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  • Title: Heterogenic molecular basis for loss of ABL1-BCR transcription: deletions in der(9)t(9;22) and variants of standard t(9;22) in BCR-ABL1-positive chronic myeloid leukemia.
    Author: Loncarevic IF, Römer J, Starke H, Heller A, Bleck C, Ziegler M, Fiedler W, Liehr T, Clement JH, Claussen U.
    Journal: Genes Chromosomes Cancer; 2002 Jun; 34(2):193-200. PubMed ID: 11979553.
    Abstract:
    The objective of this study was to characterize the ABL1-BCR fusion gene in 76 BCR-ABL1-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients regarding expression as well as genomic status, to assess the frequency of ABL1-BCR gene deletion in these patients, which has been reported to be an adverse prognostic factor in Philadelphia chromosome-positive CML. Patients were analyzed for ABL1-BCR 1b-b3 and/or 1b-b4 transcription by RT-PCR analysis. ABL1-BCR gene status was analyzed by FISH in 16 CML patients with no ABL1-BCR transcript. FISH revealed a partial or total deletion of the ABL1-BCR gene in 9/16 and localized the 5' portion of ABL1 and the 3' portion of BCR at separated loci in 5/16 patients. The latter FISH pattern resulted from a nonreciprocal translocation in two and a complex translocation in three individuals. In 2/16 patients, FISH could not exclude an intact ABL1-BCR fusion gene. Thus, most CML patients without ABL1-BCR transcript could be characterized cytogenetically to belong to two major subgroups: a silent ABL1-BCR gene was attributed to a deletion in der(9)t(9;22) in 56% of the investigated patients or to variants of a standard t(9;22) (approximately 31%). Conversely, none of the 50 patients with an ABL1-BCR transcript exhibited a variant t(9;22) in GTG-banding analysis. Thus, genomic aberrations such as deletions or complex genomic rearrangements are the basic and most frequent cause for ABL1-BCR RNA negativity in CML. The heterogeneity of the underlying molecular mechanisms may explain divergent clinical implications described for patients with an ABL1-BCR deletion and those with no ABL1-BCR transcript.
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