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. 1983;2(6):997–1001. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1983.tb01533.x

Immunoglobulin gene organisation and expression in haemopoietic stem cell leukaemia.

A M Ford, H V Molgaard, M F Greaves, H J Gould
PMCID: PMC555220  PMID: 6416836

Abstract

We have analysed the organisation and expression of mu genes in the granulocytic phase and in the lymphoid and myeloid blast crises of Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1) chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL), a leukaemia which is known to arise in multipotential stem cells. We find that mu chain gene rearrangement occurs exclusively in lymphoid blast crisis leading in some, but not all, cases to the synthesis of small amounts of cytoplasmic mu chains characteristic of early pre-B lymphocytes. In Southern blots, only one or two rearranged mu chain genes are seen, suggesting that a clonal event leading to blast crisis can occur in a committed B cell precursor rather than in the multipotential stem cell precursor, in which the Ph1 chromosome originated. The pattern of mu gene rearrangement observed in Ph1 CGL blast crisis is compared with that in normal B cells, other B lineage malignancies, myeloid leukaemias and T cell leukaemias.

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