title: The association of a lymphoreticular malignancy with an 11q deletion: a coincidence or a cancer susceptibility?
abstract: A balanced paternal chromosome insertion, ins(11) p14q14q21, resulted in a female with an unbalanced karyotype, del(11)(q14q21). This imbalance presumably arose from a meiotic crossover between the breakpoint of the insertion and the breakpoints of the deletion. This child developed a malignant lymphoma of the thymus in the first year of life. The association of a lymphoma with an 11q deletion may not be a coincidence in view of the frequent involvement of 11q in cytogenetic alterations of lymphomas.
mesh_terms: D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002906:Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007621:Karyotyping; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology