Detection of 17p loss in gastric carcinoma using polymerase chain reaction.
BACKGROUND
The loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of 17p has been previously studied with conventional Southern blot-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, but the relatively low informativity was an obstacle to extensive analysis. To overcome this problem and to investigate the significance of 17p LOH in gastric carcinoma, we employed polymerase chain reaction and subsequent silver staining of DNA.


METHODS
LOH of p53 gene and D17S5 locus on 17p was analyzed using polymerase reaction; the relationships between 17p LOH and conventional clinicopathologic parameters were evaluated.


RESULTS
The LOH of p53 gene and D17S5 was found in 36.5% (23 out of 63) and 63.3% (38 out of 60) informative cases, respectively. There was no significant correlation between LOH of these two loci, whereas the frequency of the D17S5 locus was significantly higher (p < 0.01), which suggested that there may be another putative tumor suppressor gene between the two loci or distal to D17S5. The LOH of p53 gene and D17S5 locus was not significantly associated with abnormal p53 expression, depth of invasion, histologic type of the tumor (Lauren's classification), or the status of lymph node metastasis.


CONCLUSIONS
The polymerase chain reaction and silver staining of DNA seemed to be a simple and excellent method for the evaluation of chromosomal allelic loss. The 17p LOH was frequently found in gastric carcinoma, but specific association with conventional clinicopathologic parameters was not found.
Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D017353:Gene Deletion; D016158:Genes, p53; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology
D017931:DNA Primers; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm