Article
A deletion unit on chromosome 17q in epithelial ovarian tumors distal to the familial breast/ovarian cancer locus.
Cancer research - 15 Mar 1993
Jacobs I J, Smith S A, Wiseman R W, Futreal P A, Harrington T, Osborne R J, Leech V, Molyneux A, Berchuck A, Ponder B A
Abstract excerpt
Linkage analysis in familial breast and ovarian cancer and studies of allelic deletion in sporadic ovarian tumors have suggested that chromosome 17q may be the location of a gene of importance in ovarian carcinogenesis. We have examined tumor and normal DNA samples from 120 patients with ovarian tumors for allelic deletion at 12 loci on chromosome 17q. Allelic deletion was observed in 64 cases (53%) of which 56...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Breast Neoplasms
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Female
- Gene Deletion
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genetic Linkage
