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Loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 13 in Merkel cell carcinoma

✍ Scribed by J. Helen Leonard; Nicholas Hayward

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 107 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 1045-2257
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2264(199709)20:1<93::aid-gcc14>3.0.co;2-g

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✦ Synopsis

We have examined a series of 24 Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) DNAs for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at eight loci on chromosome 13. All patients were heterozygous for at least one locus. Overall, 18 of 24 (75%) patients showed LOH, among whom 10 patients demonstrated LOH at all informative loci. A single common region of loss was identified in all cases and included the marker D13S233 (13q14.3), which maps close to the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene RB1. The RB1 protein was not detected by Western blot analysis in any of nine MCC cell lines tested. These data indicate that 13q losses are the most common chromosomal losses observed to date in MCC and the likely target of these deletions is the RB1 locus.

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