Alternatively, droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) can be used for MRD monitoring in multiple myeloma, mantle cell lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma with comparable sensitivity, accuracy, and reproducibility.The most broadly applicable MRD target in B-NHL is the junctional regions of the rearranged immunoglobulin heavy chain gene (IGHV).
Members of the miR‑17‑92 cluster exhibited various expression in the subtypes of B‑NHL, and the difference between follicular lymphoma (FL) and germinal center B‑cell like (GBC) was most marked.
Subgroup analysis based on B-NHL type demonstrated a significant association between sCD23 level and diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and follicular lymphoma (FL).
This study was performed on samples from 70 patients with B-NHL, including two cases of follicular lymphoma (FL), 20 cases of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), one case of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), and 47 cases of B-cell neoplasm (non-classified), which had been previously assessed for complete IGH clonality, and failure to clarify gene rearrangements.
In a survey of human B-NHL AID was found to be constitutively expressed in follicular lymphoma and in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma but to be absent in B-precursor lymphoblastic leukemia, in mantle cell lymphoma, and in plasma cell myeloma.
Nineteen of 21 (90%) B-NHLs arising from postgerminal center B cells (follicular lymphomas, diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, splenic marginal zone lymphomas, and Burkitt's lymphomas) exhibited high expression of pol mu mRNA.
In B-cell NHL, specific translocations and oncogene rearrangements are associated with specific NHL subtypes de novo; many of these translocations involve immunoglobulin genes, such as t(14;18) in follicular lymphoma, t(11;14) in MCL, t(3;14) in DLLC, and t(8;14) in Burkitt's lymphoma.