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Åke Borg

Åke Borg

Principal investigator

Åke Borg

Tiling resolution array comparative genomic hybridization, expression and methylation analyses of dup(1q) in Burkitt lymphomas and pediatric high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemias reveal clustered near-centromeric breakpoints and overexpression of genes in 1q22-32.3

Author

  • Josef Davidsson
  • Anna Andersson
  • Kajsa Paulsson
  • Markus Heidenblad
  • Margareth Isaksson
  • Åke Borg
  • Jesper Heldrup
  • Mikael Behrendtz
  • Ioannis Panagopoulos
  • Thoas Fioretos
  • Bertil Johansson

Summary, in English

Although gain of 1q occurs in 25% of Burkitt lymphomas (BLs) and 10% of pediatric high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALLs), little is known about the origin, molecular genetic characteristics and functional outcome of dup(1q) in these disorders. Ten dup(1q)-positive BLs/ALLs were investigated by tiling resolution (32k) array CGH analysis, which revealed that the proximal breakpoints in all cases were near-centromeric, in eight of them clustering within a 1.4 Mb segment in 1q12-21.1. The 1q distal breakpoints were heterogeneous, being more distal in the ALLs than in the BLs. The minimally gained segments in the ALLs and BLs were 57.4 Mb [dup(1)(q22q32.3)] and 35 Mb [dup(1)(q12q25.2)], respectively. Satellite 11 DNA on 1q was not hypomethylated, as ascertained by Southern blot analyses of 15 BLs/ALLs with and without gain of 1q, indicating that aberrant methylation was not involved in the origin of dup(1q), as previously suggested for other neoplasms with 1q rearrangements. Global gene expression analyses revealed that five genes in the minimally 57.4 Mb gained region-B4GALT3, DAP3, RGS16, TMEM183A and UCK2-were significantly overexpressed in dup(1q)-positive ALLs compared with high hyperdiploid ALLs without dup(1q). The DAP3 and UCK2 genes were among the most overexpressed genes in the BL case with gain of 1q investigated. The DAP3 protein has been reported to be highly expressed in invasive glioblastoma multiforme cells, whereas expression of the UCK2 protein has been correlated with sensitivity to anticancer drugs. However, involvement of these genes in dup(1q)-positive ALLs and BLs has previously not been reported.

Department/s

  • Division of Clinical Genetics
  • Breastcancer-genetics
  • Paediatrics (Lund)

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

2215-2225

Publication/Series

Human Molecular Genetics

Volume

16

Issue

18

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Medical Genetics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0964-6906