title: Preferential involvement of 11q23-24 and 11p15 in breast cancer.
abstract: Thirty cases of breast cancer were cytogenetically studied by G-banding using direct tumor preparations. Among them 20 cases exhibited abnormalities of the long and/or short arm of chromosome 11. Thus, 11q was involved in 16 cases and 11p in ten cases. There was consistent involvement of bands 11q23-24 (15 cases) and 11p15 (9 cases), where the cellular oncogenes ets and H-ras 1, respectively, are located. These findings suggest that involvement of bands 11q23-24 and 11p15 may be specific in a group of breast cancers, leading to the activation of cellular oncogenes or loss of cancer suppressor genes.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Propaedeutic of Athens University, Evangelismos Medical Center, Greece.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferti-Passantonopoulou
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Panani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raptis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002880:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D008875:Middle Aged