title: Cytogenetic evidence for partially committed myeloid progenitor cell origin of chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and juvenile chronic myeloid leukaemia: both granulocyte-macrophage precursors and erythroid precursors carry identical marker chromosome.
abstract: We used a micromethod for cytogenetic analysis from single haematopoietic colonies to study two adults with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) and a boy with juvenile chronic myeloid leukaemia (JCML) carrying distinct chromosome abnormalities, 7q-, der(21), and trisomy 21. We wanted to know if both granulocyte-macrophage (GM) and erythroid precursors are involved in the abnormal clone. In all three patients, their chromosome abnormality was seen in almost all metaphases obtained from GM-colonies and erythroid bursts. Peripheral blood leucocytes stimulated with phytohaemagglutinin exhibited only normal karyotypes. Clones of B-cell produced by Epstein-Barr virus had only normal karyotypes in the CMML patients. These findings indicate that CMML and JCML are clonal haemopathies that originate in a partially committed myeloid progenitor cell.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002891:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7 / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008264:Macrophages / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D014410:Tumor Stem Cell Assay
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers