Transcripts in Healthy Individuals: A Comparative Analysis Between First-Degree Relatives of Patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and Subjects without Antecedents of the Disease.

transcripts, the molecular hallmarks of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), have been detected in peripheral blood from healthy individuals. Although CML is a sporadic disease, familial occurrence has been reported. This raises the question of whether there is a hereditary factor related to the etiology of CML.

1,2:3,4-Diepoxybutane Induces Multipolar Mitosis in Cultured Human Lymphocytes.

1,3-Butadiene, a colorless gas regularly used in the production of plastics, thermoplastic resins, and styrene-butadiene rubber, poses an increased leukemia mortality risk to workers in this field. 1,3-Butadiene is also produced by incomplete combustion of motor fuels or by tobacco smoking. It is absorbed principally through the respiratory system and metabolized by several enzymes rendering 1,2:3,4-diepoxybutane (DEB), which has the highest genotoxic potency of all metabolites of 1,3-butadiene.

Y-SNP haplogroups related to the Yqh+ heteromorphism in the Mexican northwestern population.

Morphological variation of the Y chromosome has been observed in different populations. This variation is mostly related to the heteromorphic Yq12 band, which is composed of a variable block of constitutive heterochromatin. The Yqh+ heteromorphism has a worldwide frequency of 2.