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Bell SM, Kelly SA, Hoyle JA, Lewis FA, Taylor GR, Thompson H, Dixon MF, Quirke P. c-Ki-ras gene mutations in dysplasia and carcinomas complicating ulcerative colitis. Br J Cancer 1991; 64:174-8. [PMID: 1854618 PMCID: PMC1977292 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1991.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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One hundred and nine samples comprising carcinomas, adenomas, dysplastic, inflamed and normal mucosa from patients with sporadic colon cancer and ulcerative colitis (UC) were analysed for c-Ki-ras mutations. DNA was extracted from archival paraffin-embedded material, amplified using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the PCR products analysed using restriction enzyme digestion. Forty-two per cent (14/33) of the sporadic carcinoma controls contained Ki-ras codon 12 mutations in contrast to 24% (8/33) of ulcerative colitis carcinomas. A significantly higher c-Ki-ras mutation rate was observed in rectal carcinomas (72%) in comparison to colonic carcinomas (28%) in control patients (P less than 0.04), while the opposite was observed in UC patients. The difference between the incidence of c-Ki-ras mutations in rectal carcinomas in UC (9%) and in sporadic rectal carcinomas (72%) was also significant (P less than 0.01). This lower prevalence rate and different site distribution of c-Ki-ras mutations in UC carcinomas compared to sporadic carcinomas suggests that specific genetic differences may underlie the causation of carcinomas arising in these situations.
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- S M Bell
- Department of Pathology, University of Leeds, UK
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Lynch HT, Lanspa S, Smyrk T, Boman B, Watson P, Lynch J. Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndromes I & II). Genetics, pathology, natural history, and cancer control, Part I. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1991; 53:143-60. [PMID: 1648437 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(91)90093-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is common, accounting for about 4-6% of the total colorectal cancer burden. It is heterogeneous and appears to be delineated into two clinical subsets, Lynch syndromes I and II. Lynch syndrome I is characterized by an autosomal dominantly inherited proclivity to early onset colonic cancer with proximal predominance and an excess of multiple primary colonic cancer. Lynch syndrome II has all of these features plus extracolonic cancer sites, the most common of which is endometrial carcinoma. The lack of premonitory physical signs or biomarkers of HNPCC makes diagnosis difficult. A careful family history, tempered by an understanding of the clinical and pathologic features of HNPCC, is the key to its assessment. This paper reviews HNPCC's natural history, its integral extracolonic cancer associations, its differential diagnosis, surveillance, and management strategies. Attention is focused upon the need for biomarker research in the interest of improving control of HNPCC.
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- H T Lynch
- Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68178
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Sandforth F, Witzel L, Balzer T, Gutschmidt S, Janicke I, Riecken EO. Identification of patients at high risk for colorectal carcinoma from biopsy studies of the apparently normal colorectal mucosa. A multivariate analysis. Eur J Clin Invest 1991; 21:295-302. [PMID: 1909633 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2362.1991.tb01373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A number of phenotypic abnormalities of the colorectal mucosa which appears normal have been described to be biomarkers of cancer development. To improve their sensitivity and specificity, we simultaneously determined 10 morphological and histochemical parameters in biopsies from the colonoscopically normal mucosa of the descending colon, sigmoid, and rectum. The results were analysed by multivariate statistical methods. We tested the discriminating power of proliferative, morphometric, enzyme and mucin histochemical parameters from 80 patients either at average risk (controls), with an increased risk for colorectal carcinoma (high-risk), or with a manifest carcinoma. The following parameters were investigated: number of mitotic figures per crypt, crypt length, apical, medial and basal crypt diameter, crypt surface, activity of succinate dehydrogenase (EC 1.3.99.1), activity of acid beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23), sulpho- and sialomucin contents. Univariate statistical analyses revealed that crypt length, crypt diameter and crypt surface were significantly increased in the high-risk group, the carcinoma carriers having intermediate values between average-risk and high-risk patients. In a two-group discriminant analysis, high-risk or carcinoma patients could be separated from average-risk patients with a sensitivity of 92.9% and a specificity of 100%. When the analysis was repeated for three groups (carcinoma carriers separated from high-risk patients), sensitivity and specificity were 100% for each group. We conclude that identification of patients at risk for colorectal carcinoma is possible from the normal-appearing left colonic and rectal mucosa by morphometric and cytochemical analysis of biopsies.
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- F Sandforth
- Department of Gastroenterology, Klinikum Steglitz, Free University of Berlin, Germany
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Petersen GM, Slack J, Nakamura Y. Screening guidelines and premorbid diagnosis of familial adenomatous polyposis using linkage. Gastroenterology 1991; 100:1658-64. [PMID: 1673441 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(91)90666-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Restriction fragment-length polymorphisms in the chromosome 5q21-22 region can now be used clinically for premorbid diagnosis and counseling in familial adenomatous polyposis. Two families are presented in which DNA diagnosis for familial adenomatous polyposis was performed using linked restriction fragment-length polymorphisms. Screening guidelines are improved using data from the polyposis registers at St. Mark's Hospital (London) and Western Australia (Perth) on at-risk family members who subsequently developed familial adenomatous polyposis. In these registers, 103 of 137 relatives tested positive on initial screening; of the remaining 34, the average interval between initial negative screening and development of familial adenomatous polyposis was 7.5 years. All those who had inherited the familial adenomatous polyposis gene manifested the polyps by age 34 years. Combined with linkage marker data, the a priori 50% risk for relatives can now be reduced to less than 0.5% by age 30 years if there is an initial negative result on sigmoidoscopy and a negative diagnosis by linkage analysis. The screening management for those found by linkage to have inherited familial adenomatous polyposis remains unchanged from established recommendations; however, for individuals who most likely have not inherited familial adenomatous polyposis, the clinician can emphasize the positive aspects of screening management, including longer screening intervals.
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- G M Petersen
- Medical Genetics Birth Defects Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine
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Hainsworth PJ, Raphael KL, Stillwell RG, Bennett RC, Garson OM. Cytogenetic features of twenty-six primary breast cancers. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1991; 53:205-18. [PMID: 1648438 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(91)90097-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Tumor preparations from 26 primary breast cancers were studied cytogenetically with G-banding, using a direct technique, synchronized short-term culture, or both. Two tumors had normal karyotypes, and 24 (92%) had chromosomal abnormalities. Nineteen tumors had chromosome 1 rearrangements, with 10 cases (40%) displaying distal short arm translocations (1p36). Other frequent breakpoints occurred at 3p21, 6q22-27, 11q21-25, 16q22-24, 17p, and 19q13. To seek primary rather than secondary cytogenetic changes, attention was directed toward tumors with diploid-range karyotypes (32-57 chromosomes per cell). Of four such tumors, three exhibited nonrandom involvement of chromosome 16q22. This, together with previously reported data, suggests that deletion or rearrangement of chromosome 16q21-24 may be a primary or specific event in a subset of breast cancers.
