title: Translocation (14;18)(q32;q21) in acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a study of 12 cases and review of the literature.
abstract: We present a series of 12 cases of de novo acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with translocation t(14;18)(q32;q21). The median age of patients at presentation was 65.5 years, and no patient presented with a past history or any clinical evidence of lymphoma. A Burkitt translocation was identified in 4 of the 12 cases by conventional cytogenetics but fluorescence in situ hybridization using a MYC probe identified a further three cases of MYC rearrangement: one with a cryptic t(8;14) involving the der(14)t(14;18), one showing MYC translocated onto a marker chromosome, and one associated with a t(8;9)(q24;p13) translocation. A review of the literature identified an extremely close association between the t(14;18) and the t(8;9), with the latter translocation found only in the presence of t(14;18). The present study confirms the previously reported dismal prognosis of t(14;18)-associated ALL.
authors.affiliation: Victorian Cancer Cytogenetics Service, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. pina.dachille@svhm.org.au
authors.forename: Pina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: D'Achille
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Seymour
authors.forename: Lynda J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018941:Antigens, CD19 / Q000032:analysis; D018951:Antigens, CD20 / Q000032:analysis; D002883:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14 / Q000235:genetics*; D002887:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18 / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015260:Neprilysin / Q000032:analysis; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D051918:Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 2 / Q000032:analysis; D014178:Translocation, Genetic
chemical_list: D018941:Antigens, CD19; D018951:Antigens, CD20; D051918:Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 2; D015260:Neprilysin