Gene expression analysis identifies a genetic signature potentially associated with response to alpha-IFN in chronic phase CML patients

• Microarray-based gene expression analysis was performed on diagnostic chronic phase CML patient samples prior to interferon treatment. Fifteen patient samples corresponding to six cytogenetic responders and nine non-responders were included. Genes differentially expressed between responder and non-responder patients were listed and a subsequent leave-one-out cross validation (LOOV) procedure showed that the top 20 genes allowed the highest prediction accuracy. The relevant genes were quantified by real-time PCR that supported the microarray results. We conclude that it might be possible to use gene expression analysis to predict future response to interferon in CML diagnostic samples.

Keyword

Chronic myeloid leukemia

Gene expression profiling

Interferon

Microarray

Drug response

RNASE2

CEBP

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