Analysis of B-lymphoid malignancies using allele-specific polymerase chain reaction: a technique for sequential quantitation of residual disease

Author:

Billadeau D1,Blackstadt M1,Greipp P1,Kyle RA1,Oken MM1,Kay N1,Van Ness B1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.

Abstract

Abstract The junctional sequences corresponding to the complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3) of rearranged heavy chain Ig genes can provide allele-specific markers in the detection of B-lymphoid malignancies. Consensus oligonucleotide primers were used to amplify CDR3 regions of rearranged heavy chain alleles in clinical samples from myeloma, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients. From the sequence of the amplified products, allele-specific primers were synthesized and used directly in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification to detect the malignant clone. This method was both highly specific and sensitive to 1 malignant B-cell in a background of 10(5) normal cells. In addition, parameters that affect the linearity of PCR detection were determined and, by using titrations of malignant target cells to generate standard curves, quantitations of residual malignancies were determined. The application of this method is shown in an analysis of myeloma patients whose marrows were analyzed sequentially during therapy. Allele-specific oligonucleotide-PCR provided a rapid, highly specific and quantitative measure of residual disease, even in patients with clinical parameters indicating complete remission.

Publisher

American Society of Hematology

Subject

Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry

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