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[A molecular cytogenetic study on chromosome anomalies of chronic myeloid leukemia]
1Medical Genetics Center of Yunnan Province, The First Provincial Hospital of Yunnan, Kunming, Yunnan, 650032 P.R. China. bszhu@public. km. yn.cn.
Objective:
To study the bcr/abl fusion gene in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cases with Philadelphia chromosome(Ph) negative, and variant Ph translocations and other chromosome anomalies.
Methods:
The status of bcr/abl fusion gene in 8 kinds of chromosome anomalies was tested with dual-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (D-FISH) technique.
Results:
The positive hybridization was demonstrated in 3 cases of variant Ph CML and other 7 cases of standard Ph, respectively. In 2 cases of Ph-negative CML, one case that had karyotype such as 46,XY,t(9;18) showed positive hybridization, the other case with 46,XY,inv(2) showed negative result.
Conclusion:
The result demonstrates that D-FISH technique is reliable for detecting bcr/abl fusion gene. The existence of negative bcr/abl fusion gene CML implies that some other initial events inducing CML might have occurred in such cases.