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Deletions of the long arm of chromosomes 11 and 13 are the most frequent structural chromosome aberrations in various types of lymphoproliferative disorders. However, these regions have not been studied so far in B cell prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL). We have investigated the incidence of 13q deletions in 18 B-PLL cases by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), using molecular probes for the RB1 and D13S25 loci. Chromosome 11q deletions were evaluated by FISH using the yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clone 755b11 from the chromosome 11q22.3-q23.1 region, which has been previously shown to be deleted in 20% of cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Chromosome 11q23 deletions were found in 7/18 (39%) cases of B-PLL. Monoallelic loss of RB1, D13S25 and BRCA2 was present in 10/18 (55%), 6/18 (33%) and 3/18 (16%) of the cases, respectively. All the cases with D13S25 and BRCA2 deletion showed RB1 loss. Deletions of 13q14 and 11q23 are frequent chromosome aberrations in B-PLL and, in contrast to CLL, there is a preferential loss of RB1 with respect to the D13S25 locus suggesting that allelic loss of the RB1 gene may play a role in the pathogenesis of B-PLL.
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This work was supported by grants from the Kay Kendall Leukemia Fund to LJAC and EM.
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Lens, D., Matutes, E., Catovsky, D. et al. Frequent deletions at 11q23 and 13q14 in B cell prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL). Leukemia 14, 427–430 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2401644
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