Analyzing The Mutations Of Notch1 And Sf3b1 Genes In Cases With CLL Detected Isolated 13q Deletion

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is known as type of leukemia originating from clonal mature B lymphocytes and has genetic heterogeneity. Many studies have been done to clarify the genome of CLL. In these studies, del(13q) is reported as the most common chromosomal aberration. Although this anomaly is associated with good prognosis when isolated, patients have clinical heterogeneity. In addition, in many gene mutations including TP53, NOTCH1 and SF3B1 gene mutations, poor prognosis has been identified. The prognostic significance of these genes has begun to be demonstrated. According to these data, we aimed to determine the mutation rate of NOTCH1 and SF3B1 genes and to investigate the prognostic effects (disease stages, TTFT and OS) in 43 cases with isolated del(13q) by using FISH method. We investigated the most common mutations of NOTCH1 and SF3B1 gene in CLL by using Sanger sequencing method. While frameshift 7541_7542delCT mutation was detected in the NOTCH1 gene in 1 out of 42 CLL cases with clinical heterogeneity, mutation in the SF3B1 gene couldn’t be detected. As a result of our study, it was observed that NOTCH1 and SF3B1 gene mutations weren’t associated with isolated del(13q) which is compatible with the literature data. Our study is the first study that evaluates NOTCH1 and SF3B1 gene mutations with prognostic parameters of isolated del(13q) with CLL patients in the Turkish population. As a result; It was concluded that there may be different reasons responsible for the clinical heterogeneity of isolated del(13q) cases and further studies are needed to reveal these reasons