Expression profile of acute monocytic leukemia patients. Homo sapiens

To understand the pathogenesis of DNMT3A in acute monocytic leukemia (AML-M5), we identified genes that are expressed differently in leukemia cells from AML-M5 patients collected at diagnosis with DNMT3A mutations (6 cases) compared to those without the mutations (4 cases). Differences of expression level were observed in 889 out of 20,723 (4.3%) annotated genes by using Affymetrix microarray with 469 genes upregulated and 420 genes downregulated. Overall design: Leukemia cells in bone marrow of acute monocytic leukemia patients were collected at diagnosis for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. 6 cases of AML-M5 samples with DNMT3A mutations and 4 cases of AML-M5 samples wihtout DNMT3A mutations were used.