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WES of purified, neoplastic T‐cell (CD3 + PD1 + ) demonstrated high concordance with whole tumor biopsies and validated the presence of TET2 and DNMT3A in tumor and non‐lymphoid cells, but other mutations ( CD28 , RHOA G17V , IDH2 R172 , PLCG1 ) in neoplastic cells. Integrated DNA‐methylation and mRNA expression analysis revealed epigenetic alterations in genes regulating TCR, cytokines, PI3K‐signaling, and apoptosis. RNA‐seq analysis identified fusion transcripts regulating TCR‐activation (8%), revealed a restricted TCR‐repertoire (α = 87%, β = 72%), and showed the presence of Epstein–Barr virus transcriptome (73%). GEP demonstrated the association of B‐cells or dendritic cells in the tumor milieu with prognosis ( p < 0.01). RNA‐seq and WES analysis of 12 AITL‐patient‐derived‐xenografts (PDX) showed that bi‐allelic TET2 and DNMT3A mutations or sub‐clonal mutations ( PLCG1, PHLPP2 ) propagated in sequential passages, and gene signatures related to T FH and T CM (central‐memory) were well‐maintained through passages. Gene expression signatures associated with late PDX passages (3rd–5th) were enriched with proliferation and metabolic reprogramming‐related genes and predicted prognosis in an independent AITL series. Low PHLPP2 mRNA expression predicted poor prognosis ( p = 0.05) and engineered PHLPP2 or TET2 loss in CD4 + T‐cells showed enhanced PI(3)K activation, thus uncovering a therapeutic target for clinical trials.","journal":"American Journal of Hematology","year":2025,"id":519714,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":6,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9523,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":514679,"name":"Weiwei Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-6123-8034","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":373419,"name":"Sunandini Sharma","orcid":"0009-0005-4311-7924","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":509741,"name":"Harald Holte","orcid":"0000-0001-9799-9428","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1388668,"name":"Roshani Shah","orcid":"0000-0002-5695-5717","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":700440,"name":"Waseem Lone","orcid":"0000-0003-3078-614X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1388669,"name":"Mahfuza Afroz Soma","orcid":"0000-0003-2903-8822","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":476540,"name":"Qingsong Yang","orcid":"0000-0003-2768-9429","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":379083,"name":"Xuxiang Liu","orcid":"0000-0002-1677-0814","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1389237,"name":"Syed Karman Mehmood","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1389238,"name":"Ravneet Singh Chawla","orcid":null,"position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":308263,"name":"Luca Vincenzo Cappelli","orcid":"0000-0001-8090-3880","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":375902,"name":"Danilo Fiore","orcid":"0000-0003-3004-6862","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":446855,"name":"Qiang Gong","orcid":"0000-0001-8502-6813","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1240698,"name":"Tayla B. 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