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This month in the Oncotarget journal, Clémentine Sarkozy from Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Service d’Hématologie, France, and colleagues published the results of a study which aimed to quantify the heterogeneity of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) that encodes IG-V(D)J and assess its suitability at diagnosis as a potential prognostic marker in patients with FL. IG-V(D)J is a mutated clonal receptor gene which has been identified in FL patients. The authors assessed the clonal heterogeneity of ctDNA for IG-V(D)J using Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) of both tumor cells and blood plasma from 34 patients who participated in the PRIMA trial who had plasma data.
In conclusion, the authors state that NGS could be more sensitive than qPCR methods and has revealed “the marked clonal heterogeneity of follicular lymphoma”. Furthermore, the ctDNA level of the most frequent clone at diagnosis had prognostic value and was predictive of PFS. Although preliminary, the data in this study has demonstrated the potential clinical and prognostic value of using NGS in FL patients.
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have enabled the quantitation of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) encoding the clonal rearranged V(D)J immunoglobulin locus. We aimed to evaluate the clonal heterogeneity of follicular lymphoma (FL) in the tumour and the plasma at diagnosis and to assess the prognostic value of the ctDNA level. Plasma samples at diagnosis were available for 34 patients registered in the PRIMA trial (NCT00140582). One tumour clonotype or more could be detected for 29 (85%) and 25 (74%) patients, respectively, in the tumour or plasma samples. In 18 patients, several subclones were detected in the tumour (2 to 71 subclones/cases) and/or in the plasma (2 to 20 subclones/cases). In more than half of the cases, the distribution of subclones differed between the tumour and plasma samples, reflecting high clonal heterogeneity and diversity in lymphoma subclone dissemination. In multivariate analysis, a high level of ctDNA was the only independent factor associated with patients' progression-free survival (HR 4, IC 95 (1.1-37), p=.039). In conclusion, an NGS-based immunosequencing method reveals the marked clonal heterogeneity of follicular lymphoma in patients with FL, and quantification of ctDNA at diagnosis represents a potential powerful prognostic biomarker that needs to be investigated in larger cohorts.
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