC9649442 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01211-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
The value of genome-wide over targeted driver analyses for predicting clinical outcomes of cancer patients is debated. Here, we report the whole-genome sequencing of 485 chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients enrolled in clinical trials as part of the United Kingdom's 100,000 Genomes Project. We identify an extended catalog of recurrent coding and noncoding genetic mutations that represents a source for future studies and provide the most complete high-resolution map of structural variants, copy number changes and global genome features including telomere length, mutational signatures and genomic complexity. We demonstrate the relationship of these features with clinical outcome and show that integration of 186 distinct recurrent genomic alterations defines five genomic subgroups that associate with response to therapy, refining conventional outcome prediction. While requiring independent validation, our findings highlight the potential of whole-genome sequencing to inform future risk stratification in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
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- Pauline Robbe
- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Medical Research Council Molecular Haematology Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
- Limerick Digital Cancer Research Centre, School of Medicine,University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Laboratory of Clinical Cell Therapy, Jules Bordet Institute, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC)- Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Oxford Molecular Diagnostics Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Haematology, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Medical Research Council Molecular Haematology Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Biomedical Epigenomics Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomédiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
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- Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School, University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Medical Research Council Molecular Haematology Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Medical Research Council Molecular Haematology Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Illumina Cambridge Ltd., Cambridge, UK
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- Cancer Genomics, Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Group University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- King's College Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Kings College London, London, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- Genomics England, London, UK
- William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
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- Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Nadeu F, Royo R, Massoni-Badosa R, Playa-Albinyana H, Garcia-Torre B, Duran-Ferrer M, Dawson KJ, Kulis M, Diaz-Navarro A, Villamor N, Melero JL, Chapaprieta V, Dueso-Barroso A, Delgado J, Moia R, Ruiz-Gil S, Marchese D, Giró A, Verdaguer-Dot N, Romo M, Clot G, Rozman M, Frigola G, Rivas-Delgado A, Baumann T, Alcoceba M, González M, Climent F, Abrisqueta P, Castellví J, Bosch F, Aymerich M, Enjuanes A, Ruiz-Gaspà S, López-Guillermo A, Jares P, Beà S, Capella-Gutierrez S, Gelpí JL, López-Bigas N, Torrents D, Campbell PJ, Gut I, Rossi D, Gaidano G, Puente XS, Garcia-Roves PM, Colomer D, Heyn H, Maura F, Martín-Subero JI, Campo E. Detection of early seeding of Richter transformation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Nat Med 2022; 28:1662-1671. [PMID: 35953718 PMCID: PMC9388377 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-01927-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Richter transformation (RT) is a paradigmatic evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) into a very aggressive large B cell lymphoma conferring a dismal prognosis. The mechanisms driving RT remain largely unknown. We characterized the whole genome, epigenome and transcriptome, combined with single-cell DNA/RNA-sequencing analyses and functional experiments, of 19 cases of CLL developing RT. Studying 54 longitudinal samples covering up to 19 years of disease course, we uncovered minute subclones carrying genomic, immunogenetic and transcriptomic features of RT cells already at CLL diagnosis, which were dormant for up to 19 years before transformation. We also identified new driver alterations, discovered a new mutational signature (SBS-RT), recognized an oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS)high–B cell receptor (BCR)low-signaling transcriptional axis in RT and showed that OXPHOS inhibition reduces the proliferation of RT cells. These findings demonstrate the early seeding of subclones driving advanced stages of cancer evolution and uncover potential therapeutic targets for RT. Single-cell genomic and transcriptomic analyses of longitudinal samples of patients with Richter syndrome reveal the presence and dynamics of clones driving transformation from chronic lymphocytic leukemia years before clinical manifestation
