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There may be two tumor suppressor genes on chromosome arm 1p closely associated with biologically distinct subtypes of neuroblastoma.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 May 1994
Takeda O, Homma C, Maseki N, Sakurai M, Kanda N, Schwab M, Nakamura Y, Kaneko Y
Abstract excerpt
We studied loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on chromosome arm 1p in 108 neuroblastomas using 14 polymorphic DNA markers. One-hundred and four tumors with one or more informative loci; 21 (20%) of the 104 tumors showed LOH on 1p, and were classified into three groups on the basis of interstitial or terminal allelic loss, and presence or absence of LOH on 1p. Seven of the 21 tumors showed an interstitial deletion which...
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