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The rate of detection of chromosome abnormalities in T-cell proliferations is lower than that observed in B-cell malignancies. The former frequently involve the TCR alpha/delta locus at chromosome band 14q11. We have identified a YAC encompassing 70% of the TCR alpha/delta locus, which has been used as a fluorescence in situ hybridization probe to detect chromosome rearrangements involving 14q11, both at metaphase and within interphase nuclei, in patients with a variety of T-lymphoproliferative disorders. Its use allowed detection of previously unsuspected TCR alpha/delta rearrangements in 4/13 (30%) immature T-lineage acute leukemias, including two t(10;14) and 2 minor inversion 14s. It also clarified interpretation of complex chromosome 14 abnormalities in mature T-cell proliferations (T-prolymphocytic leukemia and ataxia telangiectasia). Use of this probe will aid the detection and characterization of abnormalities involving the TCR alpha/delta locus, particularly in cases with normal or complex karyotypes and in those proliferations for which mitoses are difficult to obtain.
Author(s): Rack KA, Cornelis F, Radford-Weiss I, Bernheim A, Harrison CJ, Hermine O, Prieur M, Vekemans M, Macintyre EA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Blood
Year: 1997
Volume: 90
Issue: 3
Pages: 1233-1240
Print publication date: 01/08/1997
ISSN (print): 0006-4971
ISSN (electronic): 1528-0020
Publisher: American Society of Hematology
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=9242557
Notes: Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't United states
