Sergiu Pasca1,2, Ancuta Jurj3, Ciprian Tomuleasa1,2,4, Mihnea Zdrenghea1,4. 1. Department of Hematology, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400012 Cluj Napoca, Romania. 2. Medfuture Research Center for Advanced Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj Napoca, Romania. 3. Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 4. Department of Hematology, Ion Chiricuta Clinical Cancer Center, 400124 Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Abstract
Background and objectives: Mutational analysis has led to a better understanding of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) biology and to an improvement in clinical management. Some of the most important mutations that affect AML biology are represented by mutations in genes related to methylation, more specifically: TET2, IDH1, IDH2 and WT1. Because it has been shown in numerous studies that mutations in these genes lead to similar expression profiles and phenotypes in AML, we decided to assess if mutations in any of those genes interact with other genes important for AML. Materials and Methods: We downloaded the clinical data, mutational profile and expression profile from the TCGA LAML dataset via cBioPortal. Data were analyzed using classical statistical methods and functional enrichment analysis software represented by STRING and GOrilla. Results: The first step we took was to assess the 196 AML cases that had a mutational profile available and observe the mutations that overlapped with TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 mutations. We observed that RUNX1 mutations significantly overlap with TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 mutations. Because of this, we decided to further investigate the role of RUNX1 mutations in modulating the level of RUNX1 mRNA and observed that RUNX1 mutant cases presented higher levels of RUNX1 mRNA. Because there were only 16 cases of RUNX1 mutant samples and that mutations in this gene determined a change in mRNA expression, we further observed the correlation between RUNX1 and other mRNAs in subgroups regarding the presence of hypermethylating mutations and NPM1. Here, we observed that both TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 and NPM1 mutations increase the number of genes negatively correlated with RUNX1 and that these genes were significantly linked to myeloid activation. Conclusions: In the current study, we have shown that NPM1 and TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 mutations increase the number of negative correlations of RUNX1 with other transcripts involved in myeloid differentiation.
Background and objectives: Mutational analysis has led to a better understanding of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) biology and to an improvement in clinical management. Some of the most important mutations that affect AML biology are represented by mutations in genes related to methylation, more specifically: TET2, IDH1, IDH2 and WT1. Because it has been shown in numerous studies that mutations in these genes lead to similar expression profiles and phenotypes in AML, we decided to assess if mutations in any of those genes interact with other genes important for AML. Materials and Methods: We downloaded the clinical data, mutational profile and expression profile from the TCGA LAML dataset via cBioPortal. Data were analyzed using classical statistical methods and functional enrichment analysis software represented by STRING and GOrilla. Results: The first step we took was to assess the 196 AML cases that had a mutational profile available and observe the mutations that overlapped with TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 mutations. We observed that RUNX1 mutations significantly overlap with TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 mutations. Because of this, we decided to further investigate the role of RUNX1 mutations in modulating the level of RUNX1 mRNA and observed that RUNX1 mutant cases presented higher levels of RUNX1 mRNA. Because there were only 16 cases of RUNX1 mutant samples and that mutations in this gene determined a change in mRNA expression, we further observed the correlation between RUNX1 and other mRNAs in subgroups regarding the presence of hypermethylating mutations and NPM1. Here, we observed that both TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 and NPM1 mutations increase the number of genes negatively correlated with RUNX1 and that these genes were significantly linked to myeloid activation. Conclusions: In the current study, we have shown that NPM1 and TET2/IDH1/2/WT1 mutations increase the number of negative correlations of RUNX1 with other transcripts involved in myeloid differentiation.
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