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The most frequent structural chromosome abnormality in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is deletion at chromosome 13q14. Studies with Southern blot hybridisation have revealed deletions in the region located telomeric of the retinoblastoma gene in more than 40% of cases. The highest frequency of homozygous deletions has been found at the D13S319 locus and it is likely that a new tumour suppressor gene is located close to this region. We have analysed deletions in the D13S319 region in 20 selected CLL patients using conventional cytogenetic analysis, fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) and Southern blot hybridisation. FISH and Southern hybridisation are equally efficient in detecting deleted clones in our study. However, FISH analysis indicate that subclones with different numbers of alleles in the D13S319 region can exist simultaneously. The cytogenetic analyses confirm that clones with different chromosomal abnormalities can occur in patients with CLL and that 13q14 deletions can be limited to one of these subclones. Furthermore, the FISH analyses show that trisomy 12 and deletion of 13q14 can occur in the same cell clone. Finally, our study confirms that mitogen stimulation of peripheral blood cells from CLL patients before FISH analysis may result in a sharp increase in normal appearing cells, which can hide leukaemic clones with deletions in the D13S319 region.
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Merup, M., Jansson, M., Corcoran, M. et al. A FISH cosmid ‘cocktail’ for detection of 13q deletions in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia – comparison with cytogenetics and Southern hybridization. Leukemia 12, 705–709 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2400920
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