Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (아시아태평양암예방학회)
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Combined Study of Cytogenetics and Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (FISH) Analysis in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in a Tertiary Cancer Centre in South India

  • Mazloumi, Seyed Hashem Mir (Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology) ;
  • Madhumathi, D.S. (Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology) ;
  • Appaji, L. (Pediatric Oncology Department, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology) ;
  • Prasannakumari, Prasannakumari (Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology)
  • Published : 2012.08.31
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Abstract

FISH is one of the most sensitive molecular methods to detect genetic abnormalities with DNA probes. When cytogenetic studies are normal or insufficient, FISH may detect cryptic rearrangements, rare or slowly proliferative abnormal populations in non-mitotic cells. We cytogenetically evaluated 70 childhood ALL - 67.1% were found to have an abnormal karyotype. The 23 patients (32.9%) with a normal karyotype were analyzed by FISH applying two probes; TEL/AML1 and MYB which detect cryptic rearrangements of t(12;21)(p13;q22) and deletion of (6q) respectively, associated with a good prognosis. Out of 23 patients, one was positive for t(12;21)(p13;q22) (4.3%). None of our patients were positive for MYB del(6q). Two patients showed an extra signal for MYB on chromosomes other than 6 (8.6 %) indicating amplification or duplication. Findings were compared with the available literature. Our study clearly indicated the integrated FISH screening method to increase the abnormality detection rate in a narrow range. FISH is less useful for diagnostic study of patients with suspected del(6q) but it helps in detecting known cryptic rearrangements as well as identification of new abnormalities(translocation , duplication and amplification) at the gene level.

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