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1Department of Immunology and Virology, Saitama Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan.
Abstract:
The AML1 gene on chromosome 21 was rearranged by the t(8;21) chromosomal translocation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Southern blot analysis of 21 AML patients with t(8;21), including three with complex translocations, t(8;V;21), demonstrated that all the breakpoints occurred at random within a single intron between two coding exons of AML1. Clustering of the breakpoints in the restricted intron suggests the formation of a unique fusion gene between the AML1 gene and a presumable counterpart gene on chromosome 8. Nucleotide sequencing of the breakpoint region revealed that the translocation event was accompanied by deletion of a short stretch of nucleotides.
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