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- Ferran Nadeu
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain. .,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
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- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
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- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Biología Molecular e Histocompatibilidad, IBSAL-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-IBMCC (USAL-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Biología Molecular e Histocompatibilidad, IBSAL-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-IBMCC (USAL-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain
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- Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Hematology, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Hematology, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Hematology, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Myeloma Service, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain.,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain. .,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain. .,Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. .,Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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Nadeu F, Royo R, Massoni-Badosa R, Garcia-Torre B, Duran-Ferrer M, Dawson KJ, Kulis M, Diaz-Navarro A, Villamor N, Melero JL, Chapaprieta V, Dueso-Barroso A, Delgado J, Moia R, Ruiz-Gil S, Marchese D, Verdaguer-Dot N, Romo M, Rozman M, Frigola G, Rivas-Delgado A, Baumann T, Alcoceba M, González M, Climent F, Abrisqueta P, Castellví J, Bosch F, Aymerich M, Enjuanes A, Ruiz-Gaspà S, López-Guillermo A, Jares P, Beà S, Colomer D, López-Bigas N, LlGelpí J, Torrents D, Campbell PJ, Gut I, Garcia-Roves PM, Rossi D, Gaidano G, Puente XS, Heyn H, Maura F, Martín-Subero JI, Campo E. Abstract 3795: Early seeding of Richter transformation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-3795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction: Clonal evolution drives cancer development due to the emergence and/or selection of proliferatively advantageous subclones. Its understanding may facilitate the design of anticipation-based management strategies. Richter transformation (RT) is a paradigmatic tumor evolution in which chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), an indolent neoplasia of mature B-cells, transforms into a high-grade lymphoma, usually diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), conferring a dismal prognosis. The evolutionary trajectories of RT and its driving (epi)genomic mechanisms remain largely unknown.
Aims: To reconstruct the evolutionary history of RT and to reveal the molecular processes underlying this transformation.
Methods: We characterized the whole genome (WGS), epigenome (DNA methylation, H3K27ac, ATAC-seq), and transcriptome (RNA-seq), combined with single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing analyses, of 19 CLL patients developing RT before (n=3) or after treatment with chemoimmunotherapy (n=6) and targeted therapies (BCR or BCL2 inhibitors, n=10). We analyzed 54 longitudinal samples covering up to 19 years of disease course.
Results: Our WGS analyses uncovered that RT is characterized by a remarkable structural complexity. We also identified a novel treatment-independent RT-specific mutational process, which we named SBS-RT. The genetic driver landscape of RT is a compendium of alterations in genes involved in cell cycle, MYC, and NF-κB pathways, frequently targeted in single catastrophic events including chromothripsis and chromoplexy. The WGS-based phylogenic reconstruction and single-cell DNA/RNA-seq analyses identified a very early diversification of CLL leading to emergence of RT-cells carrying specific genetic drivers and transcriptomic profiles of RT already at CLL diagnosis. These small subclones were dormant for 6-19 years until rapid expansion associated with the clinical transformation. While the DNA methylome kept track of the cell of origin and proliferative history of RT cells, their chromatin configuration and transcriptional program converged into the overexpression of cell cycle regulators, Toll-like receptors, MYC, MTORC1, and OXPHOS related transcripts, as well as downregulation of BCR pathway. This phenotypic shift was related to de novo activation of key transcription factors. In vitro experiments confirmed that RT cells have a 4-fold higher oxygen consumption at routine respiration and electron transfer system capacity compared to CLL. The resistance of RT to BCR inhibition is consistent with its high OXPHOS and low BCR signaling, which mimics de novo DLBCL-OXPHOS insensitive to BCR inhibition. This OXPHOShigh-BCRlow transcriptional axis of RT can be exploited therapeutically.
Conclusions: These findings demonstrate the early seeding of subclones driving advanced stages of cancer evolution and uncover therapeutic targets for the, once expanded, lethal Richter transformation.
