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Chromosome and FISH studies are important for investigating the causes of (2)

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Leukemia and Lymphoma

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Chromosome microarray is standard of complimentary to chromosome and FISH studies for who?

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Individuals with developmental delays (including multiple congenital anomalies, autism, intellectual disabilities)

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Specimens for Cytogenetic Studies (4)

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Bone Marrow
Blood
Tissue
Fluids

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What tissues are used in cytogenetic studies for cancer diagnostics (5)

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Bone marrow
Unstimulated Blood
Lymph node tissue
Solid tumor tissue
CNS fluid
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When we are looking and leukemia and lymphoma, we usually see block in 3 points of differentiation in hematopoietic lineages, what are they?

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L blast –> Lymphocyte

Pro-myelocyte –> myelocyte (neutrophil lineage)

Megakaryocyte –> platelet

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What are two common cytogenetic findings in childhood B-cell leukemia?

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Low hypodiploidy

High hyperdiploidy

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Low hypodiploidy or near triploidy in Childhood B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia is associated with what prognosis

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Poor Prognosis

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Poor prognosis in Childhood B-Cell ALL is associated with what cytogenic finding?

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Low hypodiploidy or near triploidy

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In cases of pediatric B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) what is associated with a good prognosis?

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High hyperdiploidy (e.g. >50) - specifically 4,10,17

*but not that near triploidy is associated with poor

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What childhood disease has cytogenetic studies helped to improve dramatically (i.e. 95% remission)

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Childhood ALL

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So in addition to diagnosis, cytogenetics is important in prognosis and treatment protocol
One example being Childhood ALL
If Hypodiploid ?
If Hyperdiploid?

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Hypo - poor prog –> high dose chem

Hyper - good prog –> low dose chem

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When we do cytogenetic studies, in addition to finding cells with abnormal chromosomal constitutions we also find cells with normal 46XXorY constitutions, what is this called?

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Somatic mosaicism

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Suppose a 3 year old presented with leg and arm pain / fever / abdomen distension / and 48% BLASTS? What would this be indicative of?

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ALL

Blasts should be no more than 1%

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FISH =

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Florescence in situ hybridization

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What does FISH do?

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Specific, cloned DNA sequences can enumerate number of a specific chromosome OR identify translocation!

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Types of FISH probes (5)

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Centromere
Locus specific
Dual fusion/fusion
Break apart
Whole chromosome paint
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Chromosome analysis of ______________ is performed to detect common anomalies associated with leukemia and lymphoma

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Bone marrow

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What studies can reveal the high hyperdiploidy in Childhood B-Cell ALL?

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chromosome and FISH analysis

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What are two of the most common leukemia translocations?

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t(9;22) is diagnostic for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) - which can be treated with tryrosine kinase inhibitors

t(15;17) is diagnostic for a specific acute promyeloid leukemia (APML), which can be treated with retinoic acid

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Centromere FISH probes are used for___________

example?

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Enumeration

All panel

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Locus specific FISH probes are used for?

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Deletion / duplication detection

e.g. p53

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Dual fusion / fusion (DF, F) FISH probes are used for?

example (2)

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Translocation detection

BCR;ABL
PML;RAR

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Break apart FISH probes are used for?

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Translocation rearragement

MLL

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Whole chormosome paint FISH probes are used for?

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Identifying markers / translocations

WCP 1-22,X,Y (all studies)

