This laboratory study is looking into genes in samples from younger patients with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL). Studying samples of blood, tissue, and bone marrow from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in RNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer
Study Subtype: Ancillary/Correlative Observational Study Model: Cohort Time Perspective: Retrospective Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA Biospecimen Description: Cryopreserved mRNA Study Population Description: Samples from AAML0531 Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample OBJECTIVES: I. To determine whether NUP98/JARID1A expression is a recurrent translocation in NUP98-rearranged cases in pediatric acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL). II. To screen the Children Oncology Group (COG) samples for genetic aberrations in pediatric AMKL. OUTLINE: Cryopreserved specimens are analyzed for NUP98 fusion to NSD1, JARID1A, and TOP1, myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL)-rearrangements, and other gene expression profiling by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and karyotyping or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Results are then compared with each patient's outcome data.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Correlative studies
Children's Oncology Group
Monrovia, California, United States
Complete remission (CR, defined as less than 5% blasts in the bone marrow, with regeneration of tri-lineage hematopoiesis, plus absence of leukemic cells in the cerebrospinal fluid or elsewhere)
Time frame: Up to 8 weeks
Probability of event-free survival (pEFS, defined as time between diagnosis and first event, including non-remitting, death of any cause and second malignancy)
Time frame: Up to 8 weeks
Overall survival (pOS, defined as time between diagnosis and death)
Time frame: Up to 8 weeks
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