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- P J Hainsworth
- Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Australia
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Burn J, Chapman P, Delhanty J, Wood C, Lalloo F, Cachon-Gonzalez MB, Tsioupra K, Church W, Rhodes M, Gunn A. The UK Northern region genetic register for familial adenomatous polyposis coli: use of age of onset, congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, and DNA markers in risk calculations. J Med Genet 1991; 28:289-96. [PMID: 1650842 PMCID: PMC1016845 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.28.5.289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A polyposis register has been established in the Northern Region of England. A total of 48 families with 71 living affected subjects has been identified during the first three years of operation, a prevalence of 2.29 x 10(-5). Indirect ophthalmoscopy identifies the majority of gene carriers by showing multiple areas of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE). The absence of this sign in families limits its value where a relative with CHRPE has not been identified. Combining eye examination with data on age of onset and linked DNA markers is highly effective in carrier exclusion; 38% of 528 first, second, and third degree relatives had their carrier risk reduced to less than 1 in 1000. Even with such assurance many subjects will request continued bowel screening at a reduced frequency. Little interest has been shown in prenatal diagnosis. The principal value of a genetic register with domiciliary nurse visiting is the reduction in early mortality among unrecognised gene carriers.
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- J Burn
- Regional Genetics Service/Division of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Heinemann MH, Baker RH, Miller HH, DeCosse JJ. Familial polyposis coli: the spectrum of ocular and other extracolonic manifestations. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1991; 229:213-8. [PMID: 1651277 DOI: 10.1007/bf00167870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Familial polyposis coli (FPC) is hereditary condition that conveys a virtual 100% risk for the development of colon cancer in the untreated patient. A total of 56 patients with FPC underwent complete ophthalmic examination. Highly pleomorphic pigmented retinal lesions were identified bilaterally in 52% (n = 29) and unilaterally in 14% (n = 8) of our subjects. In all, 33 patients had one or more extracolonic expressions associated with FPC, including desmoids, osteomas, epidermoid cysts, lipomas, fibromas, and upper gastrointestinal tract polyps. In 15 patients, pigmented fundus lesions were the only extracolonic manifestations. No significant association between eye findings and other extracolonic manifestations could be established. The presence or absence of pigmented fundus lesions was found to cluster within families. Pigmented fundus lesions are probably a variably penetrant expression of the polyposis gene and do not appear to be specifically associated with subgroups of inherited polyposis syndromes such as Gardner's syndrome.
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- M H Heinemann
- Department of Ophthalmology, Cornell University Medical College, New York NY 10021
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Khosla S, Patel VM, Hay ID, Schaid DJ, Grant CS, van Heerden JA, Thibodeau SN. Loss of heterozygosity suggests multiple genetic alterations in pheochromocytomas and medullary thyroid carcinomas. J Clin Invest 1991; 87:1691-9. [PMID: 2022740 PMCID: PMC295269 DOI: 10.1172/jci115186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at specific loci may help localize tumor suppressor genes involved in the formation of various familial and sporadic tumors. In addition, the genetic loci for a number of familial tumor syndromes have been mapped by linkage analysis. To explore the possible role of tumor suppressor genes in endocrine tumors, we tested 41 pheochromocytomas (34 sporadic and 7 familial) and 11 medullary thyroid cancers (MTC) (10 sporadic and 1 familial) for LOH near a variety of potentially important genetic loci: (a) the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) locus on chromosome 10; (b) the von Hippel-Lindau locus on 3p; and (c) the p53 and neurofibromatosis 1 loci on 17. We also examined chromosomes 1p and 22q because previous studies in a small number of pheochromocytomas and MTCs suggested LOH in these regions. Background rates for LOH were assessed using several "random" probes. Finally, we examined a number of clinical and histologic characteristics of these tumors for possible correlations with specific genetic alterations. LOH in the region of the MEN 2A locus was uncommon (0% for MTCs, 5% for pheochromocytomas). However, we found significant allelic losses in pheochromocytomas on chromosomes 1p (42%), 3p (16%), 17p (24%), and 22q (31%). We also noted a correlation between LOH on 1p and urinary excretion of metanephrine by these patients (P = 0.02). LOH on 1p, 3p, and 17p also appeared to be associated with increased tumor volume. Analysis of the smaller number of MTCs demonstrated allelic losses on chromosomes 1p and 22q. Our results suggest that tumor formation and/or progression in pheochromocytomas and MTCs involves multiple genes, analogous with the model proposed for colon carcinoma.
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- S Khosla
- Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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Weiffenbach B, Falls K, Bricker A, Hall L, McMahon J, Wasmuth J, Funanage V, Donis-Keller H. A genetic linkage map of human chromosome 5 with 60 RFLP loci. Genomics 1991; 10:173-85. [PMID: 1675192 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(91)90498-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A genetic map of human chromosome 5 that contains 60 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) loci in one linkage group has been constructed. Segregation data using these markers and 40 large multigenerational families supplied by the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain have been collected. Linkage analyses were performed with the program package CRI-MAP; using odds greater than 1000:1, 30 RFLP loci could be placed on the map. This genetic map spans 289 cM sex-equal, 353 cM in females, and 244 cM in males. While the relative rate of recombination for female meioses is nearly twice that of males over much of the chromosome, several instances of statistically significant excess male recombination were observed. The order of probes on the genetic map has been confirmed by their physical order as determined by somatic cell hybrid lines containing deletions of normal chromosome 5. There is concordance between the physical positions of markers and their genetic positions. Our most distal probes on the genetic map are cytologically localized to the most distal portions of the chromosome. This suggests that our genetic map spans most of chromosome 5.