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Two significant effects of translocations
Altered gene expression (e.g. translocated next to a strong enhancer or promoter) Creation of novel fusion product
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What kind of probe would we use for BCR;ABL FISH?
Dual fusion
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What does it mean for a translocation to be cryptic and what do we need to detect?
Cryptic translocations result in normal looking karyotypes because translocated regions were equal in size and I would assume had similar banding Thus, we need FISH to detect these e.g. t(12;21)(p13;q22) in ALL
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Acute Myelogenous Leukemia | Do we see this in adults or kids?
More frequently adults but also in children/young adults
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What are the two chromosomal aberrations that we focused on?
t(15;17)(q22;q21) PML-RARalpha (4.1%) t(9;22)(q34;q11) ABL1;BCR (0.7%)
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What are auer rods?
They show up on path slides, they are suggestive of myeloid disorder - acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML)
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What is the 9;22 tranlocation called?
Philidelphia chromosome
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What is the t(9;22) consistent with?
Diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia
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What chromosomal aberration is characteristic of APML (Acute promyelocytic Leukemia)?
PML/RAR rearrangement | t(15;17)
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What is the consequence of PML/RARa rearrangement?
Myelodi Hematopoietic precursor differentiation blockage The PML-RARa fusion protein seems to interrupt the differentiation of myeloid hematopoietic precursors past the promyelocytic stage
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How do we treat patients with PML/RARa
Treatment of APML patients with retinoic acid apparently overcomes the inhibition of the fusion protein and allows differentiation of myeloid precursors
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What is a common secondary cytogenetic abnormality in cases with t(15;17)
Trisomy 8
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What common secondary cytogenetic abnormalities do we see in CML
Trisomy 8
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Why does BCR;ABL yield cancer?
The activity of tyrosine kinases is typically controlled by other molecules, but the mutant tyrosine kinase of the BCR-Abl transcript codes for a protein that is "always on" or continuously activated, which results in unregulated cell division (i.e. cancer).
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Imantinib (Gleevac)
Treats CML Binds ATP binding site in abl tyrosine kinase and bcr/abl tyrosine kinase Inhibits cell proliferation
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DS infants and children are at elevated risk for which cancers?
20-100x for ALL or AML 500x for AMKL Note: FISH studies only demonstrate gain of 21 sequences - so maybe something else going on?
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CMA - what is on slide?
Target DNA - single stranded oligomers
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CMA - what does it detect?
Gains and Losses (ONLY!)
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Can CMA detect re-arrangements?
NO
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Can CMA detect mosaicism
Limited (10-15%)
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Compare and Contrast Cytogenetics and CMA What are we screening?
Both screen the genome
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Compare and Contrast Cytogenetics and CMA What phase are we screening?
Cytogenetics - mitotic | CMA - interphase
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Compare and Contrast Cytogenetics and CMA What cells do we screen?
Cyto - selected cells | CMA - all cells
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Compare and Contrast Cytogenetics and CMA What are we looking for?
Cyto - Gain/Loss and Balanced Rearrangement | CMA - Gain/Loss only
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Compare and Contrast Cytogenetics and CMA Accuracy
Cyto - Technologist expertise | CMA - technology
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What are runs of homozygosity?
Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are long stretches of consecutive homozygous genotypes probably reflecting segments shared identically by descent as the result of processes such as consanguinity, population size reduction, and natural selection.
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CMA can detect what?
Runs of homozygosity because they contain SNPs
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What is the advantage of chromosomal microarrays?
Detects chromosomal gains and losses, some of which my be "Submicroscopic" - One array = 850,000 FISH studies Intensity and allelic imbalance
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Chromosomal microarrays detects abnormalities in known hot spots - what are known hot spots?
Areas of known genetic disease | e.g. 22q11.2 deletion
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Chromosomal microarrays can be used to characterize chromosome abnormalities detected by karyotyping - what does this mean?
Can detect specific size of imbalance and genes involved
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Current CMAs use ________ based platform to interrogate over 850,000 regions of the genome
SNP
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CMA methods | What is our sample, usually?
Peripheral blood
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CMA methods - what are we comparing
Spots/Color intensity of sample DNA to 50 normal individuals
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CMA methods - the SNP platform provides information on intensity and on runs of homozygosity, which might possibly reveal?
Autosomal recessive conditions
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CMA frequently reveals ________-and _____________ of genetic material that cannot be seen by standard cytogenetics and light microscopy
deletions and duplications
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Copy number variants
duplications or deletions within the DNA for which there can be associated pathology or no consequence - depending on location and size
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Can you detect copy number variants at the chromosomal level?
NO
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CNV are there regions of known clinical significance?
Yes There are regions known to be del/dup associated with Mendelian disorders Also Tumor susceptible loci
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CMA Reports | Determine what?
Size and location of deletion/duplication (most >200Kbp) --> leads to further investigation of data base
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CMA reports - look for genomic content of region
Copy number variants? Gene/functions Known phenotypes
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CMA reports and heritability
Is de novo or inherited?
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Chromosomal microarray - drop in florescent signal at given chromosomal region indicates?
Dropout - deletion | Loss of segment of chromosome DNA
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If possible, what do we always follow up CMA test with?
FISH Confirmation
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So if a child comes in with developmental delay, autism, and dysmorphic features, we first do A and then do B lastly C
A. CMA B. Metaphase FISH confirmation C. Look at database of genomic variants for relevant deletions / diseases
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CMA reports determine _ and _ and are supported by multiple levels of __
size and location of deletions and duplication and are supported by multiple levels of SNP
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CMA lab reports thresholds
Deletion >200kb Duplications>400 kb smaller findings in clinically significant regions
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CMA lab reports ROH
Evaluated at >5Mb with reporting threshold 10Mb | Total % ROH reported if >5%
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CMA cannote detect (3)
low level mosaicism heterodisomy balanced chromosome rearrangements
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CMA reports | Genomic content of regions (2)
Copy number varians | Genes/functions
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CMA reports | Heredity?
De novo or inherited
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Can we see point mutations with fish?
No, probes are 200kb so would still hyrbidize? strange since it is SNP platform

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