Identification of latent myeloproliferative disease in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome using X-chromosome inactivation patterns and in vitro erythroid colony formation

Autor: B. Sawyer, N. B. Westwood, Atul Mehta, J. Acharya, A.K. Burroughs, M. Messinezy, Thomas C. Pearson
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: European Journal of Haematology. 55:315-321
ISSN: 1600-0609
0902-4441
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1995.tb00703.x
Popis: Some patients with an early or latent myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) present with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS, hepatic vein thrombosis). Cell culture analysis of erythroid progenitors (BFU-E) can be used to discriminate primary from secondary MPD and examination of X-chromosome inactivation (in females) can be used to demonstrate clonality in neoplastic tissues. The present study used these techniques to examine whether a group of 7 female patients who presented with BCS had evidence to support a diagnosis of MPD. Unilateral X-inactivation and therefore clonality can be studied in females heterozygous for X-linked restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) by differences in methylation between active and inactive chromosomes. Probes for two polymorphic loci, phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK, at Xq13.3 [BstX1 RFLP]) and M27 beta (an anonymous locus DXS255 at Xp11.22 [Pst1 RFLP]) were used to study methylation patterns. All 7 patients were heterozygous using M27 beta and 2/7 were also heterozygous using the PGK probe. Polyclonal patterns of X-inactivation in granulocytes were demonstrated in 3/7, a skewed/monoclonal pattern in 1/7 and aberrant patterns in 3/7 using M27 beta. Two patients who had aberrant patterns of X inactivation with M27 beta demonstrated a skewed/monoclonal pattern with PGK. The results of BFU-E growth patterns and clonality were entirely concordant in 5/6 patients. Thus X-chromosome inactivation patterns, in conjunction with erythroid colony studies, can be used to assist in the diagnosis of an underlying MPD in BCS.
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