Molecular profiling of peripheral blood cells from patients with polycythemia vera and related neoplasms: Identification of deregulated genes of significance for inflammation and immune surveillance

V. Skov, Mads Thomassen, T.A. Kruse, T.S. Larsen, C.H. Riley, Morten Steen Kvistholm Jensen, O.W. Bjerrum, H.C. Hasselbalch

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    Abstract

    Essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) are hematopoietic stem cell neoplasms that may be associated with autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disorders. Earlier gene expression profiling studies have demonstrated aberrant expression of genes involved in inflammatory responses, mainly being performed on granulocytes or CD34+ cells. Using gene expression profiling of whole blood from patients with ET (n=16), PV (n=36), and PMF (n=9), several genes involved in inflammation and immune regulation were found to be significantly deregulated. Our findings may reflect chronic inflammation to be of pathogenetic importance for the progression of these neoplasms toward the myelofibrotic end-stage and may also account for the increased frequency of second cancer in these diseases.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalLeukemia Research
    Volume36
    Issue number11
    Pages (from-to)1387-1392
    Number of pages6
    ISSN0145-2126
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2012

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