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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-4-17
pubmed:abstractText
Neonates with Down's syndrome occasionally show an excess of blasts in their peripheral blood. This disorder spontaneously resolves within several months and is called transient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM) or transient myeloproliferative disorder. It has been uncertain whether the excess of blasts in TAM is a result of a clonal proliferation or a polyclonal reactive condition. The clonality of cells in females can be examined by analysis of the methylation patterns of the X chromosomes of proliferating cells using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Using this strategy, we studied three females with Down's syndrome accompanied by TAM who showed heterozygosity in RFLP of either the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase or phosphoglycerate kinase gene. Analysis of the methylation patterns of these genes demonstrated a clonal nature for blasts in three patients. Thus, TAM is a clonal proliferative disorder. In addition, lymphocytes with a normal appearance contained in analyzed samples from these patients also showed a monoclonal pattern, suggesting that TAM may be a disorder of multipotent stem cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-4971
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1161-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Bone Marrow, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Down Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Female, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Genes, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Heterozygote, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Infant, Newborn, Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Male, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Myeloproliferative Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Phosphoglycerate Kinase, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:1672097-X Chromosome
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Monoclonal nature of transient abnormal myelopoiesis in Down's syndrome.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Osaka University Hospital, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't