title: Allelic deletion at 11q23.3-q25 is an early event in cervical neoplasia.
abstract: Twenty per cent of cervical intraepithelial neoplasias-III (CIN-III) progress to invasive cancer. Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection alone does not determine progression. CIN-III lesions were collected from 161 women. Each tissue was microdissected into a maximum of 32 contiguous units and assayed at multiple microsatellite loci on chromosome 11q, a region frequently deleted in invasive cervical and other cancers. Eight of 108 informative cases (7%) had 11q23.3-q25 deletions; focally intra-lesional in six (one with focal loss of alternate alleles), and pan-lesional in two cases. Hence, 11q deletion can occur early in cervical neoplasia, and possibly predisposes to invasion.
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koreth
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Bakkenist
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Herrington
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: McGee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000483:Alleles; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002880:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D008875:Middle Aged; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D050725:Papillomavirus E7 Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D002578:Uterine Cervical Dysplasia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: C068651:E6 protein, Human papillomavirus type 16; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral; D050725:Papillomavirus E7 Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; C059731:oncogene protein E7, Human papillomavirus type 16