Loss of heterozygosity in cervical carcinoma: subchromosomal localization of a putative tumor-suppressor gene to chromosome 11q22-q24. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Infection of cervical epithelial cells with so-called "aggressive" subtypes of human papilloma virus (HPV) appears to be an important factor in the etiology of cervical carcinoma. However, mounting evidence suggests that additional genetic changes are required for progression to an invasive carcinoma. Functional studies have shown that human chromosome 11 contains a gene or genes capable of suppressing tumorigenicity in cell lines derived from different histopathological types of cervical carcinoma, suggesting that aberration of this gene(s) may represent at least one of the additional changes required for tumorigenic progression. To identify the likely chromosomal position of this gene(s), we have carried out a systematic genetic analysis of chromosome 11 in the primary tumors of 32 patients with cervical carcinoma. Sixteen highly polymorphic markers, 10 of which were based on simple sequence repeats typed by PCR, were used to compare matched DNA samples from noninvolved tissue and portions of tumor tissue highly enriched for neoplastic cells by the cryostat-sectioning technique. Of the 32 patients examined, 14 (44%) demonstrated clonal genetic alterations resulting in loss of heterozygosity for one or more markers. Seven of the clonal genetic alterations on chromosome 11 were specific to the long arm, and the overlap between these and other allelic deletions suggests that a suppressor gene(s) relevant to cervical carcinoma maps to chromosome 11q22-q24.

publication date

  • July 19, 1994

Research

keywords

  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
  • Gene Deletion
  • Genes, Tumor Suppressor
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC44316

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0028365264

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.91.15.6953

PubMed ID

  • 8041728

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 91

issue

  • 15