title: Loss of heterozygosity analyzed by single nucleotide polymorphism array in cancer.
abstract: Neoplastic progression is generally characterized by the accumulation of multiple genetic alterations including loss of tumor suppression gene function. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) has been used to identify genomic regions that harbor tumor suppressor genes and to characterize different tumor types, pathological stages and progression. LOH pattern has been detected by allelotyping using restriction fragment length polymorphism, and later by simple sequence length polymorphisms (SSLPs or microsatellite) for 10 years. This paper reviews the detection of LOH by recently developed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays (all analyzed by Affymetrix array); furthermore, its advantage and disadvantage were analyzed in several kinds of cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Shanghai First People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200080, China.
authors.forename: Hai-Tao
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Zhi-Hai
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D016147:Genes, Tumor Suppressor; D006801:Humans; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*