Table 4.

Clinical characteristics depending on detection of marker chromosomes, chromothripsis, and ring chromosome groups

Group 1 marker chr. pos. chromothripsis pos. (n = 18)*Group 2 marker chr. pos. chromothripsis neg. (n = 31)P value group 1 vs 2Group 3 ring chr. pos. (n = 7)*Group 4 control group (complex aberrant w/o marker, ring, dm, der) (n = 34)
Clinical parameters      
 Age, y (median, range) 58 (35-76) 58 (18-77) 1.0 68 (49-78) 47 (18-75) 
 Gender (male/female) 8/10 17/14 1.0 4/3 18/16 
 FAB (0/1/2/4,5/6) 1/5/4/5/3 3/6/11/10/1 1.0 0/0/4/2/1 0/14/3/15/0 
 Prior MDS (no./N) 2/17 (11.8%) 5/31 (16.1%) 1.0 0/6 (0%) 2/34 (5.9%) 
 Leukocytes, /nL (median, range) 8.5 (1.6-171.3) 19.4 (0.6-159.8) 1.0 3.8 (2.5-148.6) 26.5 (0.4-212.0) 
 LDH, U/mL (median, range) 716 (182-4160) 518 (165-5489) 1.0 207 (118-849) 480 (27-3438) 
Cytogenetic parameters      
 Complex ab. (≥4) (no./N) 18/18 (100%) 20/31 (64.5%) .04 5/7 (71.4%) 34/34 (100%) 
 Monosomal (no./N) 16/18 (88.9%) 14/31 (45.2%) .04 5/7 (71.4%) 9/34 (26.5%) 
 Subclone formation (no./N) 16/18 (88.9%) 16/31 (51.6%) .13 4/7 (57.1%) 25/34 (73.5%) 
 Abnl(5q) (no./N) 11/17 (64.7%) 12/31 (38.7%) 1.0 5/7 (71.4%) 6/34 (17.6%) 
 Abnl(7q) (no./N) 8/17 (47.1%) 10/31 (32.3%) 1.0 1/7 (14.3%) 5/34 (14.7%) 
 Abn(17q) (no./N) 9/18 (50.0%) 5/31 (16.1%) .20 2/7 (28.6%) 5/34 (14.7%) 
 Number markers (median, range) 2 (1-11) 1 (1-7) .01 0 (0-11) 0 (0-0) 
 Derivate chromosome (no./N) 8/18 (44.4%) 5/31 (16.1%) .41 2/7 (28.6%) 0/34 (0%) 
Remission status      
 CR+CRi 2/16 (12.5%) 10/31 (32.3%) .18 2/7 (28.6%) 10/34 (29.4%) 
Group 1 marker chr. pos. chromothripsis pos. (n = 18)*Group 2 marker chr. pos. chromothripsis neg. (n = 31)P value group 1 vs 2Group 3 ring chr. pos. (n = 7)*Group 4 control group (complex aberrant w/o marker, ring, dm, der) (n = 34)
Clinical parameters      
 Age, y (median, range) 58 (35-76) 58 (18-77) 1.0 68 (49-78) 47 (18-75) 
 Gender (male/female) 8/10 17/14 1.0 4/3 18/16 
 FAB (0/1/2/4,5/6) 1/5/4/5/3 3/6/11/10/1 1.0 0/0/4/2/1 0/14/3/15/0 
 Prior MDS (no./N) 2/17 (11.8%) 5/31 (16.1%) 1.0 0/6 (0%) 2/34 (5.9%) 
 Leukocytes, /nL (median, range) 8.5 (1.6-171.3) 19.4 (0.6-159.8) 1.0 3.8 (2.5-148.6) 26.5 (0.4-212.0) 
 LDH, U/mL (median, range) 716 (182-4160) 518 (165-5489) 1.0 207 (118-849) 480 (27-3438) 
Cytogenetic parameters      
 Complex ab. (≥4) (no./N) 18/18 (100%) 20/31 (64.5%) .04 5/7 (71.4%) 34/34 (100%) 
 Monosomal (no./N) 16/18 (88.9%) 14/31 (45.2%) .04 5/7 (71.4%) 9/34 (26.5%) 
 Subclone formation (no./N) 16/18 (88.9%) 16/31 (51.6%) .13 4/7 (57.1%) 25/34 (73.5%) 
 Abnl(5q) (no./N) 11/17 (64.7%) 12/31 (38.7%) 1.0 5/7 (71.4%) 6/34 (17.6%) 
 Abnl(7q) (no./N) 8/17 (47.1%) 10/31 (32.3%) 1.0 1/7 (14.3%) 5/34 (14.7%) 
 Abn(17q) (no./N) 9/18 (50.0%) 5/31 (16.1%) .20 2/7 (28.6%) 5/34 (14.7%) 
 Number markers (median, range) 2 (1-11) 1 (1-7) .01 0 (0-11) 0 (0-0) 
 Derivate chromosome (no./N) 8/18 (44.4%) 5/31 (16.1%) .41 2/7 (28.6%) 0/34 (0%) 
Remission status      
 CR+CRi 2/16 (12.5%) 10/31 (32.3%) .18 2/7 (28.6%) 10/34 (29.4%) 

ab., aberrant; chr., chromosome; dm, double minutes; neg., negative; pos., positive; w/o, without.

*

The single patient with both marker and ring chromosomes is listed in both categories.

Adjusted for multiple testing.

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