Itziar Salaverria

Itziar Salaverria
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona · Servicio de Anatomía Patológica

PhD

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June 2011 - present

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Testicular large B‐cell lymphoma (TLBCL) is an infrequent and aggressive lymphoma arising in an immune‐privileged site and has recently been recognized as a distinct entity from diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We describe the genetic features of TLBCL and compare them with published series of nodal DLBCL and primary large B‐cell lymphomas of...
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Aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) in children, adolescents, and young adults (CAYA) include Burkitt lymphoma (BL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and a subset of high-grade tumors with features intermediate between these entities whose genetic and molecular profiles have not been completely elucidated. In this study, we have cha...
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Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is genetically characterized by the IG::CCND1 translocation mediated by an aberrant V(D)J rearrangement. CCND1 translocations and overexpression have been identified in occasional aggressive B-cell lymphomas with unusual features for MCL. The mechanism generating CCND1 rearrangements in these tumors and their genomic prof...
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During the last five decades, chromosome analysis identified recurring translocations and inversions in leukemias and lymphomas, which led to cloning of genes at the breakpoints that contribute to oncogenesis. Such molecular cytogenetic methods as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), copy number (CN) arrays or optical genome mapping (OGM) hav...
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Primary vitreoretinal lymphoma (PVRL) represents a subtype of intraocular lymphomas, which are a subgroup of malignant lymphomas of the eye. PVRL is considered a special form of primary diffuse large cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the CNS (central nervous system) (PCNSL) and arises primary or secondary to PCNSL. According to the cell of origin (COO) clas...
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MALAT1 long non-coding RNA has oncogenic roles but has been poorly studied in indolent B-cell neoplasms. Here, MALAT1 expression was analyzed using RNA-seq, microarrays or qRT-PCR in primary samples from clinico-biological subtypes of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL, n = 266), paired Richter transformation (RT, n = 6) and follicular lymphoma (FL,...
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Follicular lymphoma (FL) is a neoplasm derived from germinal center B cells, composed of centrocytes and centroblasts with at least a focal follicular growth pattern. The t(14;18) translocation together with epigenetic deregulation through recurrent genetic alterations are now recognized as the hallmark of FL. Nevertheless, FL is a heterogeneous di...
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Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) represent a broad spectrum of lymphoid proliferations, frequently associated with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection. The molecular profile of pediatric monomorphic PTLDs (mPTLD) has not been elucidated and it is unknown whether they display similar genetic features as their counterpart in adult...
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MALAT1 is a long non-coding RNA with oncogenic roles in cancer but poorly studied in indolent B-cell neoplasms. Here, MALAT1 expression was analyzed using RNA-seq, microarrays or qRT-PCR in primary samples from various clinico-biological subtypes of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL, n=266) and follicular lymphoma (FL, n=61). In peripheral blood (P...
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Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is an uncommon lymphoma with an aggressive clinical course characterized by selective growth of tumor cells within the vessels. Its pathogenesis is still uncertain and there is little information on the underlying genomic alterations. In this study, we performed a clinicopathologic and next-generation se...
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With the introduction of large-scale molecular profiling methods and high-throughput sequencing technologies, the genomic features of most lymphoid neoplasms have been characterized at an unprecedented scale. While the principles for the classification and diagnosis of these disorders, founded on a multidimensional definition of disease entities, h...
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Background: T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) is an aggressive neoplasm closely related to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL). Despite their similarities, and contrary to T-ALL, studies on paediatric T-LBL are scarce and, therefore, its molecular landscape has not yet been fully elucidated. Thus, the aims of this study were to charac...
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The genetic landscape of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) in pediatric population has not been fully elucidated. This absence of information raises the question whether therapeutic strategies should be the same as for their counterparts in immunocompetent (IC) patients. The aim of this study was to characterize genetically and i...
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Pediatric nodal marginal zone lymphoma (PNMZL) is an uncommon B-cell neoplasm affecting mainly male children and young adults. This indolent lymphoma has distinct characteristics that differ from conventional nodal marginal zone lymphoma (NMZL). Clinically, it shows overlapping features with pediatric-type follicular lymphoma (PTFL). To explore the...
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Background T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) is an aggressive neoplasm closely related to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL). Despite their similarities, and contrary to T-ALL, studies on pediatric T-LBL are scarce and, therefore, its molecular landscape has not been fully elucidated yet. Procedure To characterize the genetic and mole...
