title: Infrequent mutation of the H-cadherin gene on chromosome 16q24 in human breast cancers.
abstract: To investigate the molecular basis of altered expression of the H-cadherin gene, we used polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism and DNA sequencing to examine the H-cadherin gene in 48 primary breast cancers in which loss of the long arm of chromosome 16 had been detected. We identified no mutations other than somatic 5-bp deletion within the coding region in a single tumor. The very low frequency of mutation found in these experiments suggests that H-cadherin is usually not a primary target for carcinogenesis in human breast cancers, and that reduction of its expression is likely to be a consequence of some other genetic event(s).
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Genome Analysis, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katagiri
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D015820:Cadherins / Q000235:genetics*; D002885:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16 / Q000235:genetics*; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D018807:Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational; D017384:Sequence Deletion
chemical_list: D015820:Cadherins; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; C099972:H-cadherin; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins