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LC-FACSeq is a method for detecting rare clones in leukemia
Eileen Y. Hu, … , Gerard Lozanski, John C. Byrd
Eileen Y. Hu, … , Gerard Lozanski, John C. Byrd
Published June 18, 2020
Citation Information: JCI Insight. 2020;5(12):e134973. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.134973.
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Resource and Technical Advance Genetics

LC-FACSeq is a method for detecting rare clones in leukemia

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Abstract

Detecting, characterizing, and monitoring rare populations of cells can increase testing sensitivity, give insight into disease mechanism, and inform clinical decision making. One area that can benefit from increased resolution is management of cancers in clinical remission but with measurable residual disease (MRD) by multicolor FACS. Detecting and monitoring genomic clonal resistance to treatment in the setting of MRD is technically difficult and resource intensive due to the limited amounts of disease cells. Here, we describe limited-cell FACS sequencing (LC-FACSeq), a reproducible, highly sensitive method of characterizing clonal evolution in rare cells relevant to different types of acute and chronic leukemias. We demonstrate the utility of LC-FACSeq for broad multigene gene panels and its application for monitoring sequential acquisition of mutations conferring therapy resistance and clonal evolution in long-term ibrutinib treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This technique is generalizable for monitoring of other blood and marrow infiltrating cancers.

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Eileen Y. Hu, James S. Blachly, Caner Saygin, Hatice G. Ozer, Stephanie E. Workman, Arletta Lozanski, Tzyy-Jye Doong, Chi-Ling Chiang, Seema Bhat, Kerry A. Rogers, Jennifer A. Woyach, Kevin R. Coombes, Daniel Jones, Natarajan Muthusamy, Gerard Lozanski, John C. Byrd

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