T-cell transcription factor GATA-3 is an immunophenotypic marker of acute leukemias with T-cell differentiation

T cell transcription factor GATA-3, known to play a role in early T cell development and in the development of T cell neoplasms, is expressed at high levels in fetal and adult thymus, as well as in acute leukemias with T-cell differentiation, including T lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (22/22 cases), early T cell precursor (ETP) lymphoblastic leukemia (11/11 cases), and mixed phenotype acute leukemia, T/myeloid (4/5 cases), but only rarely in acute myeloid leukemia/myeloid sarcoma (1/36 cases), and not in B lymphoblastic leukemia (0/16 cases).

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