title: Genetic instability in cervical cancer detected by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction.
abstract: The genetic instability in 54 Thai cervical cancer tissues were analyzed by Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction (AP-PCR). The band alterations produced from 54 arbitrary primers were compared between the DNA finger printing from the patients and their corresponding normal cervical tissues. Results revealed 7 arbitrary primers provided DNA alteration patterns. Of these, an allelic loss in tumor DNA was found in DNA fingerprinting obtained from primers F-2 (64.8%), F-11 (68.5%), U-8 (51.9%), AE-3 (75.9%), AE-11 (53.7%), respectively. Moreover, DNA amplification was exhibited in patterns with primers B-12 (42.6%), J-16 (24.1%) and U-8 (70.4%). When genetic instability was investigated for associations with clinicopathological features, only the DNA amplified fragment with primer U-8 was significantly associated with stage II (P=0.030). Likewise, allelic loss amplified from arbitrary primer AE-3 showed significantly associate with age lower than 50 years old (P=0.003). Our findings suggest that the DNA alteration fragments produced from arbitrary primers of U-8 and AE-11 might be relevant to the pathogenesis of cervical cancer in Thai patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathobiology, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
authors.forename: Rujinee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paditaporn
authors.forename: Suda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Riengrojpitak
authors.forename: Phaibul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Punyarit
authors.forename: Sangdean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chindavijak
authors.forename: Anant
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karalak
authors.forename: Songsak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Petmitr
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005784:Gene Amplification; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005819:Genetic Markers; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D005819:Genetic Markers