TY - JOUR TI - Frequent NFKBIE deletions are associated with poor outcome in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma AU - Mansouri, L. AU - Noerenberg, D. AU - Young, E. AU - Mylonas, E. AU - Abdulla, M. AU - Frick, M. AU - Asmar, F. AU - Ljungström, V. AU - Schneider, M. AU - Yoshida, K. AU - Skaftason, A. AU - Pandzic, T. AU - Gonzalez, B. AU - Tasidou, A. AU - Waldhueter, N. AU - Rivas-Delgado, A. AU - Angelopoulou, M. AU - Ziepert, M. AU - Arends, C.M. AU - Couronné, L. AU - Lenze, D. AU - Baldus, C.D. AU - Bastard, C. AU - Okosun, J. AU - Fitzgibbon, J. AU - Dörken, B. AU - Drexler, H.G. AU - Roos-Weil, D. AU - Schmitt, C.A. AU - Munch-Petersen, H.D. AU - Zenz, T. AU - Hansmann, M.-L. AU - Strefford, J.C. AU - Enblad, G. AU - Bernard, O.A. AU - Ralfkiaer, E. AU - Erlanson, M. AU - Korkolopoulou, P. AU - Hultdin, M. AU - Papadaki, T. AU - Grønbæk, K. AU - Lopez-Guillermo, A. AU - Ogawa, S. AU - Küppers, R. AU - Stamatopoulos, K. AU - Stavroyianni, N. AU - Kanellis, G. AU - Rosenwald, A. AU - Campo, E. AU - Amini, R.-M. AU - Ott, G. AU - Vassilakopoulos, T.P. AU - Hummel, M. AU - Rosenquist, R. AU - Damm, F. JO - Blood advances PY - 2016 VL - 128 TODO - 23 SP - 2666-2670 PB - American Society of Hematology SN - null TODO - 10.1182/blood-2016-03-704528 TODO - bleomycin; cyclophosphamide; doxorubicin; immunoglobulin enhancer binding protein; prednisolone; prednisone; rituximab; vincristine; vindesine; I kappa B; NFKBIE protein, human; oncoprotein; tumor marker, acute lymphoblastic leukemia; adult; aged; Article; B cell lymphoma; cancer immunotherapy; cancer patient; cancer prognosis; cancer radiotherapy; cancer survival; classical Hodgkin lymphoma; clinical outcome; comparative study; controlled study; diffuse large B cell lymphoma; female; follicular lymphoma; follow up; gene; gene deletion; gene expression profiling; gene frequency; genetic association; Hodgkin disease; human; major clinical study; male; mantle cell lymphoma; mediastinum cancer; mutational analysis; NFKBIE gene; nucleotide sequence; primary central nervous system lymphoma; primary tumor; priority journal; regulatory mechanism; splenic marginal zone lymphoma; T cell leukemia; treatment response; whole exome sequencing; adolescent; B cell lymphoma; clinical trial; disease free survival; genetics; mediastinum tumor; middle aged; mortality; multicenter study; survival rate, Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Biomarkers, Tumor; Disease-Free Survival; Female; Gene Deletion; Humans; I-kappa B Proteins; Lymphoma, B-Cell; Male; Mediastinal Neoplasms; Middle Aged; Proto-Oncogene Proteins; Survival Rate TODO - We recently reported a truncating deletion in the NFKBIE gene, which encodes IκB, a negative feedback regulator of NF-κB, in clinically aggressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Because preliminary data indicate enrichment of NFKBIE aberrations in other lymphoid malignancies, we screened a large patient cohort (n 5 1460) diagnosed with different lymphoid neoplasms. While NFKBIE deletions were infrequent in follicular lymphoma, splenic marginal zone lymphoma, and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (<2%), slightly higher frequencies were seen in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, and primary central nervous system lymphoma (3% to 4%). In contrast, a remarkably high frequency of NFKBIE aberrations (46/203 cases [22.7%]) was observed in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBL) and Hodgkin lymphoma (3/11 cases [27.3%]). NFKBIE-deleted PMBL patients were more often therapy refractory (P 5 .022) and displayed inferior outcome compared with wild-Type patients (5-year survival, 59% vs 78%; P 5 .034); however, they appeared to benefit from radiotherapy (P 5 .022) and rituximab-containing regimens (P 5 .074). NFKBIE aberrations remained an independent factor in multivariate analysis (P 5 .003) and when restricting the analysis to immunochemotherapy-Treated patients (P 5 .008). Whole-exome sequencing and gene expression profiling verified the importance of NF-κB deregulation in PMBL. In summary, we identify NFKBIE aberrations as a common genetic event across B-cell malignancies and highlight NFKBIE deletions as a novel poor-prognostic marker in PMBL. © 2016 by The American Society of Hematology. ER -