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Cytogenetic analysis of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) identified deletions of chromosome arm 11q. These observations led us to analyse the loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosome arm 11q in 113 primary childhood ALL samples using 14 microsatellite markers. LOH was found in 18 (16%) patients. Detailed examination identified three distinct regions of deletion. The first region is flanked by D11S901 and D11S1391 at 11q22–23 containing the ATM gene. Mutational analysis suggested that the altered gene in this region is not the ATM gene. The second region is flanked by D11S614 and D11S924 at 11q23 containing the MLL gene. The third region is flanked by D11S1356 and D11S614 at 11q23 containing the MLL gene. All the cases with LOH at MLL locus lacked detectable MLL gene rearrangements. In addition, 20 children have been studied both at initial diagnosis and relapse; none of the individuals who relapsed acquired LOH of 11q, suggesting that 11q deletions were infrequently involved in the progression of childhood ALL. Children with 11q LOH had a good response to induction chemotherapy (P=0.015). These data suggest that alterations of putative tumor suppressor genes on 11q are important events in development of childhood ALL. Our map provides important information toward cloning putative tumor suppressor genes associated with childhood ALL.
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We are grateful to Jochen Harbott for contributing the cytogenetic data and Wolf Dieter Ludwig for providing the immunophenotypic data. This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants, the Concern Foundation, Parker Hughes Trust (HP Koeffler), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Deutsche Krebshilfe (CR Bartram), and Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (S Takeuchi).
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Takeuchi, S., Cho, S., Seriu, T. et al. Identification of three distinct regions of deletion on the long arm of chromosome 11 in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Oncogene 18, 7387–7388 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1203145
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