COMPLEX ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF CYTOKINE GENE POLYMORPHISMS AS PROGNOSTIC FACTOR OF THE RISK OF PLASMA CELL MYELOMA IN PERSONS SUFFERED AFTER THE CHORNOBYL NPP ACCIDENT.

Objective: to provide a comparative characterization of the prevalence of polymorphic variants of cytokine genes in plasma cell myeloma (PCM) patients suffered after the Chornobyl disaster and patients who were in contact with ionizing radiation within the natural radiation background, based on comparison with population controls to determine their contribution as genetic markers of disease risk.

Materials And Methods: Molecular genetic studies of polymorphism of cytokine genes (TNF-α, TGF-β1, IL-6, IL-10, IFN-γ) and complex frequency analysis of occurrence in three-, four-, and five-locus combinations of their allelic variants as prognostic markers of the risks of plasma cell myeloma was carried out in 102 patients - 56 victims of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident and 46 patients irradiated within the limits of the natural radiation background, in comparison with the control group (364 practically healthy people, residents of the Central geno-geographical region of Ukraine).

Results: The same probable increase in the prevalence of the TGF-β genotype codon10 T/T of the TGF-β1 gene was established in the groups of patients irradiated after the Chornobyl NPP accident and non-irradiated patients.

MYC gene rearrangements detected by interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas.

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of lymphoma, including approximately 30-40% of all B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (B-NHL). Chromosomal translocations are the hallmark of genetic aberrations in B-lymphoma and are often associated with a specific subtype of B-NHL. MYC gene dysregulation due to chromosomal translocations is characteristic for the most cases of Burkitt's lymphoma.