A 14;19 translocation in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a new recurring chromosome aberration.

Four of 30 patients with a diagnosis of B-CLL or prolymphocytic transformation of CLL, who had an adequate cytogenetic analysis, had abnormalities involving 14q32. Three of the 4 had a translocation involving chr. 19; in 2 of them it appeared to be t(14;19) (q32;q13.1). The third patient probably had the same translocation. All 3 patients had received therapy prior to cytogenetic analysis.