Clinical Study

Patients with Multiple Myeloma Develop SOX2-Specific Autoantibodies after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Table 1

Patient characteristics. Data are shown for all patients and for the subgroup of SOX2-seropositive patients. LC: light chain; HC: heavy chain.

ParameterTotalSOX2 seropositiveSignificance

Sexn.s.
 Male1159
 Female806

Agen.s.
 >60696
 ≤601269

Karyotype*  n.s.
 Normal837
 Complex150
 del13q14466*
 del17p13123
t(4;14)90
 Not tested300

LC isotypen.s.
 Light lambda626
 Light kappa1007

HC isotypen.s.
 IgG16713
 IgA180

Stagen.s.
 I322
 II522
 III959

* One patient was found to bear a 13q14 and a 17p13 deletion.