The effect of total-ABL, GUS and B2M control genes on BCR-ABL monitoring by real-time RT-PCR
✍ Scribed by Jana Rulcová; Václava Zmeková; Zuzana Zemanová; Hana Klamová; Jana Moravcová
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 462 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0145-2126
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✦ Synopsis
We compared the effect of control genes (CG): total Abelson (total-ABL), beta-2-microglobulin (B2M) and beta-glucuronidase (GUS), recommended in the Europe Against Cancer (EAC) program, on real-time BCR-ABL monitoring in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). We focused on the stability of CG expressions during therapy and the effect of the CGs on BCR-ABL ability to characterize the disease status and disease prognosis, issues that have not been addressed yet. The results showed B2M as a very convenient CG for BCR-ABL monitoring. On the contrary, the widely used total-ABL was not confirmed as appropriate for normalization of gene expression in CML.