Homozygosity of the short arm of chromosome 17 in cervical carcinoma.

doi:10.1016/0304-3835(92)90267-y

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Homozygosity of the short arm of chromosome 17 in cervical carcinoma.

Cancer letters - 30 Apr 1992

Russell S E, Lowry W S, Atkinson R J, Hickey I

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We have determined the frequency of heterozygosity of the short arm of chromosome 17 in 20 cervical tumours using the highly polymorphic probe pYNZ22. Only 25% of the tumours were heterozygous at this locus. This is significantly lower than the level of 86% heterozygosity for this locus in the ge...

Topics

Alleles
Carcinoma
Chromosome Deletion
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
Female
Genetic Markers
Homozygote
Humans
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

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