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Background
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a heterogeneous form of hematological cancer consisting of various subtypes. We are interested to study the genetic aberration in precursor B-cell ALL with specific t(12;21) translocation in childhood ALL patients. A high resolution 244K array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (array-CGH) was used to study eleven ETV6/RUNX1-positive childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients.Result
155 chromosomal aberrations (119 losses, 36 gains) were reported in the array findings, corresponding to 76.8% deletions and 23.2% amplifications. The ETV6 gene deletion occurred in 4 of the patients, corresponding to 45% of the sample. The most common alterations above 1 Mb were deletion 6q (13%), 12p (12%) and 9p (8%), and duplication 4q (6%) and Xq (4%). Other genes important in ALL were also identified in this study including RUNX1, CDKN2A, FHIT, and PAX5. The array-CGH technique was able to detect microdeletion as small as 400 bp.Conclusion
The results demonstrate the usefulness of high resolution array-CGH as a complementary tool in the investigation of ALL.
SUBMITTER: Zakaria Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3549777 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zakaria Zubaidah Z Ahid Mohd Fadly Md MF Ismail Azli A Keoh Ten Sew TS Nor Nooraisyah Mohamad NM Kamaluddin Nor Rizan NR Esa Ezalia E Yuen Lam Kah LK Rahman Eni Juraida Abdul EJ Osman Raudhawati R
Molecular cytogenetics 20121115 1
<h4>Unlabelled</h4><h4>Background</h4>Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a heterogeneous form of hematological cancer consisting of various subtypes. We are interested to study the genetic aberration in precursor B-cell ALL with specific t(12;21) translocation in childhood ALL patients. A high resolution 244K array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (array-CGH) was used to study eleven ETV6/RUNX1-positive childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients.<h4>Result</h4>155 chromosoma ...[more]