title: The EcoRI RFLP of c-mos in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, compared to geriatric and non-geriatric controls.
abstract: We have used Southern blot analysis to type individuals for the presence or absence of a rare EcoRI RFLP at the c-mos proto-oncogene locus. This polymorphism has previously been reported to be associated with cancer. Ninety-eight patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 154 cancer-free individuals, including 108 geriatric patients with no family history of cancer, were studied. Because 4 geriatric patients (aged 67-94) were found to have the rate c-mos allele (A2), and the frequency of this A2 allele was no higher among the lymphoma/leukemia patients than among cancer-free individuals, it is unlikely that it constitutes a marker for NHL or ALL.
authors.affiliation: Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Australia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chenevix-Trench
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Southall
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kidson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics*; D000483:Alleles; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D015246:Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI / Q000235:genetics*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000235:genetics*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics*; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D011519:Proto-Oncogenes
chemical_list: C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D004247:DNA; D015246:Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI