1./ Kuwait Cancer Control Center, Department of Hematology, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, Kuwait annaadria@yahoo.com
Partial gain of the long arm of chromosome 11, containing the unrearranged mixed lineage leukaemia (MLL) gene (KMT2A; lysine (K)-specific methyltransferase 2A) is a rare but recurrent anomaly in myeloid malignancies, and is often associated with an older age and a higly complex karyotype.
Abbreviations: F., female; M., male; AML., acute myeloid leukemia; AML-M5., acute monoblastic leukemia; RAEB., refractory anemia with excess of blasts; AML-M1., acute myeloblastic leukemia without maturation; AML-M2., acute myeloblastic leukemia with maturation; AML-M5a., acute monoblastic leukemia without differentiation; AML-M4., acute myelomonocytic leukemia; AML-M5b., acute monocytic leukemia; RA., refractory anemia; CML., chronic myeloid leukemia; APL., acute promyelocytic leukemia; DS., Downs syndrome; MDS., myelodysplastic syndrome; AML-M0., acute myeloblastic leukemia with minimal differentiation.
Soad Al Bahar ; Adriana Zamecnikova
dup (11q) in myeloid malignancies
Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2016-11-01
Online version: http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/haematological/1629/deep-insight-explorer/teaching-explorer/gene-fusions-explorer/