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- B Weiffenbach
- Collaborative Research, Inc., Bedford, Massachusetts 01730
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Van de Vijver MJ, Nusse R. The molecular biology of breast cancer. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1072:33-50. [PMID: 2018777 DOI: 10.1016/0304-419x(91)90005-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- M J Van de Vijver
- Division of Molecular Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
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Augenlicht LH, Taylor J, Anderson L, Lipkin M. Patterns of gene expression that characterize the colonic mucosa in patients at genetic risk for colonic cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:3286-9. [PMID: 1849648 PMCID: PMC51431 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.8.3286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We have used a computer-driven scanning and image-processing system to identify a panel of 30 cDNA clones whose pattern of expression in individual biopsy specimens distinguishes the flat, normal-appearing colonic mucosa of patients in two genetic groups at high risk for development of colorectal cancer from that of normal colonic mucosa in low-risk individuals. The two high-risk groups, familial adenomatous polyposis and hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, are indistinguishable based on the pattern of expression of the 30 selected clones. This suggests that the extensive pleiotropic effects of the inherited loci, which may play an important role in the mechanism of increased risk and early onset of the disease, are similar in these populations.
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Schull WJ. The segregation of cancer-causing genes in human populations. Mutat Res 1991; 247:191-8. [PMID: 2011136 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(91)90014-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Cancer can arise through genetic damage of a variety of sorts, including recessive and dominant mutations, large chromosomal rearrangements, and the inability of cells to repair damaged DNA. Many of these events can be studied by standard methods of genetic analysis and thereby furnish the means to localize the gene to a specific region in the human genome. However, conventional methods of segregation analysis cannot provide the molecular and cellular understanding of the process of gene action essential to informed intervention. Here, recent advances in molecular biology, immunology and biochemistry hold promise of providing the understanding of how normal cells control their replication and why cancer cells do not. Heretofore these techniques have been largely restricted to modest-sized studies, but the requisite assays have now reached a level of development that makes practicable large clinical and population-based studies. Collectively, through these rapidly evolving techniques, we may eventually achieve the acquisition of new methods of prevention, diagnosis and therapy, and a better awareness of the events that order the lives of our cells.
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- W J Schull
- University of Texas Health Science Center, Genetics Center, Houston 77225
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Frixen UH, Behrens J, Sachs M, Eberle G, Voss B, Warda A, Löchner D, Birchmeier W. E-cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion prevents invasiveness of human carcinoma cells. J Cell Biol 1991; 113:173-85. [PMID: 2007622 PMCID: PMC2288921 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.113.1.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1154] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The ability of carcinomas to invade and to metastasize largely depends on the degree of epithelial differentiation within the tumors, i.e., poorly differentiated being more invasive than well-differentiated carcinomas. Here we confirmed this correlation by examining various human cell lines derived from bladder, breast, lung, and pancreas carcinomas. We found that carcinoma cell lines with an epithelioid phenotype were noninvasive and expressed the epithelium-specific cell-cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin (also known as Arc-1, uvomorulin, and cell-CAM 120/80), as visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy and by Western and Northern blotting, whereas carcinoma cell lines with a fibroblastoid phenotype were invasive and had lost E-cadherin expression. Invasiveness of these latter cells could be prevented by transfection with E-cadherin cDNA and was again induced by treatment of the transfected cells with anti-E-cadherin mAbs. These findings indicate that the selective loss of E-cadherin expression can generate dedifferentiation and invasiveness of human carcinoma cells, and they suggest further that E-cadherin acts as an invasion suppressor.
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- U H Frixen
- Institut für Zellbiologie (Tumorforschung), Essen Medical School, Germany
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Rhodes M, Chapman PD, Burn J, Gunn A. Role of a regional register for familial adenomatous polyposis: experience in the northern region. Br J Surg 1991; 78:451-2. [PMID: 1851651 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800780420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Within 36 months of its formation the Northern Region Polyposis Registry had increased the number of identified gene carriers of familial adenomatous polyposis from 56 to 65 in a population of 3.1 million and had achieved a 15-fold increase in the number of at-risk relatives being regularly screened. Review of the surgical records at the outset of the registry revealed that the mean age at diagnosis of those patients detected by screening was 24.7 years, whereas it was 36.6 years for those detected by symptoms. Ten of the 31 in the latter group had colorectal carcinomas whilst only one of those detected by screening had a cancer and a significantly higher proportion had sphincter-saving surgery. A regional registry can provide an effective screening and counselling service to surgeons treating patients with familial adenomatous polyposis. At-risk relatives are best assessed by combining results of the different screening procedures now available but the prime requirement of a successful registry is dedicated domiciliary counselling.
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- M Rhodes
- Department of Surgery, Ashington General Hospital, Northumberland, UK
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The earlier finding of microhamartomatous rectal polyps in tuberous sclerosis (TSC)2 is detailed. These polyps are common, occurring in 14 of 18 (78%) patients with TSC in the present series, and they do not cause symptoms. Their distinctive appearance and distribution readily distinguish them from other types of rectal polyp and emphasize their importance as a potentially useful clinical marker of TSC.
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- S R Gould
- Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology), Epsom District Hospital, Surrey, England
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Kinzler KW, Nilbert MC, Vogelstein B, Bryan TM, Levy DB, Smith KJ, Preisinger AC, Hamilton SR, Hedge P, Markham A. Identification of a gene located at chromosome 5q21 that is mutated in colorectal cancers. Science 1991; 251:1366-70. [PMID: 1848370 DOI: 10.1126/science.1848370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 509] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Recent studies have suggested the existence of a tumor suppressor gene located at chromosome region 5q21. DNA probes from this region were used to study a panel of sporadic colorectal carcinomas. One of these probes, cosmid 5.71, detected a somatically rearranged restriction fragment in the DNA from a single tumor. Further analysis of the 5.71 cosmid revealed two regions that were highly conserved in rodent DNA. These sequences were used to identify a gene, MCC (mutated in colorectal cancer), which encodes an 829-amino acid protein with a short region of similarity to the G protein-coupled m3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. The rearrangement in the tumor disrupted the coding region of the MCC gene. Moreover, two colorectal tumors were found with somatically acquired point mutations in MCC that resulted in amino acid substitutions. MCC is thus a candidate for the putative colorectal tumor suppressor gene located at 5q21. Further studies will be required to determine whether the gene is mutated in other sporadic tumors or in the germ line of patients with an inherited predisposition to colonic tumorigenesis.
