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. 2000 Apr 27;82(10):1677–1681. doi: 10.1054/bjoc.2000.1213

High incidence of SV40-like sequences detection in tumour and peripheral blood cells of Japanese osteosarcoma patients

H Yamamoto 1,2, T Nakayama 3, H Murakami 1,2, T Hosaka 1,2, T Nakamata 1,2, T Tsuboyama 2, M Oka 1, T Nakamura 2, J Toguchida 1,2
PMCID: PMC2374501  PMID: 10817503

Abstract

Recent studies have revealed the evidence for the significance of SV40 genome in human malignancies. In this paper, the presence of SV40-like sequences was investigated in 54 Japanese osteosarcomas in which mutations of the retinoblastoma (Rb), p53, MDM2, and CDK4 genes had been already analysed. Using polymerase chain reaction and Southern hybridization, SV40-like sequences were detected in 25 cases (46.3%). In most cases, only a part of SV40 genome was detected, and the regulatory region containing enhancer sequences was most frequently found (21/54, 38.9%). There was no apparent relationship between the presence of SV40-like sequences and tumour suppressor genes mutations in each tumour. The SV40-like sequences were also detected in peripheral blood cells of substantial proportion of the patients (43.3%), whereas the incidence was much lower (4.7%) in normal healthy controls. This difference is statistically highly significant (P< 0.0001), suggesting that the presence of SV40-like sequences, even if only a part, may play some roles to predispose individuals to osteosarcoma. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaign

Keywords: SV40, viral involvement, osteosarcoma

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