Citation Format: Ferran Nadeu, Romina Royo, Ramon Massoni-Badosa, Beatriz Garcia-Torre, Martí Duran-Ferrer, Kevin J. Dawson, Marta Kulis, Ander Diaz-Navarro, Neus Villamor, Juan L. Melero, Vicente Chapaprieta, Ana Dueso-Barroso, Julio Delgado, Riccardo Moia, Sara Ruiz-Gil, Domenica Marchese, Núria Verdaguer-Dot, Mónica Romo, Maria Rozman, Gerard Frigola, Alfredo Rivas-Delgado, Tycho Baumann, Miguel Alcoceba, Marcos González, Fina Climent, Pau Abrisqueta, Josep Castellví, Francesc Bosch, Marta Aymerich, Anna Enjuanes, Sílvia Ruiz-Gaspà, Armando López-Guillermo, Pedro Jares, Sílvia Beà, Dolors Colomer, Núria López-Bigas, Josep LlGelpí, David Torrents, Peter J. Campbell, Ivo Gut, Pablo M. Garcia-Roves, Davide Rossi, Gianluca Gaidano, Xose S. Puente, Holger Heyn, Francesco Maura, José I. Martín-Subero, Elías Campo. Early seeding of Richter transformation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 3795.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ferran Nadeu
- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 2Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
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- 3CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 5Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 3CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- 3CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 9IBSAL-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-IBMCC (USAL-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain
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- 9IBSAL-Hospital Universitario, Centro de Investigación del Cáncer-IBMCC (USAL-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain
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- 10Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- 11Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- 11Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- 11Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 6Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- 6Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- 12Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- 2Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
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- 2Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
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- 3CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- 13Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- 14Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerlan, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- 5Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- 3CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- 15Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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Tsagiopoulou M, Chapaprieta V, Duran-Ferrer M, Moysiadi T, Psomopoulos F, Kollia P, Papakonstantinou N, Campo E, Stamatopoulos K, Martin-Subero JI. Chronic lymphocytic leukemias with trisomy 12 show a distinct DNA methylation profile linked to altered chromatin activation. Haematologica 2020; 105:2864-2867. [PMID: 33256389 PMCID: PMC7716362 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2019.240721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Maria Tsagiopoulou
- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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Nadeu F, Martin-Garcia D, Clot G, Díaz-Navarro A, Duran-Ferrer M, Navarro A, Vilarrasa-Blasi R, Kulis M, Royo R, Gutiérrez-Abril J, Valdés-Mas R, López C, Chapaprieta V, Puiggros M, Castellano G, Costa D, Aymerich M, Jares P, Espinet B, Muntañola A, Ribera-Cortada I, Siebert R, Colomer D, Torrents D, Gine E, López-Guillermo A, Küppers R, Martin-Subero JI, Puente XS, Beà S, Campo E. Genomic and epigenomic insights into the origin, pathogenesis, and clinical behavior of mantle cell lymphoma subtypes. Blood 2020; 136:1419-1432. [PMID: 32584970 PMCID: PMC7498364 DOI: 10.1182/blood.2020005289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a mature B-cell neoplasm initially driven by CCND1 rearrangement with 2 molecular subtypes, conventional MCL (cMCL) and leukemic non-nodal MCL (nnMCL), that differ in their clinicobiological behavior. To identify the genetic and epigenetic alterations determining this diversity, we used whole-genome (n = 61) and exome (n = 21) sequencing (74% cMCL, 26% nnMCL) combined with transcriptome and DNA methylation profiles in the context of 5 MCL reference epigenomes. We identified that open and active chromatin at the major translocation cluster locus might facilitate the t(11;14)(q13;32), which modifies the 3-dimensional structure of the involved regions. This translocation is mainly acquired in precursor B cells mediated by recombination-activating genes in both MCL subtypes, whereas in 8% of cases the translocation occurs in mature B cells mediated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase. We identified novel recurrent MCL drivers, including CDKN1B, SAMHD1, BCOR, SYNE1, HNRNPH1, SMARCB1, and DAZAP1. Complex structural alterations emerge as a relevant early oncogenic mechanism in MCL, targeting key driver genes. Breakage-fusion-bridge cycles and translocations activated oncogenes (BMI1, MIR17HG, TERT, MYC, and MYCN), generating gene amplifications and remodeling regulatory regions. cMCL carried significant higher numbers of structural variants, copy number alterations, and driver changes than nnMCL, with exclusive alterations of ATM in cMCL, whereas TP53 and TERT alterations were slightly enriched in nnMCL. Several drivers had prognostic impact, but only TP53 and MYC aberrations added value independently of genomic complexity. An increasing genomic complexity, together with the presence of breakage-fusion-bridge cycles and high DNA methylation changes related to the proliferative cell history, defines patients with different clinical evolution.
