Table 3.
Comparison of Ig/TCR gene rearrangement patterns in Polish patients and other nationalities identified by the PCR-heteroduplex approach
| Study | Country | Number of patients | Frequency of rearrangements in Ig/TCR loci [%] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VH-JH | DH-JH | IGH | IGK-Kde | incomplete TCRD | Vδ2-Jα | TCRD | TCRG | TCRB | |||
| Present study | Poland | 58a | 74 a | 9 b | 83b | 41a | 55a | 35b | 78b | 50 a | 13b |
| 23b | 45a (Vδ2-Dδ3) | ||||||||||
| 21a (Dδ2-Dδ3) | |||||||||||
| van der Velden et al. [27] | The Netherlands | 271 | 82 | 24 | 88 | 43 | 40 (Vδ2-Dδ3) | 46 | 72 | 58 | |
| 14 (Dδ2-Dδ3) | |||||||||||
| Germano et al. [10] | Italy | 53 | 77 | 19 | 83 | 42 | 62 | 62 | |||
| Meleshko et al. [13] | Belarus | 67 | 78 | 63 | |||||||
| 51 (Vδ2-Dδ3) | 45 | ||||||||||
| 36 (Dδ2-Dδ3) | |||||||||||
| Barriga et al. [1] | Chile | 32 | 100 | ||||||||
| Scrideli et al. [17] | Brazil | 79 | 69 | ||||||||
| Szczepański et al. [20] | The Netherlands | 339 | 41 | ||||||||
| Brumpt et al. [4] | France | 74c | 92c | 43d (Vδ2-Dδ3) | 66c | ||||||
| 23d | |||||||||||
| Cavé et al. [7] | France and Belgium | 188 | 61 | 57 | |||||||
| van der Velden et al. [23] | The Netherlands | 161 | 33 | ||||||||
a, b, c, d Refer to groups of patients in whom particular rearrangements were screened for; frequencies depicted in bold mean that p<0.05 was obtained in the U-Gauss test.