| Literature DB >> 24236747 |
Wolfgang Kern1, Ulrike Bacher, Susanne Schnittger, Frank Dicker, Tamara Alpermann, Torsten Haferlach, Claudia Haferlach.
Abstract
Multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC) identifies rare cases of biclonal disease in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). By MFC, we identified 76 patients with biclonal disease in a cohort of 5523 CLL patients (1·4%). Fluorescence in situ hybridization and chromosome banding analysis revealed five and six cases, respectively, with two different cytogenetic aberrations due to clonal evolution. Two different B-cell receptor rearrangements and IGHV subtypes were more frequent in biclonal than in monoclonal CLL by MFC (37·1% vs. 2·7%; P < 0·001). Patients with biclonal CLL by MFC showed a trend to a shorter time to treatment than monoclonal CLL (P = 0·080).Entities:
Keywords: Biclonal chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; IGHV mutation analysis; chromosome banding analysis; interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization; multiparameter flow cytometry
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24236747 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12652
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Haematol ISSN: 0007-1048 Impact factor: 6.998