Title

JAK2V617F mutation and spontaneous megakaryocytic or erythroid colony formation in patients with essential thrombocythaemia (ET) or polycythaemia vera (PV)

UMMS Affiliation

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Department of Clinical Chemistry; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Program in Molecular Medicine

Publication Date

2008-09-02

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

The in vitro cultures of erythroid (BFU-E) and megakaryocytic (CFU-Meg) progenitors have been useful diagnostic tools in myeloproliferative disorders (MPD). However, after the discovery of the JAK2V617F mutation, their diagnostic role has been uncertain. In this single-centre retrospective study we analyzed JAK2V617F mutation in 58 ET and 42 PV patients diagnosed according to WHO criteria and compared the results with those of colony forming assays with special emphasis on CFU-Meg growth. 91% of PV and 57% of ET patients had JAK2V617F mutation and they all showed spontaneous BFU-E growth. However, endogenous BFU-E formation was also seen in nine JAK2V617F mutation negative patients displaying also a normal JAK2 exon 12 allele. Endogeneous CFU-Meg colony formation was found in 59% of PV and 53% of the ET patients. A subgroup of ET patients (n=7) displayed sole spontaneous CFU-Meg growth without spontaneous BFU-E growth. They all were JAK2 mutation negative, but one of them had MPL mutation. In conclusion, in vitro cultures of haematopoietic progenitors are sensitive diagnostic tools in the present group of 100 MPD patients revealing also JAK2 mutation negative ET and PV patients displaying sole spontaneous CFU-Meg or BFU-E growth.

DOI of Published Version

10.1016/j.leukres.2008.07.008

Source

Leuk Res. 2009 Jan;33(1):54-9. Epub 2008 Aug 28. Link to article on publisher's site

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Leukemia research

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PubMed ID

18760472

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