Article
Loss of heterozygosity on chromosome arm 17p in small cell lung carcinomas, but not in neurofibromas, in a patient with von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis.
Cancer - 1 Feb 1993
Shimizu E, Shinohara T, Mori N, Yokota J, Tani K, Izumi K, Obashi A, Ogura T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that the genetic abnormality responsible for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF1) increases a patient's risk of various kinds of malignancies. The incidence of small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) as a complication of NF1, however, is rare. To clarify the relationship between NF1 and SCLC, possible loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 17 in a patient with SCLC combined with NF1...
Topics
- Alleles
- Carcinoma, Small Cell
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Female
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
- Middle Aged
- Neurofibromatosis 1
