A comprehensive mechanistic and epidemiological study to obtain banked cord blood samples from consecutive childhood leukemia patients enrolled in the COG Project:EveryChild (APEC14B1) study. Will attempt to backtrack the initiating genomic alteration identified in the matched diagnostic leukemia sample and molecularly characterize pre-leukemic cells. The ultimate goal of this research is to pinpoint the cell of origin of leukemogenic alterations formed in utero, elucidating the etiology of these initiating mutations (as opposed to frank leukemia), and devising a test for circulating pre-leukemia that can be applied on a population-wide basis.
OBJECTIVES: Primary Aim 1: To obtain stored cord blood and dried bloodspots of pediatric leukemia patients in Project:EveryChild. Secondary Aim 2: To conduct preliminary backtracking and characterization of ALL- and AML-typical somatic mutations in cord blood and dried bloodspots. OUTLINE: Accrue patients with ALL and AML who indicate having banked cord blood at birth through the APEC14B1 intake questionnaire
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
300
Obtain banked cord blood samples from consecutive childhood leukemia patients
Cases meeting eligibility and who have given consent through APEC14B1 for future contact for non-therapeutic studies
The family will be given an option to complete questionnaire on paper, online, or over the telephone.
University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
RECRUITINGPrevalence of patient-specific somatic alterations found in cord blood in each molecularly-defined subtype of leukemia leukemia patients in Project:EveryChild.
Investigate less common cytogenetic subtypes for which the prenatal origins have not yet been investigated.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Density of alterations, calculated as # of alterations per # of cells assayed, within each flow-sorted cell population
Determine the prenatal origins across childhood leukemia subtypes, we will perform backtracking experiments using patient-specific ddPCR probes in matched tumor and CB samples from childhood ALL and AML patients in APEC14B1 with available stored CB. To identify the cells of origin of preleukemic alterations across childhood ALL and AML subtypes, we will perform single-cell sequencing analyses in flow-sorted CB cells from patients in which a prenatal lesion has been confirmed by backtracking.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
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