Table 2.

Ratio of colony numbers showing identical nucleotide sequences per picked-up colonies

Case IGH TCRD
Guthrie card Leukemic cell Guthrie cardLeukemic cell
1  14/15 (93.3)  15/16 (93.8) 13/15 (86.7)  12/15 (80.0)  
2  11/17 (64.7) 13/15 (86.7)  NA  NA  
13/18 (72.2)  15/21 (71.4)  8/19 (42.1)  11/16 (68.8) 
4a  14/21 (66.7)  13/16 (81.3)  6/15 (40.0) 10/18 (55.6)  
4b  9/16 (56.3)  NA  
NA  12/16 (75.0)  NA  NA 
6  NA  8/15 (53.3)  NA  10/17 (58.8) 
7  NA  13/16 (81.3)  NA 12/18 (66.7) 
Case IGH TCRD
Guthrie card Leukemic cell Guthrie cardLeukemic cell
1  14/15 (93.3)  15/16 (93.8) 13/15 (86.7)  12/15 (80.0)  
2  11/17 (64.7) 13/15 (86.7)  NA  NA  
13/18 (72.2)  15/21 (71.4)  8/19 (42.1)  11/16 (68.8) 
4a  14/21 (66.7)  13/16 (81.3)  6/15 (40.0) 10/18 (55.6)  
4b  9/16 (56.3)  NA  
NA  12/16 (75.0)  NA  NA 
6  NA  8/15 (53.3)  NA  10/17 (58.8) 
7  NA  13/16 (81.3)  NA 12/18 (66.7) 

NA indicates not amplified; parentheses contain percentages; IGH indicates immunoglobulin heavy chain; TCRD, T-cell receptor delta. The rearranged IGH and TCRD regions were amplified with the use of consensus primer pairs (see text). The nucleotide sequences determined are shown in Table 3 and 4.

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