title: Bcr-abl mRNA expression in patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders--absence of bcr-abl fused clone except chronic myelocytic leukemia.
abstract: Bcr-abl mRNA expression was studied in patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) by the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method. A bcr-abl transcript was not found in any patient with polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia or primary myelofibrosis, suggesting that the bcr-abl rearranged clone is not present in CMPD other than chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). In CML clinical and laboratory data were compared from three bcr-abl types: the bcr exon 2-abl exon 2 (B2-A2) type, bcr exon 3-abl exon 2 (B3-A2) type and the co-expression type. Age at diagnosis tended to be younger (p = 0.08) in the co-expression type, and the platelet count tended to be lower (p = 0.11) in the B2-A2 type. However, there was no difference in other data, including the duration of the chronic phase and the phenotype of blasts at blast crisis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakata
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001483:Base Sequence; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000235:genetics; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D016044:Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009196:Myeloproliferative Disorders / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D016044:Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl