Article
Four regions of allelic imbalance on 17q12-qter associated with high-grade breast tumors.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Dec 1997
Plummer S J, Paris M J, Myles J, Tubbs R, Crowe J, Casey G
Abstract excerpt
Rearrangements or loss of chromosome 17 are frequent events in breast tumors. Chromosome 17 contains at least four genes implicated in breast cancer (TP53, ERBB2 (Her2/neu), BRCA1, and NM23), as well as other putative tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes implicated in loss of heterozygosity or al...
Topics
- Alleles
- Breast Neoplasms
- Carcinoma in Situ
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
