Article
Occasional loss of constitutive heterozygosity at 11p15.5 and imprinting relaxation of the IGFII maternal allele in hepatoblastoma.
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology - 1 Jan 1994
Montagna M, Menin C, Chieco-Bianchi L, D'Andrea E
Abstract excerpt
The 11p15.5 chromosomal region contains one or more loci involved in congenital developmental abnormalities and in the genesis of embryonal tumors, such as Wilms' tumor, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, and hepatoblastoma. In these tumors, a loss of constitutive heterozygosity, selectively involving a specific parental allele, suggests both the presence of onco-suppressor genes and a phenomenon of genomic imprinting....
Topics
- Alleles
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Female
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genomic Imprinting
- Hepatoblastoma
- Humans
- Infant
