title: Allelic imbalance and instability of microsatellite loci on chromosome 1p in human non-small-cell lung cancer.
abstract: The mapping of allelic loss on the short arm of chromosome 1 has been performed in non-small-cell lung cancer. We used a set of 11 microsatellite loci spanning 1p to examine the frequency of allelic imbalance in a panel of 58 tumours. Fifty-one of 58 (87.9%) cases have shown somatic allelic loss at one or more loci tested. The two shortest regions of the overlap (SRO) of the deletions have been identified: SRO 1 at 1p13.1 and SRO 2 at 1p32-pter. Allelic losses at these regions have been compared among adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma and no difference has been found. In contrast to SRO 1, deletions at SRO 2 significantly correlated with advanced stage of the disease as well as post-operative metastasizing and relapse. These data may suggest that SRO 1 and SRO 2 can harbour tumour-supressor genes (TSGs) involved in different stages of NSCLC development. SRO 2 is still quite large and its refined mapping should help attempts to clone and identify the putative TSG(s). Microsatellite instability (replication errors) affecting only 6 (10.3%) of 58 tumour samples is an infrequent genetic alteration at the loci tested.
authors.affiliation: Oncogene Regulation Laboratory, NN Blokchin Cancer Research Center of Academy of Medical Science, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Gasparian
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Laktionov
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Belialova
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Pirogova
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Tatosyan
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Zborovskaya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000235:genetics*; D002878:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D008875:Middle Aged; D019680:Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion