Trisomy 12 in B Cells of Patients with B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- 3 April 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 314 (14), 865-869
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198604033141401
Abstract
Trisomy 12 is the most frequently reported chromosome abnormality in patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but only normal karyotypes are found in one third of patients with that disorder. Moreover, samples from patients with trisomy 12 also have many normal metaphases. To identify immunologically the cells in which both the trisomy 12 and the normal karyotypes occur, we studied two patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia — one whose neoplastic cells demonstrated lambda light-chain clonality and one whose cells had kappa light-chain clonality. We used a recently developed cytogenetic method that allows simultaneous analysis of cell morphology, immunologic phenotype, and karyotype in the same mitotic cell. In cultures of blood cells stimulated with pokeweed mitogen and tetradecanoylphorbol acetate, all the mitotic cells with either the lambda or the kappa immunoglobulin had trisomy 12, whereas all the cells that lacked these light chains or that had T-cell markers (OKT8 or OKT4) had normal karyotypes. These results show that trisomy 12 in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia occurs in the neoplastic B cells, but not in the T cells, and they thus provide an explanation for the common finding of mitoses with normal karyotypes in patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. (N Engl J Med 1986; 314:865–9.)Keywords
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