Identifying high-risk adult AML patients: epigenetic and genetic risk factors and their implications for therapy

Expert Rev Hematol. 2016;9(4):351-60. doi: 10.1586/17474086.2016.1141673. Epub 2016 Feb 12.

Abstract

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease at molecular level, in response to therapy and prognosis. The molecular landscape of AML is evolving with new technologies revealing complex panorama of genetic abnormalities where genomic instability and aberrations of epigenetic regulators play a key role in pathogenesis. The characterization of AML diversity has led to development of new personalized therapeutic strategies to improve outcome of the patients.

Keywords: Acute myeloid Leukemia; Epigenetics; Genetic; Risk factors; targeted treatment.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / genetics
  • Cytogenetic Analysis
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm / genetics
  • Epigenomics*
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / diagnosis
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / drug therapy*
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / genetics
  • Precision Medicine
  • Prognosis
  • Risk Factors

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor