Published in:
01-03-2000 | Meeting abstract
Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome arm 16q in breast cancer: clinical, molecular and statistical approaches
Authors:
A-M Cleton-Jansen, HM van Beerendonk, NT ter Haar, PHC Eilers, HC van Houwelingen, BA Bonsing, VTHBM Smit, G-JB van Ommen, CJ Cornelisse
Published in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Special Issue 1/2000
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Excerpt
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on the long arm of chromosome 16 is one of the most frequent genetic events in breast cancer, occurring in at least 50% of the breast cancer cases. It is one of the earliest genetic events, occurring already in the pre-invasive stage, in ductal carcinoma in situ. Our study on flow-sorted tumour populations shows that chromosome 16q loss occurs in the DNA diploid sub-population of tumour cells, before aneuploidization, which is also indicative of a role in early tumorigenesis. …