“…Whether del(16) results in similar molecular rearrangements is presently not known. Besides inv(l6) and del( 16), variant translocations involving chromosome 16 (Hogge et al, 1984;Larson et al, 1986;Bernard et al, 1989) and another chromosome (1, 3, 5, and 8) have been reported in M4EO (de la Chapelle and Lahtinen, 1983;Yip et al, 1991;Bernard e t al., 1989;Thompson et al, 1991;Bhambhani et al, 1986;Berger and Dombret, 1992). Most of the variant translocations, t( 16; 16) escepted, involve the band 16q22, but not 1 6~1 3 .…”