S9031-9333-0106-0112-A Study of Biomarkers in Samples From Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated With Standard Chemotherapy With or Without Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin

OBJECTIVES:

• To determine whether measuring biomarkers in less-differentiated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) blasts significantly improves their predictive accuracy to predict clinical outcomes for patients receiving induction/consolidation chemotherapy with and without gemtuzumab ozogamicin.
• To develop and validate novel predictive biomarker models for predicting clinical outcomes for AML patients receiving induction/consolidation chemotherapy with and without gemtuzumab ozogamicin.

OUTLINE: DNA and RNA extracted from archived bone marrow and peripheral blood samples are analyzed for genomic mutations (CEBPA, FLT3, IDH1/2, KIT, NPM1, RUNX1, TP53, and WT1) and transcriptional biomarkers (BAALC, CCNA1, CD34, CEBPA, ERG, EVI1, FLT3, IL3RA, MCL1 [two splice variants], MN1, RUNX1, and WT1) by PCR and real-time PCR. Data are then analyzed by the Gene Scan software.

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Pretreatment bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) samples obtained from Southwest Oncology Group ( SWOG) Leukemia Repository for adult patients enrolled on SWOG-9031, SWOG-9333, SWOG-S0106, and SWOG-S0112
• Samples restricted to those patients from these studies with at least 3 or more vials of remaining material in the SWOG Leukemia Repository and vials containing at least 1.5 x 10^7 cells/vial
• Samples from patients who received standard induction with cytarabine (ARA)/daunorubicin hydrochloride (DNR) with the addition of gemtuzumab ozogamicin (Mylotarg®) on one arm of S0106

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

• Not specified

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• See Disease Characteristics