title: Paternal origin of the rearranged major breakpoint cluster region in chronic myeloid leukemia.
abstract: The Philadelphia chromosome, t(9;22), is present in virtually all cases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). It has previously been shown by cytogenetic studies that the rearranged chromosome 22 in patients with CML is exclusively maternal in origin. To address this issue at a molecular level, the major breakpoint cluster region (M-bcr) on chromosome 22 was examined using Southern blot assays and M-bcr Pvu II and Mae II restriction site polymorphisms in three CML patients. In all three cases, the rearranged allele was paternal in origin. These results indicate that the paternally derived M-bcr allele may also be involved in the M-bcr rearrangement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, Minneapolis 55455.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Litz
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Copenhaver
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000483:Alleles; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002892:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D015513:Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D009857:Oncogenes; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D051562:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcr
chemical_list: D015513:Oncogene Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C496613:BCR protein, human; D051562:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcr