title: Fractional allelic loss in gastric carcinoma correlates with growth patterns.
abstract: To gain an insight into the genetic events underlying morphological phenotypes, we analysed 58 gastric carcinoma tissues for the genome-wide allelotype study using microsatellite markers. Based on a binomial distribution, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) that was significantly more frequent than expected (P<0.05) thus interpreted as nonrandom LOH selected during tumorigenesis. The overall extent of chromosomes undergoing LOH i.e. fractional allelic loss (FAL, the ratio of LOH-positive markers to the total number of informative markers) was measured in each tumor patient. Nonrandom LOH was found on 17p (48.0%), 18q (38.4%), 13q (38.1%) and 9p (36.4%). Overall, there were no significant phenotypes correlated with allelic loss on specific chromosome regions. Based on a bimodal distribution of FAL values with two peaks bordered by a mean of 0.233, tumors were classified into LOH-related (>0.233) and LOH-unrelated (<0.233) types. Among 24 patients with LOH-related tumors, increase in the infiltrative type of growth pattern was found to correspond with a significant trend of increasing FAL values. This study shows that the growth pattern of gastric carcinoma is correlated with FAL, suggesting that a malignant phenotype is influenced by LOH event.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: K Y
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Rhyu
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D000483:Alleles; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D018279:Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D002455:Cell Division; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics*; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010641:Phenotype; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D005819:Genetic Markers