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Inversion-associated translocations in acute myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia
R Berger1, J Derré, M Le Coniat
1Unité INSERM U 301, Montreal, Canada.
Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Cytogenetic studies of three acute myelomonocytic leukemias with bone marrow eosinophilia (M4EO) revealed chromosome 16 inversion associated with additional abnormalities. The inverted chromosome 16 was involved in two patients. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) experiments with a YAC probe detecting inv(16) showed that the translocation breakpoints involving chromosome 16 did not implicate the inversion breakpoints. FISH can thus distinguish between true variant translocations and translocations with other breakpoints on chromosome 16 in M4EO.