Abstract:Objective To study the value of serum miR-922 and miR-506 expression levels in the diagnosis and prognostic assessment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Methods A total of 132 children with ALL (ALL group) and 80 healthy children (healthy control group) were prospectively selected in this study. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to measure the expression levels of serum miR-922 and miR-506 in both groups. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to analyze the diagnostic value of miR-922 and miR-506 for childhood ALL. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to plot survival curves, and multivariate COX regression models were used to analyze the risk factors for poor prognosis in children with ALL. Results The ALL group had significantly higher expression levels of serum miR-922 and miR-506 than the control group (P<0.001). The ROC curve analysis showed that the optimal cut-off values of miR-922 and miR-506 for the diagnosis of childhood ALL were 1.46 and 2.17, respectively. The high miR-922 expression (≥1.46) group and high miR-506 expression (≥2.17) group had significantly higher incidence rates of lymph node enlargement, leukocyte count ≥50×109/L, medium-high risk stratification, mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) gene rearrangement, and karyotype abnormality than the low miR-922 expression group and low miR-506 expression group (P<0.05). The Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that high expression of miR-922 and miR-506 was associated with short survival time in children with ALL (P<0.05). The multivariate COX regression analysis showed that leukocyte count ≥50×109/L, medium-high risk stratification, MLL gene rearrangement, miR-922≥1.46, and miR-506≥2.17 could indicate poor prognosis in children with ALL (P<0.05). Conclusions The expression levels of miR-922 and miR-506 are of good value in the diagnosis and prognostic assessment of childhood ALL.
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