{"doi":"10.1182/blood.2023019765","title":"Genomic landscape of Down syndrome-associated acute lymphoblastic leukemia","abstract":"Trisomy 21, the genetic cause of Down syndrome (DS), is the most common congenital chromosomal anomaly. It is associated with a 20-fold increased risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) during childhood and results in distinctive leukemia biology. To comprehensively define the genomic landscape of DS-ALL, we performed whole-genome sequencing and whole-transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) on 295 cases. Our integrated genomic analyses identified 15 molecular subtypes of DS-ALL, with marked enrichment of CRLF2-r, IGH::IGF2BP1, and C/EBP altered (C/EBPalt) subtypes compared with 2257 non-DS-ALL cases. We observed abnormal activation of the CEBPD, CEBPA, and CEBPE genes in 10.5% of DS-ALL cases via a variety of genomic mechanisms, including chromosomal rearrangements and noncoding mutations leading to enhancer hijacking. A total of 42.3% of C/EBP-activated DS-ALL also have concomitant FLT3 point mutations or insertions/deletions, compared with 4.1% in other subtypes. CEBPD overexpression enhanced the differentiation of mouse hematopoietic progenitor cells into pro-B cells in vitro, particularly in a DS genetic background. Notably, recombination-activating gene-mediated somatic genomic abnormalities were common in DS-ALL, accounting for a median of 27.5% of structural alterations, compared with 7.7% in non-DS-ALL. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering analyses of CRLF2-rearranged DS-ALL identified substantial heterogeneity within this group, with the BCR::ABL1-like subset linked to an inferior event-free survival, even after adjusting for known clinical risk factors. These results provide important insights into the biology of DS-ALL and point to opportunities for targeted therapy and treatment individualization.","journal":"Blood","year":2023,"id":321380,"datarank":0.5742962094733643,"base_score":3.828641396489095,"endowment":3.828641396489095,"self_citation_contribution":0.5742962094733643,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5742962094733643,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":45,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8506,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":55260,"name":"Ti‐Cheng Chang","orcid":"0000-0001-5302-9147","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":535216,"name":"Jacob J. 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