Recurrent 1;17 translocations in human neuroblastoma reveal nonhomologous mitotic recombination during the S/G2 phase as a novel mechanism for loss of heterozygosity. |
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Authors: | H Caron P van Sluis N van Roy J de Kraker F Speleman P A Voûte A Westerveld R Slater and R Versteeg |
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Institution: | H. Caron, P. van Sluis, N. van Roy, J. de Kraker, F. Speleman, P. A. Voûte, A. Westerveld, R. Slater, and R. Versteeg |
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Abstract: | Neuroblastomas often show loss of heterozygosity of the chromosomal region 1p36 (LOH 1p), probably reflecting loss of a tumor-suppressor gene. Here we describe three neuroblastoma tumors and two cell lines in which LOH 1p results from an unbalanced translocation between the p arm of chromosome 1 and the q arm of chromosome 17. Southern blot and cytogenetic analyses show that in all cases the chromosome 17 homologue from which the 1;17 translocation was derived is still present and intact. This suggests a model in which a translocation between the short arm of chromosome 1 and the long arm of chromosome 17 takes place in the S/G2 phase of the cell cycle and results in LOH 1p. Nonhomologous mitotic recombination in the S/G2 phase is a novel mechanism of LOH. |
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