The Journal of Practical Medicine ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 321-325.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-5725.2024.03.007

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Clinical significance of HOXB4 gene expression levels in myelodysplastic syndromes

Yichen WANG1,2,Yanwen YAN3,Meihui SONG2,Xiangjun XUE3,Wenguang ZHOU3,Yuquan LI3,Ling QI2,Guanghua LI1(),Xiangzong ZENG2,3()   

  1. College of Basic Medicine,Dali University,Dali 671000,China; *Institute of Digestive Disease,the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University,Qingyuan People's Hospital,Qingyuan 511518,China
  • Received:2023-08-28 Online:2024-02-10 Published:2024-02-22
  • Contact: Guanghua LI,Xiangzong ZENG E-mail:liguanghua005@163.com;gdzxz1990@163.com

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the expression of HOXB4 gene in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and its clinical significance in disease progression. Methods mRNA expression of HOXB4 gene in bone marrow mononuclear cells was detected by real?time fluorescence quantitative PCR (RT?qPCR), and the difference in HOXB4 expression was compared between 49 patients with MDS (MDS group) and 35 patients without MDS (group C). The relationship of mRNA expression of HOXB4 with disease characteristics and clinical prognosis was explored in MDS patients. Results mRNA expression level of HOXB4 gene was higher in MDS group than that in group C (P < 0.05). The patients were divided into a high? and a low?expression group according to the median expression level of HOXB4. Leukocyte count was lower in the high?expression group in the low?expression group at the time of initial diagnosis. The proportion of patients with subtypes of primitive cellular hyperplasia, poor prognostic staging and leukemic transformation was higher in the high?expression group than in the low?expression group. Conclusions mRNA expression level of HOXB4 gene has certain relation with AML transformation in MDS patients.

Key words: myelodysplastic syndrome, HOXB4, prognosis, leukemia transformation

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