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Introduction: Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma that predominantly occurs in patients with HIV or other causes of immunodeficiency. Frequent infection by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and MYC translocations have been described as major features contributing to the pathogenesis of PBL. Prior studies examining the genetic l...
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Relapsed or refractory diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cases have a poor outcome. Here we analysed clinico‐biological features in 373 DLBCL patients homogeneously treated with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone (R‐CHOP), in order to identify variables associated with early failure to treatment (EF), defined...
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Vitreoretinal lymphoma (VRL) is a rare subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) considered a variant of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). Diagnosis of VRL requires examination of vitreous fluid, but cytologic differentiation from uveitis remains difficult. Due to its rarity and difficulty in obtaining diagnostic material, lit...
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Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma with an immunoblastic/large cell morphology and plasmacytic differentiation. The differential diagnosis with Burkitt lymphoma (BL), plasma cell myeloma (PCM) and some variants of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) may be challenging due to the overlapping morphological, genetic and im...
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Fifty-five cases of t(14;18)− follicular lymphoma (FL) were genetically characterized by targeted sequencing and copy number (CN) arrays. t(14;18)− FL predominated in women (M/F 1:2); patients often presented during early clinical stages (71%), and had excellent prognoses. Overall, t(14;18)− FL displayed CN alterations (CNAs) and gene mutations car...
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Background and aims: Chromosomal instability is a hallmark of cancer that results in broad and focal copy number alterations (CNAs), two events associated with distinct molecular, immunological and clinical features. In hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) the CNAs role has not been thoroughly assessed. Thus, we dissected the impact of CNA burdens on HC...
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Pediatric large B-cell lymphomas (LBCLs) share morphological and phenotypic features with adult types but have better prognosis. The higher frequency of some subtypes such as LBCL with IRF4 rearrangement (LBCL-IRF4) in children suggests that some age-related biological differences may exist. To characterize the genetic and molecular heterogeneity o...
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Introduction: Aneuploidy is a cancer hallmark that includes broad somatic copy-number alterations (SCNAs), being whole chromosome- or arm-level events, or smaller focal SCNAs. Pan-cancer studies suggest that tumor broad and focal SCNAs are linked to distinctive molecular/clinical traits, and broad SCNAs may potentially interfere with tumor immune i...
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Burkitt-like lymphoma with 11q aberration is characterized by pathological features and gene expression profile resembling those of Burkitt lymphoma but lacks the MYC rearrangement and carries an 11q-arm aberration with proximal gains and telomeric losses. Whether this lymphoma is a distinct category or a particular variant of other recognized enti...
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Rare cases of hematological precursor neoplasms fulfill the diagnostic criteria of mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL), characterized by expression patterns of at least two hematopoietic lineages, for which a highly aggressive behavior was reported. We present a series of 11 pediatric non‐leukemic MPAL identified among 146 precursor lymphoblastic...
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Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is characterized by the t(11;14)(q13;q32) translocation resulting in overexpression of cyclin D1. However, a small subset of cyclin D1-negative MCL (cyclin D1– MCL) has been recognized, and approximately half of them harbor CCND2 translocations while the primary event in cyclin D1–/D2– MCL remains elusive. To identify oth...
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BACKGROUND Pediatric aggressive large B-cell lymphomas (LBCL) share morphological and phenotypic features with adult types but seem to have better prognosis. Additionally, a specific subtype carrying IRF4 translocations (LBCL-IRF4) has been recently identified in this age group. In adults, the cell-of-origin (COO) distinction of diffuse large B-cel...
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In families at risk from monogenic diseases affected offspring, it is fundamental the development of a suitable Double Factor Preimplantation Genetic Testing (DF-PGT) method for both single-gene analysis and chromosome complement screening. Aneuploidy is not only a major issue in advanced-maternal-age patients and balanced translocation carriers, b...
