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BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY
Volume 127, Issue 5, Pages 509-518Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.05278.x
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myeloproliferative disorders; myelodysplastic syndromes; chromosome 20; L3MBTL; imprinting
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Chromosome 20q deletion is a recurrent chromosomal abnormality associated with myeloid malignancies. L3MBTL represents a strong candidate tumour suppressor gene since it lies within the common deleted region, is a member of the Polycomb-like family, encodes the human homologue of a Drosophila tumour suppressor and is expressed within haematopoietic progenitor cells. We describe the structure of L3MBTL, identify two putative promoters each associated with two CpG islands and characterize a complex pattern of alternative splicing events. Mutation analysis of the gene in patients with and without a 20q deletion identified several polymorphisms but no acquired mutations. The two CpG islands spanning promoter 2 undergo monoallelic methylation in normal haematopoietic cells consistent with imprinting of L3MBTL. Samples from patients with a 20q deletion retained either the methylated or unmethylated allele but retention of the methylated allele did not correlate with reduction in L3MBTL mRNA levels. The absence of a correlation between L3MBTL methylation and transcription could be shown to reflect loss of imprinting in one patient. In addition, our results demonstrate that inactivation of L3MBTL is not a common occurrence in patients with a 20q deletion or in cytogenetically normal patients with polycythaemia vera.
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