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Science 10 October 1986:
Vol. 234. no. 4773, pp. 197 - 200
DOI: 10.1126/science.3092355
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Science, Vol 234, Issue 4773, 197-200
Copyright © 1986 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Common mechanism of chromosome inversion in B- and T-cell tumors: relevance to lymphoid development

CT Denny, GF Hollis, F Hecht, R Morgan, MP Link, SD Smith, and IR Kirsch

An inversion of chromosome 14 present in the tumor cells of a patient with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia of B-cell lineage was shown to be the result of a site-specific recombination event between an immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable gene and the joining segment of a T-cell receptor alpha chain. This rearrangement resulted in the formation of a hybrid gene, part immunoglobulin and part T-cell receptor. Furthermore, this hybrid gene was transcribed into messenger RNA with a completely open reading frame. Thus, two loci felt to be normally activated at distinct and disparate points in lymphocyte development were unified and expressed in this tumor.


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