Carcinogenesis, Vol 19, 1955-1961, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
L Zhang, N Rothman, Y Wang, RB Hayes, G Li, M Dosemeci, S Yin, P Kolachana, N Titenko-Holland and MT Smith
Two of the most common cytogenetic changes in therapy- and chemical-
related leukemia are the loss and long (q) arm deletion of chromosomes 5
and 7. The detection of these aberrations in lymphocytes of individuals
exposed to potential leukemogens may serve as useful biomarkers of
increased leukemia risk. We have used a novel fluorescence in situ
hybridization (FISH) procedure to determine if specific aberrations in
chromosomes 1, 5 and 7 occur at an elevated rate in the blood cells of
workers exposed to benzene. Forty-three healthy workers exposed to a wide
range of benzene concentrations (median 31 p.p.m., 8 h time-weighted
average) and 44 unexposed controls from Shanghai were studied. Whole blood
was cultured and metaphase spreads were harvested at 72 h. Benzene exposure
was associated with increases in the rates of monosomy 5 and 7 but not
monosomy 1 (P < 0.001, P < 0.0001 and P = 0.94, respectively) and
with increases in trisomy and tetrasomy frequencies of all three
chromosomes. Long arm deletion of chromosomes 5 and 7 was increased in a
dose-dependent fashion (P = 0.014 and P < 0.0001) up to 3.5-fold in the
exposed workers. These results demonstrate that leukemia-specific changes
in chromosomes 5 and 7 can be detected by FISH in the peripheral blood of
otherwise healthy benzene-exposed workers. We suggest that aberrations in
chromosomes 5 and 7 may be useful biomarkers of early biological effect for
benzene exposure.
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Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720-7360, USA.
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