Cytogenetics of acute promyelocytic leukaemia: incidence of t(15;17) at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London.
This is the first report from a laboratory in the U.K. of the incidence of t(15;17) in acute promyelocytic leukaemia. One of the cases has a variant translocation, t(15;17)(q22;q25). A t(15;17) translocation was present in all cases considered to be adequately studied.
D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002901:Chromosomes, Human, 13-15; D002902:Chromosomes, Human, 16-18; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000235:genetics* / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D014178:Translocation, Genetic