| Abstract: |
Patients with HIV are at increased risk for developing B-cell lymphomas likely due in part to chronic antigen stimulation leading to clonal immunoglobulin (Ig) gene rearrangements. Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based identification of circulating Ig clonotypes has not been well-characterized in HIV-related lymphomas. The AIDS Malignancies Consortium (AMC) enrolled 51 untreated patients with HIV-related B-cell lymphomas and analyzed paired tumor/plasma specimens for Ig clonotypes using an NGS approach (AMC064, NCT00981097). Lymphoma-specific clonotypes (>5% frequency) were identified in 83% (33/40) of tumor specimens. Results from paired tumor/plasma specimens showed identical circulating clonotypes in the plasma from 97% (32/33) of patients. High International Prognostic Index (IPI) scores of 3–4 among patients with B-cell lymphoma correlated with higher lymphoma molecules/million diploid genomes in the plasma compared with lower IPI scores of 0–2, median 77335 vs. 6876, p =.005. Further studies are merited to determine whether plasma clonal Ig DNA is prognostic in HIV-related lymphomas. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
