Publication Date:
2008-11-07
Description:
Acute myeloid leukaemia is a highly malignant haematopoietic tumour that affects about 13,000 adults in the United States each year. The treatment of this disease has changed little in the past two decades, because most of the genetic events that initiate the disease remain undiscovered. Whole-genome sequencing is now possible at a reasonable cost and timeframe to use this approach for the unbiased discovery of tumour-specific somatic mutations that alter the protein-coding genes. Here we present the results obtained from sequencing a typical acute myeloid leukaemia genome, and its matched normal counterpart obtained from the same patient's skin. We discovered ten genes with acquired mutations; two were previously described mutations that are thought to contribute to tumour progression, and eight were new mutations present in virtually all tumour cells at presentation and relapse, the function of which is not yet known. Our study establishes whole-genome sequencing as an unbiased method for discovering cancer-initiating mutations in previously unidentified genes that may respond to targeted therapies.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603574/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603574/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ley, Timothy J -- Mardis, Elaine R -- Ding, Li -- Fulton, Bob -- McLellan, Michael D -- Chen, Ken -- Dooling, David -- Dunford-Shore, Brian H -- McGrath, Sean -- Hickenbotham, Matthew -- Cook, Lisa -- Abbott, Rachel -- Larson, David E -- Koboldt, Dan C -- Pohl, Craig -- Smith, Scott -- Hawkins, Amy -- Abbott, Scott -- Locke, Devin -- Hillier, Ladeana W -- Miner, Tracie -- Fulton, Lucinda -- Magrini, Vincent -- Wylie, Todd -- Glasscock, Jarret -- Conyers, Joshua -- Sander, Nathan -- Shi, Xiaoqi -- Osborne, John R -- Minx, Patrick -- Gordon, David -- Chinwalla, Asif -- Zhao, Yu -- Ries, Rhonda E -- Payton, Jacqueline E -- Westervelt, Peter -- Tomasson, Michael H -- Watson, Mark -- Baty, Jack -- Ivanovich, Jennifer -- Heath, Sharon -- Shannon, William D -- Nagarajan, Rakesh -- Walter, Matthew J -- Link, Daniel C -- Graubert, Timothy A -- DiPersio, John F -- Wilson, Richard K -- U54 HG002042/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- U54 HG002042-05/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 Nov 6;456(7218):66-72. doi: 10.1038/nature07485.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18987736" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Case-Control Studies
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Disease Progression
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/*genetics
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Genome, Human/*genetics
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Genomics
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Humans
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Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/*genetics
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Mutagenesis, Insertional
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Mutation
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Recurrence
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Sequence Deletion
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Skin/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
