Pancytopenia as a clonal disorder of a multipotent hematopoietic stem cell.

J L Abkowitz; P J Fialkow; D J Niebrugge; W H Raskind; J W Adamson

doi:10.1172/JCI111199

Published January 1, 1984 - More info

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Abstract

Hematopoiesis was investigated in a 14-yr-old girl who had a 2-yr history of stable asymptomatic pancytopenia and who was also heterozygous at the structural locus for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). There was no morphologic or cytogenetic evidence for preleukemia and no suggestion of Fanconi anemia. In the skin and sheep erythrocytes-rosetted T lymphocytes, the ratio of G-6-PD A/B activities was 1:1. However, only type B activity was found in peripheral blood erythrocytes, granulocytes, and platelets. Most erythroid bursts and all granulocyte/macrophage colonies formed in methylcellulose culture were derived from the abnormal clone. These findings demonstrate that (a) some cases of pancytopenia are stem cell diseases that apparently develop clonally; (b) circulating differentiated cells originate from this clone; (c) despite a hypoproliferative anemia, the in vivo expression of presumably normal (nonclonal) progenitors is suppressed. In this patient, the relationship between clonal dominance and possible malignancy may be assessed prospectively.

Pancytopenia as a clonal disorder of a multipotent hematopoietic stem cell.

J L Abkowitz, P J Fialkow, D J Niebrugge, W H Raskind, and J W Adamson

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Pancytopenia as a clonal disorder of a multipotent hematopoietic stem cell.

J L Abkowitz, P J Fialkow, D J Niebrugge, W H Raskind, and J W Adamson

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