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Karyotypic evaluation of lymphomas, leukemias and solid tumors has demonstrated that specific chromosomal abnormalities characterize many of these processes (1). There are now several examples of tumor types in which the chromosomes involved in specific translocations have pointed the way to genes which are important in the evolution of these neoplasms. For example, the 9; 22 translocation of chronic granulocytic leukemia places c-abl in proximity to a breakpoint cluster region on 22q. (2). The protein coded by the rearranged sequence resembles the product of the transforming viral sequence, v-abl. (2). Similary, the 8; 14, 2; 8, and 8; 22 translocations of Burkitt’s lymphoma move the c-myc gene to location near the genes which code for the light and heavy immunoglobulin chains (3).
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Bigner, S.H. (1987). Chromosomal Studies in Malignant Gliomas. In: Chatel, M., Darcel, F., Pecker, J. (eds) Brain Oncology Biology, diagnosis and therapy. Developments in Oncology, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3347-7_4
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