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Origin of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia. Scientific Publication
Ramón García-Sanz 1 , Cristina Jiménez 2 , Noemí Puig 2 , Bruno Paiva 3 , Norma C Gutiérrez 2 , Paula Rodríguez-Otero 3 , Julia Almeida 4 , Jesús San Miguel 3 , Alberto Orfão 4 , Marcos González 2 , Martín Pérez-Andrés 4
Abstract
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia (WM) is an MYD88L265P-mutated lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma that invades bone marrow and secretes monoclonal immunoglobulin M (IgM). WM cells are usually unable to undergo class switch recombination, and have mutated IGHV, with a typical immunophenotype CD19+/CD22low+/CD23-/CD25+/CD27+/CD45+/CD38low+/SmIgM+ (negative for CD5, CD10, CD11c, CD103).
This immunophenotype matches memory B cells (smIgM-/+/CD10-/CD19+/CD20+/CD27+/CD38low+/CD45+), representing 30% of B cells in the blood. Fifty percent of them have not undergone class switch recombination and are IgM+.
These cells have suffered somatic hypermutation as WM cells. Genetic abnormalities do not abrogate the capacity to progress to plasma cells that usually belong to the clonal WM compartment, with a normal immunophenotype and functional characteristics.
However, some WM cells are CD27-, MYD88WT, without somatic hypermutation, or with class switch recombination capable of reactivation. Thus, most data support a B-memory-cell origin for WM, but a small fraction of cases may have a different origin.
CITATION Best Pract Res Clin Haematol. 2016 Jun;29(2):136-147. doi: 10.1016/j.beha.2016.08.024. Epub 2016 Oct 6.
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