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Nexus software settings for CNV analysis. (DOCX)
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Embryo F4E1-GEH. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 47,XY+15. Note that the loss of chromosome 15 observed is due to the reference used. (TIF)
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Embryo F1E2-RG. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 46,XX. (TIF)
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Embryo F8E1-RG. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 46,XX. (TIF)
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Embryo F1E1-GEH. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 47,XY+15. Note that the loss of chromosome 15 observed is due to the reference used. (TIF)
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Embryo F2E1-GEH. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 47,XY+15. Note that the loss of chromosome 15 observed is due to the reference used. (TIF)
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Embryo F3E1-GEH. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 47,XY+15. Note that the loss of chromosome 15 observed is due to the reference used. (TIF)
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Embryo F5E1-GEH. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 47,XY+15. Note that the loss of chromosome 15 observed is due to the reference used. (TIF)
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Embryo F6E1-GEH. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 47,XY+15. Note that the loss of chromosome 15 observed is due to the reference used. (TIF)
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Embryo F2E2-RG. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 46,XX. (TIF)
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Embryo F3E2-RG. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 46,XX. (TIF)
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Embryo F10E1-RG. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 46,XX. (TIF)
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Embryo F9E1-RG. On the left, mCGH results, reference used 46, XY. On the right, NGS-CNV summary plot, reference used 46,XX. (TIF)
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High-grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 rearrangements, mostly known as double-hit lymphoma (DHL), is a rare entity characterized by morphologic and molecular features between Burkitt lymphoma and the clinically manageable diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). DHL patients usually undergo a rapidly progressing clinical course asso...
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Genome studies of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have revealed the remarkable subclonal heterogeneity of the tumors, but the clinical implications of this phenomenon are not well known. We assessed the mutational status of 28 CLL driver genes by deep-targeted next-generation sequencing and copy number alterations (CNA) in 406 previously untreat...
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We previously described a subset of MYC translocation-negative aggressive B-cell lymphomas resembling Burkitt lymphoma, characterized by proximal gains and distal losses in chromosome 11. In the 2016 WHO classification, these MYC-negative lymphomas were recognized as a new provisional entity, ‘Burkitt-like lymphoma with 11q aberration’. Here we pre...
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Genome studies of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have revealed a large number of somatic mutations and structural alterations. However, the clinical significance of these alterations is still not well defined. In this study we have integrated the analysis of targeted next generation sequencing of 106 genes and genomic copy number alterations...
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Key Points TNFRSF14 and MAP2K1 mutations are frequent in PTFL but do not occur together in the majority of cases. MAP2K1 mutations lead to activation of the downstream target phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase.
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Double-hit lymphoma (DHL) is a rare subtype of B-cell lymphoma characterized by MYC and either BCL2 or BCL6 chromosomal rearrangements. DHL cases may have different morphology and are included in the updated 2016 WHO classification as a new category of high grade B-cell lymphoma with rearrangements. DHL patients usually undergo a rapidly progressin...
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Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) may occur in children. Pediatric tumors share morphological and phenotypic features with the adult type but seem to have better prognosis. Nevertheless, molecular characteristics of this particular group of patients are not well known. The cell-of-origin (COO) distinction of DLBCL based on patterns...
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MYC translocation is a defining feature of Burkitt lymphoma (BL), and the new category of high-grade B-cell lymphomas with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 translocations, and occurs in 6% to 15% of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs). The low incidence of MYC translocations in DLBCL makes the genetic study of all these lymphomas cumbersome. Strategies...
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Introduction SOX11 is a transcription factor (TF) aberrantly expressed in the majority of mantle cell lymphomas (MCLs), which is generally associated with aggressive clinical behaviour. No mutations, genetic aberrations or direct correlations with differential DNA methylation at the promoter related to its expression have been found in MCL. Deeper...
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Introduction Recent large scale genomic studies have disclosed the heterogeneity of the mutational landscape of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The remarkable genomic plasticity of this disease has been further emphasized by the complex subclonal composition recognized in some tumors. Initial studies using high-coverage next generation sequenci...
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Introduction: DLBCL is biological and clinically highly heterogeneous. Although different genetic aberrations, including recurrent somatic mutations, have been described in this tumor, their clinical impact remains to be clarified. The aim of the present study was to determine somatic mutations and copy number alterations of a selected group of gen...
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We analyzed the in silico purified DNA methylation signatures of 82 mantle cell lymphomas (MCL) in comparison with cell subpopulations spanning the entire B cell lineage. We identified two MCL subgroups, respectively carrying epigenetic imprints of germinal-center-inexperienced and germinal-center-experienced B cells, and we found that DNA methylat...
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Aims and methods: We aimed to define the clinicopathological characteristics of 29 primary sinonasal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL(sn) ) in a series of 240 DLBCL(all NOS) including DLBCL(sn) training set (n=11) and validation set (n=18), and DLBCL(non-sn) (n=211). Results: In the training set 82% had non-GCB phenotype and 18% were EBER(+)...
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Document S1. Supplemental Experimental Procedures, Figures S1–S3, and Table S1–S5