Presenting characteristics of trisomy 8 as the primary cytogenetic abnormality associated with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) Study (8600/8493).
Although trisomy 8 is the single most common numerical abnormality in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), relatively few cases with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and trisomy 8 have been reported. We report the clinical and laboratory features of seven children with ALL and trisomy 8 as the sole cytogenetic abnormality and review nine similar cases from the literature. Among the children studied by the Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) with newly diagnosed ALL, only 0.3% had trisomy 8 as the sole abnormality. Four of our patients had T-cell ALL and three had early pre-B ALL. Presenting clinical features were typical for the respective immunophenotypes. Six of the seven children achieved complete remission. Our study suggest that trisomy 8 is an infrequent, recurring abnormality among children with ALL, which appears to be associated with a T-cell immunophenotype.
Department of Pediatrics, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Pettenati
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Rao
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Wofford
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Shuster
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Pullen
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Steuber
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Carroll
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002898:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics*; D014314:Trisomy