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- Ferran Nadeu
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratori de Citogenètica Molecular, Servei de Patologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servei d'Hematologia, Hospital Mútua de Terrassa, Terrassa, Spain
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- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Nostra Senyora de Meritxell, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra la Vella, Andorra
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Ulm University and Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- German Consortium for Cancer Research, Heidelberg, Germany; and
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Madrid, Spain
- Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Ordoñez R, Kulis M, Russiñol N, Chapaprieta V, Carrasco-Leon A, García-Torre B, Charalampopoulou S, Clot G, Beekman R, Meydan C, Duran-Ferrer M, Verdaguer-Dot N, Vilarrasa-Blasi R, Soler-Vila P, Garate L, Miranda E, San José-Enériz E, Rodriguez-Madoz JR, Ezponda T, Martínez-Turrilas R, Vilas-Zornoza A, Lara-Astiaso D, Dupéré-Richer D, Martens JHA, El-Omri H, Taha RY, Calasanz MJ, Paiva B, San Miguel J, Flicek P, Gut I, Melnick A, Mitsiades CS, Licht JD, Campo E, Stunnenberg HG, Agirre X, Prosper F, Martin-Subero JI. Chromatin activation as a unifying principle underlying pathogenic mechanisms in multiple myeloma. Genome Res 2020; 30:1217-1227. [PMID: 32820006 PMCID: PMC7545147 DOI: 10.1101/gr.265520.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell neoplasm associated with a broad variety of genetic lesions. In spite of this genetic heterogeneity, MMs share a characteristic malignant phenotype whose underlying molecular basis remains poorly characterized. In the present study, we examined plasma cells from MM using a multi-epigenomics approach and demonstrated that, when compared to normal B cells, malignant plasma cells showed an extensive activation of regulatory elements, in part affecting coregulated adjacent genes. Among target genes up-regulated by this process, we found members of the NOTCH, NF-kB, MTOR signaling, and TP53 signaling pathways. Other activated genes included sets involved in osteoblast differentiation and response to oxidative stress, all of which have been shown to be associated with the MM phenotype and clinical behavior. We functionally characterized MM-specific active distant enhancers controlling the expression of thioredoxin (TXN), a major regulator of cellular redox status and, in addition, identified PRDM5 as a novel essential gene for MM. Collectively, our data indicate that aberrant chromatin activation is a unifying feature underlying the malignant plasma cell phenotype.
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- Raquel Ordoñez
- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
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- Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, 6525 GA Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology & BMT, Hamad Medical Corporation, NCCCR, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Hematology & BMT, Hamad Medical Corporation, NCCCR, Doha, Qatar
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
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- CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain.,Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), IDISNA, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Clínica Universidad de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, CIBERONC, 28029 Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain.,Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Tsagiopoulou M, Papakonstantinou N, Moysiadis T, Mansouri L, Ljungström V, Duran-Ferrer M, Malousi A, Queirós AC, Plevova K, Bhoi S, Kollia P, Oscier D, Anagnostopoulos A, Trentin L, Ritgen M, Pospisilova S, Stavroyianni N, Ghia P, Martin-Subero JI, Pott C, Rosenquist R, Stamatopoulos K. DNA methylation profiles in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients treated with chemoimmunotherapy. Clin Epigenetics 2019; 11:177. [PMID: 31791414 PMCID: PMC6889736 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-019-0783-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Background In order to gain insight into the contribution of DNA methylation to disease progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), using 450K Illumina arrays, we determined the DNA methylation profiles in paired pre-treatment/relapse samples from 34 CLL patients treated with chemoimmunotherapy, mostly (n = 31) with the fludarabine-cyclophosphamide-rituximab (FCR) regimen. Results The extent of identified changes in CLL cells versus memory B cells from healthy donors was termed “epigenetic burden” (EB) whereas the number of changes between the pre-treatment versus the relapse sample was termed “relapse changes” (RC). Significant (p < 0.05) associations were identified between (i) high EB and short time-to-first-treatment (TTFT); and, (ii) few RCs and short time-to-relapse. Both the EB and the RC clustered in specific genomic regions and chromatin states, including regulatory regions containing binding sites of transcription factors implicated in B cell and CLL biology. Conclusions Overall, we show that DNA methylation in CLL follows different dynamics in response to chemoimmunotherapy. These epigenetic alterations were linked with specific clinical and biological features.