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- K W Kinzler
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, MD 21231
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Konstantinova LN, Fleischman EW, Knisch VI, Perevozchikov AG, Kopnin BP. Karyotype peculiarities of human colorectal adenocarcinomas. Hum Genet 1991; 86:491-6. [PMID: 2016090 DOI: 10.1007/bf00194640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The data of the chromosome abnormalities in 15 colorectal tumors are presented. Rearrangements of the short arm of chromosome 17, leading to deletions of this arm or its part were noted in 12 tumors; in 2 other cases, one of the homologs of pair 17 was lost. The losses of at least one homolog of other chromosomal pairs were also found: chromosome 18, in 12 out of 13 cases with fully identified numerical abnormalities; chromosome 5, in 6 tumors; chromosome 21, in 5 cases; chromosomes 4, 15, and 22, in 4 cases each. Additional homologs of pair 20 were observed in 6 tumors, extra 8q was found in 5 tumors, and extra 13q in 6 cases. Rearrangements of the short arm of chromosome 1 and the long arm of chromosome 11 characterized 6 tumors each. The data recorded in our series differ from the data of other authors in two respects: the high incidence of the loss of sex chromosomes and the rearrangements of the long arm of chromosome 9. X chromosomes were missing in 4 out of 7 tumors in females, and Y chromosomes were absent in 5 out of 8 tumors in males. The long arm of chromosome 9 was rearranged in 8 cases, in 5 of them the breakpoint being at 9q22. Cytological manifestations of gene amplification (double minutes or multiple microchromosomes) were noted in 6 tumors.
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- L N Konstantinova
- Cytogenetic Laboratory, All-Union Cancer Research Center AMS of the USSR, Moscow
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There is now a better understanding of the natural history of colorectal cancer, which has provided a basis for intervention to influence outcome. The possible interventions include earlier detection of colorectal cancer, removal of premalignant adenomas, demonstration of the mucosal field defect that precedes neoplasia to evaluate baseline risk and its change with dietary modification, and identification of inherited and dietary risk factors. Five controlled trials evaluating early detection of colorectal cancer with fecal occult blood testing have enrolled more than 309,000 patients. Early stage cancers with improved survival has been observed, but data on mortality reduction have not as yet been reported. Studies of patients with adenomas have demonstrated high synchronous and metachronous rates as a basis for complete colon evaluation initially and a surveillance follow-up program. Hyperproliferation and lack of normal differentiation have been observed as a field defect in the colon preceding neoplasia. Inherited factors have recently been shown to be important in a larger proportion of individuals destined to develop colorectal adenomas and cancer. These observations of the natural history of colorectal cancer have provided new opportunities for the application of radiologic and endoscopic techniques in diagnosis and surveillance; each examination has its merit. Further research is needed to answer many critical questions that have been raised regarding the impact of these interventions.
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- S J Winawer
- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021
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Dunlop MG, Wyllie AH, Steel CM, Piris J, Evans HJ. Linked DNA markers for presymptomatic diagnosis of familial adenomatous polyposis. Lancet 1991; 337:313-6. [PMID: 1671230 DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)90940-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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41 symptom-free individuals aged 0-39 years who were at risk of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) were genotyped with six linked DNA probes. 28 individuals were informative for probes flanking the gene and 14 people assigned a probe-derived risk of over 0.93 were subsequently shown to be affected by clinical screening. 4 individuals who had been discharged from follow-up were designated high risk by this method. In those screened negative, risk was calculated from genotypic, colonic, and CHRPE findings and 89% of subjects had a risk below 0.003. An integrated risk analysis may have an important place in screening programmes for FAP.
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- M G Dunlop
- University of Edinburgh Department of Clinical Surgery, UK
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Hereditary diseases due to mutation at different gene loci may be indistinguishable phenotypically. In these situations genetic risk predictions using polymorphic markers may be hampered if an individual family is not sufficiently informative to permit it to be assigned to one or the other linkage group. To provide the most usefull estimates of risk, the probability of linkage to a particular chromosome region should be determined prior to calculating risk estimates using the marker system. The probability can be calculated directly using the lod score generated for the family. The individual carrier risk is then the average of the carrier risks determined for linkage to different genetic loci, weighted by the probability of linkage to each group. Several examples are provided.
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- S Narod
- Unit of Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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Maestro R, Viel A, Boiocchi M. Correlation between chromosome 5q deletions and different mechanisms of c-myc overexpression in human colorectal cancer. Br J Cancer 1991; 63:185-6. [PMID: 1847643 PMCID: PMC1971784 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1991.45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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- R Maestro
- Division of Experimental Oncology I, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Pordenone, Italy
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Kawaguchi T, Miyaki M, Masui T, Watanabe M, Ohta H, Maruyama M, Utakoji T, Kitagawa T. Establishment and characterization of an epithelial cell line with quasi-normal chromosomes from a tubular adenoma of a familial polyposis coli patient. Jpn J Cancer Res 1991; 82:138-41. [PMID: 1848543 PMCID: PMC5918372 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1991.tb01820.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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An epithelial cell line designated FPCK-1 has been established from a tubular adenoma developing in a male familial polyposis coli (FPC) patient. The FPCK-1 cells grow very slowly with abundant mucus production and have been maintained stably for 3 years in culture. No growth was evident either in soft agar or nude mice. FPCK-1 cells present a normal male karyotype and do not show loss of specific loci on chromosomes 5, 17, 18, and 22 which have been reported to be lost frequently in human colon carcinomas. The cells have neither a point mutation on codon 12 of K-ras gene nor gene amplification of myc, c-H-ras, and/or c-K-ras genes. These results thus suggest the existence of hitherto unknown causative event(s) underlying adenoma development in FPC patients. The FPCK-1 cell line should prove useful for further analytical investigation of the multiple steps involved in human colon carcinogenesis.
