title: Complex karyotypic aberrations, including i(12p), in malignant mixed mullerian tumor of uterus.
abstract: We report the cytogenetic findings in a malignant mixed mullerian tumor of the uterus in a 59-year-old woman. Karyotypic analysis of short-term cultures revealed two abnormal clones of cells characterized by extensive structural and numerical rearrangements. An i(12p) maker chromosome was present in addition to other changes in both clones. This marker, characteristically associated with testicular germ cell tumors in males, has recently been reported in ovarian germ cell tumors, a mediastinal germ cell tumor and in a mixed mullerian tumor of the ovary.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Center of Southwest Biomedical Research Institute and Genetrix, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona 85251.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sreekantaiah
authors.forename: U N
authors.initials: UN
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sandberg
mesh_terms: D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D005260:Female; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D008875:Middle Aged; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers