Authors: Mukherjee, D.; Lawal, R. A.; Fitzhugh, C. D.; Hourigan, C. S.; Dillon, L. W.

Score: 16.6, Published: 2024-02-08

DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.06.24302401

There is increasing recognition of the risk of developing therapy-related myeloid malignancy, including after cellular therapy. While retrospective studies have implicated pre-existing TP53 mutated hematopoietic clones as a common causative mechanism, no prospective screening to identify those patients at greatest risk is currently possible. We demonstrate that ultradeep DNA-sequencing prior to therapy may be used for discovery of TP53 mutations that are subsequently associated with malignancy.