title: Application of microsatellite markers for monitoring of reconstitution pattern in patients after bone marrow transplantation/peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation.
abstract: We present data on application of microsatellite markers for detection of complete vs. mixed chimerism in individuals after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation (PBPCT). Genotypes of the peripheral blood or bone marrow cells of three donor/recipient pairs were studied at several microsatellite loci. In two cases we identified complete chimerism in recipients' peripheral blood and bone marrow after transplantation. These two patients were alive with no symptoms of disease relapse and/or transplant rejection long time after BMT or PBPCT. In the third patient we observed mixed chimerism with the prevalence of donor's genotype while she was alive and well and the prevalence of recipient's genotype when she relapsed and required interferonotherapy. Results of our molecular studies correlated with the patients' clinical outcome. We show that molecular detection of mixed chimerism may be used for prediction of relapse in patients after BMT or PBPCT.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jungerman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sedzimirska
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lange
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Witt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002678:Chimera / Q000235:genetics*; D005199:Fanconi Anemia / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity