Jumping translocations involving chromosome 1q in a patient with Crohn disease and acute monocytic leukemia: a review of the literature on jumping translocations in hematological malignancies and Crohn disease

Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1999 Mar;109(2):144-9. doi: 10.1016/s0165-4608(98)00162-9.

Abstract

A 36-year-old man with a 10-year history of Crohn disease (CD) presented with gross hematuria and blasts in his peripheral blood. A chromosome analysis revealed one normal cell and 33 abnormal cells. The stem line was 47,XY,+8. The multiple side lines also had a jumping translocation between chromosome 1q31-32 and 4, 8, 10, 17, and 18 terminal regions. A cytogenetic, morphologic, and immunophenotypic analysis of a bone marrow aspirate and biopsy demonstrated acute myeloid leukemia of monocytic lineage, AML-M5b. In this paper are reviewed (a) the unusual and rare phenomenon of jumping translocations in hematological malignancies and (b) leukemia in CD.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1*
  • Crohn Disease / complications
  • Crohn Disease / genetics*
  • Crohn Disease / pathology
  • Female
  • Hematologic Neoplasms / genetics
  • Humans
  • Leukemia / genetics
  • Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute / complications
  • Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute / genetics*
  • Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Translocation, Genetic*