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. 1994 Feb;54(2):274–281.

Concordance between Parental Origin of Chromosome 13q Loss and 6p Duplication in Sporadic Retinoblastoma

A Naumova, M Hansen, L Strong, P A Jones, D Hadjistilianou, D Mastrangelo, S Griegel, M F Rajewsky, J Shields, L Donoso, M Wang, C Sapienza
PMCID: PMC1918152  PMID: 8304344

Abstract

Two hypotheses are capable of explaining nonrandom loss of one parent's alleles at tumor suppressor loci in sporadic cases of several pediatric cancers, including retinoblastoma—namely, preferential germ-line mutation or chromosome imprinting. We have examined 74 cases of sporadic retinoblastoma for tumors in which at least two genetic events—loss of heterozygosity for chromosome 13q markers and formation of an isochromosome 6p—have occurred. Sixteen cases were found to contain both events. In 13 of 16 such tumors, the chromosomes 13q that were lost and chromosomes 6p that were duplicated are derived from the same parent. These data may be explained within the framework of the genome imprinting model but are not predicted by preferential germ-line mutation.

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