title: Chromosome abnormalities in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma: a karyotype review committee report.
abstract: Karyotypes of 107 cases with adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (58 male, 49 female; 81 acute or lymphoma type, 26 chronic or smoldering type) were reviewed by a panel of cytogeneticists and were correlated with the subtypes of the disease. Clonal chromosome abnormalities were found in 103 (96%) cases, of which four had hypotetraploidy. Of 184 numerical abnormalities in the remaining 99 cases with near- or pseudodiploidy, trisomies for chromosomes 3 (21% of cases), 7 (10%), and 21 (9%), monosomy for X chromosome (38%) in the female, and loss of a Y chromosome (17%) in the male were more frequent than expected (P less than 0.01). Of 373 structural abnormalities in all the 103 aneuploid cases, translocations involving 14q32 (28%) or 14q11 (14%) and deletion of 6q (23%) were most frequent, followed by deletion of 10p (9%), 3q (8%), 5q, 9q, and 13q (7% each), and 1p and 7p (6% each). The proportion of cases with aneuploid clones (with greater than or less than 46 chromosomes), the average numbers per case of both numerical and structural abnormalities, and marker chromosomes were larger in the aggressive acute or lymphoma type than in the nonaggressive chronic or smoldering type (P less than 0.01). The combination of rearrangement in 14q32 and monosomy X (seven cases) or deletion of 10p (six cases), and that of trisomy 3 and deletion in 6q21 (six cases), occurred only in the acute or lymphoma type and may be associated with the aggressiveness in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Hiroshima University, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kamada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sanada
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sadamori
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fukuhara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shiraishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaneko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D007621:Karyotyping; D015459:Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged