“…16 may replace one normal member of the group 17,18. This anomaly, which seems likely to be an isochromosome for the long arm of a 17,18 chromosome, has been observedinHodgkin's tissue (Ricci et al, 1962), reticulum cell sarcoma (Sasaki, Sofuni and Makino, 1965), in peripheral blood culture in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (Fitzgerald and Adams, 1965), and in no less than 13 cases of chronic granulocytic leukaemia at the stage of metamorphosis (Engel et al, 1965;Stich et al, 1966;Engel, McKee and Bunting, 1967;de Grouchy et al, 1968). The anomaly has also been described in myelosclerosis after transformation to acute granulocytic leukaemia (Nowell and Hungerford, 1962), and in a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by anaemia, thrombocytopenia, and maturation arrest in the bone marrow (Engel McKee and Bunting, 1967).…”