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Cryptic deletions and inversions of chromosome 21 in a phenotypically normal infant with transient abnormal myelopoiesis: a molecular cytogenetic study
Author(s) -
Kempski Helena M,
Craze Janet L,
CHESSElls Judith M,
Reeves Brian R
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of haematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.907
H-Index - 186
eISSN - 1365-2141
pISSN - 0007-1048
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00996.x
Subject(s) - biology , myelopoiesis , trisomy , clone (java method) , genetics , fluorescence in situ hybridization , locus (genetics) , population , trisomy 8 , bone marrow , microbiology and biotechnology , cytogenetics , chromosome , haematopoiesis , immunology , gene , medicine , stem cell , environmental health
A case of transient abnormal myelopoiesis in a normal newborn without features of Down syndrome is described. The majority of bone marrow cells analysed belonged to a chromosomally abnormal clone with trisomy for chromosomes 18 and 21. Complex intrachromosomal rearrangements of one chromosome 21, demonstrated by fluorescence in situ hybridization using locus‐specific probes, were found in a minor population of the clonal cells. These rearrangements involved loci previously shown to be rearranged in the leukaemic cells from patients with Down syndrome and leukaemia. However, the child's myeloproliferation resolved rapidly, with disappearance of the abnormal clone, and 3.5 years later she remains well.