Article
Loss of somatic heterozygosity in hepatocellular carcinoma.
Cancer research - 15 Aug 1991
Walker G J, Hayward N K, Falvey S, Cooksley W G
Abstract excerpt
Loss of tumor suppressor genes is involved in the mechanism of tumorigenesis of many solid tumors. We tested 9 hepatitis B virus (HBV)-positive and 10 HBV-negative hepatocellular carcinomas for loss of somatic heterozygosity using 14 polymorphic probes mapping to chromosomes 4, 11, 13, and 17. Lo...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4
- Female
- Hepatitis B virus
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Neoplasms
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
