title: Loss of heterozygosity occurs at the D11S29 locus on chromosome 11q23 in invasive cervical carcinoma.
abstract: Allelotypic detection of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) has been used to identify putative tumour-suppressor genes. Loci on human chromosome 11q23 are frequently altered in malignant disease, and LOH has been reported at an anonymous D11S29 locus at 11q23 in a proportion of breast and ovarian cancers and malignant melanomas. Previous studies have reported a high frequency of LOH in cervical carcinoma mapping to 11q23. Using polymerase chain reaction techniques employing probes for a recently described polymorphic dinucleotide microsatellite within this locus, we have searched for LOH in 69 cases of invasive cervical carcinoma. Genomic material was microdissected from sections cut from archival paraffin-embedded material, using the patients' constitutional genotype as a control Sixty-two (90%) of the cases were informative, and LOH occurred in 25/62 (40%) of tumours. Loss of an arm or single chromosome 11 is a well-recognised event in cervical carcinoma, and by employing other microsatellite polymorphisms mapping to 11q13 and 11p11-p12 we excluded those cases with widespread allelic loss. By doing so, LOH at D11S29 was found in 16/53 (30%) of tumours. The findings suggest a putative tumour-suppressor gene on 11q involved in cervical carcinogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Bethwaite
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koreth
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Herrington
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: McGee
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001483:Base Sequence; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002880:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11; D017931:DNA Primers; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis; D004276:DNA, Satellite / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D004276:DNA, Satellite; D005819:Genetic Markers