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- Maria Tsagiopoulou
- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, GR, Greece.,Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, GR, Greece
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, GR, Greece.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Brno and Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.,Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Haematology, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Clinical Immunology Branch, Padua University School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
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- Second Medical Department, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Brno and Medical Faculty of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.,Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Hematology Department and HCT Unit, G. Papanicolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Experimental Oncology and Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Second Medical Department, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Center for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Rd, 57001, Thermi, Thessaloniki, GR, Greece. .,Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Beekman R, Chapaprieta V, Russiñol N, Vilarrasa-Blasi R, Verdaguer-Dot N, Martens JHA, Duran-Ferrer M, Kulis M, Serra F, Javierre BM, Wingett SW, Clot G, Queirós AC, Castellano G, Blanc J, Gut M, Merkel A, Heath S, Vlasova A, Ullrich S, Palumbo E, Enjuanes A, Martín-García D, Beà S, Pinyol M, Aymerich M, Royo R, Puiggros M, Torrents D, Datta A, Lowy E, Kostadima M, Roller M, Clarke L, Flicek P, Agirre X, Prosper F, Baumann T, Delgado J, López-Guillermo A, Fraser P, Yaspo ML, Guigó R, Siebert R, Martí-Renom MA, Puente XS, López-Otín C, Gut I, Stunnenberg HG, Campo E, Martin-Subero JI. The reference epigenome and regulatory chromatin landscape of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Nat Med 2018; 24:868-880. [PMID: 29785028 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-018-0028-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a frequent hematological neoplasm in which underlying epigenetic alterations are only partially understood. Here, we analyze the reference epigenome of seven primary CLLs and the regulatory chromatin landscape of 107 primary cases in the context of normal B cell differentiation. We identify that the CLL chromatin landscape is largely influenced by distinct dynamics during normal B cell maturation. Beyond this, we define extensive catalogues of regulatory elements de novo reprogrammed in CLL as a whole and in its major clinico-biological subtypes classified by IGHV somatic hypermutation levels. We uncover that IGHV-unmutated CLLs harbor more active and open chromatin than IGHV-mutated cases. Furthermore, we show that de novo active regions in CLL are enriched for NFAT, FOX and TCF/LEF transcription factor family binding sites. Although most genetic alterations are not associated with consistent epigenetic profiles, CLLs with MYD88 mutations and trisomy 12 show distinct chromatin configurations. Furthermore, we observe that non-coding mutations in IGHV-mutated CLLs are enriched in H3K27ac-associated regulatory elements outside accessible chromatin. Overall, this study provides an integrative portrait of the CLL epigenome, identifies extensive networks of altered regulatory elements and sheds light on the relationship between the genetic and epigenetic architecture of the disease.
