Article
von Hippel-Lindau disease gene deletion detected in microdissected sporadic human colon carcinoma specimens.
Human pathology - 1 Feb 1996
Zhuang Z, Emmert-Buck M R, Roth M J, Gnarra J, Linehan W M, Liotta L A, Lubensky I A
Abstract excerpt
The progression of human malignancies is thought to involve the inactivation or loss of tumor suppressor genes. Previous studies have suggested that inactivation of tumor suppressor genes on chromosomes 5q, 17p, 18q, and 8p play a role in the development of colorectal carcinoma. However, chromoso...
Topics
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adenoma
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Dissection
- Gene Deletion
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- von Hippel-Lindau Disease
