Abstract
B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is not a uniform disease entity; approximately half of the CLL cases have undergone immunoglobulin V(H) gene hypermutation, whereas the other half display unmutated V(H) genes. We investigated genome changes in 12 hypermutated cases (M-CLL) and 22 unmutated cases (UM-CLL) by use of comparative genomic hybridization, G-banding, and multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (m-FISH) after optimal mitogen stimulation and FISH analysis of typical CLL aberrations: 11q deletion, 13q deletion, and trisomy 12. Very high frequencies of aberrations were found in both groups: 82% in UM-CLL and 83% in M-CLL. Deletions of 11q and 13q were equally distributed in M-CLL and UM-CLL. However, larger aberrations detectable by CGH, trisomy 12, and complex aberrations were less frequent in M-CLL than in UM-CLL. These observations led to a hypothesis that unmutated and mutated CLL have different biological Backgrounds, given that large and/or complex chromosomal aberrations and hypermutation of the CLL progenitor cells tend to be mutually exclusive.
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