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MESH Headings
- Adenoma/genetics
- Adenomatous Polyposis Coli/genetics
- Adult
- Cell Line
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5
- Colon/pathology
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Male
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- T Kawaguchi
- Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute, Tokyo
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- J M Bishop
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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- C J Marshall
- Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London, England
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Tanaka K, Oshimura M, Kikuchi R, Seki M, Hayashi T, Miyaki M. Suppression of tumorigenicity in human colon carcinoma cells by introduction of normal chromosome 5 or 18. Nature 1991; 349:340-2. [PMID: 1670965 DOI: 10.1038/349340a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Development of colon carcinomas can be associated with allelic deletions on several chromosomes, including 5q and 18q. The APC gene on 5q and the DCC gene on 18q have been identified as potential tumour suppressor genes, whose suppression contributes to colon carcinogenesis. To investigate the role of genes in these deleted regions, we have now introduced a single normal human chromosome into a human colon carcinoma cell line, COKFu, through microcell hybridization. Several clones of hybrid cells containing normal chromosome 5, and others containing normal chromosome 18, were obtained. The morphology of the hybrid cells was markedly altered: the hybrids with chromosome 5 exhibited a closely packed polygonal morphology, and the hybrid cells with chromosome 18 were flattened. The cloning efficiency of the hybrid cells in soft agar was reduced from 0.46 to 0% of that of the parental carcinoma cells, and the tumorigenicity of these hybrid cells in athymic nude mice was completely suppressed. The growth properties of the hybrid cells with chromosome 11 were not substantially changed. These results strongly suggest that the genes on normal chromosome 5 and 18 function as tumour suppressors in colon carcinogenesis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Fusion
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5
- Colonic Neoplasms/genetics
- Colonic Neoplasms/pathology
- DNA/genetics
- Drug Resistance/genetics
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor/genetics
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neomycin
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- K Tanaka
- Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan
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Hurlin PJ, Kaur P, Smith PP, Perez-Reyes N, Blanton RA, McDougall JK. Progression of human papillomavirus type 18-immortalized human keratinocytes to a malignant phenotype. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:570-4. [PMID: 1846447 PMCID: PMC50853 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.2.570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We have developed a model system for progression of human epithelial cells to malignancy, using a human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV-18)-immortalized human keratinocyte cell line. Cells of cell line FEP-1811 were nontumorigenic in athymic mice through at least 12 passages in culture, but after 32 passages were weakly tumorigenic, producing tumors that regressed. After 62 passages they produced invasive squamous cell carcinomas that grew progressively. The progression to malignancy was associated with an increase in the efficiency of forming colonies in soft agar and with altered differentiation properties. In an organotypic culture system, FEP-1811 cells at passages 12 and 32 exhibited features typical of premalignant intraepithelial neoplasia in vivo, and cells at passage 68 exhibited features consistent with squamous cell carcinomas. No change in copy number of the transfected HPV-18 genome or in the level of expression of the viral transforming gene products E6 and E7 was detected between tumorigenic and nontumorigenic cells. Cytogenetic analysis of cells at early, middle, and late passage levels and cells cultured from tumors revealed that several chromosomal abnormalities segregated with the tumorigenic cell populations.
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- P J Hurlin
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104
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Hoshino Y, Horikawa I, Oshimura M, Yuasa Y. Normal human chromosome 5, on which a familial adenomatous polyposis gene is located, has tumor suppressive activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991; 174:298-304. [PMID: 1846539 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)90520-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The suppressive activity of normal human chromosome 5 was detected by means of the chromosomal transfer technique using DT cells as recipients. A hybrid clone, which exhibited reduced tumorigenicity, contained chromosomal regions such as 5pter-p15, q21 and q33-qter. Since a familial adenomatous polyposis gene has been reported to be located at 5q21-q22, the suppressive activity of chromosome 5 might be due to this gene.
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- Y Hoshino
- Department of Hygiene and Oncology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan
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La Vecchia C, Levi F, Franceschi S, Boyle P. Assessment of screening for cancer. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 1991; 7:275-85. [PMID: 1938189 DOI: 10.1017/s0266462300005663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Screening has a relevant role in and is likely to become an increasingly important instrument for cancer control in the near future. This overview summarizes some of the available evidence on the issue. Some of the opinions are well established. The apparent absence of consensus on other issues should be critically evaluated, too, because the evidence on some procedures is substantially more convincing than that on others. High costs, low compliance, poor curability, and substantial false positive rates, in a disease as relatively rare as cancer, often counterbalance in practice the theoretical benefits of diagnostic anticipation. In screening as well as in treatment for cancer, it is unlikely that major technical breakthroughs will occur in the near future. The evaluation of whether the benefits likely to be achieved by the screening program outweigh its disadvantages by a sufficient margin, therefore, should rely on large and carefully planned controlled studies.
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It now appears likely that the development of colonic adenomas and carcinomas involves a series of steps in which environmental or endogenous carcinogens induce or promote neoplasia through the accumulation of multiple, specific genetic mutations. Genetic predisposition to this process may take the form of inherited defects in control of cellular proliferation as in familial polyposis coli, or genetically determined polymorphism which affects enzyme activities relevant to the production or detoxication of carcinogens. Genetic effects may also influence levels of hormones and/or their target cell receptors which regulate the metabolic and proliferative activity of colonocytes. This review highlights data suggesting a role for polymorphism associated with xenobiotic acetylation, hydroxylation, and conjugation with glutathione in the metabolism of potential carcinogens, as well as for dehydroepiandrosterone in the metabolic control of cell proliferation. The study of genetically determined polymorphism in colorectal cancer may provide new insights into the epidemiology of cancer and result in new methods for the detection of higher risk groups.
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- M J Fettman
- Department of Gastroenterology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, South Australia
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Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) includes early development of up to thousands of colorectal adenomas and of colorectal adenocarcinoma in all untreated cases. Moreover, a variety of extracolonic manifestations are seen. Proctosigmoidoscopy is used for screening; when adenomas are found, the diagnostic evaluation includes colonoscopy and gastroduodenoscopy. Screening of first degree relatives should start at the age of 10 years, using proctosigmoidoscopy at regular intervals. The recent detection of a specific FAP gene at chromosome 5 and of congenital retinal pigmentations will allow an early preclinical diagnosis in the future. A centralized registration of FAP has resulted in an improved prognosis, and the establishment of international groups will contribute to increased research of this disease.
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- S Bülow
- Danish Polyposis Registry, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hvidovre University Hospital, Copenhagen
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There is a large body of evidence supporting a role for GTP-binding proteins in signal transduction by growth factors. In certain cells, ligands which activate or inhibit the production of cAMP via heterotrimeric G proteins promote replication of the target cell. These mechanisms play an important role in a limited number of tumours. Ligands which activate PI hydrolysis through heterotrimeric G proteins may also promote growth in certain systems, but the precise role for PI hydrolysis remains to be determined. Receptors with intrinsic tyrosine kinases may also interact with the heterotrimeric G proteins, but it is not known if these interactions represent side reactions, or whether they are central in the responses of certain cell types. Lastly, p21ras and other small molecular weight G proteins appear to be profoundly important in growth control. The tyrosine kinase growth factor receptors may interact indirectly with these GTP binding proteins via GAP proteins. The molecular detail of this process is emerging rapidly and is likely to be worked out in the near future.
