TY - JOUR
T1 - Definition of subtypes of essential thrombocythaemia and relation to polycythaemia vera based on JAK2 V617F mutation status
T2 - A prospective study
AU - Campbell, Peter J.
AU - Scott, Linda M.
AU - Buck, Georgina
AU - Wheatley, Keith
AU - East, Clare L.
AU - Marsden, Joanne T.
AU - Duffy, Audrey
AU - Boyd, Elaine M.
AU - Bench, Anthony J.
AU - Scott, Mike A.
AU - Vassiliou, George S.
AU - Milligan, Donald W.
AU - Smith, Steve R.
AU - Erber, Wendy N.
AU - Bareford, David
AU - Wilkins, Bridget S.
AU - Reilly, John T.
AU - Harrison, Claire N.
AU - Green, Anthony R.
PY - 2005/12/3
Y1 - 2005/12/3
N2 - Background: An acquired V617F mutation in JAK2 occurs in most patients with polycythaemia vera, but is seen in only half those with essential thrombocythaemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis. We aimed to assess whether patients with the mutation are biologically distinct from those without, and why the same mutation is associated with different disease phenotypes. Methods: Two sensitive PCR-based methods were used to assess the JAK2 mutation status of 806 patients with essential thrombocythaemia, including 776 from the Medical Research Council's Primary Thrombocythaemia trial (MRC PT-1) and two other prospective studies. Laboratory and clinical features, response to treatment, and clinical events were compared for V617F-positive and V617F-negative patients with essential thrombocythaemia. Methods: Mutation-positive patients had multiple features resembling polycythaemia vera, with significantly increased haemoglobin (mean increase 9·6 g/L, 95% CI 7·6-11·6 g/L; p<0·0001), neutrophil counts (1·1×109/L, 0·7-1·5×109/L; p<0·0001), bone marrow erythropoiesis and granulopoiesis, more venous thromboses, and a higher rate of polycythaemic transformation than those without the mutation. Mutation-positive patients had lower serum erythropoietin (mean decrease 13·8 U/L; 95% CI, 10·8-16·9 U/L; p<0·0001) and ferritin (n=182; median 58 vs 91 μg/L; p=0·01) concentrations than did mutation-negative patients. Mutation-negative patients did, nonetheless, show many clinical and laboratory features that were characteristic of a myeloproliferative disorder. V617F-positive individuals were more sensitive to therapy with hydroxyurea, but not anagrelide, than those without the JAK2 mutation. Interpretation: Our results suggest that JAK2 V617F-positive essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia vera form a biological continuum, with the degree of erythrocytosis determined by physiological or genetic modifiers.
AB - Background: An acquired V617F mutation in JAK2 occurs in most patients with polycythaemia vera, but is seen in only half those with essential thrombocythaemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis. We aimed to assess whether patients with the mutation are biologically distinct from those without, and why the same mutation is associated with different disease phenotypes. Methods: Two sensitive PCR-based methods were used to assess the JAK2 mutation status of 806 patients with essential thrombocythaemia, including 776 from the Medical Research Council's Primary Thrombocythaemia trial (MRC PT-1) and two other prospective studies. Laboratory and clinical features, response to treatment, and clinical events were compared for V617F-positive and V617F-negative patients with essential thrombocythaemia. Methods: Mutation-positive patients had multiple features resembling polycythaemia vera, with significantly increased haemoglobin (mean increase 9·6 g/L, 95% CI 7·6-11·6 g/L; p<0·0001), neutrophil counts (1·1×109/L, 0·7-1·5×109/L; p<0·0001), bone marrow erythropoiesis and granulopoiesis, more venous thromboses, and a higher rate of polycythaemic transformation than those without the mutation. Mutation-positive patients had lower serum erythropoietin (mean decrease 13·8 U/L; 95% CI, 10·8-16·9 U/L; p<0·0001) and ferritin (n=182; median 58 vs 91 μg/L; p=0·01) concentrations than did mutation-negative patients. Mutation-negative patients did, nonetheless, show many clinical and laboratory features that were characteristic of a myeloproliferative disorder. V617F-positive individuals were more sensitive to therapy with hydroxyurea, but not anagrelide, than those without the JAK2 mutation. Interpretation: Our results suggest that JAK2 V617F-positive essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia vera form a biological continuum, with the degree of erythrocytosis determined by physiological or genetic modifiers.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67785-9
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67785-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 16325696
AN - SCOPUS:28244442441
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 366
SP - 1945
EP - 1953
JO - Lancet
JF - Lancet
IS - 9501
ER -