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U-2973, a novel B-cell line established from a patient with a mature B-cell leukemia displaying concurrent t(14;18) and MYC translocation to a non-IG gene partner.

Author

  • Hans Boström
  • Karl-Johan Leuchowius
  • Helene Hallböök
  • Ann Nordgren
  • Ingrid Thörn
  • Mia Thorselius
  • Richard Rosenquist
  • Ola Söderberg
  • Christer Sundström

Summary, in English

B-cell lymphomas/leukemias with simultaneous t(14;18)(q32;q21) and MYC rearrangements have recently been shown to constitute a separate diagnostic entity, presenting with a rapid clinical course and a very poor prognosis. We describe the establishment of an Epstein-Barr virus negative cell line, designated U-2973, from a male patient with a de novo aggressive B-cell lymphoma/leukemia and very high peripheral blast cell count. Flow cytometry of bone marrow cells and U-2973 displayed a mature B-cell phenotype, and immunostaining showed expression of MYC and BCL2. IG gene rearrangement data were consistent with a lymphoid neoplasm of germinal centre derivation. Cytogenetic studies using conventional G-banding, fluorescent in situ hybridization, spectral karyotyping and single nucleotide polymorphism array demonstrated a complex karyotype with both a t(14;18) and double translocations between MYC and a non-IG gene partner located at chromosome 12p12.1.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

218-225

Publication/Series

European Journal of Haematology

Volume

81

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Hematology

Keywords

  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Male
  • Lymphoma
  • Leukocyte Count
  • B-Cell
  • Leukemia
  • Karyotyping
  • Fluorescence
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin
  • Genes
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Cytogenetic Analysis
  • Pair 18
  • Pair 14
  • Pair 12
  • Human
  • Chromosomes
  • Chromosome Aberrations
  • Cell Line
  • Bone Marrow Cells
  • Adult
  • Base Sequence
  • Phenotype
  • Polymorphism
  • Single Nucleotide
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
  • Translocation
  • Genetic

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1600-0609