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Publication Triplication of a 21q22 region contributes to B cell transformation through HMGN1 overexpression and loss of histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation(2014) Lane, Andrew; Chapuy, Bjoern; Lin, Charles Y.; Tivey, Trevor; Li, Hubo; Townsend, Elizabeth C.; van Bodegom, Diederik; Day, Tovah; Wu, Shuo-Chieh; Liu, Huiyun; Yoda, Akinori; Alexe, Gabriela; Schinzel, Anna; Sullivan, Timothy J.; Malinge, Sébastien; Taylor, Jordan E.; Stegmaier, Kimberly; Jaffe, Jacob D.; Bustin, Michael; te Kronnie, Geertruy; Izraeli, Shai; Harris, Marian; Stevenson, Kristen E.; Neuberg, Donna; Silverman, Lewis; Sallan, Stephen; Bradner, James E; Hahn, William; Crispino, John D.; Pellman, David; Weinstock, DavidDown syndrome confers a 20-fold increased risk of B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)1 and polysomy 21 is the most frequent somatic aneuploidy amongst all B-ALLs2. Yet, the mechanistic links between chr.21 triplication and B-ALL remain undefined. Here we show that germline triplication of only 31 genes orthologous to human chr.21q22 confers murine progenitor B cell self-renewal in vitro, maturation defects in vivo, and B-ALL with either BCR-ABL or CRLF2 with activated JAK2. Chr.21q22 triplication suppresses H3K27me3 in progenitor B cells and B-ALLs, and “bivalent” genes with both H3K27me3 and H3K4me3 at their promoters in wild-type progenitor B cells are preferentially overexpressed in triplicated cells. Strikingly, human B-ALLs with polysomy 21 are distinguished by their overexpression of genes marked with H3K27me3 in multiple cell types. Finally, overexpression of HMGN1, a nucleosome remodeling protein encoded on chr.21q223–5, suppresses H3K27me3 and promotes both B cell proliferation in vitro and B-ALL in vivo.