Abstract
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is infrequent in Chinese people. Conventional cytogenetic analysis underestimates the frequency of chromosome aberrations in CLL due to the low rate of spontaneous mitoses. The aim of this study was to prospectively explore the frequency of chromosomal abnormalities in Chinese patients with CLL using interphase fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) and probes for 12 centromere, 13q14, 14q32, 17p13, 11q22 and 6q23 on 143 patients with CLL. Molecular cytogenetic aberrations were found in 104 patients (72.7%) and 40 patients (28.0%) with more than two abnormalities. The most frequent abnormality was del(13q14) (47.6%), followed by trisomy 12 (21.7%), 14q32 translocation (19.6%), del(17p13) (12.6%), del(11q22) (11.9%) and del(6q23) (4.9%), respectively. The percentages of patients with aberrations by FISH were 75.4%, 72.3% and 67.7% for Binet stages A, B and C, respectively. In early stage (Binet A), del(13q14) aberration was more frequent than in Binet B and C (61.5% vs. 31.9% and 41.9%) (P = 0.021). Patients with advanced stage (Binet C) had more frequent del(17p13) aberration than in Binet A and B (32.3% vs. 9.2% and 4.3%) (P = 0.008). It was showed that the frequencies of the chromosomal abnormalities in our study population were similar to the frequencies in Western countries.
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