title: Multicolor-FISH applied to resolve complex chromosomal changes in a case of T-ALL (FAB L2).
abstract: We report on a patient with a clinically diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with partial unrecorded complex translocation events especially involving chromosomes 5, 9 and 18. At the GTG-band level the karyotype was abnormal in 20% of the analyzed cells. The complex karyotype was studied in more detail by spectral karyotyping (SKY) and multicolor banding (MCB) to characterize it in more detail. Thus, the karyotype could be described very accurately and in summary three different clones were detected, reflecting a high rate of karyotypic evolution in this patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetic and Laboratory of Cytogenetics, State University, Jerewan, Armenia. hasmkrtambler.ru
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mkrtchyan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Glaser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Wedding
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoffken
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liehr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Karst
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aroutiounian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D007621:Karyotyping; D015459:Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence