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. Losses were found on all chromosome arms tested. The highest frequency of loss was observed at the D13S1 locus (67%) at...
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