| Autor: |
Weiss, Lawrence M., Lopategui, Jean R., Sun, Li-Hua, Kamel, Onsi W., Koo, Chae H., Glackin, Carlotta |
| Zdroj: |
Blood; May 1995, Vol. 85 Issue: 10 p2845-2847, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
The cytogenetics of Hodgkin's disease (HD) is poorly understood. However, a t(2;5) is a common finding in CD30+anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), a neoplasm thought by some to be closely related to HD. Recently, the t(2;5) has been cloned and found to represent fusion of the NPM gene with the ALK gene. Using Southern blot hybridization, one group has reported finding rearrangements of NPM in a proportion of cases of both ALCL and HD. In the current study, we used a highly sensitive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction methodology to analyze 34 cases of HD for the t(2;5). We were unable to find polymerase chain reaction evidence for the t(2;5) in any of the cases of HD, a result significantly different from our previous study of CD30+non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (P< .02) including ALCL (P< .04), using identical methods. Our results do not support the hypothesis that the t(2;5) represents a common chromosomal abnormality for both HD and ALCL. |
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