PMID- 21223721 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160423 LR - 20181201 IS - 0253-2727 (Print) IS - 0253-2727 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 10 DP - 2010 Oct TI - [Study on clonal evolution of monosomy 7 in patients with aplastic anemia by interphase- fluorescence in situ hybridization]. PG - 688-92 AB - OBJECTIVE: To explore the clonal evolution of monosomy 7 in patients with aplastic anemia (AA). METHODS: Monosomy 7 (-7) in 81 AA patients with normal karyotype at diagnosis and 46 AA treated with immunosuppressive therapy (IST) and more than 6 months of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhuG-CSF) were detected by interphase- fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) retrospectively. RESULTS: There were 5.4% - 7.6% of -7 cells in 11 (13.6%) of 81 patients at diagnosis, the survival and response rate to IST in -7 positive patients did not differ significantly from that in -7 negative patients (P = 0.481, 0.865); -7 cells disappeared after IST in all of the 11 patients including 5 received long-term rhuG-CSF therapy, and none of them evolved to myelodysplastic syndromes/acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML) at a median follow-up of 44 months. Serial assessments of -7 clones were performed in 46 patients, none of whom detected -7 clones 3-6 months after IST, but -7 recurrence in 5 patients 12 - 15 months after IST. At a median follow-up of 48 months, FISH identified 6 patients with -7 clones while the conventional cytogenetic analysis (CCA) recognized in 5. Moreover, the first demonstration of -7 by FISH was 3 - 18 months earlier than that by CCA. All of the 6 patients with FISH detected -7 evolved to MDS/AML with -7 and four of them were retrospectively analysed for in samples at -7 diagnosis of AA, but none of them was positive. CONCLUSIONS: Monosomy 7 exists in a part of AA patients, but the preexisting -7 cells seems neither associated with fatality nor evolvation to MDS/AML. rhuG-CSF might facilitate the expansion of -7 clones; It is necessary to monitor -7 in AA, especially when received long-term rhuG-CSF therapy. FAU - Li, Ying-Mei AU - Li YM AD - Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Tianjin 300020, China. FAU - Liu, Xu-Ping AU - Liu XP FAU - Li, Cheng-Wen AU - Li CW FAU - Xu, Fang-Yun AU - Xu FY FAU - Gong, Jin-Ying AU - Gong JY FAU - Yu, Cheng-Long AU - Yu CL FAU - Wang, Jian-Xiang AU - Wang JX FAU - Zheng, Yi-Zhou AU - Zheng YZ LA - chi PT - Journal Article PL - China TA - Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi JT - Zhonghua xue ye xue za zhi = Zhonghua xueyexue zazhi JID - 8212398 SB - IM MH - Anemia, Aplastic/therapy MH - *Clonal Evolution MH - Humans MH - *In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Interphase MH - Monosomy MH - Myelodysplastic Syndromes EDAT- 2011/01/13 06:00 MHDA- 2016/04/24 06:00 CRDT- 2011/01/13 06:00 PHST- 2011/01/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/01/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/04/24 06:00 [medline] PST - ppublish SO - Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi. 2010 Oct;31(10):688-92.