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. 1991 Dec;64(6):1083–1087. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1991.468

Loss of constitutional heterozygosity on chromosome 5q in hepatocellular carcinoma without cirrhosis.

S F Ding 1, N A Habib 1, J Dooley 1, C Wood 1, L Bowles 1, J D Delhanty 1
PMCID: PMC1977851  PMID: 1684907

Abstract

Suppressor gene loci involved in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have not been fully identified. The aim of this study was to look for consistent allele loss, or loss of heterozygosity (LOH), in HCC which might represent such gene loci. We have prepared DNA from tumour and non-tumour material from 16 patients with HCC (nine with and seven without liver cirrhosis). Tumour DNA was compared with non-tumour DNA by Southern analysis performed with a panel of 22 probes recognising restriction fragment length polymorphisms assigned to chromosomes 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 20. Non-tumour DNA from five of the seven patients with HCC without cirrhosis was heterozygous with the probe Lambda MS8 (5q35-qter), and in all five there was LOH in tumour DNA. Probes for other regions of chromosome 5 have as yet shown no LOH in this group of patients. Cirrhotic HCC patients exhibited LOH on chromosomes 1q and 5p but not in the region 5q35-qter. Both groups of HCC showed LOH on chromosome 17p13. Screening with other probes has not shown any consistent LOH in either group as yet. A comparison of LOH on chromosome 5 in seven patients with colorectal metastasis in the liver showed a different pattern, which suggests that the proposed tumour suppressor gene locus for HCC without cirrhosis on chromosome 5 appears to be distinct from the familial adenomatous polyposis coli gene.

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