title: Detection of immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in lymphoid malignancies of B-cell lineage by seminested polymerase chain reaction gene amplification.
abstract: Seminested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify the DNA fragments of the complementarity-determining region 3 of the immunoglobulin (Ig) gene heavy chain from the malignant cell specimens of patients with leukemias and lymphomas of B-cell lineage. Two different pairs of primers were used sequentially. Twenty of the 27 (74%) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients, 14 of 19 (74%) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients and eight of 20 (40%) non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients, who had rearrangement of the Ig gene heavy chain by Southern analysis, were positive by the seminested PCR. False-negative results appeared to occur more commonly in cases of lymphoma. The PCR analysis was also less likely to be positive if one-stage PCR studies with either pair of primers were both negative. The seminested PCR technique was found to have a high sensitivity of detecting malignant cells at the level of 0.02%. The clinical application of this assay needs to be investigated further.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lie
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Todd
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D005803:Genes, Immunoglobulin; D006801:Humans; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains / Q000235:genetics*; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides