title: Cytogenetic, molecular biological and clinical study of B-cell lymphomas with 14;18 translocation in Japanese patients.
abstract: To investigate the role of the BCL-2 gene in Japanese patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, karyotypic analysis, DNA analysis and clinical characterization were studied. Ten of 73 patients showed t(14;18) and two patients had variant translocations [t(2;18) and t(18;22), respectively]. Of 42 patients examined at the molecular level, eight patients showed the BCL-2 gene rearrangement detected by mbr probe and two patients by 5'BCL-2 probe. Of the eight patients with the BCL-2 gene rearrangement by the mbr probe, t(14;18) was detected in six patients. A discrepancy in the relationship between the occurrence of t(14;18) and BCL-2 gene rearrangement was recognized. Two patients with obvious t(14;18) showed no rearrangement of the BCL-2 gene by mbr, mcr, nor 5' probe. Cytogenetic analysis is an indispensable tool for investigating lymphomogenesis. The two patients with the variant translocations, t(2;18) and t(18;22), showed breakpoints at the 5' site of the BCL-2 gene and both were histologically of the small lymphocytic type. No examples with the co-existence of both the BCL-2 and c-MYC gene rearrangements were found. The median survival time of the patients with the BCL-2 rearrangement and/or t(14;18) was longer than the patients without the BCL-2 gene rearrangement and translocation and also patients with the c-MYC gene rearrangement and/or translocation. Racial and geographical heterogeneities, variant translocations of t(14;18) and the clinical characteristics of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with t(14;18) are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Hiroshima University, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takechi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asaoku
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dohy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kamada
mesh_terms: D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D002883:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14; D002887:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18; D002889:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2; D002892:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D016259:Genes, myc; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007621:Karyotyping; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014178:Translocation, Genetic
chemical_list: D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2