title: Hu-ets-1 and Hu-ets-2 genes are transposed in acute leukemias with (4;11) and (8;21) translocations.
abstract: Human probes identifying the cellular homologs of the v-ets gene, Hu-ets-1 and Hu-ets-2, and two panels of rodent-human cell hybrids were used to study specific translocations occurring in acute leukemias. The human ets-1 gene was found to translocate from chromosome 11 to 4 in the t(4;11)(q21;23), a translocation characteristic of a subtype of leukemia that represents the expansion of a myeloid/lymphoid precursor cell. Similarly, the human ets-2 gene was found to translocate from chromosome 21 to chromosome 8 in the t(8;21)(q22;q22), a nonrandom translocation commonly found in patients with acute myeloid leukemia with morphology M2 (AML-M2). Both translocations are associated with expression different from the expression in normal lymphoid cells of ets genes, raising the possibility that these genes play a role in the pathogenesis of these leukemias.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002904:Chromosomes, Human, 21-22 and Y; D002906:Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D007938:Leukemia / Q000235:genetics*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009857:Oncogenes; D014178:Translocation, Genetic