Cytogenetic study on bone marrow cells of 15 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia, using banding technique was performed.
Fourteen patients showed Ph
1 positive and one did Ph
1 negative. All patients with positive Ph
1 revealed translocation between chromosome No. 22 and No. 9, except for one who showed between chromosome No. 22 and No. 17 which was unusual. The latter patient, a 17-year-old male, was diagnosed C. M. L. at 12 years of age and took a typical clinical course of adult type of C. M. L.
Among 4 patients developed acute crisis, two showed clonal evolution. Their karyotypes were 47, XY, +8, t(9 q+; 22 q-) and 50, XYY, +8, +19, +22q-, t (9q+; 22q-), respectively. One patient, a 47-year-old male, showed abnormal clone in 70% of the metaphases two years before occurrence of acute crisis and died a month later. The other patient, a 27-year-old male, showed at the time of occurrence of acute crisis and died two months later. Double Ph
1 and double Y chromosomes were formed in 100% of his marrow cells. Double Ph
1 chromosomes appeared to be same in morphology and only one pair of chromosome No. 9 presented an existence of dull extra segment. Peripheral lymphocytes and skin fibroblasts at the patient's terminal stage showed normal karyogram.
Both cases had chromosome No. 8 trisomy. These findings indicated that the occurrence of aneuploidy was due to non-disjunction and might be related with a condition of acute crisis of. C. M. L.
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