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- Renée Beekman
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Molecular Biology, NCMLS, FNWI, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,Structural Genomics Group, CNAG-CRG, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.,Gene Regulation, Stem Cells and Cancer Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Nuclear Dynamics Program, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Nuclear Dynamics Program, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and UPF, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and UPF, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and UPF, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Unitat de Hematología, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Programa Conjunto de Biología Computacional, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB), Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Programa Conjunto de Biología Computacional, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB), Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Programa Conjunto de Biología Computacional, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB), Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Area de Oncología, Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Area de Oncología, Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.,Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nuclear Dynamics Program, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK.,Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and UPF, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm and University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,Structural Genomics Group, CNAG-CRG, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.,Gene Regulation, Stem Cells and Cancer Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología (IUOPA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Instituto Universitario de Oncología (IUOPA), Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain.,Hematopathology Section, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain. .,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. .,Departament de Fonaments Clinics, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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Queirós AC, Beekman R, Vilarrasa-Blasi R, Duran-Ferrer M, Clot G, Merkel A, Raineri E, Russiñol N, Castellano G, Beà S, Navarro A, Kulis M, Verdaguer-Dot N, Jares P, Enjuanes A, Calasanz MJ, Bergmann A, Vater I, Salaverría I, van de Werken HJG, Wilson WH, Datta A, Flicek P, Royo R, Martens J, Giné E, Lopez-Guillermo A, Stunnenberg HG, Klapper W, Pott C, Heath S, Gut IG, Siebert R, Campo E, Martín-Subero JI. Decoding the DNA Methylome of Mantle Cell Lymphoma in the Light of the Entire B Cell Lineage. Cancer Cell 2016; 30:806-821. [PMID: 27846393 PMCID: PMC5805090 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Revised: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 09/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
We analyzed the in silico purified DNA methylation signatures of 82 mantle cell lymphomas (MCL) in comparison with cell subpopulations spanning the entire B cell lineage. We identified two MCL subgroups, respectively carrying epigenetic imprints of germinal-center-inexperienced and germinal-center-experienced B cells, and we found that DNA methylation profiles during lymphomagenesis are largely influenced by the methylation dynamics in normal B cells. An integrative epigenomic approach revealed 10,504 differentially methylated regions in regulatory elements marked by H3K27ac in MCL primary cases, including a distant enhancer showing de novo looping to the MCL oncogene SOX11. Finally, we observed that the magnitude of DNA methylation changes per case is highly variable and serves as an independent prognostic factor for MCL outcome.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ana C Queirós
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Renée Beekman
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Roser Vilarrasa-Blasi
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Martí Duran-Ferrer
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Guillem Clot
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Angelika Merkel
- Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
| | - Emanuele Raineri
- Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
| | - Nuria Russiñol
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Giancarlo Castellano
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Sílvia Beà
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Alba Navarro
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Marta Kulis
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Núria Verdaguer-Dot
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Pedro Jares
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Unidad de Genómica, IDIBAPS, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel 24105, Germany; Department of Pediatrics, Christian-Albrechts University & University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 24105, Germany
| | - Inga Vater
- Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel 24105, Germany
| | - Itziar Salaverría
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - Harmen J G van de Werken
- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam 3015 CN, the Netherlands; Cancer Computational Biology Center, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam 3015 CN, the Netherlands; Department of Urology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam 3015 CN, the Netherlands
| | - Wyndham H Wilson
- Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Avik Datta
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
| | - Paul Flicek
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK
| | - Romina Royo
- Joint Program on Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona Science Park, Barcelona 08034, Spain
| | - Joost Martens
- Molecular Biology, NCMLS, FNWI, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6500 HB, the Netherlands
| | - Eva Giné
- Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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- Molecular Biology, NCMLS, FNWI, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6500 HB, the Netherlands
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- Hematopathology Section and Lymph Node Registry, Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel 24105, Germany
| | - Christiane Pott
- Second Medical Department, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 24116, Germany
| | - Simon Heath
- Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
| | - Ivo G Gut
- Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
| | - Reiner Siebert
- Institute of Human Genetics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel 24105, Germany
| | - Elías Campo
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain; Unidad de Hematopatología, Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona 08036, Spain
| | - José I Martín-Subero
- Departamento de Fundamentos Clínicos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain.
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