PMID- 14701704 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040617 LR - 20210206 IS - 0006-4971 (Print) IS - 0006-4971 (Linking) VI - 103 IP - 9 DP - 2004 May 1 TI - Interleukin-10 and tumor necrosis factor alpha region haplotypes predict transplant-related mortality after unrelated donor stem cell transplantation. PG - 3599-602 AB - Certain cytokine gene polymorphisms have been shown to correlate with outcome of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) identical sibling donor stem cell transplantation (SCT), but in unrelated donor SCT such information is scarce. We have studied the association between cytokine gene polymorphism and transplant-related mortality (TRM) in 182 unrelated SCTs performed at a single center. We found association of polymorphism in the tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) gene and TRM. Both the TNFd4 allele and the TNF alpha -1031C alleles are associated with high risk for TRM. Statistical analysis showed that both polymorphisms were present on a single haplotype. This haplotype was associated with high risk of TRM when present in recipient or donor, 55% (43%-67%) compared with 21% (12%-30%) when absent from both (P <.01). A further allele associated with this haplotype, TNFa5, is also associated with increased risk of TRM. For IL-10, presence of the donor R2-G-C-C haplotype was associated with decreased risk of TRM, 61% (43%-79%) versus 34% (25%-43%), P =.01. In contrast, possession of the R3-G-C-C haplotype by the donor predicted reduced risk of TRM, 30% (19%-41%, 95% CI) versus 53% (40%-66%, 95% CI), P =.01. No independent associations of cytokine polymorphisms with acute graft-versus-host disease were shown. FAU - Keen, Leigh J AU - Keen LJ AD - Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. FAU - DeFor, Todd E AU - DeFor TE FAU - Bidwell, Jeffrey L AU - Bidwell JL FAU - Davies, Stella M AU - Davies SM FAU - Bradley, Benjamin A AU - Bradley BA FAU - Hows, Jill M AU - Hows JM LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20031230 PL - United States TA - Blood JT - Blood JID - 7603509 RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 130068-27-8 (Interleukin-10) SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Gene Frequency MH - Graft vs Host Disease/genetics MH - *Haplotypes MH - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/adverse effects/*mortality MH - Humans MH - Interleukin-10/*genetics MH - Polymorphism, Genetic MH - Probability MH - Prognosis MH - Tissue Donors MH - Transplantation, Homologous/adverse effects/mortality MH - Treatment Outcome MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*genetics EDAT- 2004/01/01 05:00 MHDA- 2004/06/18 05:00 CRDT- 2004/01/01 05:00 PHST- 2004/01/01 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/06/18 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/01/01 05:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-4971(20)43761-9 [pii] AID - 10.1182/blood-2002-11-3568 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Blood. 2004 May 1;103(9):3599-602. doi: 10.1182/blood-2002-11-3568. Epub 2003 Dec 30.