Do oncogenes determine clinical features in chronic myeloid leukaemia?
Do oncogenes determine clinical features in chronic myeloid leukaemia?
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癌基因决定慢性粒细胞白血病的临床特征吗?
DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(87)90594-0
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发表时间:
1987
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Gale,RP
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作者:
Dreazen,O;Klisak,I;Rassool,F;Goldman,JM;Sparkes,RS;Gale,RP
Oncogene abnormalities are thought to have a central role in some human malignant disorders, particularly Burkitt leukaemia/ lymphoma and chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). However, the extent to which specific oncogene changes determine the clinical features of these disorders is unknown. This question was studied in two groups of patients with CML negative for the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome; one group showed clinical features typical of Ph-positive CML and the other group lacked such features. Molecular findings were compared with those of Ph-positive CML. In all ten patients there was evidence for rearrangement of thebcr(breakpoint cluster region) gene. In the four cases studied the c-ablproto-oncogene was translocated to chromosome 22 and in five cases there was transcription of a chimericbcr-ablmRNA. Thus, the molecular abnormality is the same in both groups of Ph-negative CML and identical to that in Ph-positive CML. Factors other than thebcr/c-ablrearrangement must underlie the clinical heterogeneity of CML.