title: Allelotype analysis of adult T-cell leukemia.
abstract: Allelotype analysis of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was undertaken for the first time to identify chromosomal loci relevant to the development of acute/lymphomatous ATL. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) was screened using 94 highly polymorphic microsatellite markers, distributed among all nonacrocentric, autosomal chromosomes. In each of the 22 cases, DNA obtained from their leukemic cells in acute/lymphomatous phase was compared with their constitutional DNA from mononuclear cells in chronic or remission phase. Allelic losses of at least on one chromosome arm occurred in 91% of the cases (20 individuals). Among 39 chromosome arms, allelic losses were observed on 31 arms at least for one sample. A high frequency of allelic loss (>30%) was seen on chromosome arms 6q (41%) and 17p (48%). The mean fractional allelic loss (FAL) was 0.109. These findings suggest that a novel tumor suppressor gene on chromosome arm 6q, as well as the p53 gene on chromosome arm 17p, probably have an important role in the development of acute/lymphomatous ATL.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hematology/Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; the Deparment of Laboratory Medicine and the Department of Hematology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hatta
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomonaga
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Said
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miyosi
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Koeffler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000483:Alleles; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D015459:Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell / Q000235:genetics*; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers