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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-7
pubmed:abstractText
Patients who have received cytotoxic therapy for primary neoplastic disease are at an increased risk of developing secondary (therapy-related) acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) or myelodysplasia (MDS). RAS and FMS mutations have been observed in patients with AML and MDS. It has been suggested that the mutational status within these genes may be predictive of early secondary leukaemic disease. In this study we have screened 50 haematologically normal patients in complete remission from childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) for activating point mutations in the RAS and FMS proto-oncogenes. Such patients may be considered at risk of therapy-related disease. Codons 12, 13 and 61 were screened in RAS and codon 969 in FMS using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by oligonucleotide hybridization (ONH). Three of the 50 patients (6%) were found to harbour N12 RAS mutations. One of these three patients (2%) had both a N12 RAS and FMS 969 mutation. Upon sequencing the RAS mutations, substitutions of serine, cysteine and aspartic acid for glycine were identified. The FMS 969 mutation was also confirmed, by sequencing, as a histidine substitution. RAS mutations were not detected in presentation samples indicating that these lesions have been somatically acquired presumably subsequent to cytotoxic therapy for the primary disease. Continued follow-up of these patients may indicate a role for these mutations in the development of secondary malignancies.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0887-6924
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
466-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Child, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Codon, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Genes, fms, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Genes, ras, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Neoplasms, Second Primary, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Point Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Remission Induction, pubmed-meshheading:7885045-Risk Factors
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
RAS and FMS mutations following cytotoxic therapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Haematology Department, University of Wales College of Medicine, Health Park, Cardiff, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't