title: Correlation between microsatellite discrepancy scores and transplant outcome after haemopoietic SCT for pediatric ALL.
abstract: Microsatellite analyses show that self-reported ethnicity often correlates poorly with true genetic ancestry. As unknown ancestral differences could potentially have an impact on transplant outcome, we developed an average allele length discrepancy (AALD) score to assess allele length discrepancy between donor/recipient (D/R) using microsatellites analysed routinely in post-transplant chimeric assessment. This was then compared with outcome in a homogeneously treated cohort of pediatric patients undergoing high-resolution sibling or matched unrelated donor transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). AALD scores formed a numeric continuum ranging from 0 to 1.4 (median 0.76) for sibling pairs and 0.8-2.17 (median 1.6) for high-resolution matched unrelated donor (HR-MUD) pairs. There was a trend for worse OS with increasing AALD score, which reached statistical significance above a threshold of 1.7 for OS. Patients whose transplants had an AALD score of ⩾1.8 had a risk of non-relapse mortality 4.9 times greater (P=0.025) and relapse risk three times greater (P=0.058) than those scoring <1.8. This approach will now be explored in a Centre International for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Research (CIBMTR) study of 750 D/R pairs across all disease groups; if confirmed, it has the potential to improve donor selection for patients with multiple prospective donors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.affiliation: Department of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Green
authors.affiliation: Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Groves
authors.affiliation: School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cornish
authors.affiliation: School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.identifier: 0000000318443531
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moppett
authors.affiliation: School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cummins
authors.affiliation: Department of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keen
authors.affiliation: Department of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Culliford
authors.affiliation: Department of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poles
authors.affiliation: Statistics and Clinical Audit, Clinical Directorate, Organ Donor Registry, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hulme
authors.affiliation: British Bone Marrow Registry, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: 1] Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK [2] School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Steward
mesh_terms: D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics* / Q000628:therapy*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome