title: An advantageous method to evaluate IgH rearrangement and its role in minimal residual disease detection.
abstract: A sensitive, safe and cheap method to detect minimal residual disease (MRD) is here presented. The PCR-GS technique includes: (a) a fluorescent PCR for the IgH region with CDR3/JH consensus primers; (b) the electrophoresis on an automatic sequencer (ABI PRISM 310); (c) the analysis of results by the GeneScan program. A total of 72 samples were analysed: 34/49 B-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) (69%), six out of seven Multiple Myeloma (MM) (86%), 1/2 Hodgkin's Disease (HD) and 4/4 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) were found to be positive, showing a monoclonal IgH rearrangement. The major bias of the PCR-GS method are the 21% of false negatives, but 13/15 negative patients carried t(14;18); consequently, the association of the evaluation by PCR assays of the IgH and BCL2/JH rearrangement allowed to detect a molecular marker of B-neoplasia in more than 94% of tested samples.
authors.affiliation: Oncology Department, University of Pisa, Ospedale S. Chiara, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Galimberti
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brizzi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mameli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petrini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D005260:Female; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D005803:Genes, Immunoglobulin; D019337:Hematologic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018365:Neoplasm, Residual / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains