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Lymph node metastasis is associated with allelic loss on chromosome 13q12-13 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 1999
Harada H, Tanaka H, Shimada Y, Shinoda M, Imamura M, Ishizaki K
Abstract excerpt
Allelotype analysis of whole chromosomes showed that loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on 13q was exclusively associated with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESC). To identify a locus responsible for lymph node metastasis, we performed fine deletion mapping on 13q by analyzing 60 ESCs with 18 polymorphic markers. Allelic loss was observed with at least one marker in 34...
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