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| Acquired skewing of X-chromosome inactivation patterns in myeloid cells of the elderly suggests stochastic clonal loss with age |
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| Author(s): Gale RE, Fielding AK, Harrison CN, Linch DC |
| Source: BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY Volume: 98 Issue: 3 Pages: 512-519 Published: SEP 1997 |
| Times Cited: 137 References: 52 |
| Abstract: More frequent skewing of X-chromosome inactivation patterns (XCIPs) occurs in the white blood cells of elderly females; this study was performed to determine whether this occurs in myeloid or lymphoid lineages. XCIPs were analysed in purified neutrophils and T cells from 80 females > 75 years and the results were compared with 23 cord blood and 94 younger adult blood samples. The degree of XCIP skewing in cord blood and younger adult blood cells was similar, with 3-4% having >90% expression of one allele. Skewing was markedly increased in the neutrophils of elderly females, with 33% having >90% expression of one allele (P < 0.0001). Extreme skewing was present in only 9% of the elderly T-cell samples and no evidence of T-cell clonality was found by PCR analysis of the TCR gamma gene. The high level of acquired skewing of the XCIPs in myeloid cells of the elderly suggests that with time there is a change in stem cell usage with stochastic loss of some of the original stem cells. This has ma)or implications for the use of XCIP analysis in the diagnosis of myeloid malignancies in the elderly and for gene therapy into haemopoietic stem cells. |
| Document Type: Article |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Gale, RE (reprint author), UNIV COLL & MIDDLESEX SCH MED, DEPT HAEMATOL, 98 CHENIES MEWS, LONDON WC1E 6HX, ENGLAND |
| Publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD, P O BOX 88, OSNEY MEAD, OXFORD, OXON, ENGLAND OX2 0NE |
| Subject Category: Hematology |
| IDS Number: XW005 |
| ISSN: 0007-1048 |
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