title: Cytogenetic profile of aplastic anaemia in Indian children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Aplastic anaemia is a rare haematological disorder characterized by pancytopenia with a hypocellular bone marrow. It may be inherited/genetic or acquired. Acquired aplastic anaemia has been linked to many drugs, chemicals and viruses. Cytogenetic abnormalities have been reported infrequently with acquired aplastic anaemia. Majority of the studies are in adult patients from the West. We report here cytogenetic studies on paediatric patients with acquired aplastic anaemia seen in a tertiary care hospital in north India.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients (n=71, age 4-14 yr) were diagnosed according to the guidelines of International Agranulocytosis and Aplastic Anaemia Study. Conventional cytogenetics with Giemsa Trypsin Giemsa (GTG) banding was performed. Karyotyping was done according to the International System for Human Cytogenetics Nomenclature (ISCN).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 71 patients, 42 had successful karyotyping where median age was 9 yr; of these 42, 27 (64.3%) patients had severe, nine (21.4%) had very severe and six (14.3%) had non severe aplastic anaemia. Five patients had karyotypic abnormalities with trisomy 12 (1), trisomy 8 (1) and monosomy 7 (1). Two patients had non numerical abnormalities with del 7 q - and t (5:12) in one each. Twenty nine patients had uninformative results. There was no difference in the clinical and haematological profile of patients with normal versus abnormal cytogenetics although the number of patients was small in the two groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Five (11.9%) patients with acquired aplastic anaemia had chromosomal abnormalities. Trisomy was found to be the commonest abnormality. Cytogenetic abnormalities may be significant in acquired aplastic anaemia although further studies on a large sample are required to confirm the findings.
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. vineetaguptabhu@gmail.com
authors: Vineeta
authors: V
authors: Gupta
authors: Akash
authors: A
authors: Kumar
authors: Isha
authors: I
authors: Saini
authors: Ajit Kumar
authors: AK
authors: Saxena
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D003582:Cytogenetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D010198:Pancytopenia / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*
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