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Higher-order connections between stereotyped subsets : implications for improved patient classification in CLL

Agathangelidis, Andreas ; Chatzidimitriou, Anastasia ; Gemenetzi, Katerina ; Giudicelli, Veronique ; Karypidou, Maria ; Plevova, Karla ; Davis, Zadie ; Yan, Xiao-Jie ; Jeromin, Sabine ; Schneider, Christof ; Bredo-Pedersen, Lone ; Tschumper, Renee C. ; Sutton, Lesley-Ann ; Baliakas, Panagiotis ; Scarfò, Lydia ; van Gastel, Ellen J. ; Armand, Marine ; Tausch, Eugen ; Biderman, Bella ; Baer, Constance ; Bagnara, Davide ; Navarro, Alba ; Langlois de Septenville, Anne ; Guido, Valentina ; Mitterbauer-Hohendanner, Gerlinde ; Dimovski, Aleksandar ; Brieghel, Christian ; Lawless, Sarah ; Meggendorfer, Manja ; Braazdilova, Kamila ; Ritgen, Matthias ; Facco, Monica ; Tresoldi, Cristina ; Visentin, Andrea ; Patriarca, Andrea ; Catherwood, Mark ; Bonello, Lisa ; Sudarikov, Andrey ; Vanura, Katrina ; Roumelioti, Maria ; Skuhrova-Francova, Hana ; Moysiadis, Theodoros ; Veronese, Silvio ; Giannopoulos, Krzysztof ; Mansouri, Larry ; Karan-Djurasevic, Teodora ; Sandaltzopoulos, Raphael ; Bödör, Csaba ; Fais, Franco ; Kater, Arnon ; Panovska, Irina ; Rossi, Davide ; Alshemmari, Salem ; Panagiotidis, Panagiotis ; Costeas, Paul ; Espinet Solà, Blanca ; Antic, Darko ; Foroni, Letizia ; Montillo, Marco ; Trentin, Livio ; Stavroyianni, Niki ; Gaidano, Gianluca ; Francia di Celle, Paola ; Niemann, Carsten ; Campo, Elias ; Anagnostopoulos, Achilles ; Pott, Christiane ; Fischer, Kirsten ; Hallek, Michael ; Oscier, David ; Stilgenbauer, Stephan ; Haferlach, Claudia ; Jelinek, Diane ; Chiorazzi, Nicholas ; Pospisilova, Sarka ; Lefranc, Marie-Paule ; Kossida, Sofia ; Langerak, Anton W. ; Belessi, Chrysoula ; Davi, Frederic ; Rosenquist, Richard ; Ghia, Paolo ; Stamatopoulos, Kostas

In: Blood, 2020, vol. 137, no. 10, p. 1365–1376

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by the existence of subsets of patients with (quasi)identical, stereotyped B cell receptor immunoglobulins (BcR IG). Patients in certain major stereotyped subsets often display remarkably consistent clinicobiological profiles, suggesting that the study of BcR IG stereotypy in CLL has important implications for understanding disease...

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Biological and clinical implications of BIRC3 mutations in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Diop, Fary ; Moia, Riccardo ; Favini, Chiara ; Spaccarotella, Elisa ; De Paoli, Lorenzo ; Bruscaggin, Alessio ; Spina, Valeria ; Terzi-di-Bergamo, Lodovico ; Arruga, Francesca ; Tarantelli, Chiara ; Deambrogi, Clara ; Rasi, Silvia ; Adhinaveni, Ramesh ; Patriarca, Andrea ; Favini, Simone ; Sagiraju, Sruthi ; Jabangwe, Clive ; Kodipad, Ahad A. ; Peroni, Denise ; Mauro, Francesca R. ; Del Giudice, Ilaria ; Forconi, Francesco ; Cortelezzi, Agostino ; Zaja, Francesco ; Bomben, Riccardo ; Rossi, Francesca Maria ; Visco, Carlo ; Chiarenza, Annalisa ; Rigolin, Gian Matteo ; Marasca, Roberto ; Coscia, Marta ; Perbellini, Omar ; Tedeschi, Alessandra ; Laurenti, Luca ; Motta, Marina ; Donaldson, David ; Weir, Phil ; Mills, Ken ; Thornton, Patrick ; Lawless, Sarah ; Bertoni, Francesco ; Del Poeta, Giovanni ; Cuneo, Antonio ; Follenzi, Antonia ; Gattei, Valter ; Boldorini, Renzo Luciano ; Catherwood, Mark ; Deaglio, Silvia ; Foà, Robin ; Gaidano, Gianluca ; Rossi, Davide

In: Haematologica, 2020, vol. 105, no. 2, p. 448-456

BIRC3 is a recurrently mutated gene in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) but the functional implications of BIRC3 mutations are largely unexplored. Furthermore, little is known about the prognostic impact of BIRC3 mutations in CLL cohorts homogeneously treated with first-line fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab (FCR). By immunoblotting analysis, we showed that the non-canonical...