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. 2020 Apr 21;11:673. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00673

TABLE 1.

Plasma and cellular biomarkers for post-HCT outcomes.

Protein Study No. of patients in the study Association direction Diagnosis timepoint (median day post-HCT) Prognostic timepoint (median day post-HCT) References
Plasma aGVHD
4 biomarker panel: IL-2-receptor-α, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), IL-8 tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 Paczesny 2009 42+282+142 Increased 28 ND 52
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) McDonald 2015 74+76 Increased 28 Not significant 53
Kennedy 2014 53 Increased (3–14), then decreased 30 7–14 54
Stimulation 2 (ST2) Vander Lugt 2013 20+381+673*+75* Increased 28 14 55
Levine 2015 328+164+300 Increased 28 ND 56
Abu Zaid 2017 211 patients (independent cohort post-validation) Increased 28 ND 58
McDonald 2015 74+76 Increased 28 Not significant 53
Hartwell 2017 620+309+358 Increased ND 7 59
Major-Monfried 2018 236+142129 Increased ND 7 64
McDonald 2017 165 Increased ND 14 65
T cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin domain (TIM3) McDonald 2015 74+76+167* Increased 28 14 53
Abu Zaid 2017 211 patients (independent cohort post-validation) Increased 28 ND 58
AREG/EGF ratio Holtan 2016 105+50 Increased 160 ND 66
Skin specific
Elafin Paczesny 2010 522+492 Increased 28 ND 67
Bruggen 2015 59 Increased 28 ND 68
Liver specific
REG3 α, HGF, and Keratin 18 (KRT18) Harris 2012 954, 3 centers Increased 14 28 69
GI specific
Regenerating islet-derived 3-α (REG3 α) Ferrara 2011 20+871143 Increased 28 ND 71
T cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin domain (TIM3) Hansen 2013 20+127+22 Increased 28 ND 73
Cellular aGVHD
Regulatory T cells Magenau 2010 215 Decreased 3–14 28 19
CD146+ T cells Li 2016 20+214 Increased ND 14 28
CD30 Chen 2012 53 Increased ND ND 80
Chen 2017 34 Increased ND NA 81
Invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT) Chaidos 2012 57 Increased ND NA 82
Plasma chronic GVHD
sBAFF Sarantopoulos 2007 104 Increased 480 NA 93
Fujii 2008 80 Increased 171 (early&), 429 (late&) NA 94
Kitko 2014 35+109+211 Increased, and not validated in independent cohort 154+, 256 (early&), 619 (late&) NA 95
Kariminia 2016 23+198+83 Increased 203,174 NA 96
Saliba 2017 341 Increased/decreased # 189 NA 98
CXCL9 Kitko 2014 35+109+211 Increased 154+, 256 (early&), 619 (late&) NA 95
Yu 2016 53+211+180 Increased 210+,203& 100 99
Kariminia 2016 23+198+83 Increased, and not validated in independent cohort 203+,174& NA 96
Hakim 2016 26+83 Increased 132 NA 42
Abu 2017 211 Increased NA 100, 180, 365 (time dependent analysis) 58
CXCL10 Kariminia 2016 23+198+83 Increased 203+,174& NA 96
Hakim 2016 26+83 Increased 132 NA 42
Ahmed 2016 78+37 Increased 132 NA 97
Four protein panel (CXCL9, ST2, OPN, MMP3) Yu 2016 53+211+180 Increased 210,203 100 99
MMP3 Liu 2016 76 (BOS) Increased 531 NA 100
CCL15 Du 2018 211+792 Increased at onset, but not prognostic 203 100 101
Cellular chronic GVHD
CD163 Inamoto 2017 40+127 Increased NA 80 102
B cells
TLR9+ She 2007 54 Increased 171 (early), 429 (late) NA 103
CD21low Greinix 2008 70 Increased 1428 NA 104
Kuzmina 2013 136 Increased 143 NA 105
BAFF/B cell ratio Sarantopoulos 2009 57 Increased 180 NA 23
Tregs Zorn 2005 57 Decreased 720 NA 20
CD4+CD146+CCR5+ Forcade 2017 40 Increased 942 NA 29
TFH Forcade 2016 66 Decreased 867 NA 25

ND, not done; NA, not applicable; Patient number in validation cohort 1 and cohort 2; +cohort 1 and &cohort 2.