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Frequency and prognostic evaluation of 3p21-22 allelic losses in non-small-cell lung cancer.
International journal of cancer - 20 Dec 1995
Thiberville L, Bourguignon J, Metayer J, Bost F, Diarra-Mehrpour M, Bignon J, Lam S, Martin J P, Nouvet G
Abstract excerpt
Previous loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies of chromosome 3p loci have displayed a 60% deletion frequency in non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLC), as opposed to small-cell lung cancers, in which the 3p deletion is consistently found. However, the high stromal-cell admixture found in NSCLC and the use of the Southern-blot method lead to under-evaluation of this frequency. In this study, we used a very precise...
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