title: Genetic alterations in primary gastric carcinomas correlated with clinicopathological variables by array comparative genomic hybridization.
abstract: Genetic alterations have been recognized as an important event in the carcinogenesis of gastric cancer (GC). We conducted high resolution bacterial artificial chromosome array-comparative genomic hybridization, to elucidate in more detail the genomic alterations, and to establish a pattern of DNA copy number changes with distinct clinical variables in GC. Our results showed some correlations between novel amplified or deleted regions and clinical status. Copy-number gains were frequently detected at 1p, 5p, 7q, 8q, 11p, 16p, 20p and 20q, and losses at 1p, 2q, 4q, 5q, 7q, 9p, 14q, and 18q. Losses at 4q23, 9p23, 14q31.1, or 18q21.1 as well as a gain at 20q12 were correlated with tumor-node-metastasis tumor stage. Losses at 9p23 or 14q31.1 were associated with lymph node status. Metastasis was determined to be related to losses at 4q23 or 4q28.2, as well as losses at 4q15.2, 4q21.21, 4q 28.2, or 14q31.1, with differentiation. One of the notable aspects of this study was that the losses at 4q or 14q could be employed in the evaluation of the metastatic status of GC. Our results should provide a potential resource for the molecular cytogenetic events in GC, and should also provide clues in the hunt for genes associated with GC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pathology, Chungnam National University Hospital, Jung-gu, Daejeon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Un
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Jason Jongho
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Kye Chul
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: Jong Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Tae Eun
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: Seung Mu
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Noh
authors.forename: Sun Hoe
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Koo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002883:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14 / Q000235:genetics; D002890:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 20 / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D015894:Genome, Human / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000235:genetics; D051258:MafB Transcription Factor / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization / Q000379:methods*; D011989:Receptors, Thyrotropin / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: C490407:MAFB protein, human; D051258:MafB Transcription Factor; D011989:Receptors, Thyrotropin