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Clonal Detection of Remission<br />

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Probe I<br />

Probe II<br />

Figure 3. Two analyses of the DNA of a patient with acute monocytic leukemia. Changes<br />

evident in probe II prove monoclonality.<br />

are achieving hematologic remission and cytogenetic improvement (12).<br />

Our methodology permits us to evaluate the clonality of their granulocytes,<br />

which may increase our understanding of a Philadelphia chromosomenegative<br />

hematologic remission.<br />

REFERENCES<br />

1. Keating MJ, McCredie KB, Freireich EJ. In Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Leukemia<br />

1986, HagenbeekA, Lowenberg B, eds. Martinus Nijhoff, Boston, 1986:148.<br />

2. Fearon ER, Burke PJ, Schiffer CA, Zehnbaver BA, Vogelstein B. N Engl J Med 1986;315:15.

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