Cytogenetic study of five biphasic and five monophasic synovial sarcomas revealed the specific abnormality t(X;18) (p11;q11) in eight cases and t(X;15;18) (p11;q15;q11) and t(X;7) (q11-12;q32) in one case each. Additional, secondary aberrations were present in eight of these tumors. By combining our data with information on previously published cytogenetically abnormal synovial sarcomas, we were able to evaluate 32 tumor samples from 29 patients. The modal chromosome number was pseudodiploid or near diploid in 26 of the 32 tumors. A t(X;18) was present in 21 of 29 cases (72%). Complex translocations involving chromosomes X and 18 and another autosome were present in five cases, and one displayed a t(5;18). There was no visible rearrangement of chromosome bands Xp11 or 18q11 in only 2 of the 32 synovial sarcomas. Half of the primary tumors (6 of 12) had the X;18-translocation as the sole abnormality. Of the remaining 20 specimens from recurrent or metastatic tumors (in three cases two tumors could be analyzed), only one had t(X;18) as the sole change. The secondary aberrations in cases exhibiting clonal evolution were also generally more extensive in the metastatic and recurrent than in the primary sarcomas (five additional aberrations per case, compared with two). Chromosomes 1 and 12 were the chromosomes most frequently (one fourth of the cases) involved in additional structural changes, but with several different breakpoints. No differences were identified between the karyotypic profiles of monophasic and biphasic synovial sarcomas.
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