A (15;17) translocation not associated with acute promyelocytic leukaemia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 706-709

  Di Bona, Eros ^a   Montaldi, Anna ^a   Guercini, Nicola ^a   Rossi, Vincenzo ^b   Luciano, Anna ^b   Biondi, Andrea ^b   Rodeghiero, Francesco ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

acute myeloid leukaemia; acute promyelocytic leukaemia; chromosomal abnormality; fluorescence in situ hybridization; t(15; 17) translocation

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 15; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 17; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030477232     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1996.d01-1949.x     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Alcalay, M., Zangrilli, D., Fagioli, M., Pandolfi, P.P., Mencarelli, A., Lo Coco, F., Biondi, A., Grignani, F. & Pelicci, P.G. (1992) Expression pattern of RARα-PML fusion gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 89, 4840-4844.
2. Bennett, J.M., Catovsky, D., Daniel, M.T., Flandrin, G., Galton, D.A.G., Gralnick, H.R. & Sultan, C. (1985) Proposed revised criteria for the classification of acute myeloid leukaemia. Annals of Internal Medicine, 103, 626-629.
3. Biondi, A., Rambaldi, A., Pandolfi, P.P., Rossi, V., Giudici, G., Alcalay, M., Lo Coco, F., Diverio, D., Pogliani, E.M., Lanzi, E.M., Mandelli, F., Masera, G., Barbui, T. & Pelicci, P.G. (1992) Molecular monitoring of the myl/retinoic acid receptor-α fusion gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia by polymerase chain reaction. Blood, 80, 492.
4. Dalton, W.T., Cork, A., Stass, S.A. & Trujillo, J.M. (1988) Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia with trisomy 8 and related clone with trisomy 8 and t(15;17). Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 32, 287-292.
5. Diverio, D., Lo Coco, F., D'Adamo, F., Biondi, A., Fagioli, M., Grignani, F., Rambaldi, A., Rossi, V., Avvisati, G., Petti, M.C., Testi, A.M., Liso, V., Specchia, G., Fioritani, G., Recchia, A., Frassoni, F., Ciolli, S. & Pelicci, P.G. (1992) Identification of DNA rearrangements at the RARα locus in all patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and mapping of APL breakpoints within the RARα second intron. Blood, 79, 1-5.
6. Fagioli, M., Alcalay, M., Pandolfi, P.P., Venturini, L., Mencarelli, A., Simeone, A., Acampora, D., Grignani, F. & Pelicci, P.G. (1992) Alternative splicing of PML transcripts predicted coexpression of several carboxy-terminally different protein isoforms. Oncogene, 7, 1083-1091.
7. Glenn, L.D., Sanger, W.G., Kessinger, A. & Vaughan, W.P. (1988) Failure of karyotypic instability to predict clinical progression in patients with dysmyelopoietic syndromes. Hematological Pathogy, 2, 239-248.
8. Grignani, F., Fagioli, M., Alcalay, M., Longo, L., Pandolfi, P.P., Donti, E., Biondi, A., Lo Coco, F., Grignani, F. & Pelicci, P.G. (1994) Acute promelocytic leukemia: from genetics to treatment. Blood, 83, 10-25.
9. Hiorns, L.R., Min, T., Swansbury, G.J., Zelent, A., Dyer, M.J.S. & Catovsky, D. (1994) Interstitial insertion of retinoic acid receptor-α gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia with normal chromosomes 15 and 17. Blood, 83, 2946-2951.
10. ISCN (1978) An International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 21, 309-319.
11. Lafage-Pochilatoff, M., Alacalay, M., Brunel, V., Longo, L., Sainty, D., Simonetti, J., Birg, F. & Pelicci, P.G. (1995) Acute promyelocytic leukemia cases with nonreciprocal PML/RARα or RARα/ PML fusion genes. Blood, 85, 1169-1174.
12. Mitelman, F. (1988) Catalog of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, 3rd edn. Alan R. Liss, New York.