Chromosome aberrations in T lymphocytes carrying adult T-cell leukemia-
associated antigens (ATLA) from healthy adults
S Fukuhara, Y Hinuma, YI Gotoh and H Uchino
Chromosomes were studied in cultured T lymphocytes carrying adult T- cell
leukemia-associated antigens (ATLA) that were obtained from five Japanese
anti-ATLA seropositive healthy adults. Chromosomally abnormal cells were
observed in three of the five healthy adults, and these cells were clonal
in two subjects. All cells examined in one subject had rearrangements of
chromosome nos. 7 and 14. Clonal cells from the second had a minute
chromosome of unknown origin. A few cells in the third had nonclonal
rearrangements of chromosomes. Thus, ATLA-positive T lymphocytes in some
anti-ATLA seropositive healthy people have chromosome aberrations.
Volume 61,
Issue 1,
pp. 205-207,
01/01/1983
Copyright © 1983 by The American Society of Hematology