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+4 or trisomy 4

Clinics and Pathology

Disease Acute non lymphocytic leukaemia (ANLL)
Epidemiology
  • +4 as the sole anomaly is a rare chromosomal abnormality associated with a specific subtype of primary ANLL and secondary (treatment related) ANLL with myelomonocytic morphology; it has been found with the same frequence in the M1-M2 and M4 French-American-British (FAB) phenotypes
  • association of +4 with double minute chromosomes has been described in ten cases; five with AML-M2, two with AML-M4, one with refractory anemia with excess of blasts in transformation (RAEB-T), one with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMMoL) and one with unclassified preleukemia
  • the coincidence of +4 with t(8;21) or its variant t(6;21;8), observed in at least two cases of ANLL (M1 and M2), is therefore recurrent
    • Prognosis apparently +4 has no prognostic significance in ANLL; with the exception of the cases bearing c-Kit mutations who are associated with a rapid disease progression

    Disease Acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL)
    Epidemiology
  • +4 has been described in two cases of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia as the sole chromosomal anomaly
  • combined trisomies of chromosomes 4 and 10 are found in children with B-progenitor cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a favourable prognostic association
    • Prognosis patients with chromosomes 4 and 10 trisomies have an extremely favourable 4-year event-free survival (EFS) after antimetabolite-based chemoterapy

    Disease Thecoma of the ovary
    Epidemiology +4 associated with +12 has been described in two cases of fibrothecoma and in one case of thecoma; it has been suggested that acquisition of trisomy 4 may constitute a second cytogenetic step in tumor progression of ovarian thecoma/fibrothecoma.
    Prognosis no prognostic significance

    Disease +4 has been found as the sole aberration only in one case of uterine leiomyoma

    Genetics

    trisomy 4 was proven to lead to duplication of Asp816Tyr mutation of c-Kit gene (that maps to 4q12 ) in a case of M2-ANLL with mast cell involvement

    External links

    Other database+4 or trisomy 4 Mitelman database (CGAP - NCBI)

    Bibliography

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    Trisomy 4 may occur in a broad range of hematologic malignancies.
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    Trisomy 4 in 'stem cell-like' leukemic cells of a patient with AML.
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    Contributor(s)

    Written07-2000Alessandro Beghini

    Citation

    This paper should be referenced as such :
    Beghini A . +4 or trisomy 4. Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. July 2000 .
    URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/tri4ID1011.html

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