Table 1.

Spectrum of etoposide-induced MLL locus repair products in primary CD34+ cells




Short recovery

Long recovery
Internal MLL rearrangements   
   Tandem duplication*  15   26  
   Deletion   1   1  
   Inversion   0   4  
Fusion to novel sequence   
   Insertion   3   1  
   Translocation*  15  1  
Total clones analyzed
 
34
 
33
 



Short recovery

Long recovery
Internal MLL rearrangements   
   Tandem duplication*  15   26  
   Deletion   1   1  
   Inversion   0   4  
Fusion to novel sequence   
   Insertion   3   1  
   Translocation*  15  1  
Total clones analyzed
 
34
 
33
 
*

P values calculated by the Fisher 2-tailed exact test. The increase in relative frequency of tandem duplications (P < .006) is paralleled by the significant decrease in translocations (P < .00002)

Of these events, 3 were complex with insertions of novel sequence at the translocation junctions

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