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- H E Ives
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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There is considerable evidence that most colorectal carcinomas arise in preexisting adenomas. It also appears that there may be a considerable influence of diet in the genesis and growth of adenomas. This evidence is discussed and the current dietary intervention studies in humans are reviewed.
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- N C Armitage
- Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Shepherd L, Cameron C, Galbraith P, Windsor S, Lillicrap D. Absence of allelic loss on chromosome 5q by RFLP analysis in preleukemia. Leuk Res 1991; 15:297-303. [PMID: 1675299 DOI: 10.1016/0145-2126(91)90004-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Thirty-eight patients with various forms of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) were studied for the loss of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) heterozygosity on chromosome 5q as inferential support for the presence of a growth regulatory locus in this area of the genome. Conventional chromosomal analysis was performed in addition to RFLP studies of constitutive and granulocyte DNA using five polymorphisms from chromosome 5. Allelic loss in granulocyte DNA was identified in only one patient in whom monosomy 5 had already been defined cytogenetically. These results suggest that DNA sequence loss from chromosome 5q other than that observed cytogenetically is a rare event in MDS. Thus the potential involvement of a growth regulatory gene(s), from this area of the genome, in the leukemogenic process most likely involves a more subtle genetic change.
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- L Shepherd
- Department of Pathology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Bondy ML, Lustbader ED, Buffler PA, Schull WJ, Hardy RJ, Strong LC. Genetic epidemiology of childhood brain tumors. Genet Epidemiol 1991; 8:253-67. [PMID: 1756948 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.1370080406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The study goal was to determine the genetic (heritable) contribution to childhood brain tumors (CBT) which cause nearly one quarter of all childhood cancer deaths. Their etiology remains unknown, but previous studies have suggested a proportion of CBT may be heritable. In this study we collected family histories of 243 confirmed CBT patients referred to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center between the years 1944 and 1983, diagnosed before age 15, and residents of the United States or Canada. Family histories were obtained for all the probands' first degree relatives (parents, siblings, and offspring) and extended to include selected second degree relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents) using sequential sampling. To determine if these CBT families exhibited excess cancer, we compared their cancer experience to age-, race-, sex-, and calendar-year specific rates from the Connecticut Tumor Registry. No cancer excess was observed among 1,099 first and second degree relatives [39 cancers observed (O) and 44 expected (E) for a standardized incidence ratio (SIR) of 0.88]. For colon cancer, although small numbers, five cases were observed among the probands' first degree relatives with 1.6 expected, for a significant SIR of 3.10. Segregation analysis demonstrated that chance alone could not account for the observed cancer distribution with a multifactorial model providing the best overall explanation of the data. Overall, heredity played a role in the etiology of CBT in 4% of the study families: four (1.7%) due to known hereditary syndromes (nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome and von Recklinghausens neurofibromatosis--NF-1), four (1.7%) with multifactorial inheritance, and two additional families with cancers aggregating similar to the clinical criteria described for the Li-Fraumeni cancer family syndrome.
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- M L Bondy
- Division of Pediatrics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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Kune GA, Kune S, Read A, MacGowan K, Penfold C, Watson LF. Colorectal polyps, diet, alcohol, and family history of colorectal cancer: a case-control study. Nutr Cancer 1991; 16:25-30. [PMID: 1656394 DOI: 10.1080/01635589109514137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A case-control study was conducted in Melbourne, Australia. Cases (n = 49) were patients who had one or more histologically confirmed adenomatous polyps larger than 1 cm in diameter previously removed by endoscopy. In both the cases and the community controls (n = 727), previous diet, alcohol consumption, and family history of colorectal cancer in near relatives were investigated. The family history rate of colorectal cancer was similar in the two groups. Those with adenomatous polyps were found to have a low fiber/vegetable intake (p = 0.04); in males, there was a high intake of beef (p = 0.04), milk drinks (p = 0.01), and beer (p = 0.05). This study provides further evidence for the hypothesis that dietary factors and alcohol consumption may play a role in the development of adenomatous colorectal polyps and that these factors are similar to dietary risk factors for colorectal cancer.
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- G A Kune
- University of Melbourne, Australia
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Identical male twin infants who in 1987 presented with hepatoblastoma at the age of 7 months are reported. Twin B was admitted for investigation due to enlarged liver and spleen. He was found to have an inoperable hepatoblastoma of fetal type and was treated with chemotherapy and local irradiation. However, 7 months after the chemotherapy the tumor recurred. The asymptomatic twin A was examined because of the known familial cases, and he proved to have an identical tumor. He was successfully radically operated on and 2 years after the chemotherapy is still doing well with no evidence of tumor. As the mother and the maternal grandmother had polyps in the colon, quite probably the hepatoblastomas of the twins were associated with familial adenomatous polyposis.
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- P Riikonen
- Department of Pediatrics, University Central Hospital of Kuopio, Finland
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Steel CM. Genetic abnormalities in cancer. Curr Opin Biotechnol 1990; 1:188-95. [PMID: 1367856 DOI: 10.1016/0958-1669(90)90029-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- C M Steel
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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Heyen F, Jagelman DG, Romania A, Zakov ZN, Lavery IC, Fazio VW, McGannon E. Predictive value of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium as a clinical marker for familial adenomatous polyposis. Dis Colon Rectum 1990; 33:1003-8. [PMID: 2173657 DOI: 10.1007/bf02139213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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One hundred forty-eight members of 53 kindreds with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) were examined for congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) and extracolonic manifestations (ECM) to assess the value of CHRPE as a predictive marker for FAP. Based on eye examination results, the families were divided into 2 groups. In a first group of 34 families, all 61 members diagnosed as having polyps and 13 of the 33 patients at risk had 4 or more lesions distributed in both eyes. By contrast, in a second group of 18 families, all 32 polyposis patients and all 18 members at risk had less than 4 lesions. Extra-colonic manifestations were present in 26 of 34 families in the first group and in 11 of 18 families in the second group. Data on one family with ambiguous ancestry were reviewed separately. The existence of 4 or more CHRPE lesions distributed in both eyes seems to be a congenital marker for FAP, present in 65.4 percent of families. When present in a family: 1) it is found in all diagnosed patients in that family, 2) can therefore be considered predictive for the development of polyps in other family members who carry the trait, and 3) if confirmed by longer follow-up, may possibly preclude members without the trait from further evaluation and surveillance.
