Article
Suppressor gene alterations in the colorectal adenoma-carcinoma sequence.
Journal of cellular biochemistry. Supplement - 1 Jan 1992
Cho K R, Vogelstein B
Abstract excerpt
Tumorigenesis is thought to be a multistep process in which genetic alterations accumulate to bring about the neoplastic phenotype. Colorectal tumors appear to arise as a result of the mutational activation of oncogenes coupled with the inactivation of several tumor suppressor genes. We have found frequent allelic deletions of specific portions of chromosomes 5, 17, and 18 which presumably harbor suppressor...
Topics
- Adenoma
- Carcinoma
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Colonic Neoplasms
- Gene Deletion
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Mutation
- Rectal Neoplasms
