MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA BREAKPOINT CLUSTER REGION ON CHROMOSOME-17

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BORROW, J [1 ]
GODDARD, AD [1 ]
SHEER, D [1 ]
SOLOMON, E [1 ]
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[1] IMPERIAL CANC RES FUND,HUMAN CYTOGENET LAB,LONDON WC2A 3PX,ENGLAND
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10.1126/science.2218500
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL; FAB M3) is characterized by a predominance of malignant promyelocytes that carry a reciprocal translocation between the long arms of chromosomes 15 and 17, t(15;17)(q22;q11.2-q12). This translocation has become diagnostic for APL, as it is present in almost 100 percent of cases. A Not I linking clone was used to detect this translocation initially on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and subsequently with conventional Southern (DNA) analysis. The breakpoints in ten APL cases examined were shown to cluster in a 12-kb region of chromosome 17, containing two CpG-rich islands. The region is the first intron of the retinoic acid receptor α gene (RARA).
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