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- F Heyen
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio
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Traboulsi EI, Murphy SF, de la Cruz ZC, Maumenee IH, Green WR. A clinicopathologic study of the eyes in familial adenomatous polyposis with extracolonic manifestations (Gardner's syndrome). Am J Ophthalmol 1990; 110:550-61. [PMID: 2173407 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)77880-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The eyes of a 51-year-old woman with familial adenomatous polyposis and extracolonic manifestations (Gardner's syndrome) were obtained postmortem and studied by light microscopy and by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. We found a generalized abnormality in melanogenesis of the retinal pigment epithelium and at least three types of pigmented lesions. The histologic findings in one type of lesion were consistent with congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium or benign pigmented nevus of the retinal pigment epithelium. The other two types of lesion were most consistent with hamartomatous malformations of the retinal pigment epithelium featuring cellular hypertrophy, hyperplasia, and rarely retinal invasion and formation of a minute mushroom-shaped tumor. These histopathologic findings indicate a generalized effect of the familial adenomatous polyposis gene on the retinal pigment epithelium. This oncogene, which is responsible for tumor formation in the gastrointestinal tract, soft tissues, bone, and other locations in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, also leads to a generalized defect in melanogenesis and focal lesions of the retinal pigment epithelium.
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- E I Traboulsi
- Eye Pathology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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Renan MJ. Cancer genes: current status, future prospects, and applications in radiotherapy/oncology. Radiother Oncol 1990; 19:197-218. [PMID: 2149186 DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(90)90148-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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There is a sense of excitement in contemporary cancer research, generated largely by the discovery, and subsequent characterization, of oncogenes. These genes are part of the normal complement of cells, and become altered in their structure or expression, during the development of the neoplastic phenotype. In this review, I highlight some of the important advances in the field, starting with the relationships between viral oncogenes and their cellular homologs. I illustrate some of the molecular mechanisms whereby a harmless, or quiescent, cellular gene can be converted ("activated") by radiation or by other carcinogens to a full-blown oncogene involved in carcinogenesis. Next, I discuss two areas where oncogene research has specific relevance for professionals working with radiation, namely the question of radiation-induced cancer, and the issue of the radiocurability of tumors. I also assess the important role of tumor-suppressor genes in oncogenesis. I then describe a genetic model, to illustrate the current status of our understanding of carcinogenesis. Finally, I discuss potential applications of specific interest to oncologists: topics such as prognostic indicators, novel therapeutic strategies, and gene-replacement techniques, are critically reviewed.
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- M J Renan
- National Accelerator Centre, Faure, Republic of South Africa
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Svendsen LB, Thorup J, Larsen JK, Bülow S, Horn T. Correlation between in vitro tetraploidy in skin fibroblasts and development of sporadic colorectal carcinomas. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1990; 50:139-48. [PMID: 2253181 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(90)90247-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In vitro tetraploidy (IVT) in skin fibroblasts cultures measured by flow cytometry was compared with histological type and degree of dysplasia in 22 patients with adenomas of the colon and rectum. Furthermore, IVT was compared with stage and differentiation in 36 patients with carcinoma of the colon and rectum. In vitro tetraploidy in skin fibroblasts was correlated to type as well as dysplasia in adenomas and differentiation in carcinomas but was not correlated to Dukes' stage in carcinomas. Skin fibroblast genetic instability, expressed as increased IVT (IVT+), has been reported to reflect a genetic predisposition to colorectal cancer in the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome. Because IVT+, which appears to be associated with the progression of adenomas to carcinomas, also is found in many of the non-syndrome colorectal cancers, we suggest that development of colorectal cancer is considerably influenced by the constitutive genetic instability of the autosomal dominant colorectal cancer syndromes.
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- L B Svendsen
- Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Longy M, Saura R, Schouler L, Mauhin C, Goussot JF, Grison O, Couzigou P. Chromosomal analysis of colonic adenomatous polyps. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1990; 49:249-57. [PMID: 2208061 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(90)90149-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Chromosomal analysis of 25 colonic adenomatous polyps was performed by a direct method similar to that used in prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal aberration on chorionic villi. Fourteen lesions showed an abnormal karyotype. Two changes were recurrent: trisomy 7 (observed in eight cases) and trisomy 13 (observed in seven cases). No monosomy of the short arm of chromosome 17 was observed even at the level of two polyps with in situ carcinoma lesions.
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- M Longy
- Laboratoire de Cytogénétique, Centre Hôpitalier Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France
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Perucca D, Szepetowski P, Simon MP, Gaudray P. Molecular genetics of human bladder carcinomas. CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 1990; 49:143-56. [PMID: 2208052 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(90)90136-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Bladder cancer corresponds to a tumor type whose clinical behavior is difficult to predict. A better understanding of this pathology is expected from molecular genetics, which brings together cytogenetics and molecular biology. Therefore, we have tried to overview correlations between chromosome abnormalities and the presence, in the vicinity of the altered loci, of genes (oncogenes and others) that could be involved in bladder oncogenesis and/or tumor progression. In addition to oncogene activation by point mutations, gene amplification, or deregulation of gene expression, several cytogenetic as well as molecular evidences point to genetic deletions (existence of "tumor suppressor genes") being involved in those processes.
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- D Perucca
- LGMCH, Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France
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Rodrigues NR, Rowan A, Smith ME, Kerr IB, Bodmer WF, Gannon JV, Lane DP. p53 mutations in colorectal cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:7555-9. [PMID: 1699228 PMCID: PMC54786 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.19.7555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 707] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Immunohistological staining of primary colorectal carcinomas with antibodies specific to p53 demonstrated gross overexpression of the protein in approximately 50% of the malignant tumors examined. Benign adenomas were all negative for p53 overexpression. To determine the molecular basis for this overexpression we examined p53 protein expression in 10 colorectal cancer cell lines. Six of the cell lines expressed high levels of p53 in ELISA, cell-staining, and immunoprecipitation studies. Direct sequencing and chemical-mismatch-cleavage analysis of p53 cDNA by using the polymerase chain reaction in these cell lines showed that all cell lines that expressed high levels of p53 were synthesizing mRNAs that encoded mutant p53 proteins. In two of those four cell lines where p53 expression was lower, point mutations were still detected. Thus, we conclude that overexpression of p53 is synonymous with mutation, but some mutations would not be detected by a simple immunohistochemical analysis. Mutation of the p53 gene is one of the commonest genetic changes in the development of human colorectal cancer.
