Cytogenetic studies of adipose tissue tumors. II. Recurrent reciprocal translocation t(12;16)(q13;p11) in myxoid liposarcomas

Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1986 Dec;23(4):291-9. doi: 10.1016/0165-4608(86)90011-7.

Abstract

Detailed chromosome studies, briefly reported previously, from short-term cultures of tumor cells from myxoid liposarcomas are reported. A common reciprocal translocation, t(12;16)(q13;p11), was found in three cases and a complex t(1;12;16)(p11;q13;p11) in the fourth one. This nonrandom primary change, not described before in solid tumors, could characterize the myxoid form of liposarcoma. The involvement of a closely located breakpoint on chromosome #12 in a reciprocal t(3;12)(q28;q14) described in a lipoma in the previous article of this series, suggests a common basis in the biological process of proliferation of tumors sharing a common histogenesis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Karyotyping
  • Liposarcoma / genetics*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Translocation, Genetic*