Figure 1.
Example showing the multistep acquisition of resistance in ALL. Cells are represented with mutations shown as small colored circles. At diagnosis (D), patient SJALL043859 had a subclonal mutation in SNRNP25 of uncertain significance in 10% of leukemic cells (10% cancer cell fraction or CCF), which increased to 87% at relapse (R). At relapse, an NT5C2 R367Q mutation was detected at 84% CCF within the SNRNP25 lineage, but was not found at diagnosis at 747× coverage, indicating that the NT5C2 variant descended from the SNRNP25 clone. The relapse sample also acquired the thiopurine signature (bottom), and the NT5C2 mutations had >50% probability of having been induced by thiopurines because it occurred at a thiopurine-preferred trinucleotide context. These findings are based on whole-genome sequencing and targeted deep sequencing (484 to 1284× coverage of the SNRNP25 and NT5C2 mutations).

Example showing the multistep acquisition of resistance in ALL. Cells are represented with mutations shown as small colored circles. At diagnosis (D), patient SJALL043859 had a subclonal mutation in SNRNP25 of uncertain significance in 10% of leukemic cells (10% cancer cell fraction or CCF), which increased to 87% at relapse (R). At relapse, an NT5C2 R367Q mutation was detected at 84% CCF within the SNRNP25 lineage, but was not found at diagnosis at 747× coverage, indicating that the NT5C2 variant descended from the SNRNP25 clone. The relapse sample also acquired the thiopurine signature (bottom), and the NT5C2 mutations had >50% probability of having been induced by thiopurines because it occurred at a thiopurine-preferred trinucleotide context. These findings are based on whole-genome sequencing and targeted deep sequencing (484 to 1284× coverage of the SNRNP25 and NT5C2 mutations).

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