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- N R Rodrigues
- Director's Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, United Kingdom
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Okamoto M, Sato C, Kohno Y, Mori T, Iwama T, Tonomura A, Miki Y, Utsunomiya J, Nakamura Y, White R. Molecular nature of chromosome 5q loss in colorectal tumors and desmoids from patients with familial adenomatous polyposis. Hum Genet 1990; 85:595-9. [PMID: 2172153 DOI: 10.1007/bf00193581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), which includes familial polyposis coli (FPC) and the Gardner syndrome (GS), is a genetically determined premalignant disease of the colon inherited by a locus (APC) mapping within 5q15-q22. To elucidate the role of 5q loss in FAP tumorigenesis, we analysed 51 colorectal tumors and seven desmoids from 19 cases of FPC and five GS patients, as well as 15 sporadic colon cancers. RFLP analysis revealed a high incidence of allelic deletion in hereditary colon cancers as well as in sporadic colon cancers with a peak at the APC locus. APC loss resulted primarily from interstitial deletion or mitotic recombination. Combined tumor and pedigree analysis in a GS family revealed loss of normal 5q alleles in three tumors, including a desmoid tumor, which suggests the involvement of hemizygosity or homozygosity of the defective APC gene in colon carcinogenesis and, possibly, in extracolonic neoplasms associated with FAP.
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- M Okamoto
- Department of Biochemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan
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Diastrophic dysplasia gene maps to the distal long arm of chromosome 5. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:8056-9. [PMID: 1978318 PMCID: PMC54891 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.20.8056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We have used polymorphic DNA markers to map the gene for a clinically well-characterized form of osteochondrodysplasia, diastrophic dysplasia (DD), an autosomal recessive disorder of unknown pathogenesis. Linkage was analyzed in 13 families with two or three affected sibs comprising a total of 84 individuals. Positive two-point logarithm-of-odds (lod) scores were obtained between the DD locus and three polymorphic markers on chromosome 5. The highest pairwise lod score estimate of 7.37 with zero recombination to locus D5S72 suggests very tight linkage. There was no evidence of heterogeneity. Multipoint linkage analysis against the published order of the three loci gave the result centromere-D5S84-(DD, D5S72)-D5S61-terminus with a four-point lod score of 9.11. The present findings place the DD locus distal to the gene for adenomatous polyposis coli on the distal part of the long arm of chromosome 5. Our results provide a basis for refining the map position of the DD locus followed by physical localization, isolation, and characterization of the gene.
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Numerous environmental and host factors, some of which are known and some unknown, contribute to cancer development. While data and studies abound, our current understanding of the relation between cancer and the environment is still very limited. Understanding environmental carcinogenesis is critical to its effective management. Biotechnology has revolutionalized the study of biological and biomedical sciences. This minireview provides an overview of environmental carcinogenesis with emphasis on the contributions and prospects of biotechnology in advancing an understanding of environmental carcinogenesis for its prevention and intervention.
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- M M Chu
- Office of Research and Development, US EPA, Washington, DC 20460
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Domizio P, Talbot IC, Spigelman AD, Williams CB, Phillips RK. Upper gastrointestinal pathology in familial adenomatous polyposis: results from a prospective study of 102 patients. J Clin Pathol 1990; 43:738-43. [PMID: 2170464 PMCID: PMC502752 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.43.9.738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Multiple gastric and duodenal biopsy specimens from 102 asymptomatic patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, taken during a prospective endoscopic screening programme were examined. One hundred patients had microscopic gastroduodenal pathology, often in the absence of macroscopic lesions. Adenomas were found in 94 patients in the duodenum, in the second and third parts. Hyperplasia of villous and crypt epithelium was also seen, sometimes in the absence of adenomas: this may be a precursor of neoplastic change. In the stomach fundic gland polyps were the commonest abnormality, seen microscopically in 44 patients. Chronic antral gastritis was common in patients without fundic polyps. Gastric adenomas were present in six patients, all of whom also had duodenal adenomas. If duodenal adenomas in familial adenomatous polyposis have a similar malignant potential to those in the colorectum sequential endoscopy and biopsy are necessary to detect cancer in these patients.
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- P Domizio
- Department of Histopathology, St Mark's Hospital, London
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Tsuda H, Zhang WD, Shimosato Y, Yokota J, Terada M, Sugimura T, Miyamura T, Hirohashi S. Allele loss on chromosome 16 associated with progression of human hepatocellular carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:6791-4. [PMID: 2168560 PMCID: PMC54623 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.17.6791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 16 is a common genetic alteration in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To clarify the pathogenetic significance of allele loss on chromosome 16, we performed restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 70 surgically resected tumors by using 15 polymorphic DNA markers for chromosome 16. Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 16 was detected in 36 (52%) of 69 informative cases, and the common region of allele loss in these 36 tumors was located between the HP locus (16q22.1) and the CTRB locus (16q22.3-q23.2). These losses occurred more frequently in HCCs of poor differentiation, of larger size, and with metastasis, whereas they were not detected in HCC at the earliest stage. In addition, these losses were not associated with presence or absence of hepatitis B virus DNA integration or hepatitis C virus infection. These results show that loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 16 is a late event occurring after hepatocarcinogenesis and strongly suggest that this phenomenon is involved in enhancement of tumor aggressiveness during progression of HCC.
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- H Tsuda
- Pathology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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Paul P, Jagelman DG, Fazio VW, McGannon E. Evaluation of polymorphic genetic markers for linkage to the familial adenomatous polyposis locus on chromosome 5. Dis Colon Rectum 1990; 33:740-4. [PMID: 1975233 DOI: 10.1007/bf02052318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A gene associated with the inherited syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), has been localized to the long arm of chromosome 5 near the 5q21-22 region, and markers that identify genetic polymorphisms near this locus are now available. The authors evaluated several of these markers for linkage to the FAP trait in 11 families entered in the Cleveland Clinic Polyposis Registry. The original probe that established linkage to the FAP locus (C11p11) has limited utility for family studies because of low heterozygosity and distance from the FAP gene. Other probes, however, should be useful for assessing FAP inheritance by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, for presymptomatic diagnosis of the disease.
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- P Paul
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195
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