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Table 3 Comparison of patients with lower (< median) and higher (> median) MethScore

From: MethScore as a new comprehensive DNA methylation-based value refining the prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia

 

Training cohort (n = 128)

Testing cohort (n = 50)

Low MethScore (n = 64)

High MethScore (n = 64)

p value

Low MethScore (n = 35)

High MethScore (n = 15)

p value

ELN 2017

Favorable

14

4

0.004

13

6

1.000

 

Intermediate

36

31

 

13

5

 
 

Adverse

8

20

 

9

4

 
 

NA

6

9

 

0

0

 

Sex

Male/Female

34/30

34/30

1.000

19/16

5/10

0.224

Transplantation in 1st CR

Yes/No/NA

36/28/0

21/43/0

0.012

16/19/0

2/13/0

0.052

Relapse

 

20/44/0

22/42/0

0.851

15/20/0

8/7/0

0.548

CR after 1st induction

 

44/19/1

26/37/1

0.002

23/12/0

11/4/0

0.746

FLT3-ITD

Positive/Negative/NA

14/49/1

18/46/0

0.541

7/28/0

6/9/0

0.170

DNMT3A mutation

 

17/40/7

23/33/8

0.242

5/30/0

5/10/0

0.143

IDH1/2 mutation

 

12/45/7

14/42/8

0.660

7/28/0

0/15/0

0.087

TET2 mutation

 

4/49/11

7/42/15

0.346

2/33/0

2/13/0

0.574

ASXL1 mutation

 

4/49/11

5/44/15

0.735

2/33/0

3/12/0

0.152

NRAS mutation

 

8/45/11

9/40/15

0.184

9/26/0

4/11/0

1.000

TP53 mutation

 

0/55/9

12/43/9

 < 0.001

2/33/0

1/14/0

1.000

NPM1 mutation

 

22/40/2

21/40/3

1.000

14/21/0

7/8/0

0.759

CEBPA mutation

 

4/59/1

4/55/5

1.000

2/33/0

1/14/0

1.000

RUNX1 mutation

 

4/49/11

5/44/15

0.735

1/34/0

1/14/0

0.514

Number of mutations

Average ± SD/Median

1.7 ± 1.3/1.5

2.3 ± 1.7/2.0

0.099

1.8 ± 1.2/2.0

2.5 ± 1.8/3.0

0.161

Age

 

45.5 ± 13.4/44.0

55.1 ± 10.0/58.3

 < 0.001

54.1 ± 14.4/59.0

58.9 ± 12.1/60.0

0.285

Leukocytes

 

63.6 ± 39.3/61.0

69.4 ± 40.4/70.0

0.400

48.1 ± 59.1/19.9

51.4 ± 63.9/29.0

0.751

  1. CR complete remission, NA not analyzed, SD standard deviation; p-values < 0.05 indicated in bold