Table 3.

Genes Showing High Copy Gain Common to all Patient Samples Identified by cDNA Array CGH and Hierarchical Clustering, Some of Which are Novel and Previously Unreported in Neuroblastomas.

GenBank accession of clone	UniGene ID	Symbol	Cytoband	Approximate megabase from pter	Function/Evidence
H19826	Hs.3618	HPCAL1	2p24	9.7	Calcium-binding protein with similarity to hippocalin, expressed only in the brain.
R77965, H23930, N45520	Hs.81412	LPIN1/KIAA0188	2p24	11.8	Gene responsible for fatty liver dystrophy in mice, candidate gene for human lipodystrophy.
T79037	-	unknown	2p24	13.6	Sequence has as very high similarity to genomic clone RP11-516B14 containing NAG gene.
T65604	Hs.260855	NSE1/LOC151354	2p24	14.15	Novel member of the H-rev107 protein family.
R52824	Hs.25960	MYCN	2p24	15.45	Oncogene commonly amplified in neuroblastomas and retinoblastomas.
H03349	Hs.241565	DNMT3A	2p24	24.92	Gene transcriptional silencing by de novo DNA methylation.
N68286	Hs.109391	unknown	2p15	70.81	Unknown.
N95243, AA034934	Hs.170177	MEIS1	2p15	70.83	Novel homeobox gene.

Only clones that have been sequence verified are listed.