We studied telomere length in 32 CML patients who discontinued imatinib after achieving complete molecular remission and 32 age-sex-matched controls. The relative telomere length (RTL) was determined by q-PCR as the telomere to single copy gene (36B4) ratio normalized to a reference sample (K-562 DNA). Age-corrected RTL (acRTL) was also obtained. The 36-month probability of treatment-free remission (TFR) was 59.4 %. TFR patients showed shorter acRTL compared to relapsed (mean ± SD = 0.01 ± 0.14 vs 0.20 ± 0.21; p = 0.01). TFR was significantly higher in CML patients with acRTL ≤0.09 (78.9 vs 30.8 %, p = 0.002). CML stem cells harboring longer telomeres possibly maintain a proliferative potential after treatment discontinuation.
Telomere length shortening is associated with treatment-free remission in chronic myeloid leukemia patients / Caocci, Giovanni; Greco, Marianna; Delogu, Giuseppe; Secchi, Christian; Martino, Bruno; Labate, Claudia; Abruzzese, Elisabetta; Trawinska, Malgorzata Monika; Galimberti, Sara; Orrù, Federica; Fozza, Claudio; Passerini, Carlo Gambacorti; Galimi, Francesco; La Nasa, Giorgio. - In: JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY & ONCOLOGY. - ISSN 1756-8722. - 9:1(2016), p. 63. [10.1186/s13045-016-0293-y]
Telomere length shortening is associated with treatment-free remission in chronic myeloid leukemia patients
DELOGU, Giuseppe;SECCHI, Christian;Orrù, Federica;FOZZA, Claudio;GALIMI, Francesco;
2016-01-01
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We studied telomere length in 32 CML patients who discontinued imatinib after achieving complete molecular remission and 32 age-sex-matched controls. The relative telomere length (RTL) was determined by q-PCR as the telomere to single copy gene (36B4) ratio normalized to a reference sample (K-562 DNA). Age-corrected RTL (acRTL) was also obtained. The 36-month probability of treatment-free remission (TFR) was 59.4 %. TFR patients showed shorter acRTL compared to relapsed (mean ± SD = 0.01 ± 0.14 vs 0.20 ± 0.21; p = 0.01). TFR was significantly higher in CML patients with acRTL ≤0.09 (78.9 vs 30.8 %, p = 0.002). CML stem cells harboring longer telomeres possibly maintain a proliferative potential after treatment discontinuation.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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